If you grabbed any 10 men on the streets of America and asked who they most wanted to be? The answer is not Arnold Schwarzenegger, nor Dwayne Johnson, but it must be him -
Clint Eastwood
That's right, it's the 92-year-old old guy who is still tirelessly doing things! The tough guy that men all over the world want to be, the coolest old man in the world!
Who would have thought that the 89-year-old also directed and acted in a movie, and the film once hit a box office of 700 million US dollars, with a Douban score of 7.9, and fans around the world are boiling for it, and Chinese fans are even more praised "produced by Dongmu, it must be a boutique"!
Can make the old man toss at the age of 89, what is the charm of this movie that makes countless fans revelry again?
The film is based on real events, telling the story of a retired elderly man who lives alone, who loves gardening all his life, but in his later years is financially embarrassed, accepting an invitation from a stranger at a family gathering to deliver drugs for a Mexican drug gang, becoming a mule (drug black talk), who could have enjoyed huge remuneration and was free, but did not resist the guilt of his wife and daughter, and finally surrendered when his wife was dying.
The plot does not seem to have the ups and downs of previous films, and the 118-minute length sees more of an old man who lives alone and cannot help himself, but has been struggling for self-redemption. Many fans said that what moved them was the real and moving expression of the old man's twilight, powerless but unyielding emotions.
Most of them even feel that in some way, the old man and the movie protagonist Earl have a lot of similarities, when they were young they were bohemian and exuded irresistible masculine charm, but it became so difficult for them to return to the family to become an ordinary husband or father, they were at a loss, and they did a very bad job at one time.
There is a scene in the film that shows this in particular.
The actor who plays Earle's daughter and Eastwood's biological daughter cries hysterically to Earl in the play, "You never really cared about us!" "It's not just being said to Earl but it's also being said to Eastwood himself.
Yes, the old man is 1.93 meters tall, a ratio of charm when he was young, bursting hormones, he did not waste his personal charm at all, of the 6 living children, it is rumored that 4 are born out of wedlock. Scumbags are undoubted.
But is such an "old scumbag", but still won the love of countless people, because his life, bumpy and legendary, worked as a lumberjack, truck driver, bodyguard, ran a trick, opened a company, and even became the mayor of Carmel, a California coastal town in 1986, but in 2005 he insisted on the toll road project and was finally fired by Governor Schwarzenegger.
The most remarkable is of course his film achievements, from more than 60 years in the film, starring in 46 films, holding 2 Oscars, and also won the American Film Institute, Cannes Film Festival Venice International Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award, a height that has never been matched so far.
As a young man, he spent too much time pursuing himself and reconciling with himself in his old age.
Like "Don't let the old man in" theme song of "The Mule", he is not the old old man, he is the god who picks up a cigar and stands in front of the camera full of confidence and freedom.
Sources; Clint Eastwood Encyclopedia entry
