The Ultimate Trailer for Mule
Hollywood's "living fossil" Clint Eastwood's latest self-directed film, "The Mule", was released today on the National Federation of Arts. Considering his nearly 90-year-old age, this is most likely the last film starring "Old Cowboy", so the audience is witnessing the legend itself.
If you know a little about Higashiki's complex emotional life, watching "Mule" will feel even deeper. It can be imagined that in his long and wonderful life, he must have left many regrets for his family, which is why this movie will be made so gently.
In a way, Toki, like Earl Stone, the protagonist of "The Mule", is charismatic and tireless, but they are faced with uncontrollable life problems, and they want the old cannon to learn to be an ordinary father or husband, probably until they are 90 years old.
So when the audience watches him on the big screen dragging his trembling body on the road to transport drugs, hoping to make up for the debt to the family, those things that are intended to be unspoken always make people think of it, and think that it is clearly the confession and portrayal of the old handsome man.
Born in 1930, Clint Eastwood is 89 years old. Fifty-five years ago, a Red Dead Redemption began his star career.
He did not get the favor of many famous directors, and at the age of 40, he decided to become a director himself. At the age of 62, when most men began to decline, he won the Oscar double award for "Unforgivable" and entered a golden period of his career.
In the new century, which has entered the rare year, a series of works such as "Mysterious River", "Million Dollar Baby", "Changing Son Doubt", "Classic Car" and so on have been filmed successively, ushering in the peak of their careers.
It seems that in his dictionary, there is never the word "twilight". Many people will ask: In this era when everyone is exhausted, why does an old man who is nearly 90 years old still let himself run so high-intensity? Why didn't he retire?
He tells one of the most touching stories of his life, the power of "people who try to survive" that he has ever seen in his childhood.
Daughter Alison said at the premiere of "Mule" that the Hollywood legend will not slow down next. His new film, "The Lament of Richard Jewell," will focus on the bombing of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, about a security guard who is wrongly accused of falling from hero to suspect and ending in depression years later.
<b>The redemption that belongs to the old cannon will not wait until after the age of 90</b>
Half-siblings helped with the premiere of Dad's new film
The night of the Los Angeles premiere of "The Mule" may have meant a lot to the Eastwood family.
On December 10, 2018, the 88th birthday of the director of "Old Dongmu" has passed more than half a year. He appeared on the red carpet with his ex-wife Maggie Johnson, 87, girlfriend Christina Sandra, 55, son Kyle and his wife in his 50s, daughter Alison and her husband, 48, francesca, 25, morgan, 21, and granddaughter, 24, Grerlene.
Of course, among the huge family members, there is naturally his well-known actor son, 32-year-old "Little East wood" Scott Eastwood. But Kimber, 54, and Catherine, 34, missed the premiere of Dad's movie.
The children came from two marriages and multiple extramarital affairs with Clint Eastwood.
Toki and his ex-girlfriend, actor Sandra Locke
Toki has two children with his first wife, model Maggie Johnson, who broke up in 1984; a daughter, Morgan, with his second wife, newscaster Tina Lutz, who divorced in 2013; and five illegitimate children.
The problems faced by children growing up in such families are unimaginable, even if they have a star dad.
Coincidentally, Earl Stone, a 90-year-old drug dealer played by Toki in "The Mule", also faces family troubles, especially his daughter, who hates his father very much. Earl ran away for half a lifetime to realize that the time spent with his family that he had sacrificed before was the most cherished thing. Being a "mule" for a drug cartel is a symptom, and the desire to reconcile with family members with money and so-called success is the theme.
And the one who plays Earl's daughter in the movie is Toki's real-life daughter, Alison Eastwood. For a time, the father-daughter relationship was very unstable, partly due to Toki's many extramarital affairs.
Stills from "Mule", Higashiki father and daughter on the same stage
Higashiki and daughter Alison at the premiere
After Alison finished acting in "In Search of Harmony" in 2014, she had already decided not to act. One Friday night, producer Sam Moore called, "He said, your dad wants you to make this movie." I almost threw up. I'm out of show business, why is he looking for me? ”
"The more I thought about it later, the more I thought maybe this was an opportunity to spend some free time with him." Alison's husband also advised her: "If you don't do this, you will regret it for the rest of your life." ”
In fact, since 2012's "Curve Problem", Toki has not starred in a movie for 6 years, but "Mule" has attracted him to the front of the stage again. Producer Cristina Rivera said: "When I read the script, Earl made it easy for me to think of Clint, and I could easily imagine him as the character itself. ”
Stills from "The Mule," with Earl Stone running down the road to drug trafficking
At the age of 78, when Toki had not yet divorced his second wife, Tina, he confessed: "My wife is my closest friend... I have children with other women and I want to thank Tina for bringing everyone together, she never had a second wife's sense of self, you know the cave woman mentality, the natural instinct may be to kill everyone else. But she brought everyone together, she was friendly to my first wife, she was friendly to my ex-girlfriend, she did everything she could to bring everyone together, and she had a huge impact on my life. ”
Eastwood, like Earl Stone, is somehow charismatic and indefatigable, but both face uncontrollable lives and regrets, and it is clear that the redemption that belongs to the old cannon may have to wait until after the age of 90. When the audience watches him on the big screen dragging his trembling body on the road to transport drugs, hoping to make up for the debt to the family, those things that are intended to be unspoken always make people think of it, and feel that it is clearly the confession and portrayal of the old handsome man.
<b>Eastwood's dictionary does not contain the word "twilight."</b>
Someone once asked the question: What kind of person is Clint Eastwood in your mind?
The first answer: He was an old cowboy, a good actor when he was young, and he started to be a director in his old age, and his works "Mysterious River" and "Million Dollar Baby" have won Oscars.
The second answer: He is a Hollywood legend, acting in 70 films and directing more than 40 works in his more than 60 years of career. In his career as an actor, he has portrayed western cowboys with cigars, and screen tough guys with violent law enforcement, all of which are classics; and his directorial works have made him one of the greatest filmmakers in Hollywood, "Unforgivable", "The Dream of the Covered Bridge", "Mysterious River", "Million Dollar Baby", "Letter from Iwo Jima", "The Doubt of the Son", "Classic Car"... The master of the arts grew more and more courageous, gradually reaching the peak of his ancient years, and never planned to retire.
Third answer: He didn't know how to act when he was young, and he kept repeating tough guy roles with a charming smile and a sexy body of 1 meter 93, maybe he thought it would be cool to squeeze lines between his teeth and kill one villain after another on the screen, but he didn't understand how to continue his film career until he was in his 60s. The women in his plays earn the box office by exposing their bodies, and his own private life is quite chaotic, and there are many women who have slept with him and been hurt. He was also the overlord on the set, and anyone who worked with him had learned his dictatorship, and in his dictionary there was only "unforgivable.".
Of the three answers, one is someone who does not know him, the second is to love him, and the third is to hate him... But they all make up the Eastwood in people's eyes.
Red Dead Redemption
Born in 1930, Clint Eastwood is 89 years old. Fifty-five years ago, a Red Dead Redemption (1964) began his star career.
At that time, Dongmu was still a dragon set actor, and it was not the first choice of director Leone, after the crew could not afford to pay the high salary of Henry Fonda, who was already famous in Hollywood, and was rejected by action superstar Charles Bronson for "the script is too bad", and then the story was also disliked by three or four first-line actors... "Red Dead Redemption" was transferred to Dongmu.
In addition to his free and loose temperament and silent face that fit the role, the cheap price is also the consideration of the film company. In that era, the studio bosses were not optimistic about Toki's popularity, his voice was too soft, his throat knots were prominent, his teeth were dull, and even his tall figure became the object of criticism.
However, all this changed completely after "Red Dead Redemption", and with the release of "Twilight Double Dart" (1965) and "Golden Three Darts" (1966), the "Dart Trilogy" injected new vitality into the Western at the end of the crossbow, and the protagonist of this trilogy, Clint Eastwood, quickly became a fascinating existence. Since then, he has played cowboys, police detectives, and tough guys on the big screen countless times, and gradually become the "old cowboy" in the minds of movie fans.
In fact, counting Toki's acting career, except for Leone and Don Siegel ("Dirty Harry"), he has not worked with many famous directors. But the seeds that took root in this line had long since sprouted in his heart.
Back in 1954, when Eastwood, 24, was a lonely little actor signed to Universal Pictures, because there was often nothing to do, he always went to other sets to watch how Joan Crawford's big stars worked and how the director handled the shots. He agreed with his father's saying, "Whatever you do, do well and be the best in your field." I resonate with this statement. ”
In 1967, Toki, who had already become a star, set up his own company and tried to become a director at the age of 40. He successively filmed films such as "The Mist Chasing Souls" (1971), "The Prodigal Son of the Wilderness" (1973), "Western Enforcer" (1976), "Seeing the Sun in the Clouds" (1983), "Pale Rider" (1985), "Jazz Musician" (1988) and other films, and finally ushered in the brilliant moment of his directorial career in 1992 - "Unforgivable" was born.
Unforgivable
"Unforgivable" won the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Director that year, and at the age of 62, at a time when most men are beginning to decline, Toki's directorial career has entered a real golden period.
Since then, he has begun to break through the trap of Westerns and action movies, experimenting with a wide range of genres, including "Perfect World" (1993), "Dream of the Covered Bridge" (1995), etc., and at the dawn of the new millennium, he offered a "Space Cowboy" (2000). The four old men in the film are stubborn to the universe, because in Toki's dictionary, there is never "Twilight".
<b>He told one of the most touching stories of his life</b>
Director Toki once said: "I always look forward, not backwards. Many times, people reach a certain age and close the mountain. But I always feel sorry for directors like Frank Capra and Billy Wilder because they quit in their 60s. Why? In fact, they can do greater work when they are sixty or seventy years old or even older. ”
In fact, The new century has entered the ancient rarity of Dongmu, and only then has it ushered in the peak of creation. "Mysterious River" (2003), "Million Dollar Baby" (2004), "Father's Banner" (2006), "Letter from Iwo Jima" (2006), "The Change of Son" (2008), "Classic Car" (2008), "Success in Man" (2009)... The old man is generally hanging, every year is an Oscar seed, and even the French "Film Manual" that does not like to see Hollywood has always been blue-eyed to Eastwood.
Toki and Hilary Swank's "Million Dollar Baby" won four Oscars
In recent years, his "Hoover" (2011), "Jersey Boys" (2014), "American Sniper" (2014), "Captain Sully" (2016), including the upcoming "Mule" in China, are above the standard, and he has never stopped dabbling in the subject matter of interest.
Of the success of Unforgivable, Toki said, "When I finished reading the story, I knew that the project was a turning point, and I trusted my intuition, so I drove the 'car' to the maximum gear." Most people now rationalize their intuition, but I would say that when you have feelings, you have to do them. ”
He added: "I never thought anything I did would go viral. When you finish a movie, it looks good, but you think, 'Oh, nobody wants to see this'... I don't really know if people want to see Sally, but I don't care, I'm doing it, that's it. ”
In this era when everyone is exhausted, many people will wonder: why does an old man who is nearly 90 years old still let himself run so high-intensity? Why didn't he retire?
"A lot of people retire and they die. This condition is more common in men than in women. Because women are usually interested in family affairs, men are not. Higashiki laughed.
On the one hand, he wants to stay active by work, and more importantly, he says he has seen "people who try to survive" in his childhood. Recalling one of the most touching stories of his life, the old man choked up.
When he was 5 years old, a man stood in front of the house and said to his mother, "Madam, there is a pile of wood in the backyard, can I help you chop it?" Mom said to the man, "We don't have any money." The other person replied: "I don't want money, a sandwich is enough." At that time, In order to find a job at a gas station, Toki's father moved with his family 500 miles away to say goodbye to everything he had, because that was the only opportunity to support his family.
<b>"So when I think of the bastards who only complain now, this thing will repeat itself in my mind." He said. "I've seen people who have a terrible life, no social security, no benefits. The guy who came to my house just wanted a sandwich. He was a man who was trying to survive, and that was the way people were at that time. ”</b>
Stills from "Classic Car"
Eastwood once said that the current generation is a "girly generation", everyone is fighting a war of words, and no one wants to do real things.
"Everyone is walking on thin ice. For example, we see that people always accuse racists and so on, but when I grew up, some things were not called racism. When I was doing Classic Cars, even my colleagues said, 'It's a good script, but it's not politically correct.'" I said, 'Fine, I'll read it tonight'. The next morning, I threw the script on his desk and said, 'Shoot now'! ”
In the concept of "old cowboy", people seem to be accustomed to making trade-offs in their minds now. But in his opinion, if someone bullies you, even if the guy is older and can manipulate you, and you're at least respected for your actions to fight back, then you're different.
"Little Dongmu" and dad take a photo
Scott Eastwood said of "Old Eastwood": "My father was definitely an old-school. He raised me honestly – to be on time, to be there on time, to work hard. "His films are never delayed, the work efficiency is notoriously high, a shot is usually shot no more than twice, everyone in the crew can go home before dinner, and the more individually risky the film, the more the cost has to be minimized...
At the Los Angeles premiere of "The Mule," daughter Alison even said, "He's a machine, and I think he has a robot chip on the back of his head." He is not human. I don't know how he did it, I also directed two films and the last one almost killed me. ”
"Don't Lose Years" MV
"The Mule" has an ending track called "Don't Let the Old Man In," and when it comes to the source of inspiration, singer Toby Keith reveals that it came from a conversation with Eastwood.
"He told me he was working on a new movie and that next Monday would be his 88th birthday, but the way to celebrate his birthday was the start of filming for the new movie 'Mule.'"
Many people asked Mr. Toki how he stayed alive, he said: "I heard an old saying from a friend, people asked him, 'Why do you look so good at this age'? He said, 'Because I never let that old man in,' so it depends on your heart, how young you feel like you are. ”
One reporter was reluctant and asked, "You really never let that old man in?" Didn't even hear him knock on the door in the middle of the night? ”
"Occasionally, like waking up with a little problem in your back and feeling a little uncomfortable, but you shake it off and walk away."