In the blink of an eye, "Avengers 4" has been released for more than a year.
At the end of the film, Captain America decides to go back in time and spend a peaceful life again after experiencing ups and downs.
The beautiful team with white hair and pale face also poked the tears of countless audiences.
In the real world, there is actually a Captain America.
Unlike in the movie, he is still active in the front line, and the sword is not old.
His name was Clint Eastwood.
Today, he is 90 years old.
Who is Clint Eastwood?
In 90 years, there are too many titles that can be placed on him —
He is a Legend of Hollywood.
In the 60 years of film industry, he has changed from a box office superstar to a gold medal director.
His film works are regulars in major film lists.
"The Golden Three" with 9.2 points, "Perfect World" with 9.1 points, "Million Dollar Baby" with 4 Oscars...
From left to right: "The Golden Three",
"Perfect World", "Million Dollar Baby"
He himself has twice won oscars, as well as lifetime achievement awards in Cannes and Venice.
"Million Dollar Baby" won two small gold men
He is a handsome and handsome male god.
From fresh meat to uncle, to grandpa...
No matter what period of time, men admire it, and women love it.
Youth, middle age, old age
He is a near-omnipotent being.
Every time you enter a field, you will cultivate it to the extreme:
He loves music.
So he took matters into his own hands and composed the soundtrack for many of his films.
Even in 1980, the song "Bar Room Buddies" sung by him was at the top of the Billboard billboard and swept the United States.
He's a good jazz musician
He was addicted to golf.
So he concentrated on hard training and won a number of professional competitions, which impressed professional players.
From time to time, he also hosts charity tournaments at Rocky Beach in California, attracting golf enthusiasts from all over the world.
He loves architecture.
Therefore, the "Teheima" Golf Club was designed and built, which was widely praised by people in the architectural community.
"Teheima" Golf Course and Club
Angelina Jolie had this to say about him:
"The most perfect man in the world."
It starts with appearance, falls into talent, and is loyal to character.
Strong character, outstanding conscience, passion for the cause, and sense of responsibility for life...
A good man should have it all.
His name was complicated, so Chinese fans gave him a poetic nickname:
After splitting his surname, East literally translates to East and Wood to Wood.
"Wood of the East" – abbreviated as "East Wood".
This nickname, tough and yet beautiful.
In addition, Dongmu has countless titles -
"City Cowboy", "Dragon of the Film World", "The Most Handsome Man With a Pistol" and so on...
These nicknames are not only a compliment to him, but also a summary and testimony of his life.
But Shiro especially wanted to look at him from another angle.
That's what was mentioned at the beginning: the real "Captain America."
Because Mr. Dongmu is the totem of the traditional American spirit for a hundred years.
So what is the traditional American spirit?
Individual heroism.
The image is tall and handsome, the personality is tenacious and resolute, and the heart is convinced of the "American Dream" that "everyone is equal in front of opportunities, and everyone can realize their own value".
These internal and external conditions, Dongmu fully meets.
To this end, Shiro summed up the "three defenses, two reflections" and tried to take everyone to understand this legend of the world.
1. Defend dignity
The first thirty years of Higashiki's life did not go well.
Born in San Francisco in 1930 to an ordinary working family, he spent his early years as a soldier and apprenticed in car repair and aircraft manufacturing.
But none of this has anything to do with the movie.
Dongmu during his military career
He loved movies, but his only asset at the time was a handsome face.
Without a family background, without training, ambitions naturally have nowhere to go.
At the age of 20, he was admitted to the University of Los Angeles, majoring in acting, which was a stepping stone to the show business.
When he was in school, he took over his first screen role.
It was a laboratory assistant in the film, there were not many shots, and there was only one line:
"I lost the mouse."
Toki's first character
From the age of 20 to 28, Dongmu received such a dragon set of small horns.
Spend the whole day sloppily, living a life of hunger and full meals with his wife.
Precious images from 1956
One day in 1958, it seemed like business as usual.
Dongmu was walking down the street, but was suddenly stopped by a stranger:
"I think you look like a cowboy, so you might as well go to a scene with me."
So at the age of 28, he starred in the Western-themed TV series "Leather Whip".
The Leather Whip
The small success of this drama has won him a certain amount of attention, and his life is no longer tight.
An even greater turning point in life came in 1964.
Italian director Sergio Leone is working on a Western film called Red Dead Redemption.
Sergio Leone (1929–1989)
Because they could not afford to pay the first-line stars, there was no way to do anything, so the crew had to find Dongmu.
At that time, 6 years had passed since the start of "Leather Whip", and the 34-year-old Dongmu could only be regarded as a small star.
Higashiki, who is about to enter middle age, deeply doubts whether he is an actor or not.
Even after receiving an offer from the crew of Red Dead Redemption, he still told his wife:
"If it doesn't work this time, I'll give up, I'll have to try something else."
Unexpectedly, this time the broken can was broken, but it was like a flat thunder, and Dongmu's name was red all over the country.
Stills from Red Dead Redemption
After that, Leone hit the iron while it was hot, and joined hands with Toki to shoot "Twilight Double Dart" and "Golden Three Darts" in a row.
The most famous Western in film history, the "Dart Trilogy", was born.
Although the three films are all different stories, they allow Toki to retain the same outfit.
The wilderness man with a hat, a cigar, a shawl and a revolver made the most successful cowboy image in history.
By the way, the current famous game "Overwatch" in the McRae, the prototype is Toki.
McRae
The "Dart Trilogy" made Eastwood famous, and another subsequent film made him truly an American idol.
Dirty Harry.
Poster of Dirty Harry
At that time, the United States was at its lowest point after World War II.
Kennedy was assassinated, Martin Luther King Jr. was killed, the Vietnam War was lost, and the Cold War was hanged by the Soviet Union.
For a time, the U.S. government became synonymous with weakness and incompetence.
That's why people need heroes.
As a result, various heroic images took turns to appear in film and television works:
Christopher Reeve's Superman, Sylvester Stallone's Rambo, and Eastwood's Cop Harry.
Superman, Rambo and Harry
In the United States at that time, almost everyone would say Harry's words:
“MAKE MY DAY！ (Let Grandpa be happy!) ）”
The 41-year-old Dongmu has become popular again by portraying this iron-faced selfless urban hero.
Two classic figures, a cowboy and a cop.
Seemingly completely unrelated, in fact, they all represent the hope of heroes in the hearts of Americans.
Cowboys represent pioneers and are synonymous with a free and free spirit of fearless adventure;
Policeman Harry is a law enforcer, defending the peace of one side, selfless in the face of iron, speaking only for the people, not singing praises for the king.
They are all on the screen, speaking for the American people and defending American dignity.
The above two images are the biggest achievements of actor Higashiki.
But his really great area is directing.
If "defending dignity" refers to the shell of Toki, then the rest is the nucleus of Toki.
2. Defend camaraderie
Hollywood is Vanity Fair.
Here the paper drunk gold fans, night and night song, it is easy to make people lose their way.
Toki is not a perfect person either.
In terms of life style, in his early years, he was really not glorious.
In 1975, during the filming of Western Enforcer, he had an affair with actress Sandra Locke.
Since then, the marriage with his wife, who has survived the ups and downs with him, has broken down.
The first left is Sandra Locke
Nor was he a good father.
Of Toki's seven children, four were illegitimate.
He has also broken the scandal of giving his newborn flesh and bones to others for adoption.
Whether it is love or affection, he did not do a good job.
In his later years, Dongmu was full of regret for his ex-wife and children.
Eastwood with his youngest daughter Morgan
In his directing works, there are also such expressions.
In 1995, Toki, who was over sixty years old, made "The Dream of the Covered Bridge".
The story tells the story of a middle-aged peasant woman who fell in love with the photographer who came to shoot the scene in the four days after her family left.
This is an ordinary derailment story, but it is deeply touching and profoundly interpreted by Dongmu and Aunt Mei.
The female lead is played by the famous actress Meryl Streep
Quite interesting is the ending of the film.
In the face of extramarital love affair with the photographer, the heroine still chooses to hide this unforgettable love in her heart.
Until her death, she did not betray her family.
For Higashiki, this is his confession of marriage.
For children, Toki's expression is more frequent.
In his films, the ice-breaking process of father-son relationship can often be seen.
In the new work "Mule" two years ago, the male protagonist, who has been uninhibited all his life, finally realized his debt to his family in his old age.
At the end of the film, the male protagonist was duly tried for assisting in drug trafficking, and in his career, he failed.
But when his family sat on a jury and faced their fate with him, he won a friendship that the poor had never received in their lifetime.
Toki with daughter Alison Eastwood
In the film, he played the father and daughter in his true colors
In the third thirty years of his life, Higashiki finally understood what responsibility is.
Whether it is love or affection, he strives to cherish friendship and defend friendship.
3. Defend your convictions
As a filmmaker, Toki is different.
Art and politics are separate and are the consensus of artists all over the world.
But Toki is extremely politically zealous.
In 1986, Eastwood ran as a nonpartisan to become mayor of carmel sea town in California.
The town has a population of about 4,000 people, while Toki's annual salary is $300.
To put it bluntly, it is to have fun and realize the dream of politics.
President Reagan as an actor (1911–2004)
His person was a lifelong friend of Toki
He also never shyed away from expressing his political leanings in public.
Later, Toki joined the Republican Party and was an active member of the party.
He also shelled the Democratic President Barack Obama at the party convention.
Eastwood speaks at the Republican Convention
Due to political sensitivity, many fans are silent about Toki's political experience.
But Shiro thought otherwise.
The game may be part of politics, but the essence of politics is governance.
Doing things for the people and speaking up for the people is what politics should do.
Toki is a simple politician.
Perhaps he did not go very far on this road, but remembering the people and thinking of the society is his unchanging creed.
He does not sing praises for politicians, but seeks to put universal values to life.
One is freedom.
Dongmu admired South African President Mandela very much, and specially filmed the movie "Success in People".
The film focuses on Mandela's election as president and strives to break the ice in black-white relations in South Africa through sporting events.
This hard-won freedom for blacks, Toki understood.
Stills from "Things In People"
The other is equality.
In "Classic Car", the hot-tempered, unsmiling old white man did not hesitate to give his life to ensure the comfortable life of his Asian neighbors.
The whole world is racially equal, Anduki understands.
He defends not someone, something, but a belief.
A belief that anyone can say, but is difficult to practice.
Stills from "Classic Car"
4. Reflect on war
Toki started by playing cowboys.
The identity of the cowboy inevitably has to fight and kill.
But it is worth mentioning that Toki, who has played a tough guy all his life, is actually allergic to horses.
It seems to imply that he is not a man who likes to kill.
And the war, as a legitimate killing, made Dongmu very disgusted.
In 2006, Toki made an unprecedented attempt at war films.
Use the same battle in World War II to make two films with opposite angles.
One is "The Flag of the Fathers" from the perspective of the US military.
The other is the "Iwo Jima Family Book" from the perspective of the Japanese army.
Left: The Flag of the Fathers
Right: Iwo Jima Family Letter
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a fierce battle of World War II, in which the Japanese army was completely destroyed and the American army was also lost by more than half.
In these two works, Dongmu does not discuss the justice of the battle, but focuses on a living individual.
In the Iwo Jima Family Letter, the Japanese soldiers were very tired of the battle, believing that it had no strategic significance, but was just an absurd "meat grinder".
On the contrary, the encouragement of the wives and daughters in the family gave them the motivation to rise up and fight.
Stills from Iwo Jima Family Book
In "The Banner of the Fathers", the six war heroes who raised the national flag were honored after returning to China, but they lived in the shadow of the war all day.
For them, war does not bring glory, but more of a nightmare of life.
Stills from "The Flag of the Fathers"
Poor indeterminate river bones, like people in spring dreams.
A general will be a hypocrisy of ten thousand bones, Dongmu understands.
5. Reflect on the times
It is often said that Dongmu has a young heart and will never obey the old.
Not really.
On the contrary, Higashiki serves the old.
For decades, Toki has been transforming.
From the idol faction to the strength faction, from the front of the stage to the backstage, from the kidney to the heart.
He understood what he was doing at any age.
Shiro believes that Higashiki's true obedience to old age begins in Unforgivable.
At that time, Toki, who was over the age of hana, made this alternative Western.
The cowboys in this film are not accompanied by red dust and live a dashing life; nor do they gallop horses and share the prosperity of the world.
The whole film exudes a temperament: I can't move.
At that time, the Westerns had actually gone to the end of the mountains.
But unlike others, Toki didn't try to save the craft.
Rather, it is to face it squarely, to mourn and pay tribute to it.
Because Toki understands that times are different.
The Western has accomplished its mission, let it settle in.
At the end of the film, the subtitles show two nobles of Toki.
Leone, the director of the "Dart Trilogy", and Siegle, the director of "Dirty Harry".
On the surface, this film is dedicated to them, but deep down, there is also a kind of playful pride that is better than the present:
You see, I stand on your shoulders and put an end to our legend.
Eastwood and Leone
Since then, Toki has begun to examine the current era with his own experience.
Because he felt that this was the greatest wealth that an "old man" could bring.
He will reflect on this society.
Both "Captain Sully" and the new "Lamentations of Richard Jewell" reflect on the current era through the dilemma suffered by the "hero".
What makes them antagonistic to the people?
Is the hero sick, or is the era sick?
Left: Captain Sully
Right: The Lamentations of Richard Jewell
Of course, Dongmu also has a lot of "old man" qualities.
In The Mule, Toki also indirectly expresses his dissatisfaction with electronics.
The protagonist mutters to himself like a child:
Everyone goes online to buy flowers, and they don't patronize our physical florists anymore.
He's always been a cute old boy.
Stills from "The Mule"
This is Clint Eastwood —
The real Captain America.