generated the most personal feeling a movie can cultivate. Chris Kyle is known for having the longest recorded kill in US history‚ and this movie provided a marvelous show of that. The eyeline matching that Eastwood used was just as if you were there next to Kyle. An example of this is when Eastwood used the aerial shot from over a mile away to show the magnitude of Chris Kyle’s feat. The Navy Seals are trained for battle but this situation proves why Kyle was name the Legend. This movie clearly falls
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As shown in the beginning scenes of one of the older racial cinemas Gran Torino‚ Walt Kowalski‚ the movie’s hero‚ is the most Scrooge‚ Grinch like character you can think of. Walt‚ played by the notorious Clint Eastwood‚ smokes on his porch‚ mows his lawn‚ drinks excessively‚ and cares for his dog. He is an old‚ bitter‚ and grudge-like Korean War veteran with a recently deceased wife. Ironically‚ his old Polish neighborhood is taken over by Hmong people in the middle of the Detroit ghettos. When
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Chris Abernathy Block 1 5/19/13 Gran Torino ECR In the movie Gran Torino‚ by Clint Eastwood‚ Eastwood plays a racially bitter and lonely war veteran that doesn’t really have a soft side at first for anyone after his wife dead. He treated everyone the same‚ with a grumpy attitude. He would keep to himself cause he felt it was the best thing of him to recover from his lost. He wouldn’t take any hand outs or help from anyone cause he believed he could do it all by himself and didn’t need
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The film Gran Torino‚ directed by Clint Eastwood‚ is about an old man named Walt. After the loss if his wife and barely any contact with his son‚ Walt decides to take on the korean family that lives next door. Their son‚ Thao Vang Lor tries to steal Walts Gran Torino for his cousin‚spider‚ who is in a gang. In return for the accident that Thao had made‚ he started working for Walt doing any spare chores that be may have. Over time Thao and Walt become very close with one another‚ so close that
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Smart‚ which placed the actor on the screen as the volatile pimp Fast Black. The role proved to be huge break for Freeman‚ earning him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. In 2005‚ Freeman won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in Clint Eastwood Million Dollar Baby. In 2008‚ he his role as Lucius Fox in Batman Begins (2005) for the blockbuster sequel The Dark Knight‚ and the third The Dark Knight Rises. "I like being ecclectic‚" he has said about his film choices. "The more varied the
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Million Dollar Baby‚ a non-fiction movie‚ featured the iconic director‚ producer and actor‚ Clint Eastwood. The lead actress was Hilary Swank‚ followed by the supporting actor Morgan Freeman. After its release on December 15‚ 2004‚ it grossed in just under $200 thousand on its opening box office weekend in the United States of America with only 8 screenings. It went on to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. A determined‚ poor‚ thirty-one year old woman named Maggie Fitzgerald decides to make
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history there have been great stories of great sacrifice and struggle. Some of these struggles come during times of oppression and discrimination. Sometimes it’s hard to truly understand what it’s like to live through and experience such struggles. In Clint Eastwood’s Invictus‚ Tate Taylor’s The Help‚ and Roberto Benigni’s Life is Beautiful‚ the characters all experience some kind of struggle. In Invictus Nelson Mandela has the struggle of bringing a country together‚ Skeeter in The Help has the issue
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Gran Torino Gran Torino is a movie of change and compassion. Its controversial prejudice combined with its racial slurs make it almost conflicting to watch. But Clint Eastwood put just the right amount of love in this movie to make your heart pitter and patter. In the movie Clint Eastwood plays a man named Walt Kowalski that has just lost his wife. His sons are selfish and lack the care to look past their racist‚ gun-toting‚ Korean War veteran father enough to understand and gain a relationship
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the third movie in the Dollars Trilogy. In essence‚ the film tells a story of three men who are in hot pursuit of buried treasure. Clint Eastwood‚ Lee Van Cleef‚ and Eli Wallach portray the film’s three title characters. Eli Wallach plays a Hispanic character named “Tuco‚” who is depicted as the inferior‚ violent villain. Tuco teams up with “Blondie” (Clint Eastwood) in order to devise a plan to continually gather reward money from Tuco’s bounties. The third character‚ Angel Eyes (Lee Van Cleef)
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References: Eastwood‚ C.(Director‚ Prouducer).( 2008). Gran Torino. [Motion picture]. United States: Warner Home Video Shiraev‚ E.‚ & Levy‚ D. (2013). Cross-Cultural Psychology: Critical Thinking and Contemporary Applications (5th ed.). Boston: Pearson (Allyn &
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