Suit, tie, brushing and Magnum barrel up.
Warner made it simple and efficient by reproducing on the Clint Eastwood box set the actor in the costume of Inspector Harry (
Dirty Harry
in VO), a film by Don Siegel (1972).
An iconic and controversial character, virile and reactive, who gives him an image of a fascist cop, a racist vigilante.
Eastwood, actor and director alike, will continue to confuse her over time.
The best example of the questioning of this image of Épinal is undoubtedly
Gran Torino
(2008), a time announced as the last feature film of his acting career.
Eastwood, then aged 79, stages himself dead in a coffin.
Before passing away, Walt Kowalski, his character, was a Korean War veteran, retired Ford factories, widower and bitter, beer drinker in a Detroit suburb and contemptuous of his Asian immigrant neighbors ("bridles", "faces lemon ”,“ nem heads ”).
But the xenophobic misanthrope becomes the mentor of a teenager from
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