LE FIGARO.
- What prompted you to undertake such a study?
Jean-Louis FABIANI.
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Above all, my taste for the character.
Over the years, I realized that Clint Eastwood was my favorite filmmaker.
What attracted me was its paradoxical status.
While over the decades Eastwood only worked on the figure of heroism, he was not understood, and was given a reputation of "fascist" with American critics. , and notably Pauline Kael of the
New Yorker
.
For the New York intelligentsia, he was reduced to being a carrier of 44 Magnums Smith & Wesson.
I found it a bit simplifying.
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Why was Eastwood the victim of this label?
Because he is the man of ambivalence.
As an actor and as a filmmaker, he is above all a libertarian.
He thinks that the state harms the individual.
Paradoxically, in a certain number of his films, he plays a patriot.
What makes him an object of sociological study?
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