Thinking of the incredible longevity of Clint Eastwood, who at 91 is promoting his new movie
Cry Macho
(
Weeping macho
), the urge to hijack his famous line in
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Immediately comes to mind: “
You see, the world is divided into two categories: those who stop and those who continue.
I continue.
"
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The hero of American-style action films is therefore not tired and retirement is not on his program.
At 91 in the spring - Clint Eastwood was born on 31st 1930 in San Francisco - the Hollywood legend not only made his fortieth film,
Cry Macho
, but he also rides there and even finds time to unleash a shot. fist.
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Cry Macho
, in theaters Friday in the United States (November 10 in France) returns to the westerns which made the glory of the actor. He plays there a former rodeo champion, Mike Milo, in charge of a last mission. Milo must travel to Mexico and find the son of his ex-boss, Rafo, and in the process teach him to ride a horse.
"
The idea for this film dates back to forty years,
" recalls Clint Eastwood. With humor he said at the time to a producer: "
I'm too young for the role, why don't I direct the film and we take Robert Mitchum?"
"
This beautiful project was lost in the limbo of the seventh art and Clint Eastwood, after a few decades of reflection, finally felt that he now had the ideal profile, with age and wrinkles helping, to play himself, Mike Milo, the main character.
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“
What everyone likes to see in the back is Clint with a cowboy hat, perched on a horse,
” said Tim Moore, his longtime collaborator and producer, recently.
“
He hasn't been on a horse since
Merciless,” he noted again, referring to this Oscar-winning western in 1993. “
And the first day of filming when he was on horseback, the team was overexcited.
It was a special moment
, ”he concluded admiringly.
A contemporary western
Award-winning multiple Oscars, Eastwood rose to international stardom in the 1960s with Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns, the infamous
For a Fistful of Dollars
,
And For A Few Dollars More
and
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
trilogy
.
Since his debut behind the camera in 1971 with
A Shiver in the Night
, he has chained film after film, often with success, and has expressed his desire to continue working as long as he finds projects "
worthy of interest
". He had announced to end his acting career after
Gran Torino
in 2008, but had returned to service four years later for
A New Chance.
, then again in 2018 with
La Mule
.
The trailer for
Cry Macho
, which is released simultaneously in theaters and on the streaming platform HBO Max, makes numerous references to the age difference between the two heroes of the film, which forges a link on the way back to Texas, strewn with pitfalls.
And like in
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
, a line from
Cry Macho
will perhaps go down in history: “
Before you were strong, macho
”, says Rafo, played by the young Mexican Eduardo Minett.
Laconic Mike Milo, replies: “
Before, I was a lot of things.
"
Cry Macho
(
Cry Macho
) in theaters on November 10, Clint Eastwood, Eduardo Minett, Clint Eastwood, Dwight Yoakam, Natalia Traven ...