Gran Torino Trailer (goarticlenews.blogspot.com) - Eastwood is an interesting critter. He's a Renaissance man who composes and perform a excellent part of the music in his movies, moreover acting in them and directing various. He's a tough bird--he's the stunt-man extra often than not. His movies generally reflect the roughness of his persona rather than an artsy elegance.
In his last several movies, he's been explore Bigger Ideas, too. Prize Fighter is a not-quite-noir film about exploitation v. reward (or else perhaps, the arc between doing something precarious and its logical physical punishment set over against the rewards for doing it well) and Gran Torino is a virtual re-make of The Shootist, but with a far dissimilar ending.
Shootist is a 'redemption' movie. Bad guy decide to make up for his evils as he approach his death, does so by taking out a bunch of even worse guys. Gets a shave and a haircut on the way to the grave, by the way.
Torino has the same general plot, except Eastwood is not a 'bad' guy. Instead, he's a good guy who's living in the '70's, except it's the '90's. He's very ill and he knows it. As in Shootist, the main character befriends a young fellow, helps that younger fellow with practical lessons, gets a shave and a haircut, and proceeds to take out a bunch of bad guys.
From acclaimed administrator, Clint Eastwood (Gran Torino, Unforgiven), and starring Oscar® winner Matt Damon (Good Will Hunting, Invictus), award-winning French performer Cecile de France (A Secret), Jay Mohr (Street Kings, TV's – Gary Unmarried) and Bryce.
Stipulation there are aspects of, say, “Midnight in Paris” or “Gran Torino” that are less compelling than others, if the craft feel a little rushed or undercooked in places, consider that the men who made them are probably in an understandable hurry to come to an end.
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I a moment ago proverb this film again yesterday and found it to be remarkable a second time. Here is Fr. Barron's take on the film. If you haven't seen it then I do recommend it!
