5 Great Clint Eastwood Films (That Don't Include Westerns)
The legendary Clint Eastwood (who recently turned ninety-two years old) is best known for his Western films, including The Man With No Name (Dollars) Trilogy and Unforgiven. However, as an actor and director, he has also done other genres, including dramas and crime thrillers. These features contain essential themes such as morality, murder, guilt, and redemption.
What makes Clint so endearing is his longevity and fearless ambition to take on roles that are both tough and cool. He also has a natural ability to convey humor and raw emotion in his performances. Here are five of his best films outside the Western genre.
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In this 2008 film, Clint stars as Walt Kowalski, a Korean War veteran who just lost his wife, doesn't get along very well with his family (including his two sons), and is serious and grumpy towards almost everyone in his Michigan neighborhood. Walt also confronts a Hmong gang that tries to steal his car (a classic 1972 Gran Torino). When Thao Lor (a Hmong teenager who lives in the house next to Walt) admits to being pressured into stealing the car, Walt tells him to never set foot on his property again. However, Thao's sister, Sue, convinces Walt to let her brother work for him in order to make up for his misdeeds, so Walt has Thao do outside housework.
Kowalski is a very flawed character because he is a racist who grunts out ethnic slurs and insults others, but when his unlikely friendship with Thao, Sue, and their Hmong family grows, he transforms and becomes more sympathetic towards them because he sees that they are good people trying to make an honest living. Kowalski's evolving bond with Thao is the heart and soul of the film because the veteran teaches the
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