Cry Macho Ending & Real Meaning Explained
Cry Macho's ending cements it as a very different journey for Clint Eastwood. After 2018’s The Mule, Cry Macho just became the latest in many movies to feature Eastwood as the director and the star. The critically acclaimed director and actor returned to his Western roots for a story about an elderly cowboy and a wild youngster in Mexico.
The Western genre is what made him a cinematic icon in the first place, with Sergio Leone’s The Dollars Trilogy and a slew of other well-known hits from that era. The last time he acted in and helmed a Western was 1992’s Unforgiven. Now, nearly 30 years later, Eastwood proves that he can still headline a Western movie, even though he was already playing aging cowboys in the 1980s and 1990s in films such as Unforgiven and Pale Rider. A movie that was almost included in that category was Cry Macho, but Eastwood passed on an opportunity to make the picture in 1988. As a result, other actors were cast in the part, but nothing ever resulted from the numerous attempts to bring the story to the big screen.
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Though it may have seemed like the ship had sailed on Eastwood starring in Cry Macho, a film adaptation of the 1975 novel finally became a reality. In the Western – which is set in 1979 – Eastwood’s Mike Milo had to go on a long trip across Mexico to get 13-year-old Rafo (Eduardo Minett) away from his abusive, party-loving mother and back to his rich father and ranch owner, Howard Polk (Dwight Yoakam). Naturally, many obstacles slowed them down, including car thieves, their second vehicle breaking down, and the hired henchman of Rafo’s mother. Here’s how things ended for Mike and Rafo, and how the conclusion reinforced the main idea
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