Sweet Square
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Eastwood later films as a director are brilliant because they perfectly capture the ideology of the modern american conservative into a movie under 3 hours. American Sniper is basically a white nationalist propaganda film that wouldn't look out place in 1940's Germany. Chris Kyle is portrayed as the supreme white super solider, who's the only one protecting ''freedom'', the US military throughout the film is less seen as an army at war but more a weaponised police force, it encapsulates what american mean when they talk about having to be the policeman of the world. Gran Torino and Richard Jewel are movies that express how republican voters view themselves to the wider american population - As fantasy strong armed 70 year olds going around beating up ethic minorities(In the name of civility) and at the same well meaningfully fat civilians who are completely powerless against the american government, who is conspiring against them at every turn. Both are Qanon films.
So I'm not sure how Eastwood later movies can be seen as overrated. He has an idea, a certain way of viewing the world and he follows thought with it. It might be not something we agree with or find entertaining but thats not really the point.
So I'm not sure how Eastwood later movies can be seen as overrated. He has an idea, a certain way of viewing the world and he follows thought with it. It might be not something we agree with or find entertaining but thats not really the point.