wtg Clint

[Jappa52]

http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,2283921,00.html

pretty interesting interview with Clint Eastwood about Spike Lee and a some of his views.  It would be fun to down a few scotches with C.E. and see where the conversation went...

"Eastwood still likes to let his views be known, often forcefully. In 2005, he vowed he'd kill Michael Moore if the documentarian ever showed up at his house, the way he had doorstepped Charlton Heston in Bowling for Columbine"

[avionix]

Clint is correct.  Spike needs to shut his pie hole.

[Gooss]

Hmmm, a Dirty Harry boxed set.

Father's Day is coming.   


HONK!
Gooss

[DmonSlyr]

clint should be president. i bet clint eastwood would change there mind about gas lol. i bet he would be a good president.

[Maverick]

Good interview. I don't know if it was totally accurate to the conversation but I enjoyed it.

[Holden McGroin]

clint should be president. i bet clint eastwood would change there mind about gas lol. i bet he would be a good president.

Naw he's 78... too old...  anybody over say I don know... 71 should not be elected.

[DiabloTX]

Naw he's 78... too old...  anybody over say I don know... 71 should not be elected.

Check that, 1 vote for Obama.

Well, that's a start.

[lazs2]

He calls himself a libertarian but he goes beyond that..  Like me, he is an individualist.   Met him once at his resteraunt and he seemed like a nice enough guy... even paid for our meal.

lazs

[JB88]

good article.

definitely one of the greats.

[Gunthr]

He calls himself a libertarian but he goes beyond that..  Like me, he is an individualist.   Met him once at his resteraunt and he seemed like a nice enough guy... even paid for our meal. -
lazs

Do you mean you met Clint Eastwood?  Of course I like the movies.  But I really like how he is not gonna be pushed around by the black victimology thing.  He has a very, very good eye for drama in movies... the Million Dollar Baby movie was the last one of his I saw, b/4 that sands of Iwo Jima.  He's ok in my book.

I guess if I bumped into the dude I would try to respect his privacy and just say, Mr. Eastwood, keep up the good work!

[LePaul]

I like that he, no pun intended, stuck to his guns.  About Flags of our Fathers, he tried to keep it accurate.  He didnt wash the film with our modern political correctness.  Lee is like all those other "racial activist" types.  They trudge through life finding ways to be offended 24/7.

[lazs2]

gunther.. he owns (owned?) a resteraunt in monterey called the boars breath inn.    He frequented it and talked to the customers.    I thought he was just someone telling us to keep it down at first till I got a look at him.   He sat down and introduced himself and talked to us for a bit.

I think he was a little PC on the "letters" part of the iwo thing.. he gave the cruelty of the japs pretty much a pass.. I think he got caught up in the letters more than the event.  What the writers were writing more than what they were doing.

Still... I admire him for being an individualist in a socialist world.

lazs

[Gunthr]

gunther.. he owns (owned?) a resteraunt in monterey called the boars breath inn.    He frequented it and talked to the customers.    I thought he was just someone telling us to keep it down at first till I got a look at him.   He sat down and introduced himself and talked to us for a bit.

I think he was a little PC on the "letters" part of the iwo thing.. he gave the cruelty of the japs pretty much a pass.. I think he got caught up in the letters more than the event.  What the writers were writing more than what they were doing.

Still... I admire him for being an individualist in a socialist world.

lazs

That is interesting.  I don't want to sound too backwater, but how was the food there, and how would you rate that place when you were there...the food, were the bathrooms clean?  Was it expensive?

As far as the Letters movie, my opinion is that the story was told through the eyes of that young Jap baker, who did not engage in brutality. It is from that person's perspective, not an overall historical documentary about Iwo.   Spike Jones is no icon of film if he doesn't know this.

[Flatbar]

That is interesting.  I don't want to sound too backwater, but how was the food there, and how would you rate that place when you were there...the food, were the bathrooms clean?  Was it expensive?

Haven't been there in years, don't know what it's like now but it was fairly good back then. They had Dirty Harry themed burgers and such. I don't know if Eastwood still has an interest in the place.

BTW, it's called the Hog's Breath Inn.

Here's their lunch menu...

http://www.hogsbreathinn.net/lunchmenu.htm

The Monterey County Health Department shut the kitchen down sometime in the '90's for a bit, but they rebuilt their refridge units and remodeled the kitchen and re-opened IIRC.

[Angus]

Hehe, it was a deserved answer to Spike. LOL, I wouldn't have a white man playing Nelson Mandela, now would I?
The characters in Flags are actually very well picked, and bear a very good resemblance to the real faces. Especially Jesse Bradford as Rene Gagnon, it's almost scary! Same goes to young Bradley (the son).
I met Clint at the shootings of Flags, and he struck me as an honest gentleman. Sat by him during a long shooting (wounded soldiers on the beach) and we were sharing saltsticks which he is very fond of
Met Bradley as well, - we walked together along with his kids to the canteen. He had been 4 times to Iwo by then, and said that the scenery on the set was absolutely identical. Nice guy, sort of earthbound I felt.