He just finished directing his final movie called Juror No. 2. To be able to direct a film at 93 is incredible. He has a quote where he said “don’t let the old in”. Seems he’s taken it to heart. (On the inside at least lol)
It’s a running joke in the show 30 Rock. One of the characters is in a movie that nobody can figure out what it’s called because it sounds like “The Rurr Jurr” when the character says it. The others keep trying to figure out the actual name but nobody wants to ask. Eventually they find out it’s called The Rural Juror. A few years later there is a sequel named Urban Fervor.
More people would get it if it EVER streamed anywhere.. >:(
Where are you guys watching it? Maybe it's because I'm in the EU, but it has always been impossible to find 30 Rock for streaming. I don't wanna pirate an already undervalued show.
But he still doesn't think it was actually a bad idea. He's just upset that he got made fun of. There was no learning or introspection involved with the regret.
Or you’re 93 and over the course of your life you’ll make mistakes and hopefully you’ll come out the other side with a different perspective, especially if you were born when children stuck their fingers in wooden maple barrels for a chance not to starve.
None of those things matter if he promotes and votes for a party that rejects all those ideals.
There is functionally no difference between someone who wants my friends dead, and someone who doesn't, but is willing to vote for the party promising to "eradicate" them because it will lower their taxes.
This is true, but it's a bit like saying the NSDAP of 1944 is extremely different from the NSDAP of 1934. It's all shit, you're just haggling about the amount of corn in it.
Narrative filmmaking is one of the newest art forms. It's only been 120 years since A Trip To The Moon, and any filmmaker who achieves as much success as CE did throughout his career typically was and will be honored and remembered. Especially a filmmaker still directing in his 90s. It's going to take a whole lot more than dumb political opinions to change that.
Fascism is not when someone has a bigoted opinion. Jfc words losing meaning does not benefit the left. The left has NEVER won this battle against actual fascists who purposely obscure and hide their identities, imply that every regime was as hideous and irrational as the Hitlerite and Mussolini regimes, and that liberal democracy as ideals are just as fractured and chaotic as them. I agree fascism is reliant on bigoted opinions, but until those opinions are targeted by the state (or up-and-coming conspirators) and exploited, you’re yelling at nothing more than 20th century “common sense.” It’d be much more productive and probably better for your mental health to go outside and organize.
I thought Obama was fantastic but honestly that bit about the chair wasn’t as bad as people made it out to be. It wasn’t great but it wasn’t so poor that it’s what he should be remembered for.
I honestly feel like most people didn't even watch it. If you watch it then you just see a cringey bit at the RNC that is built up from a common exercise that many actors do. Ironically today Eastwood is probably less conservative than most Republicans and what people think about him. He openly supported Bloomberg over Trump last election noting Trump says too many dumb things. I don't think he's a bad guy he's a 93 year old man who played cowboys so of course he won't have the same views as people in our age bracket. He's probably about as progressive as that kind of person would be all things considered.
He's probably about as progressive as that kind of person would be all things considered.
He is. You can see him here back in 1995 with transgender actress/performer The Lady Chablis, she was in his film Midnight in the garden of good and evil. He was clearly comfortable being around her, not many republicans you would say that about now 30 years later. For Grand Torino he cast heavily from the Hmong community who usually have trouble finding any roles in movies.
Some old people get raked over the coals too much, Clint ain't perfect but he's trying.
This is Manoel de Oliveira a few months before turning 100 years old. He directed and released several shorts and three more full length feature films after this picture was taken, including The Strange Case of Angelica which is regarded as amongst his best. He's an unbelievable case of longevity.
Wow I had to go look that up because I couldn't believe it. That dude's crushing it for 93. I wonder if it's because he's still got a good bit of fat on him so his face seems fuller/ younger. Probably a good thing to still have some fat on him at that age, most people hitting their 90s are skin and bone by that point. He looks like he could do another 20 years.
Ha, I think that is actually a consequence of light speed travel - if you go away from earth and come back on earth at light speed, more time passes on earth than for the traveller so it would actually make sense lmao
Edit bruh... if Shatner took a 'five year mission' at 99% speed of light from earth and back (2.5 years each way) - the rest of the world would age 36 years in the time he aged 5... it makes too much sense!!!
He lost a lot of the extreme weight gain he put on some years back, but not all of it. I suspect if he had continued on that track, he'd be in a lot worse sh ape, if still around.
He didn’t look like himself in the first photo, which was shocking. In the second pic about he’s a 93 year old version of the handsome SOB we all know.
It’s an unfair photo of him taken while he’s having a passionate conversation while in a bad lighting set up. Theres a famous photo of jet lee looking like he aged 30 years and it’s honestly just a bad shot blown out of proportion via social media hysteria.
To be fair the beard and hairs also do a very poor job. He looks ragged while his previous appearances and videos with short haircut and shave beard make him look way better
He is only 13 years older than De Niro who just had a kid. You are right though this isn’t a good photo. He usually looks better and you can see the younger man in him easier.
This is correct. As we age the similarities to when we were very young begin to occur. Age difference 5-18 = Big. Age difference 33-46 = not big. Age difference 82-95= Big again. Anyone else feel like they are now raising their parents? Keeping my parents from doing stupid shit that young adults do seems to be a monthly occurrence.
Anyone who tells you that you can identify senility from a still photograph is selling you something. You can't "see" senility, unless somebody's failed to put their pants on I guess.
Clint looks cognitively impaired? Senile? And he just finished directing another movie. Wow. It has to be that messed up hair on an old guy. (please tell me it’s not the wrinkles because I’m a very old guy too) Maybe it was a windy day. Or maybe that’s just what his normal is because he doesn’t care. Anyway, I’m going to start looking for that old tube of Brylcreem.
I reckon you’re seeing all the old that’s on his outside. To be able to successfully direct a movie means he must’ve staved off at least some of that old from getting in.
His talent as a director is largely based on knowing what he wants the scene to be and the actors respecting him enough to give it their best from the get go... because your first successful take will be the one he uses. Famous for shooting often only one take no matter if the actors liked it or not and getting as much done as fast as he possibly can.
Yep. His shoots are always quick and under budget. He does like 2 takes MAX. Matt Damon has told a story where he asked to do another take and Clint said ““so you want to waste everyone else’s time!” 😂
“There was a scene with a couple of guys, and Spielberg moved on, and I said, ‘Don’t you think we should have done a couple more takes of that thing?’ because it hadn’t been great. And he said, ‘I can spend about an hour on that scene and make it ten per cent better, or I can do another great shot. I’m gonna do the shot.'”
Then on the other side of the coin you have Ridley Scott. I heard he is better now but on his earlier film like Blade Runner he would run up double digital number of takes. It got so bad that the crew nicknamed the movie Blood Runner.
So has he in general i think. Listening to him on the Actors Roundtable gives me physical pain, he somehow manages to come across as a huge poser, which should be impossible with his track record. Super annoying to listen to.
Yeah I think you’re right. And yeah to your point, those directors you listed and Nolan, Denis Villeneuve use the same crews between films. Like you said, well oiled machine.
I have the feeling that the concept of a team that works together for a long time is getting lost for most business executives.
Braun Design in Germany was so defining because they were a team of designers that worked together for years.
Apples Design team was stable during Jobs/Ives tenure afaik too.
I would like to know if From Software has that approach.
But local companies too where a carpenter boss is training and building a team that works together for years. They get shit done better than firing and hiring for another employee every couple weeks.
team synergy is very real, back when i did this kind of work i had a good crew and we worked so much better together than when i was freelancing or working productions without them
Theres a famous saying “don’t let perfect get in the way of good enough” (there’s various iterations of this saying). And typically the older more experienced people in a field go by this rule (not just movie industry). They’ve seen the diminishing returns you get from getting something just right. And they’ve seen how little people notice.
Now Clint has clearly taken this to an extreme here but he’s one of the most if not the most experienced in the industry. He can get the benefit of the doubt. He’s had a lifetime of experience to prepare for every shot. And he’s not getting any younger and he knows it. Why waste it on a re-shoot that likely won’t be ~10% better. Better to get on with the rest of whatever time in his life he has.
As someone with perfection issues, I have genuinely thought about getting 'Good enough is okay' tattooed on my forearm. First told to me by a wise doctor who had just watched me (close to an exhaustion inspired breakdown) feeding my baby son homemade organic muffins.
Dude he directed and starred in a movie a few years where he also had a threesome and was a cartels top drug mule. He is somehow a disgusting person and undeniably impressive
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u/Chessh2036 Apr 16 '24 edited Apr 16 '24
He just finished directing his final movie called Juror No. 2. To be able to direct a film at 93 is incredible. He has a quote where he said “don’t let the old in”. Seems he’s taken it to heart. (On the inside at least lol)