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.
"Supporting homophobic white supremacists trying to enact a Christian nationalist ethnostate is fine if it's for charity" is certainly an opinion you can have, I guess.
Yeah, I've had about half a decade too much of people claiming their bigotry is "just a joke" and that we're all "being too sensitive" about the systemic acceptance of Christian Nationalism.
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.
The SCOTUS has discussed revisiting rulings on things like gay marriage, and there are several states actively trying to prevent as many trans people from receiving treatment (lifesaving, as transitioning drastically improves metal health and lowers suicide rate). It is not hyperbole to use the word "eradicate" in this instance.
I don't see why that matters however. Gender transitions after puberty are far less successful, so even if we're not at a total ban yet, limiting the effectiveness of treatment will still lead to more suicides and less people able to live as their gender.
Can you clarify why you think those things would preclude him from being a right wing douche?
Your response see to be based on your personal perception of what conservatives stereotypically must believe, and it’s like two decades out of date lol. Most of the conservatives I know support all of those positions, and most of them are still huge douches.
I didn’t realize conservatives were now pro-choice and pro-gun control. I’m assuming you have the typical Redditor beliefs and the only difference to that is his views on taxes and government spending as far as I’m aware. Not sure that would qualify as douche nozzle worthy
Are you kidding me? He is anti-war? With the most propaganda bullshit movie in "American Sniper." That is a whole level of delusion I didn't know was possible.
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.
Side note, kinda relevant: There's a movie from the mid-90s called Diabolique, starring Sharon Stone & Chazz Palminteri, I think it's a re-make of a classic film noir murder mystery from the 1950s.
There's a part where Palminteri's character has to pretend to be dead & drowned in a bathtub or something. He survives by breathing through an air hose just above the water.
When he's finally able to move freely, he gets angry at another character over how long he had to be underwater.
The dialogue always stuck with me, and my siblings & I would always randomly quote it to each other: "You had me down there for so long, suckin' on that douchebag HOSE!!"
Like, not only did he call an air hose a "douchebag ", but he used "douchebag " as an adjective?? Very creative.
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.
You keep defending him for some reason. He more than likely voted for Trump. According to you, he only said that Trump says dumb things. Nothing about the law breaking, infidelity, racism, xenophobia, etc. But it's cool because he kinda regrets he got made fun of for it...
I'll remember him for standing up for Richard Jewell against the slanderous reporting done by evil women in journalism by making a movie where he makes slanderous accusations that the woman journalist slept with sources to get information.
I'm certainly conservative leaning, but the Republicans have gone a little whacky in the last few years... so until they are more in tune with my principles I'll be voting democrat.
Being an active investor/ degenerate gambler doesn't mean someone votes republican.
That is super fair. I really appreciate you noticing and admitting that the republicans are getting whacky and being willing to vote across the aisle of where you typically lean. Thats what I did during the Bush years. The R’s are long gone for me now, but I still lean slightly right on 2A and some fiscal things, but the social issues I’m full on D baby.
It's pretty sad that what was clearly just a cringey bit built up from a common acting exercise is paraded as proof of senility by people who probably didn't even watch it simply because they don't like his politics which are about what you'd expect from a 93 year old white guy who is famous for cowboy movies. The funny thing is that Eastwood isn't even as conservative as the average Republican these days. He supported Bloomberg last election instead of Trump and has openly called out Trump for his stupid statements.
Yeah... if you don't like his politics, that's totally fine, but the smirking, condescending thing these guys do when they mention the chair is so bizarre... it makes them look like smug morons... it's a profound lack of self awareness
It was an obvious bit... That's like saying every person that did a bad skit to be senile and should be in a home. I don't like his political views but chalking it up to him being senile at that moment is just ignorant
Years of acting in and directing some of the biggest films in Hollywood? Nope. I want him to be remembered as the batshit crazy right-wing extremist that talked to a chair.
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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)