{"id":3057,"date":"2009-02-07T19:57:58","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T03:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=3057"},"modified":"2009-02-08T06:51:48","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T14:51:48","slug":"the-lucky-brand-modern-master-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=3057","title":{"rendered":"The Lucky Brand Modern Master Award 2009: Clint Eastwood"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Collier Grimm<\/a>. Presented to Clint Eastwood<\/a> at the 2009 Santa Barbara International Film Festival.<\/p>\n

\"\" Clint Eastwood could easily be considered the most iconic macho movie star to ever saunter across the silver screen. He\u2019s usually a man of few words, fans came to know him as \u201cThe Man With No Name\u201d, and his versatility continues to amaze and inspire. On January 29th<\/sup> at Santa Barbara\u2019s Arlington Theatre, actor Sean Penn presented Eastwood with the Lucky Brand Modern Master Award. Before Penn presented the award while simultaneously embarrassing Eastwood, famed critic Leonard Maltin sat down with Eastwood to revisit his lengthy, over six decades long, career.<\/p>\n

Eastwood began his career hanging around Universal Studios, taking classes and hanging out on movie sets. At the time Universal was mostly making B-Pictures, Science Fiction and horror movies.\u00a0 <\/span>The top director working for Universal was Douglas Sirk<\/a>, who made films Eastwood described as \u201cflowery pictures\u201d. Sirk films also boasted top actors like Lana Turner, Lauren Bacall, and hunky Rock Hudson.\u00a0 <\/span>Eastwood revealed he wasn\u2019t really \u201cSirk-material\u201d, and thus landed is first role on a Television series called Rawhid<\/a>e. However Eastwood became tired of the plot constraints on his show and jumped at a rather obscure Italian directors offer to make a film overseas.<\/p>\n

Sergio Leone and Eastwood hit gold with the Italian Western, A Fistful Of Dollars<\/a> (1964), and went on to make two more \u201cSpaghetti Westerns\u201d together. Eastwood would later claim his \u201cMan With No Name\u201d was a combination of the imagery from the silent film era and Neo-Realism. His gun-slinging character, constantly chewing a cigar and clad in a Mexican poncho, was fresh and innovative. However, despite great success in Europe, Eastwood was literally a man with no name in Hollywood for quite some time. United Artists finally picked up the picture and it was released in the United States in 1967, and Eastwood became a living legend. <\/p>\n

In the \u201870s Eastwood decided he was ready to make his directorial debut, and approached Universal studio heads about a film called Play Misty For Me<\/a> (1971). Eastwood told a funny story about visiting the \u201cheads\u201d and asking to make the film. He revealed that they seemed interested and gave their ok, but as he was leaving the office they asked his agent to stay behind for \u201ca little chat\u201d. Although the studio heads had their qualms, Eastwood\u2019s projected was finally green lighted, and with a miniscule budget Eastwood created big hit. My mother forced me to watch this film before I was ten, and although I\u2019m permanently scarred from the true horror this film evokes, it is my favorite Eastwood picture.<\/p>\n

Maltin and Eastwood went on to talk about Eastwood stint doing what he considers \u201ccop-dramas\u2019, like Dirty Harry<\/a> (1971) and In The Line of Fire<\/a> (1993). Eastwood also revealed that Unforgiven <\/a>(1992) is his last Western. However, Eastwood has mostly eager to talk about his work behind the camera, and the amazing talents he has been able to work with in the last few years. Eastwood expressed true amazement for Penn in Mystic River<\/a> (2003), Hilary Swank as the Million Dollar Baby <\/a>(2004), and Angelina Jolie in Changeling<\/a> (2008). Eastwood, who honestly seems like a perfectionist, exposed his main tactic when working with actors- trust. He tweaks them when he has to, but casts actors that were born with the talent to make on-screen magic.<\/p>\n

Eastwood disclosed that he is in pre-production on a film about Nelson Mandela\u2019s first term as president after the fall of the apartheid in South Africa. The Human Factor<\/a>, the working title, will star Morgan Freeman in a role the crowd seemed to feel Freeman was born for.<\/p>\n

The night was star studded, Eastwood was modest, and the magic of film flowed as easily through the veins of audience members, as would bullets from Inspector Harry Callahan\u2019s \u00a0<\/span>.44 Magnum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Collier Grimm. Presented to Clint Eastwood at the 2009 Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Clint Eastwood could easily be considered the most iconic macho movie star to ever saunter across the silver screen. He\u2019s usually a man of few words, fans came to know him as \u201cThe Man With No Name\u201d, and his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,80,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2009","category-tributes-and-qas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}