Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood exclusively portrays anti heroes?
films
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Dirty Harry (1971)-
 I chose this as my focus film as it uses several scenes where Eastwoods character does the right thing however he often does it a way that could perceive him as the antagonist in some modern films. Where his fellow officers follow the rules he breaks them to get the job done, including risking a Childs life. This perhaps is shown to be Eastwood's exclusive role as it doesn't change throughout the film. Theres quite a few sources that suggest that this film re-vamped the cop who believes that he can get more done by working outside the confines of the law. Eastwood shows several traits that appear to be his signature to a role, these being a gruff low voice and also a lack of dialogue, "grizzled handsomeness" and the disregard for authority.



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The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966)-
Eastwood literally plays the "good" in this however again there is several moments that almost place him closer to the bad, this again allows us to question his morals and once again there are several scenes that an audience perhaps wouldn't see from regular hero. Again there are a lot of sources that suggest that this film changed the face of the western genre to use characters who are less complete heroes and more of personal gain "anti heroes"



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Heartbreak Ridge (1986)-
Eastwood plays a drill sergeant training troops which makes his character the good as he is literally training these men to survive. He openly beats and insults his troops (including firing at them with a live weapon during training, several times) while frequently getting into trouble with command and the police.



books
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Film/Genre pg 148-9(rick altman)-
 This goes into a little detail about how "heroes" traditionally have become rule breakers by way of becoming good such as the detective breaking the law to catch someone which is perfectly within the idea of dirty harry. "buck authority" which could perfectly describe Eastwood's typical character role.



item 5-Seeing Is Believing-Peter Biskind Pg 342
This book contains a very useful paragraph that explains how Eastwood showed audiences that you could shoot first or shoot someone in the back and these qualities are shown in the chosen films and so the information would be useful for providing yet more to the argument.



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Clint Eastwood the American Rebel(Marc elliot)-
This book goes into in depth detail about clint Eastwood and his life which lead up to his roles, each role has a small explanation into each role that he has portrayed and also his influences which could explain the roles.



documentaries
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Inside the Actors Studio (2003)-
This Tv interview goes into a lot of detail about all of eastwards career and goes into detail about each role he has portrayed and why, also has some points that could be used in arguments for and against his work.



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Dirty Harry's Way-
a short documentary that uses dirty harry in comparison to the old gangster anti heroes who would gun down suspects and bad guys without a second thought and then compares to Eastwood's portrayal of Harry.



articles
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Relevant Magazine-the rise of the anti hero-goes into detail about the anti hero and the premise while naming two of the films used during the presentation. this will be useful because it shows clear agreement with the point made in the presentation.



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Empire Magazine, all used film reviews-
a useful but small review that contains a useful quote that while small will add to the argument if needed. goes into some small detail about the actions of each of his characters and how they could be considered anti heroes.



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Anti heroes: is there a goodness of purpose-Brian A Kinnaird
a Web article goes into detail about the anti hero and specifically references dirty harry during the explanations and uses it to reference the common idea of the anti hero. includes a lot of detail into Dirty Harry which is the focus film for this presentation.



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A Film History Magazine"Clint Eastwood, Americas Anti Hero" by Justin Aylward
in depth detail into Clint Eastwood's role as the typical anti hero and specifically names two of the used films in its article as well as providing some extremely useful quotes and adds a lot to the argument as article does cover it as well



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The New York times
The New York times offers up several reviews of the chosen films and offers arguments towards the chosen question and the anti hero nature of Clint Eastwood's characters and also provides some negative or deterring comments that could go towards making another side to an argument.


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the Washington post-Heartbreak Ridge
goes into a lot of detail about one of the chosen films and contains a lot of quotable lines that would be useful when creating a presentation script and also offers an oppositional opinion that could be used to create an argument.



rejected sources
clint eastwood wikipedia- while this would be a valuable source it doesn't go into much detail about specific parts required. also each part that are useful have been covered in greater detail in some of th other sources and so it would be simply repeating the same information.


Gran Torino-while this film does match the desired idea about Eastwood's Anti hero status however i feel that i know more about the chosen films and that each one complements the others or doesn't offer enough separation from the other source films


http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/clint-eastwood/27287/clint-eastwood-don-siegel-and-the-great-anti-hero- this source does contain some information about the focus film its simple information about the plot that has already been stated in other sources however the other details of the source cover separate movie to the chosen source film