Absolute Power

I did not know that Laura Linney was in it. Neither did I know that Clint plays her dad. I had seen a particular shot from the movie on Warner Brothers, but didn’t pay too much heed to it. Later a few days back it was playing again, I just could not believe the odds of two of my favorite actors sharing the screen space together. I did not see the movie from the start, but then it was a treat, not so much for the plot or the film, but to see Laura and Clint together. Did I ever wish them to come together, maybe never, it never crossed my mind.

The Enforcer

I am not sure of the chronology of the Dirty Harry series, I could have, should have looked up in IMDB. This time around I decided to do a blog with any reading or checking before hand. It goes from my mind to the screen. Of course for those who read these lines, it could very well be from you to me. Well it ain’t all that dramatic what I wish to say about the movie, but the melodrama here is, more so my state of my mind. Not essentially because of this movie but then a confluence of so many things, which also includes this movie and all the other movies and everything else that happens.

Getting back, Harry is back, Dirty Harry is back. I liked ‘Dirty Harry’ more than the Enforcer. I like the girl in the movie, her trying to catch up, trying to learn things on the job, and the way how Harry teaches, pretty much in the job. And that too learn it the hard way, if you are smart, then you might do it faster. May be that’s how things happen around at my work too…And of course few one liners as always, but nothing like, Magnum talking in Dirty Harry. So pretty much this article is more about Dirty Harry and me than its about ‘The Enforcer’. So it be.

The Unforgiven 1992

This is the first time for most of part of the movie, Clint Eastwood is just a legend of the past. The man who was like no one, and the one who has mend his ways, well a complete U turn. Then no particular reason which was obvious to me, though he has taking care of hogs, decides to return. And when he does hell breaks loose.

That’s not what was of particular interest to me come to think of it. It was the narrative which runs in the beginning and in the end, and that was something

High Plains Drifter

This is the real rough and uncouth side of a drifter. Somewhere the plot has traces of Seven Samurai, but with a twist in the tale. The characters are very memorable, very well developed, and sometimes very typical too.

I like the part where Mordecai is made the Sheriff, it vaguely reminded me of the Bottom from Midsummer Night’s dream. I know revenge is not all that a great virtue at all, but still somewhere down below it gives some pleasure to see the revenge on screen. Kill Bill, Inglorious Basterds, Boondock Saints well, some of the secret pleasure in watching revenge on screen…

Play Misty for Me

After seeing Clint Eastwood in Play Misty for Me, I was sure the kind of roles in which I wish to see him. Definitely not as a romantic. Somewhere his ‘raw appeal’ gets lost in the whole business…Claimed to be one of the all time favorite thrillers, it is not of the movies which I particularly enjoyed.

Twilight New Moon

I am neither too much into blood sucking vampires, nor did I ever understand what is so very sexy about vampires…For that matter there are so many other things which I have not really comprehended the need or craze…

I have seen director Werner Herzog and actor Klaus Kinski’s’ Nosferatu the Vampyre’, but to compare that with Twilight would not mean anything. Twilight is based on Stephenie Meyer’s novel. I found the movie to be quite intense, with enough plot development to keep me hooked. Though I am not an authority on the vampire folk lore and nuances, it still did not hinder me from relishing the movie.

We had gone the watch the movie at one of the popular multiplex, PVR, and it was an all together completely different crowd for Twilight. It looked as if all the young, trendy, weirdoes bunched up together turned for the show. I guess the target audience for Twilight is also the same kind, so no wonder…

Dirty Harry

Director: Don Siegel
Cast: Clint Eastwood
Year of Release: 1971


I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?

You don't assign him to murder cases, You just turn him loose


The other day during lunch, I said, that Clint Eastwood as a director made path-breaking movies. Then what exactly defined path breaking movies really? Path breaking could be the plot, the direction, the handling of the subject, it could be innumerable things. For Clint Eastwood I think it was the characterization and its impact on the audience. The influence of these characters on the cinema to come years after is proof enough. It also has strong depiction of the times then, the way how the society was evolving and its vices and addictions. I need to read more on how Clint Eastwood got to understand the psyche of the cops so well, and create a character so raw, and so powerful. Lot of Bollywood movies too, have been influenced by him.