Comments on: Casting Clint Eastwood’s The Changeling

By: Carl

Carl — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:05:08 +0000

Eastwood makes miracles on film. “The Changeling” should be no exception. “Flags of Our Fathers” struck me as every bit as remarkable as its companion film, “Letters from Iwo Jima.”

BTW - what’s wrong with a few car chases and explosions? Can you imagine the “Mission Impossible” movies (among others) without them? Film snobs don’t understand and never will: Drive-in populists don’t like someone talking down to them.

By: Charles Lorenz

Charles Lorenz — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:37:32 +0000

I think Marty’s October comments about Mr. Eastwood’s latest films being boring, and that he would like to see Clint take “an actual risk in his choice of projects” are rather unfair and off the mark. If he means that Eastwood’s films are boring because, by today’s standards, they don’t have enough explosions, dramatic car chases and crashes to satisfy the teen-aged audience, then I suppose he might have a bit of a point. But Mr. Eastwood likes to tell stories that reflect what happens most often in the real world with characters and their situations that most of us more experienced folks can relate to.

Would you say that “Million Dollar Baby” (Best Picture Oscar Winner), or “Mystic River” (Best Picture Oscar nominee) were boring? They dramatized in superb fashion the struggles that millions of people contend with day in and day out, and they didn’t require overdone digital distractions to boost interest in the stories they told.

As for Marty’s comment that Mr. Eastwood avoids taking “an actual risk in his choice of projects, I would say this: Eastwood took a huge gamble making “Flags of our Fathers” (a good film) and “Letters from Iwo Jima” (a Golden Globe Best Picture winner) simultaneously — a hurculean effort by most filmmaking standards. As I understand it, others including those who owned the script to “Flags” didn’t quite know how to transform the complicated story to the screen and Clint stepped in to accept the challenge. That’s taking a risk, don’t you think? And a rather large one?

At any rate, I am looking forward to “The Changeling” as yet another contribution to Eastwood’s “great track record,” as Marty puts it. But Marty probably will find it boring if he expects it to include car chases and crashes among 1928 Model T’s. Or are they A’s?

By: Marty

Marty — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:01:53 +0000

‘He may have a â€œgreatâ€ track record, but lately he also has a boring one, and the Changeling doesnâ€™t sound much better. Iâ€™d love to see the payoff from Eastwood taking an actual risk in his choice of projects.’

You poor, bitter little Scorsese fanboy.

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Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:17:37 +0000

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By: Llllllllllllllllll

Llllllllllllllllll — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:06:47 +0000

…okay, now read the second paragraph sloooowwwwwly….boy is not hers…serial killer…takes down mayor……..you forgot to add “and in doing so saves the world” and “most controversial movie of the year”

By: Billy TwoRivers

Billy TwoRivers — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:40:21 +0000

He may have a “great” track record, but lately he also has a boring one, and the Changeling doesn’t sound much better. I’d love to see the payoff from Eastwood taking an actual risk in his choice of projects.