STORY – From the TV series that gave him his first role to his last on-screen one, the western was at the heart of Clint Eastwood’s entire career. He left his mark so well that he renewed the genre, inventing a new style.
This article is an excerpt from Figaro Hors-Série “Clint Eastwood, the last of the giants”.
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Entre Clint Eastwood and the Western, there’s a kind of ancient brotherhood, an unbreakable bond. From The Dollar Trilogy to Merciless, the imprint left in the history of the 7th art by this great laconic cowboy is profound. Very profound. Yet Eastwood has only appeared in a dozen westerns in his seventy-year career. That’s not much when you consider the more than eighty Westerns made by John Wayne. And yet, with his emaciated face, unshaven chin, frowning eyes, cigarillo in the corner of his mouth and Mexican poncho, Clint Eastwood has succeeded in imposing on the world a new nihilistic pistolero silhouette that he has never ceased to refine.
For this young man born in San FranciscoBut it wasn’t all plain sailing from the start. Although young Clint soon discovered in the 1950s that he wanted to make films, he stagnated in small…
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