Harry Callahan: "A man's GOT to know his limitations".



At 124 mins, this is the longest of all the films in the Dirty Harry series.

When Clint Eastwood approached Don Siegel to offer him the directing job for Dirty Harry (1971), Eastwood gave Siegel four drafts of the sсript, one of which was written by Terrence Malick.
In Malick's sсript, he changed the killer from being a mindless psychopath killing because he likes it, to being a vigilante who killed wealthy criminals who'd escaped justice.
Siegel didn't like Malick's sсript, but Eastwood did. Malick's ideas formed the basis for Magnum Force, the second film in the Dirty Harry series.

According to writer John Milius, the reason the sex scene with the Asian woman "Sunny" (Adele Yoshioka) is in the sсript is because Clint Eastwood received many fan letters from Asian women that contained sexual propositions.

According to Clint Eastwood biographer Marc Eliot the addition of a black partner Early Smith was a "conscious attempt by Warner to ameliorate the outrage that the punk in the 'Do you feel lucky?' scene in 'Dirty Harry' was black."

As with the first Dirty Harry (1971) movie, Clint Eastwood performs all his own stunts. His face is clearly visible in several stunt sequences which includes him clinging to the hood of Palancio's moving and swerving car, and the climactic motorcycle chase sequence.

Actor 'Mitch Ryan' plays a character who gets killed during the film. The day his death scene was scheduled to shoot, Ryan was ill.
He brought a doctor's note that read Ryan was "too sick to die" that day.

@темы: Clint Eastwood, Photo, Cinema, Цитаты

На данный момент, я считаю эту картину лучшей из всех режиссерских работ Клинта Иствуда .
Фильм превосходен во всем! В особенности конечно, потрясают актеры.



The film was shot in 39 days.

During the scene where Sean Penn's character steps into the morgue where his daughter Katie (Emmy Rossum) is lying on the slate dead, and when he is emotionally promising revenge,
Rossum burst into tears, saying that "the scene was so powerful and moving and Sean Penn was so amazing".

Michael Keaton was originally cast as Sean Devine. He had done several sсript readings with the rest of the principal cast,
and he had been doing research for the role with the Massachusetts State Police Department, and living in Boston for several weeks.
A month before principal photography was to start, Keaton and director Clint Eastwood got into a huge argument, and Keaton left the project. A week later, Kevin Bacon was cast in the role.

@темы: Clint Eastwood, Kevin Bacon, Mickey Ryan, Photo, Cinema, Tim Robbins, Любимые фильмы, Sean Penn, / Rewatching /, American Spirit, Laura Linney

Don Siegel's favorite of all his films.

Both Eastwood and director Don Siegel had to fight with the bosses at Universal Pictures to keep this ending.

@темы: Clint Eastwood, Photo, Cinema

Соответственно этот фильм я посмотрела первым.
Вот сидишь, смотришь и с каждым кадром понимаешь, что соприкасаешься с величием фильма и вообще кино как искусства в целом.
Каждый кадр просто уже история! Сценарий, съемка.
Музыка Эннио Морриконе которая буквально захватывает дух!
А что уж говорить об актерах.
Образ Клинта Иствуда уже легендарен благодаря both его игре и его харизматичности.

И конечно же другие два актера - Ли Ван Клиф и Джан Мария Волонте создали просто нереально крутых персонажей!
Также было много запоминающихся образов второго и далее планов.

Забегая вперед, скажу, что из всей "долларовой трилогии" этот фильм мне понравился больше всех. На мой взгляд, он идеален во всем.



Filmed in 1965, but not released in the U.S. until 1967.

Director Sergio Leone did not want to make a sequel to For a Fistful of Dollars (1964), but it was such a huge hit that Jolly Film - the production company refused to pay Leone what it owed him from that film unless he made a sequel to it.

Director Trademark: Sergio Leone - [extreme close-up].

читать дальшеSergio Leone wanted Henry Fonda for the role of Col. Mortimer, but Fonda turned it down. Leone next approached Charles Bronson, who wasn't interested.
It was then that Leone offered the role to Lee Van Cleef, who hadn't worked in films since How the West Was Won (1962), although he had worked fairly steadily in television.
Van Cleef thought that Leone only wanted him for a few scenes, and was astounded when he discovered that he was actually to be the co-star.

Despite having a successful acting career for many years, this was Lee Van Cleef's first major role in a movie. He'd starred in a few famous Hollywood westerns prior to this but always played small roles.

During filming, Sergio Leone felt that Gian Maria Volonté was sometimes too theatrical as Indio and would often use many takes as a way of trying to tire the actor out.
Volonte became so angry with Leone's methods that he eventually stormed off the set.
Unable to get a ride across the desert he returned to resume filming but swore he would never make another western again, which he felt was a tired genre.

"Monco" is officially not the same character as "Joe" in For a Fistful of Dollars (1964).
This was the finding of an Italian court that adjudicated the lawsuit brought by Jolly Films, producer of "A Fistful of Dollars".
After the release of the first film, director Sergio Leone had a falling out with the producers and made this sequel with a different producer,
Alberto Grimaldi. Jolly Films sued, claiming ownership of the "Joe" character, but lost when the court decided that the western gunfighter's persona, characterized by the costume and mannerisms, belonged to the public domain's folklore.

Sergio Leone broke many 1960s Hollywood rules with this film, although he did not know any of them at the time. Among them: showing the shooter and the victim in the same shot, a horse being gunned down, marijuana use, and a rape scene.

The town of El Paso, designed by Carlo Simi in Almeria, was the biggest set that Sergio Leone was responsible for at the time.
It would be re-used the following year for several scenes in Хороший, плохой, злой (1966) in which it stood in as several different towns.
It's still standing to this day and is called Mini Hollywood.

Although Clint Eastwood's poncho was never washed during the production of the "Dollar" trilogy, it was mended.
In the final scene of For a Fistful of Dollars (1964), the poncho is pierced by seven bullets from Ramon's Winchester.
In the sequel, Eastwood wears the same poncho back-to-front and the mending of the bullet holes is clearly visible in several scenes.
The mended area, originally on the left breast, is now worn over the right shoulder blade.

Clint Eastwood's character calls Lee Van Cleef's character "old man", while Van Cleef's character calls Eastwood "boy". In reality there is only a 5 year age difference between the two actors.

The Man With No Name (Clint Eastwood) calls himself Monco in this film. "Manco" is Spanish for "lame of one hand", "one handed" or "one armed",
which is pretty appropriate considering his habit of fighting, drinking, etc with his left hand only. His right hand always remains on his gun underneath his trademark poncho.

@темы: Clint Eastwood, Mickey Ryan, Photo, Cinema, Любимые фильмы

- Rainbow (hard rock, heavy metal) -

Albums: 1. Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow (1975),
2. Rising (1976),
3. Long Live Rock 'N' Roll (1978),
4. Down To Earth (1979),
5. Difficult To Cure (1981),
6. Straight Between The Eyes (1982),
7. Bent Out Of Shape (1983),
8. Stranger In Us All (1995).
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Обязательно послушаю и другие проекты участников группы.
Но все же дальше их дебютного альбома мое впечатление не двинулось.
Кроме того обложки альбомов - одни из самых безвкусных, что я могла наблюдать.
Это не играет большую роль в музыке, но это тоже влияет на впечатление.

@темы: Music, Mickey Ryan, Photo, Discography

It is alleged, in the actual 1962 escape, that Morris and the Anglin brothers were picked up by a motor launch during their swim.
Coast Guard records state that a motorboat without running lights did exit the Golden Gate on the night of the escape.
Also, several months after the escape, one of the guards in the Anglin brothers' cell block supposedly received a blank postcard from Brazil.
However, this escape scenario is very unlikely. As shown in the film, when prisoners received visitors at Alcatraz,
the prison guards were listening in on prisoner/visitor conversations, to prevent escape attempts being discussed.
All prisoner mail was read and censored before it was mailed from the prison.
Therefore, it would have been next to impossible for Morris and the Anglin brothers to arrange for a launch to pick them up without the guards discovering their escape plan.
A week after the 1962 escape, a sea freighter coming into San Francisco spotted a dead body floating in the Pacific Ocean, wearing an Alcatraz prison uniform.
It is likely that none of the three escapees survived the attempt.

читать дальшеAs outlined in the lore of the prison and also included in the film's sсript, over twenty-nine years, there were only ever fourteen escape attempts made at Alcatraz Prison.
Of the thirty-nine men involved, twenty-six were captured, seven were shot dead, three drowned, and three were never heard of again.
It is these three prison escapees to which this movie is the subject of.

Clint Eastwood once said of his character Frank Morris: "Morris was a reclusive type guy.
He had no education, but according to prison records, he had an I.Q. of 148. He could have been a success in life if he had channeled his pursuits a little differently".

One of the most popular questions the Alcatraz Prison tour guides get since this movie shot there has been "Which one was Clint Eastwood's cell?"

The dangerous escape down the prison wall and into the water was performed without stunt doubles.
It was performed by Clint Eastwood, Fred Ward, and Jack Thibeau, the latter two were cast in the film partially due to their athletic ability.
Director 'Don Siegel (I)' twice thought that he had lost his actors to the treacherous currents.

The fifth and final collaboration of actor Clint Eastwood and director Don Siegel.

Film debut of Danny Glover, as one of the prison inmates.

@темы: Clint Eastwood, Photo, Cinema

Вспоминала сейчас, что привело меня в фильмографию Клинта Иствуда.
Мне захотелось посмотреть фильмы новой волны, в Америке, 70х годов.
И мне вновь на глаза попалось известное название, "Грязный Гарри".
А после него мне стало интересно посмотреть и другие фильмы из фильмографии актера.
Да и вообще пора бы ознакомится, все таки фигура значимая.
Да и в молодости, все таки, даже очень обаятельный, ага-ага.

Это первый фильм который Иствуд снял сам.
И хоть к сценарию у меня нет нареканий, и сама картина снята довольно искусно, мне фильм не очень понравился.
Видимо всё дело в сюжете. Тема уже встречалась много раз, и до и после, и мне всегда трудно назвать такие фильмы любимыми.



Universal Pictures originally wanted Lee Remick cast in the role of Evelyn, but director Clint Eastwood had been impressed with Jessica Walter's performance in Sidney Lumet's film The Group (1966), and cast her instead.

читать дальшеWhen Clint Eastwood told Universal executive Lew Wasserman that he wanted to direct the film, Wasserman agreed, on the condition that Eastwood waive his usual acting fee, which he did.

Given complete freedom by Universal Pictures, Clint Eastwood finished shooting four days ahead of schedule and $50,000 under budget.

The first scene Clint Eastwood shot was his former director Don Siegel's cameo as Murph the bartender. As a joke, Eastwood made Siegel do 11 takes - then told the cameraman to put the film in the camera.

Jean Shepherd claimed that "Play Misty for Me" was based on a real-life incident in which he was stalked by a female fan, which culminated in her trying to stab him.

Set in Carmel, CA, where Clint Eastwood lived and became mayor in 1986.

In one of the film's early scenes, Al Monte is heard telling his listeners that the Monterey Jazz Festival is four months away.
Based on the events that unfold, that would mean that the film covers a time span of slightly over four months.

@темы: Clint Eastwood, Photo, Cinema

Гениальность линзы и монтажа Де Пальмы - это один из элементов его собственной значительности в истории кино.
Фильмы его все очень разные, смелые и яркие.
В этом триллере он также успел запечатлеть молодого, талантливого, и даже, симпатичного Траволту.



John Travolta suffered from insomnia during the shoot. His lack of sleep helped him create a very moody performance and is why his character seems so downtrodden throughout the movie.

Quentin Tarantino stated in an interview that this film is his favorite Brian De Palma movie.
In fact, Tarantino cast John Travolta in Криминальное чтиво (1994) because he liked his performance in this movie so much.

@темы: Photo, Brian De Palma, Cinema

@темы: France, Photo, Cinema, Xavier Dolan

Я очень люблю при изучении того или иного творчества находить те источники которым можно доверять. No bullshit.
Роберт Джон фотограф группы, работавший вместе с ребятами с самого начала их карьеры, и ставший их другом и постоянным членом команды.
Он выпустил одноименную с этим фильмом книгу фотографий, в которой он эволюционировал как фотограф, и благодаря ему родились некоторые легендарные снимки ребят.
Обязательно приобрету ее. Документальный фильм о его работе с группой, о их дружбе и творчестве. Мне очень понравилось!

@темы: Music, BOOKS, Mickey Ryan, Guns N' Roses, Slash, Photo, вери фанни, DOCUMENTARY, Axl Rose