Gran Torino (+ BD-Live) [Blu-ray] Review
Clint Eastwood is Walt Kowalski, not Dirty Harry, even though the promo for the theatrical release, it makes you think that will encore in a blazing gun Dirty Harry. Its role is harder looting of Heart Break Ridge, who is now a senior.
Okay guns, and fists are involved, but the film is much more. Add Mr. Eastwood in the film by Christopher Carley Janovich is like a father, a priest who lived given that in real life Korean War vet knowsKowalski, Ahney Her, charming as Sue Lor, a Hmong girl temperament next door who just can not abandon Kowalski to live isolated and alone, and Bee Vang Thao Vang Lor as required Kowalski, who by his adoptive father and the role of model Toad, education of young Hmong, like American blue collar guys bond and behave.
When the film begins Kowalski is in church for the funeral of his wife, a woman who later characterized as the best woman in the country, who managed to capture. It will not beKowalski moved to catch live, even if his client wants to sell stereotyped children's home and family in the old quarter where he might say: "He will be organized." It 'a shame and an emotional anvil around their necks as they are a mystery to him.
The problem with the old neighborhood is not that it's over with Asians, but rather on gangs - Asians, blacks, Hispanics - have a stranglehold of honest people trying toto find their piece of the American dream, even in their traditions and values.
Gran Torino is not so much knocking heads, the defense of the old quarter, and down to street gangs, how he found the character growth and that family is not necessarily the people who are related by blood. Eastwood gives a layered performance that is worthy of Best Actor. In fact, there are several excellent performances in this film that is Carley priests and unknownHer Vang Thao Lor actors and Ahney. Clint Eastwood's son Scott, credited in the film by Scott Reeves is good in his role as Trey gutless.
The end is surprising. And moving. If you're a fan of Eastwood, the movie is. If you abhor Eastwood, you will be surprised at how this film will stay with you. I'm just not surprised Eastwood sweep all the major film awards. Prizes not a movie a classic. Make no mistake, Gran Torino will become a classic.
Gran Torino (+ BD-Live) [Blu-ray] Overview
A disgruntled Korean War vet, Walt Kowalski (Eastwood), sets out to reform his neighbor, a young Hmong teenager, who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: his 1972 Gran Torino.
Gran Torino (+ BD-Live) [Blu-ray] Specifications
Clint Eastwood's
Gran Torino, an unassuming picture shot during a post-production lull on his elaborate period piece
Changeling, was quietly rolled out at Christmastime 2008, whereupon it proceeded to blow away all the Oscar-bait behemoths at the box office and win its 78-year-old star the best reviews of his acting career. Both film and performance are consummately sly--coming on with deceptive simplicity, only to evolve into something complex, powerful, and surprisingly tender. Just as
Unforgiven was a tragic reflection on Eastwood's legacy in the Western genre,
Gran Torino caps and eloquently critiques the urban heritage of
Dirty Harry and his violent brethren. And on top of that, the movie becomes a savvy meditation on America in a particular historical moment, racially, economically, spiritually. Call it a "state of the union" message. But call it that with a wry grin.
The latest Dirty Harry is actually a grumpy Walt: Walt Kowalski (Eastwood playing his own age), widower, Korean War veteran, retired auto worker, and the last white resident of his Detroit side street. It's hard to say who irks him more--his blood kin (a pretty lame bunch) or the Hmong families who are his new neighbors. Kowalski's a racist, because it has never occurred to him he shouldn't be. Besides, that's the flipside of the mutual ethnic baiting that serves as coin of affection for him and his working-class buddies. Circumstances--and two young people next door, the feisty Sue (Ahney Her) and her conflicted brother Thao (Bee Vang)--contrive to involve Walt with a new community, and anoint him as its hero after he turns his big guns on some ruffians. The trajectory of this may surprise you--several times over. Eastwood opted to film in economically blighted Detroit--a shrewd decision, but it's his mapping of Walt's world in that classical style of his that really counts. Every incidental corner of lawn, porch, and basement comes to matter--and by all means the workshop/garage that houses the mint-condition Gran Torino which Walt helped build in a more prosperous era. This is a remarkable movie. --Richard T. Jameson
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another Eastwood classic! - Anthony T. Moffett - Tamp, Fl USA
I always Clint Eastwood outside the "western genre did, and Gran Torino is a great role" Do not Get Mad, including the famous actor.
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(not so) Grand Burrito... - Andrew Ellington - I'm kind of everywhere
Betty, I know you hate me for this, but I must be honest here. This movie was terrible. E 'for me in eloquent words, all the missteps in this film poor, because a part of me I seem to walk out a list of bad decisions made hard.
First, I draw the plot.
Walt is a bitter and grumpy old man, an unapologetic racist apartment in a city overrun by those with whom they hate. The family has all but writtenfrom him, and this obviously annoyed Walt. When his neighbor, the young Thao, his Gran Torino (as part of a gang to steal the opening) is trying to find a situation Walt (with people), has never seen. After Thao accidentally saved from the clutches of her cousin's band is also introduced to Walt Thao family, and even if reluctantly begins to warm Thao, having apologized officially. Walt Thao then to his "Handyman" by working odd jobs around the houseJobs here and there. Things look good for them, and a bond is formed, but if we know nothing about gangs, we know that this is not the end of things.
The story was very cliche and has no real attempt to compensate for these obvious generalizations. Some make comments like: "This is much better than" Crash, "but in the end they are both quite embarrassing reflection of racism to be honest. I want you to tell me how this is better than" Crash. "Thenot say which is worse (although I `Crash 'a C, my feelings were for the film decreased substantially), but is no better.
So we have to dismantle this, so we are.
Start with the script. As I said, there are stereotypes, the frame is pretty ridiculous on the others here, the stereotypical way in which the family Thao generic, which is represented Walt imagined. There is really nothing of his character. Everything feels pulleddeveloped by a different performance or a film of Eastwood's characters. This is Eastwood Eastwood plays. And 'grumpy, and everybody knows it, and his family has him (Who can blame them), yet we feel the need to win sympathy for him because his racism and become a friend of Thao and his family distances? I found the scene in the barber shop with Thao as rather ridiculous. Yes, this is the kind of guy who Walt is, but it's nothing to feel all friendlyabout. The way the movie was over I thought (somewhat) intelligent, and then go all Hallmark mood with the last photo I took a little 'soft.
How about the direction because that's what Eastwood is? Frankly, this film lacks greatly in that respect. Well, for all you out there (yes, I remember that MKIA) that I am a hater Eastwood and think I'm blowing this disproportionate that I was "Million Dollar Baby," an A + and still going strong signal thatFilm (and direction), not an A careful not to Unforgiven, "and despite it, as quoted in summary, I have good enough ratings for" Changeling "as well. This film, however, is poorly designed and implemented. The direction is very theatrical. Watch the scene where the family is worried about Sue and she enters the door, and Walt drops his drink. Look how zoom the camera in a closeup of the drink we are told that Walt will fall before he does and then What Waltdo ... let go. It is not a slip "disoriented by the fall of fingers ', make it an" open hand and a statement "drop. It' s just wrong. Decisions like this film an air of artificiality, the ruins of a connective tissue.
But the incumbent takes the cake here. Casting non-actor "is a sort of vanity, that gives a director, but in the end times when it works. This is not one of them. Bee Vang should bear approximately as much of this film as Eastwood (weget him in a minute) and so had to be authenticated. I love how one reviewer made the statement that while Vang is made of wood, "is not a substitute for authenticity." Sorry, but the quality wooden strip the power of authenticity. Apparently he was trying too hard. Eastwood, as I mentioned earlier is only himself, yes, but the script makes a mistake gave him a cartoon (I do not care what you say about his character arc, depends only on a set ofGenerality), but Eastwood is no other real life in it.
Hissing and growling and trying all my things and really is not emoting, as in all.
At the end of this movie is just cooked a mess. I'm sorry, Betty, I know you love your Clint (and I do not want that against you if you do not have that review for me), but this movie is really bad. Perhaps the whole issue of racism should just be left alone, since no one can really seem to do well (Is it just meOr was again one of these "white man saves the day" type of message movies), but then again it is a strong theme, has potential to create something really poignant.
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