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Space Cowboys

kristjan — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:21:35 +0000

Cast: Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland and James Garner

Director: Clint Eastwood

Writers: Ken Kaufman (written by) & Howard Klausner (written by)

The Space Cowboys

The story is about four hot shot test pilots from 1958. Those four men seem to be the first persons to go into outer space. The leader of their organization disbands them to prevent their involvement in the then forming NASA and labels them as non-team players.

Until now the foursome has been living a quiet life. The navigator is a Baptist minister. The electrical engineer has a pleasant retired life in a desert home with his wife.

The pilot, who had a penchant for pushing the test planes to their limits, is now a daredevil crop-duster. Their former boss is now a mission leader in Nasa and still as despicable as in the old days. The designer is a roller coaster designer mainly for the womanizing. Here is where the story begins.

A Old Russian satellite is about to crash back into the Earth’s atmosphere and somehow American technology designed by Eastwood’s character has ended as the guiding system. Of course, because of the old technology, only the original team can save the day.

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Blood Work

kristjan — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:44:13 +0000

Cast: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Daniels, Anjelica Huston and Wanda De Jesus

Director: Clint Eastwood

Writers: Michael Connelly (novel) and Brian Helgeland (screenplay)

Terry McCaleb (Eastwood), a retired FBI profiler who had intended to spend his retirement living on his boat in the Los Angeles harbor is hired by Graciela Rivers, to investigate the death of her sister Gloria who happens to have given McCaleb his heart when he recently had a heart transplant.

On the case, he soon suspects that the killer, who staged the murder to look like a random robbery, may actually be a serial killer Terry was trailing for years in the FBI. The question is can the elderly and feeble McCaleb solve this case?

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Invictus

kristjan — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:53:33 +0000

Cast: Matt Damon, Morgan Freeman and Marguerite Wheatley

Director: Clint Eastwood

Writers: John Carlin (book) and Anthony Peckham (screenplay)

Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman), after decades in Robben Island prison, is released 1990 and begins immediately to bring an end to the apartheid and works toward a full Democratic where the black majority population can vote. Mandela wins the race for presidency and takes place as the President of South Africa in 1994.

His immediate challenge is “balancing black aspirations with ashen fears.” The country’s still-present racial tensions are made known, in the sphere of part, through Mandela’s security team, which composes both new black and old white officials, with the groups at once hostile to each other despite sharing the same task and goal.

While Mandela attempts to tackle the country’s main problems (including crime and unemployment) he attends a game of the Springboks, the country’s rugby union team. Blacks in the stadium cheer against their home squad, as the Springboks (their history, players and even their colors) represent prejudice and apartheid in their mind.

Knowing that South Africa is ready to host the 1995 Rugby World Cup in one year’s time, Mandela persuades the South African rugby board to keep the Springbok team, name and colors the same. He therefore meets with Springboks captain Francois Pienaar (Matt Damon). Though Mandela not at all verbalizes his real importance during their appointment, Francois understands the message under the surface: If the Springboks can increase the support of black South Africans and succeed in the approaching World Cup, the country will stay unified and inspired.

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“Invictus” is a Latin word and means “invincible”. William Ernest Henley wrote a short poem named Invictus in 1975. Henley was at hospital when he wrote it, and Mandela is heard saying lines from the poem.

In terms of status and stars, the film Invictus is the biggest film ever to be made in South Africa according to Laurence Mitchell, the head of the Cape Film Commission.

When the filmmakers thought of an actor to play Francois Pienaar’s they wanted to have a known British actor in that role in the beginning. They changed their mind and decided to cast a lesser-known South African actor instead.

Jonah Lomu who once was a player of the Bath Rugby team and is ahead of Rugby at Bishop Vesey’s Grammar school in Sutton Coldfield is portrayed by Zak Feaunati.

Chester Williams who himself was a player in the South African rugby team of 1995 prepared Matt Damon for his role as Francois Pienaar by coaching him at the Gardens Rugby Club.

Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary his producing partner had been developing a movie about Nelson Mandela for years. They were trying to adapt Mandela’s autobiography in the beginning “Long Walk to Freedom” but since the story spanned many years it would be impossible to completely translates into a feature film.

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Clint Eastwood´s major movies

kristjan — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:01:53 +0000

Here below is a list of Clint Eastwood´s major movies as an actor and a Director. Click on each movie title to watch the trailer.

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2009 Invictus

Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) after decades in a Robben Island prison, is released in 1990 and works at once to bring end of apartheid and the start of full democratic elections…

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2008 Changeling

Changeling is based on real-life measures in Los Angeles 1928, directed by Clint Eastwood and written by J. Michael Straczynski. Angelina Jolie the film stars are a woman who…

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2008 Gran Torino

A retired Ford automobile assembly line worker Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood) and a former veteran from Korean War haunted by memories of that conflict…

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