Introduction: Repetition There is no point in doing this… it has already been done a million times over. That was my initial thought when I landed upon the notion of covering Alfred Hitchcock as my next analysis for the Reel Nerds website. It was a...
EPILOGUE: JUST ONE MORE… 3 years, 10 months, and 8 days ago…. that’s when this silliness started. The plan to sift through all (at the time of commencing) 57 of Clint’s films from the moment he truly broke out with Leone was never meant to take...
LAST CHAPTER: The Remorse of the Man From Malpaso “Did Pa used to kill folks?” -Penny Munny, daughter of known thief and killer William Munny. In the 25 years since the American release of the Dollars Trilogy, Clint Eastwood managed to carve out a career...
EPISODE 17: The Bromance At Cinecittà It is said somewhere in the far west, in the mid 1960’s, a modestly successful television actor found out in a newspaper he was a sensation overseas in Italy. The praise of an eager Italian audience was for a job the actor...
EPISODE 16: SADDLE UP, PT.2 Hope you had a good rest there, pardner. Let’s pack up camp and get movin on down the prairie. In our last installment, we were able to see Clint in a variety of situations regarding his iconic cowboy status. Stunningly, while the...
EPISODE 15: SADDLE UP A shot of the prairie landscape with a lonely rider intruding on the serene space is the best way to start this. For it will ultimately be the way we recollect the memory of Eastwood for better or for worse. And one does have to wonder if that...
