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"Who owns this pigsty?" These weeks a test has circulated on social networks so that each one scores, from 1 to 10, their intimidating capacity. In the lowest ranking would be Íñigo Errejón angry , while the top would have few more suitable candidates than Clint Eastwood saying the phrase above in 'Without forgiveness' (1992). Even today, on the verge of turning 90 - tomorrow he reaches nine decades -, the actor turned into a filmmaker continues to preserve the capacity to freak with which he has been associated since he made 'Dirty Harry' (1971). Maybe it's because of his height of almost two meters. Or for his weathered face. Or, more surely, it is because we are afraid of what we cannot simplify.

Because the million dollar prize must go to whoever is able to summarize the ideological position of the author of 'Million dollar baby' (2004) in a couple of sentences. Republican as an island in the ocean of Democrats that is Hollywood, Eastwood campaigned for Mitt Romney in the 2012 US presidential election and was one of the very few 'showbusiness' voices to be opposed to Barack Obama.

Leaving aside these public demonstrations, Eastwood's films send a moral message that is also impossible to summarize, but with several storylines. Namely: we live in a horrible world where "man is a wolf to man" prevails, and the individual is the only one capable of facing injustices and horror. While still dragging his youthful 'hot guy' image, Clint landed his first major role in Sergio Leone's 'Spaghetti western' 'For a Fistful of Dollars' (1964) . In that and in the two subsequent films ('Death had a price', in 1965, and 'The Good, the Ugly, and the Bad', in 1966), he gave life to an unnamed man who was alone in confronting horsemen, smugglers and bounty hunters. Dirty Harry ("Bring me the day") also worked alone. And, already years old, his last roles return to that of a man against the world: the old man surrounded by immigrants from 'Gran Torino' (2008) and the small drug trafficker from 'La mule' (2018).

But despite spanking the 'progres' in both his remarks and his movies, Eastwood is too elusive to become a 'front' idol. In 'Flags of Our Fathers' and 'Letters from Iwo Jima', the two films that he released in 2006 on the two sides (Japanese and American) of World War II send a profoundly pacifist message. And although the Rifle Association believed they saw in 'American Sniper' (2014) a justification for the need for firearms, they found that portrait bitter and devoid of the military epic that certain rights like. Her 'No Forgiveness' character sums it up just as well: "When you kill someone, you not only take away everything they are, but also what they could become."

To finish messing everything up, Eastwood, who in 2016 was ambivalent with Donald Trump (defended his irruption against the political correctness that is sold by the media, although he criticized his tone outs on Twitter), showed at the beginning of the year your support for Democrat Michael Bloomberg for the end of the year presidential elections in your country.

Everything is better understood if you look at Eastwood as what he has always claimed to be: a libertarian. That freedom with which he has defended the weight loss of the State and that has marked his characters has also been evident in his love life, with seven children by five different women. His ability to seduce goes further and he himself became the mayor of the Californian city of Carmel between 1986 and 2001, halfway between San Francisco (where he was born) and Los Angeles (where he has several properties).

Still active, last year he released 'Richard Jewell', a film about the security guard who discovered the bomb that exploded during the Atlanta Olympics in 1996 and was unfairly accused by the media of being the author of the attack . Another story that baffles and, yes, intimidates.

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