An actor who is indifferent to age .. Clint Eastwood is a living cinematic legend

A few days ago, the 90-year-old American director Clint Eastwood announced his upcoming movie, "Cry Macho", which he will direct and star in.

With this film, Eastwood challenges the Corona virus, and the state of closure and stagnation that prevails in the seventh art due to the lack of films shown and under production, and Eastwood is indifferent to the health risks that he may be exposed to filming in such circumstances.

This would not seem strange if we put Eastwood's career under binoculars, and he has devoted 65 years of his life to cinema and has moved between different roles, whether as a director, actor or producer, and he has many Oscars in his credit in addition to a golden lion from the Venice Film Festival.

The beginning ... Unwanted actor

Until the mid-1950s, Clint Eastwood was a young man who did not have a college education, joined the army in the Korean War but did not perform any championships, and there is no hope for him in the future, but by chance alone, he was spotted by a film worker who had nominated him to appear in one of the roles. Small.

But despite his distinctive appearance, he lacked talent and flexibility, and many directors asked him to take acting lessons, and to stop talking through clenched teeth - a sign that distinguishes him so far - but that did not stop his ambition, as he used to do auditions. He even got some small roles.

And luck came to him in the form of the series "Rawhide", which belongs to the type of cowboy, which he starred, to start with a wage of $ 750 per episode, and end with a wage of $ 119 thousand per episode in recent seasons.

The most famous cowboy in the 1960s

After the famous series stopped showing, Eastwood moved to the cinema on a great adventure, where he was offered to star in a movie with an unknown Italian director at the time, Sergio Leone, in Spain for a small fee for a long filming period, but he accepted this offer until he got out of his mantle Roles of a kind cowboy, and indeed he made with Leon Glory in A Fistful of Dollars (1964).

The success of this film led to the emergence of a new film genre, "Spaghetti Western", which is the name derived from spaghetti as a symbol of Italy, meaning Italian cowboy movies, where Italian directors - headed by Leon - changed the rules of famous American cowboy films.

Overnight, Eastwood became one of the most important actors in Italy, and presented a second film in the Sergio Leone trilogy, but the third film bought its rights to the United States, to return to it victorious in one of the most famous films in history, "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) ).

Beginning of directing career

Despite the great success of Clint Eastwood's films, critics did not like him in most of these films, nor did they praise him enough. Despite this, at the age of 38, he established his own production company, and in 1971 he presented his first film as a director, "Play Misty." For Me "(Play Misty for Me), a psychological horror movie, Eastwood is finally getting critical approval for it as either director or actor.

Since that time, Clint Eastwood has laid the foundations for his own cinema, with a wide range of films in which he starred a large proportion of them, and in some of them he led the most important actors. Among his most famous films are "Unforgiven", for which he won the Best Film and Best Director award, and "Bridges County." Madison “The Bridges of Madison County” with Meryl Streep, and “Million Dollar Baby” for which he won again the Best Picture and Best Director award.

Clint Eastwood continued to present films regularly, and was known for his quick portrayal of scenes, his lack of return to many of them, his distance from visual effects, as well as his political interests that appeared in some films such as "American Sniper" about an American soldier who works as a sniper during the Iraq war.

His most recent presentation as a director and producer was "Richard Jewell" in 2019, which was considered one of the top 10 films of the year. As an actor, his last presentation was the movie "The Mule" in 2018, where he played the role of a drug distributor taking advantage of his life. The great undercover from the police, and now he's back as a cowboy again in his next movie.