Clint Eastwood

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q43203: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Richard Jewell, which Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show credits them on.

Counted as director, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: Bronco Billy (1980); Changeling (1980); Bird (1988); Unforgiven (1992); Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997); Mystic River (2003); Jersey Boys (2014); Sully (2016); The 15:17 to Paris (2018); The Mule (2018); Richard Jewell (2019); Cry Macho (2021); Juror #2 (2024); Honkytonk Man; White Hunter, Black Heart. Count them as actor (10 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says they, or a film of theirs, drew on anything.

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Gillian Flynn: 1 line

  1. lineage (inspired her approach) · through Mystic River (2003), which they directed: Mystic River ⇒ Gillian Flynn (the maker said so). After failed attempts at novels, Flynn read Mystic River and took from it the idea of a crime that is a red herring for a character story.
    “She said she had many failed attempts and then read Dennis Lahain's Mystic River, which, in my opinion, is an incredible piece of writing.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 0:31:35 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Sharp Objects (TV): 1 line

  1. unmapped (template (crime as red herring)) · through Mystic River (2003), which they directed: Mystic River ⇒ Sharp Objects (TV) (the host's read). Sharp Objects and Dark Places are described as Flynn's attempts at the Mystic River-style crime-as-red-herring structure.
    “And so sharp objects and dark places are both kind of like attempts at that, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 0:32:10 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (26) everyone in directing

Acting (15) everyone in acting

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (4)

  1. career (late-career move): Paul Newman → Clint Eastwood. Newman and Eastwood both chose to age themselves into reflective roles before Hollywood aged them out; Cruise did the opposite.
    “before they age me out, I'm gonna age myself out.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:22:01 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Bradley Cooper → Clint Eastwood. A speaker says Cooper's directing bid is an attempt to reach Eastwood's level, hence calling him Clint.
    “He keeps calling Clint Eastwood Clint, and he wants to be on that level.”
    The Big Picture · The Big Picture: A Ringer Movies Podcast · 0:00:48 · unknown (clip speaker, discussing Cooper) (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. career (next film): Scatman Crothers → Clint Eastwood. Scatman's next film after The Shining was Bronco Billy, an Eastwood film.
    “the movie he did after this was Bronco Billy, which is a Clint Eastwood movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:23:12 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Clint Eastwood → The Mule. Cry Macho will be like The Mule: an old man telling a boy not to be like him.
    “It's gonna be just like the mule.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:49:40 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Clint Eastwood → Richard Jewell. Eastwood condemns the railroading of Jewell but also 'get a load of this guy'; Hauser threads both.
    “And then Eastwood seems to be like, but also get a load of this fucking guy.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:55:31 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (industry): Clint Eastwood → Mystic River. Eastwood is credited with charting a new path for adapting the airport novel.
    “Eastwood charts the new path of how to do the airport novel.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 1:52:23 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Albert Finney → Clint Eastwood. Craig and Finney's 'men are coming to kill us' exchange is straight out of Eastwood.
    “That's like right out of Eastwood.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:25:20 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

people (3)

  1. people (director): Richard Jewell → Clint Eastwood. Hauser's performance keeps Eastwood's corrective from becoming a caricature or a false hero.
    “I guess you have to have a person give a performance and not a caricature.”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 1:16:14 · Wesley Morris (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. people (director's film): Clint Eastwood → Richard Jewell. Clint's Richard Jewell is described as nuanced for late-period Clint.
    “no, I think the characterizations in Richard Jewel are, like, surprisingly, uh, uh, nuance, considering it's late period Clint.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 2:01:41 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. people (people): Chow Yun-fat → Clint Eastwood. Li Mu Bai is the greatest warrior ever with baggage, like Clint Eastwood.
    “So he's like Clint Eastwood, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:31:59 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)

programming (1)

  1. programming (pairing): Clint Eastwood → City Heat. Eastwood and Reynolds, old friends, finally in a movie together, City Heat.
    “It's nice that they finally hit that movie together.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 2:19:18 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (theme): Clint Eastwood → The Mule. The Mule gives an octogenarian Clint two threesomes: the namesake for an ego-stroke award.
    “named after Clint Eastwood and the mule, who plays an octogenarian who has 2 separate threesomes.”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:44:41 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (co-star): Thunderbolt and Lightfoot → Clint Eastwood. Bridges held his own in a two-hander with Eastwood and got an Oscar nomination for it.
    “You've graduated to 2 hander with Clint Eastwood and you've held your own.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 0:40:24 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): Clint Eastwood → Alien Resurrection. A Clint Eastwood Alien movie would be shot in real time, one two-hour take.
    “It'll be the 1st alien movie shot in real time.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:50:30 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Clint Eastwood: The Cry Macho gag: Eastwood announces his own Alien movie shot in real time.
    “What if they announced Clint Eastwood announces plans to star in and direct next alien movie?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:50:13 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)