From the security of an unrecovered part in “Revenge of the Creature” to the production of its 40th feature film at the age of 93, Clint Eastwood had a long and career corrected which brought it to many places in the industry. Browse his filmography shows an artist whose talents have gone through almost all genres. Eastwood is associated with musicals (“Pain Your Wagon”), cops of cops (“Dirty Harry”), war films (“Where Eagles Dare”), romantic dramas (“Les Ponts du Comté de Madison”) and Road Trip comedies relax a friend of Orang-Outan (all that is cowardly “) Few genres as much of an assertion on the actor-director as the western.
For eight television seasons, Eastwood was a popular pillar of the CBS Western series “Rawhide” as Ramrod Rowdy Yates. The career role not only led him to his most memorable screen role in Sergio Leone’s man without his trilogy, but that also triggered his interest in directing. The beginnings of director of Eastwood would end up being the 1971 psychological thriller “Play Misty for Me”, which presents a terrifying performance by Jessica Walter. His second second “High Plains Drifter” feature, however, would see Eastwood representing the bids who made him a much darker lens by an unforgettable horror western who always presents himself as one of his best films.
The mysterious foreigner is invited by the frightened cities of Lago to protect their house, but he is certainly not an angel. In “High Plains Drifter”, common apathy is friendly with a demon in simple clothes whose presence even makes them even more empty and helpless. It is a phenomenal film that does not punch with striking visual images, like LAGO entirely covered with red paint to symbolize the foreign rules of Hellscape Eastwood. In addition, there are other heads in the background if you pay great attention.
In the appearance of Eastwood in 2003 on “Inside The Actor’s Studio”, the host James Lipton spoke of the appearance of certain tombstones which presented abbreviated names by Don Siegel and Sergio Leone, whose director was amused by:
“I had fun with these guys. I didn’t want anything about them. I think some people tried to draw the meaning I would hear my past or something like that, people who were mentors and helped me. It was not the case. It was, just, you had to put a name for it.”
Clint Eastwood put the names of Don Siegel and Sergio Leone on the tombstones in the high plains Drifter
Whether it’s Philip Kaufman to direct the rest of “The Outlaw Josey Wales” or a ghost by directing “Tightrope” by Richard Tuggle, Eastwood is a notorious stickler to do things as he wants. The fact that he planted the names of two major filmmakers with whom he had already worked on his photo shows how much he honored the experience. He never worked on another film with Leone after the very influential package of “A Fistful of Dollars”, “for a few more dollars” and “The Good, The Bad and the Ugly”. Regarding Siegel, however, Eastwood maintained his professional and personal friendship through five films (“The Beguiled”, “Coogan’s Bluff”, “Dirty Harry”, “Two Mules for Sister Sara” and “Escape from Alcatraz”). The couple even shared the screen, with Siegel in a small role in “Play Misty for me” like Murphy, the bartender of Dave.
The worst draws attention to themselves, while the best are by viewers in the eyes of the eagle. The tombstones are among the best ways to throw a bone from someone with whom the filmmaker likes or worked because he does not have to be distracting. Eastwood has become a little intelligent with it because they are marked like S. Leone and Donald Siegel.
It is normal that the cemetery with them precedes the entrance to Lago, because the fictitious western city is an appropriate metaphor for death enveloping it as a disease. The funniest thing about Lipton calling the tombstones is that they are barely in the film, if at all. Your best overview is both on a behind -the -scenes photograph, in addition to a motionless photo on a hall card. However, it was a nice gesture that allowed a filmmaker then exhausting to pay tribute to the men who gave him some of the best films in his career.
