One of the greatest classical directors in the United States who continues in activity, Clint Eastwood, has just premiered his latest work Gran Torino, in which he says goodbye to the performance.
After the much more hyped The exchange, with Angelina Jolie in central role, Clint Eastwood go back to movie theaters with Gran Torino, a film that closes his monumental acting career and reviews, within history and without leaving it, his work with the cinema.
With a notable box office success in his native country, Gran Torino tells the story of Walt kowalski, a retired widower, veteran of the Korean War, who bears much of the American racial prejudice. The filmmaker, actor, and producer spoke about his character and the filming process: "I was not planning to play many more roles, but this movie had a role for my age and the character seemed made for me" acknowledged.
The quiet and monotonous Kowalski's life is upset when a young Asian man tries to steal his precious '72 Gran Torino, scene that opens the plot conflict. From there, the protagonist will establish a relationship with the young man, involved with a local gang, and little by little he will put aside his xenophobia. «He has a phrase in the film in which he says, 'I have more in common with these people than with my own spoiled and spoiled children 'and that says it all.hold Eastwood.
As a curiosity, the music of Gran Torino was in charge of his son Kyle and Michael Stevens, and the director himself composed the central theme, which was performed by Jamie cullum.
The next thing to come from the great Clint is The Human Factor, the biography of Nelson Mandela, Starring Morgan Freeman, with a view to premiering early next year.