The hat is part of Suwako isn't it?
Quit dodging the point. Suwako is nothing without the hat. NOTHING. Just like Clint Eastwood
You take that back. Clint is the man regardless of hat he's wearing.
Case in point: Dirty Harry
Counter point: Gran Torino.
How is that a counterpoint? He's still the man, and he's not wearing any kind of hat. Clint owns
It's a counterpoint because Gran Torino was a terrible movie. Clint Eastwood decides that as his swan song from acting, he's going to play not a renegade cop out for justice, not a cowboy trying to right a wrong, but a stoop-roosting, Pabst-swilling, back-ass grumbling old fart? Who actually says "Get off of my lawn" at one point, pretty much making him a living caraciture? I'm sorry, no. This is the opposite of a bad-ass; he plays a coward afraid of the world. The kind of racist, homophobic fossil you and me and everyone else with any common sense would avoid talking to and rightly shake our heads with a mixture of pity and disgust at every stupid dollop of shit that fell from his mouth. That's what Clint chose as his final role. And yes, I get it - the character supposedly redeems himself by taking the troubled Hmong kid under his wing, and by getting himself killed in the final showdown with the bad kids. That contrivance is the kind of insult a director throws at the audience to say, "See? You were wrong to judge him all along! He's really a good guy! Really he is!" Please. I've read Aesop fables with subtler morality gimmicks. It was sloppy, clumsy and forced.
Clint Eastwood did his long and enjoyable carreer a disservice by choosing to step off the silver screen by playing Archie Bunker with a gun. Fuck him.
