ThuggerBaby

6y

theyre not white savior films at all. They tackle the idea of the white savior by deconstructing them, but none of the films are actually congratulatory of them. They moreso target the idealization of the "white savior" and how one is shaped through Christianity, the nuclear family, and the American Establishment and ultimately how they encourage such a narrow viewpoint, while also ultimately taking away everything that person has despite him being indebted to it.

I think the closest he’s ever gotten to a white savior film was Gran Torino but even that is a reductive take because the film is ultimately about how that character is also saved by a culture he thought he despised due to an American war that he fought in for the idea of “america” yet he ends up a scarred old isolated man with a family that only cares about what he owns.

Also, those types of movies were only really relevant to the last decade of his career. Before that, his films touched on everything from murder mysteries to westerns to the Japanese in World War 2 to romance.

I think his 2010s work can be divisive (personally love most of them ) besides Sully which was universally acclaimed but he has clear classics that are loved by pretty much anyone who have seen them, such as:

Unforgiven
Letters from Iwo Jima
Million Dollar Baby
Bridges of Madison County
The Outlaw Josey Wales
A Perfect World
High Plains Drifter

FlyHiii

6y

Didn't know that was Clint Eastwood tbh

ThuggerBaby

6y

hes a leading man in it, but the director is Sergio Leone

DS2

6y

in no order:

PTA
Lynch
Yang
Akerman
Kiarostami

FlyHiii

6y

Lmao damn you had me trippin for a sec yea ofc thats Leone

i was talking about Eastwood as a director tho

FlyHiii

6y

So because i like one film that you disliked you take my words with a pinch of salt? lmao wth theres people i agree with a lot that also have a lot of different opinions on some films thats normal

Idk man, maybe stick to the superhero films ig bro

CKL TML

6y

the birds was interesting.

FlyHiii

6y

This what Dj Khaled would call mysterious films

(jk)

FlyHiii

6y

Ngl ive never ever seen a Hitchcock film not even Psycho

TwoGunTommy

6y

barry lyndon > 2001 > full metal jacket > dr strangelove > clockwork orange > paths of glory > eyes wide shut > the shining > spartacus > the killing > lolita > killers kiss

Mac Foley

6y

Seriously tho you should watch Psycho, Vertigo, Rear Window or North By Northwest. All classics.

sace

6y

Kim Novak

sace

6y

Kim Novak

Elric

6y

Joan Fontaine

Gordon Elliot Show

6y

S. Craig Zahler
Ryan Coogler

Zahler is a perfect 3/3 and Coogler hasn't made a bad movie yet.

dadye

6y

ah film geeks jerking eachother in here

FlyHiii

6y

You know who else has a perfect 3/3?

Frank Darabont