http://mensdailyforum.com/content.php/145-Clint-Eastwood-I-m-not-a-fan-of-ObamaA personal legend and icon to the author, Clint Eastwood speaks his mind. Eastwood to me is the civilian version of Lt. Gen. Harry W.O. Kinnard who famously responded to the Germans "Nuts" when they demanded his surrender at the 1944 Battle of the Bulge. When Eastwood spoke of Spike Lee "A guy like him should shut his face." He was referring to Spike Lee's criticism of his Film "Flags of Our Fathers," which chronicled the men who raised the flag on Iwo Jima for not having any African American Actors. Eastwood acknowledges there was a detachment of African American soldiers on Iwo Jima during the battle, but they were not the ones who raised the flag, and to add them to the tale would be historically inaccurate. He stated the movie is called "Flags of our Fathers", because it tells of the famous raising the flag and the men who raised it.
Clint Eastwood entered my life via the movies as he did most people. I remember watching Dirty Harry as a kid. I probably was breaking the rules by watching it because i was to young, similar to the way Dirty Harry broke the rules and tested authority and always got his man. His famous quote :
I know what you’re thinking: “Did he fire six shots, or only five?” Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I’ve kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: “Do I feel lucky?” Well do ya, punk?
has stuck with every man who has ever watched the film. In real life, Clint Eastwood is just as bold and memorable. Clint clinched hero status for me when i read his interview with Esquire in 2008. He made the point most men will agree with, well men who read Men's Daily Forum anyways. Clint stated :
"We live in more of a pussy generation now," Clint Eastwood tells Esquire upon the release of his new film Gran Torino. "Everybody's become used to saying, 'Well, how do we handle it psychologically?' " Eastwood, who grew up having to duke it out with bullies, looks back to a more stoic time: "My father had a couple of kids at the beginning of the Depression. There was not much employment. Not much welfare. People barely got by. People were tougher then."
“We live in more of a pussy generation now, where everybody’s become used to saying, “Well, how do we handle it psychologically?” In those days, you just punched the bully back and duked it out. Even if the guy was older and could push you around, at least you were respected for fighting back, and you’d be left alone from then on.”
“I don’t know if I can tell you exactly when the pussy generation started. Maybe when people started asking about the meaning of life.”
But stoicism didn't mean a lack of sentiment, Clint adds. "Look how fast—seven years—people have been able to forget 9/11. Maybe you remember if you lost a relative or a loved one. But the public can get pretty blasé about stuff like that. Nobody got blasé about Pearl Harbor."
This quote is a concentrated capsule of a Hero Supplement every American should take. Us men of current or past service to the nation know this already, but we could always benefit to take one capsule orally after dinner ( with grace ) with our other vitamins. The rest of the nation should take one daily as a suppository learn something from this icon.
Keep on keeping on Clint!
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Video at link.
Clint as always tells it like it is.
