Two part two hour documentary shown ahead of Clint's 95th birthday. Overuses some 8mm footage badly, stock footage also quite bad, all film clips shown in 16:9, thus most of them cropped. Not good. Also part two lifts a huge chunk of Iain Johnstone's 1976 documentary The Man With No Name and doesn't credit it.
Anyway luckily it had some good bits, like Scorsese saying his films looked straightforward and like they were easy to direct - which no film is. Loved the clip of Clint directing a guy on a horse and he says ' you come forward a bit more' and then he addresses the horse - by name - and says 'come here'.. he's always loved animals.. someone said he knew what every single job on set was, because he's always paying attention to everything, but to know the name of the horse...
And then Meryl Streep, saying that in a scene in Bridges he's crying , and he hides that from the camera... and she's saying most actors, if they're crying, stick their faces in the camera, y'know, like, 'look, give me the Oscar' so after the scene she says, 'Why'd you do that?' and he said 'No one wants to see Clint Eastwood crying'.
And Bird, Forrest Whittaker saying that because of Clint he's really given his all to the role, and when filming it, Clint whispered into Jack Green's ear 'I don't care if no one sees this, it's a great movie.'
And of course what it doesn't cover, what came later, would astonish anyone in 2000... Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby, Changeling, Sully...
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