With every Monday night comes another great serious and dramatic marathon of Oscar calibar. Tonight's lineup is no different and its got me excited as shit. Here are the movies on tonight's menu.
Trouble with the Curve 2012, Million Dollar Baby 2004, and Gran Tarino 2008
That's right folks, its Clint Eastwood night. This lineup is amazing and presents him as a fatherly type of figure. This is him at his most dramatic and emotional not to mention being badass at the same time. Trouble with the Curve is a strong start and introduces the conflict between father and estranged daughter with Clint Eastwood and Amy Adams acting opposite of each other. Million Dollar Baby continues this trend with Eastwood coaching Hilary Swanks character in boxing while at the same time developing a fatherly relationship with her. As great of a film as Million Dollar Baby is, i somewhat forgot how it ends in the final scenes. That's really good for me because I want to take in the emotions again as if i'm seeing it for the first time. Gran Tarino is the badass emotional finale to this evenings journey, and has Eastwood befriend and protect a Hmong family who lives next door to him and is getting terrorized by a Korean gang. He develops a special relationship with a young boy from the family named Thao who takes a liking for Eastwood's characters 1972 Gran Tarino.
Honestly, all three films compliment each other beautifully and ensure a fantastic night full of laughter, tears, lifelong lessons, and a bigoted mans pathway to redemption at the end of Gran Tarino. A toast to another great Monday night marathon, and a personal salute to a great American icon named Clint Eastwood.
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