Gran Torino

Life can be difficult for old people, what with their failing health, increasing estrangement from an evolving cultural zeitgeist, and now-obsolete wardrobe of bell bottom pants and lederhosen or whatever people used to wear. It’s no wonder that some of them can be a bit grouchy in the face of all this, and to embody this enduring spirit of prickly cantankerousness, who else can they turn to but their most favored son: Clint Eastwood? In the latter days of his career Clint Eastwood has more and more often cast himself in his movies to play his classic role, that of Clint Eastwood, or at least an irascible, world weary old man living in seclusion from a modern world he doesn’t understand. A prime example of this phenomenon of Clinception can be found in Gran Torino, a 2008 Clint Eastwood directed, Clint Eastwood starring drama. Gran Torino is fondly remembered by a lot of people for its classic character dynamics and pleasant humor, and today Magellans at the Movies will be talking about that and more on a new episode of their smash hit podcast! Get off my lawn and onto your devices so you can start listening!