Clint Eastwood's long and storied career has put him in the line of fire with a variety of different groups. Recently a clip from the Oscars in 1973 has received a new surge of attention as the actor makes a quip at the expense of Native American actress and activist Sacheen Littlefeather after she makes a speech imploring for the better treatment of Native Americans onscreen in film and television and behind the scenes of the industry.
▬Contents of this video▬ 00:00 - Intro 00:31 - The 1973 Academy Awards 02:38 - Gran Torino 03:45 - The Mule 04:30 - American Sniper 05:25 - Eastwood's 50 Year Career 06:41 - Outro
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Eastwood's career, especially his later years as a director and producer, has been called into question, as claims of his output poorly reflecting minority groups represented in them has become a recent topic for debate. Movies like Gran Torino, The Mule, and American Sniper have all have received backlash at the time from the communities featured in them. Gran Torino's costar Bee Vang fears the casualness of the anti-asian racism in that movie encouraged real anti- asian racism disguised as jokes.
The Mule and American Sniper attracted attention for potentially normalizing the xenophobic attitudes in the movie by having the focus in the movie be so narrow it didn't do a satisfactory job of critiquing said attitudes.
Reaching 50 years in his relationship with Warner Brothers, Clint is being celebrated with the cinematic re-release of six of his movies, American Sniper, Gran Torino, Dirty Harry, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Unforgiven, and The Bridges of Madison County.
The now viral clip of Eastwood is the most recent source of the debate about whether or not someone should be held accountable for what they've said or done in the past, especially when they're as old as Clint is. Eastwood's comments should either be dismissed given when they were said, or he should be more responsible than most for watching what he says. Clint Eastwood is Being Canceled for What He Said 50 Years Ago
Clint Eastwood is Being Cancelled for What He Said 50 Years Ago
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