No, no, no, no, no...

It's not necessarily the story that I'm pointing out. It's just that in the last film the Weasley's house, which is supposed to be surrounded by gardens, trees, etc, was suddenly placed in the middle of a prairie somewhere in the American west circa 1800. I don't know why they suddenly changed it from the way it looked in ALL the other movies and from the way it's described in ALL the books but the effect was that when the house was burning down and Mrs. Weasley is standing there in her shawl, with the sunset and the prairie wind in the background, I was expecting Clint Eastwood to appear at any moment and swear vengeance on old cattle-rustlin' Voldemort.

It's weird. I don't know why they did it but it's weird. I feel like it's 1984 and nobody is supposed to remember anything from the past except that they like Harry Potter and want to pay money to see the movie.

But on another note. Little-Weasley-house-on-the-praire aside. Anyone who would watch that last movie and say that they didn't leave out more of the story than they included should go back and read the book again. Not to mention all the shit they just threw in out of nowhere.

OMG, what a crap movie this was! You know, I can dig Eastwood's one-take-and-print method of making movies but Gran Torino proves that you've got to have good actors to pull it off.

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Clint Eastwood yelling at kids to get off his lawn is what made this movie.

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"It's society's fault he was driven to desperation!"
"It's entirely his responsibility for making this choice!"

Why does it have to be one or the other?
All criminals are human beings. They're people. People who, because of their circumstances, have made poor choices. This is a statement that acknowledges the impact of their situation and their personal culpability.

The criminal here may have been driven to desperate acts by his situation, or he might just be a sociopathic opportunist. We can't be certain.
He may have been lured by the promise of easy money after hearing how someone else had gotten away apparently scot-free. He might feel that a few hundred or thousand bucks is worth a lot to him, but is effectively nothing for the corporation behind the counter, and that no one's really going to be hurt by his actions.
He might have been just high enough to talk himself into it, or be talked into it by someone else.
His starving family, or his kid that needs a kidney transplant, or the eviction notice that's probably coming in a few days, or the drug habit he's feeding - none of these make it "OK" to decide to commit a crime, but they're factors.

We're often very quick to picture someone who has committed a crime as nothing more than the crime itself.
It's a message I think gets a bit muddled in Eastwood's Gran Torino. We're shown how Thao is driven by peer pressure to attempt to steal the titular vehicle; he's not a criminal, but a person who made a very poor decision. A person who could potentially be rehabilitated from his "life of crime." At the same time, the gang members throughout the movie are vilified in typical "nothing more than criminals" fashion.

If this pharmacist was in violation of corporate policy by having the pistol at work (and I highly doubt CVS policy allows employees to arm themselves), then he'll probably be fired, or at least reprimanded.
I imagine he was probably "fed up" and angry about "these criminals preying on us and getting away with it." Does that make what he did right? Personally, I don't think so.
Here in Texas, I'm allowed by law to shoot someone if they're stealing my property. I don't think property is worth killing over. I do, however, think it's reasonable to use deadly force if my life or the life of a loved one is in imminent danger, or to prevent or stop a sexual assault against a loved one.
Beyond asking if he was "right" to do it, we can also ask if it was a responsible act. Unless the pharmacist saw something that convinced him the robber was preparing to shoot someone, I definitely think it was irresponsible, even if he'd fired one carefully-aimed shot that dropped the robber. The vast majority of robberies are bloodless affairs and criminals know that employees are typically trained to comply with demands. Confrontation with a firearm could have escalated the situation in an unpredictable fashion.

I'm not sure what the law is in Georgia, but here in Texas one of the clauses for use of deadly force is that the "actor did not provoke the person against whom the force was used." This clause gives me pause because it seems like displaying a gun in the first place might be considered provocation.

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We're the ones to set the example - don't need anything else besides our common sense to distinguish wrong from right. We're the ones that set the example.

Visit the National Association for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (NAPCAN) for more information.

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Credits

The Children See Children Do campaign was developed pro bono at DDB, Sydney, by creative director Matt Eastwood with creatives Charlie Cook and Simon Johnson, and agency producer Sean Ascroft.

Filming was directed by Sean Meehan at Soma Films who host Children See Children Do as a 5.56 mb SWF video. See Soma Films’ earlier work for NAPCAN - Don’t Just Stand There.

Editing was done at Winning Post, who host Children See Children Do as an 11.9 mb quicktime video.

NAPCAN worked with DDB to raise awareness of all adult Australians that responsibility for children’s wellbeing goes beyond parents and child care professionals.

Children’s Guardian were involved in filming to ensure that children were not exposed to harm in any way. The domestic violence had adults and children filmed separately then placed together in post production. The girl with the cigarette had her cigarette and smoke added to her shot in post production.

Soundtracks

There are two songs used in the NAPCAN ad. The Soma Films online version has "Rabbit in your headlights", sung by Thom Yorke for Unkle. The NAPCAN online version has a song, written and performed for the campaign, with the lyrics, "It looks like rain again today, dark clouds gather, fill the sky. Don’t know how to talk to you, just know how to say goodbye."

I love this movie, it costars Clint Eastwood. The scene where Burton's character convinces the room full of Nazi officers to turn on each other while they were about to arrest him is pure gold.

Eastwood's "one take and we're done" method only works when he's got skilled actors. For this reason, Gran Torino was not a great movie.

Hehe, it was a very timely find, i'll give ya that. Couldn't stop myself linking it up

Bloody loved that film though, seriously. One of the best i've seen in a long time

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While we're on this stupid theme, here is a great clip I duped this morning that needs more votes!

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In reply to this comment by alien_concept:
While we're on this stupid theme, here is a great clip I duped this morning that needs more votes!

http://www.videosift.com/video/GRAN-TORINO-Eastwoods-last-acting-role-movie-scene


god..i am so in love with your dry british humor...
marry me!

Gran Torino was a great movie. Eastwood gets better with age.

Related http://www.videosift.com/video/Jamie-Cullum-Gran-Torino-Theme-1

While we're on this stupid theme, here is a great clip I duped this morning that needs more votes!

http://www.videosift.com/video/GRAN-TORINO-Eastwoods-last-acting-role-movie-scene

You guys are all just a bunch of Nazi's.

There.

Fulfilled.



>> ^dag:
Good point. He was so damn good in that movie.
>> ^kulpims:
i proclaim bruno ganz in der untergang (2004) a winner and invoke godwin's law against all who voted clint eastwood