ROTTEN TOMATOES: Eastwood Wins Director's Guild Honor

Eastwood Wins Director's Guild Honor

by RT Staff | January 31, 2005

The Director's Guild of America awarded Clint Eastwood its top honor for his work on "Million Dollar Baby," Variety reports. It's Eastwood's second DGA award; the first came 12 years ago for "Unforgiven." Eastwood beat out Martin Scorsese for "The Aviator," Marc Forster for "Finding Neverland," Taylor Hackford for "Ray," and Alexander Payne for "Sideways."

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mastertips writes:
on Jan 31 2005 07:35 PM

[b]What was the DGA thinking.......[/b]
Awarding Clint Eastwood the prize for "Million Dollar Baby" shows that anyone can be persuaded by hype. This is like awarding the film "absolute power" the award. or "true crimes". All three film are all the same. And nobody tell me that the turn the movie takes at the end is so awe inspiring that it was awesome. It is one silly and ridiculous third part of a movie I have ever seen. To pull the plug so easily without mercy and without guilt and then to see him eating lemon pie at her favorite restaurant seems to tell us the audience that it is perfectly ok to kill in this manner because of ones guilt and get away with it. But the DGA must have being asleep to even think that this was anything but a run of the mill boxing movie. A real shame....

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vic40186 writes:
on Feb 01 2005 12:56 PM

[b]Excellent Choice!![/b]
Clint Eastwood is a legend and deserved the DGA for this excellent film, the best boxing film of all times. And he must win his second Oscar this year too.

Scorsese doesn't deserve the DGA for The Aviator, it is far to be his best film, he deserved to win in films like Ragging Bull or Goodfellas, but this year all the awards must be for just one person: CLINT EASTWOOD!!

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Now it's dark writes:
on Feb 01 2005 03:05 PM

[b]Whose Fist is it Anyway?[/b]
Not one original shot in the entire picture. More like a TV movie: the actors telling the story. Like all actor/directors he is not a visual stylist but a point and shoot director, like one from television, where Eastood learned his craft. This showed especially in the boxing scenes, which were strictly amateur hour. The DGA loses all cred here.

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ICP writes:
on Feb 02 2005 08:03 PM

Damnit, I wanted Scorses to win.

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EvilFerretMaster writes:
on Feb 05 2005 02:26 PM

I think Eastwood deserved it more than anybody else. Million Dollar Baby was an amazing film; Eastwood's craft in film has only improved. His directorial skill goes back to the great Sergio Leone, learning from him, not from the television.

I don't know where "Point and Shoot" comes from. This movie reeks of atmosphere and there's obviously much more craft into it than is being credited.

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Now it's dark writes:
on Feb 07 2005 11:50 AM

Eastwood was schooled by I think 9 years on Rawhide. His films with Leone were lightning quick shoots. His films look nothing like Leones. He works with actors completely differently. The Italians don't even record sound when they shoot. Sound recording is done in post. Leone would have Morricones soundtrack music playing during shots. Eastwood couldn't do that in his dreams. He needs actors to tell the story. He points the camera at these awesome actors and just shoots them telling the story. As in a TV show from the sixties.

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