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...movies he stars in--Clint Eastwood's Mystic River and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's 21 Grams--are, respectively, the opening-and closing-night events at the current New York Film Festival. "I've been lucky lately," he says. "Whatever anybody thinks of the films, these are strong directors. You know what your purpose...
Mystic River's story is told in Eastwood's straight-shootin' fashion, while 21 Grams, written by Guillermo Arriaga, jumps like an antsy first-grader from one plot strand to the next. Neither film, despite what you might have heard, is within shouting distance of a masterpiece. Gonzalez Inarritu's English-language debut lacks the zigzagging drive of his Mexican hit Amores Perros and taxes credulity with its pileup of fatal coincidences. Mystic River has a case of wandering accents (sometimes South Boston, sometimes West Hollywood) and plods toward its conclusion more like a tired cop than a cunning detective...
...figurehead of the false courage by encouraging and leading revenge. But I sensed that these two directors were not interested in just dazzling with the ugliest parts of humanity and the quick fix." Penn loved the camaraderie of the Boston location where Mystic River was shot. He also liked Eastwood's relaxed control on the set, the director's ability to get first-take perfection from some very serioso thespians, including co-stars Linney, Laurence Fishburne and Marcia Gay Harden...
...inspirational foreman here was Eastwood. "Clint's vibe is very productive," Penn says. "He's not the director as disapproving father. Clint is the approving rascal, older-brother father. You are not inclined toward useless rebellion with him, unless you just want to see him laugh...
...songs included the theme for TV's Hee Haw, but he had an equally successful career as a TV and movie actor--notably playing outlaw Ben Miller, who menaces Gary Cooper in High Noon, and a trail scout in the 1959-66 TV series Rawhide, which helped launch Clint Eastwood's career...