Movie Mindset 06 - Real Authorized Official Clint Eastwood: 80’s Clint feat. John Semley
Added 2023-05-31 11:01:00 +0000 UTCWill & Hesse are joined by journalist and author John Semley to discuss two films featuring Clint in hardcore 80’s cop-vigilante mode: 1983’s Sudden Impact and 1984’s Tightrope. Both directed or partially directed by Clint, while maybe not his best, are certainly a lot of fun and very revealing of the various psycho-sexual underpinnings of the whole “go ahead, make my day” mindset. Plus, John takes us through the online drama ripping apart the Clint pic-posting community.
NEXT WEEK: Two by modern horror maestro Kiyoshi Kurosawa - 1997’s Cure & 2003’s Bright Future.
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Lalo Schifrin also did the sound track to Mission Impossible (the series) as was a TV mentor and hero to Peter Gould. Hence why there is a character in Better Call Saul, and during Jimmy's final scam the needle drop is "Jim on the Move" also from the Mission Impossible latin jazz inspired sound track.
Eamon Short
2025-06-06 01:39:26 +0000 UTCI"m a big 'J. Edgar' fan y'all should go deep on it one day
JD
2023-06-18 12:25:52 +0000 UTCGreat episode, thank you. John was hysterical, loved how he could barely get through explaining the Clint twitter accounts without cracking up
Erik
2023-06-14 20:35:50 +0000 UTCHave developed a better appreciation for Clint in the last few yeara
Maouriceltic
2023-06-14 18:19:02 +0000 UTCAs a New Orleans native I will say that Wes constantly wearing saints shit is quite accurate. I know an infinite amount of dudes that do that to this day so it’s a nice touch
Ohn Jorazio
2023-06-08 16:55:54 +0000 UTCSO GOOD this episode gave me new insights on a body of work I know fairly well. this miniseries kicks so much ass!
Sharilyn Neidhardt
2023-06-08 14:49:36 +0000 UTCDo I have to see Dirty Harry 2-3 before Sudden Impact? I watched Tightrope last night
J.P. McD.
2023-06-07 19:05:16 +0000 UTCI need more Semley in my life.
Rimbo Jackson
2023-06-05 20:52:28 +0000 UTCLalo rocks
Matt Lavallee
2023-06-05 03:26:48 +0000 UTCHey, for those that have only heard about his movie music, some real Lalo Schifrin: https://youtu.be/R56RW1xDBn8
NoPrefect
2023-06-04 17:32:49 +0000 UTCMake semley a regular! He’s great
Jake Creighton
2023-06-04 16:34:42 +0000 UTCMy parents happened to be staying at the same hotel in New Orleans as Eastwood during the filming of Tight Rope, and they glimpsed him at the gym tightening those beautiful buttcheeks.
Julie Baxter
2023-06-03 19:12:20 +0000 UTCDo Robert Altman's "The Player" you cowards!
Robert Sayre
2023-06-03 05:27:54 +0000 UTCIdea for bonus ep: Will, Hesse, and John all doing their Clint impressions at each other for an hour à la the E1 three Bidens episode.
Matthew Krueger
2023-06-03 02:50:13 +0000 UTCYeah but there wouldn't have been any tension in the movie
Jimmy McMillan
2023-06-03 01:11:42 +0000 UTCGreat podcast. I'm ashamed to admit that I'm way to dumb to follow the Hell on Earth series. This is way more up my alley
Jimmy McMillan
2023-06-03 01:03:05 +0000 UTCA handcuff for fetishing women
Kin
2023-06-02 21:54:16 +0000 UTCTightrope was so fuckin good! Wes Block just wants to fuck everyone, and everyone wants to fuck him! John was so good too, great show and great guests so far.
Zach G
2023-06-02 07:32:29 +0000 UTCthe commentary on Clint being into that gay stuff in the Tightrope discussion reminded me of the first Hesse pod I ever heard which was the Seeking Derangements episode about Cruising, extremely good in case anyone hasn't heard it
Declan Kennedy
2023-06-02 06:31:04 +0000 UTCLong live Clyde
Jonathan lees
2023-06-02 06:12:03 +0000 UTCIf you’re listening to both Chapo & pod save america, maybe refill your lithium rx
Dan
2023-06-02 05:42:10 +0000 UTCyeah you're right it's been more than 6 months that a big legacy media didn't post a longread article about the podcast scene. Holden accountable levels are plummetting
etienne
2023-06-02 04:33:23 +0000 UTCPosted on Clint Eastwood and my birthday!
Gabrielle Chase
2023-06-02 04:24:13 +0000 UTCThey don't and it's time someone called that out too.
buttface
2023-06-02 02:55:22 +0000 UTCChapo has the most insanely butthurt fans of any podcast. Worse than Pod Save America.
buttface
2023-06-02 02:54:44 +0000 UTCalbert popwell is in all of the dirty harry movies
Declan Hertel
2023-06-02 01:22:19 +0000 UTCjust to make sure: it's noo-yen right?
etienne
2023-06-01 22:35:06 +0000 UTCYeah, hearing Seeking Derangements really made me like her.
ploob
2023-06-01 20:42:57 +0000 UTCshe was also on Chapo when they talked about Matt Schlapp
George P
2023-06-01 20:38:10 +0000 UTCthis is like complaining that cheetos dont have the same crunch as they used to
dawood
2023-06-01 19:20:40 +0000 UTCI love Hesse <3
Nicole Veneto
2023-06-01 19:14:11 +0000 UTCCRANK 2: HIGH VOLTAGE
Adam Geddes
2023-06-01 18:33:52 +0000 UTCButtFace
ploob
2023-06-01 18:00:15 +0000 UTCOkay, sounds vaguley familiar but just got bumped to the top of my list. Thanks for the rec.
Eamon Short
2023-06-01 17:46:41 +0000 UTCThe regular show is one hour twice weekly and movie mindset is two hours once weekly fuck off lol
Adam Geddes
2023-06-01 16:35:54 +0000 UTCCheck out seeking derangements podcast
Bartlebee
2023-06-01 16:30:08 +0000 UTCmovie people become stronger with solidarity. That's how you can learn cool things like Taste the Blood of Dracula's surprising class analysis
Thom
2023-06-01 15:58:55 +0000 UTC2 hours of banal movie takes yet the regular show barely fills a full hour anymore lol
buttface
2023-06-01 15:00:10 +0000 UTC"I gots to know ..."
THEKILLERWHALE
2023-06-01 13:50:24 +0000 UTCGoddamn, before movie mindset I don't think I heard any chapo eps with this lady on, if there are any. But she is funny as fuck and her and Will and great chemistry. Also she really really knows her shit. She even seems to have more knowledge on the subject than Will. That's no knock on him just a huge huge compliment to her.
Eamon Short
2023-06-01 13:36:54 +0000 UTCDying at “Mario kart music”
SF
2023-06-01 12:11:21 +0000 UTCHesse, he was definitely pissing
Bmac
2023-06-01 09:22:16 +0000 UTChedly lamar voice: keeenkeee...
calvin kilby
2023-06-01 09:07:52 +0000 UTClast house on the left but that one is more of a straight up revenge film where the aggrieved parents avenge their kids.
calvin kilby
2023-06-01 09:06:41 +0000 UTCThis just begs for a full five movie dirty harry retrospective.
Charles Voelger
2023-06-01 08:24:24 +0000 UTCWhat a great gaffe!
Nimbly Bimbly As FUCK
2023-06-01 07:47:06 +0000 UTCSudden Impact is very similar to I Spit On Your Grave if anyone’s ever seen it. Both hillbillies gang raping an educated girl they perceive as snotty, both have one hesitant male participant that even the victim sort of pities (giving the audience permission to pity him as well) and ofc brutal revenge on the rapists. There are differences, such as ISOYG going with Saw esque torture porn while Sudden Impact goes with one consistent M.O. There’s also no Ray equivalent in ISOYG. Nevertheless they both fit in the same genre of brutal vigilante vengeance for rape that has you unequivocally rooting for the rape victim. Any other movies that fit this genre?
Liam
2023-06-01 06:33:18 +0000 UTCAny Which Way is so fucking good, objectively a big nothing of a movie but filled with personality. Gotta love the world's softest biker gang being chased off by Ruth Gordon in Ma Barker mode.
Rohmer Simpson
2023-06-01 00:06:57 +0000 UTCFantastic ep! Pink Cadillac is also a good and overlooked Eastwood film from the 80s. Loving this series.
Nixper
2023-05-31 23:50:42 +0000 UTCTy for including the source material for next week's ep. Now this is podcasting!
Gordon Shumway
2023-05-31 22:59:39 +0000 UTCShould’ve been Bronco Billy (1980) and Any Which Way But Loose (1978) Missed opportunity Both comedies ,which he isn’t known for, and could also be seen as deconstructions of masculinity
Zach H.
2023-05-31 22:44:13 +0000 UTCre - soundtracks - I didn't know Lalo Schifrin did 'Enter the Dragon'. I just remember him from the theme music to Mission: Impossible. Apparently he did a ton of soundtracks. He also cameo'd as an orchestra conductor in 'Red Dragon'.
Colin C.
2023-05-31 21:40:46 +0000 UTCI too have a handcuff for fetishing women
Curran Dillis
2023-05-31 20:31:57 +0000 UTCMy girlfriend works on the WB lot and says Clint has side by side parking spots because he’s so old he can’t park. I saw him at a press junket for the mule years ago and even then I was like “this guy is still making movies?!” He looks like the oldest man on earth when he doesn’t have hair and makeup
Don Arangio
2023-05-31 20:03:02 +0000 UTCI think I read somewhere, maybe in Crazy Days and Nights, that because he puts them together so quickly, his recent films are an absolute joy to work on. The shoots always finish on time, if not early. Gotta respect him for that, if nothing else. My one issue with Sully is that in real life the NTSB didn't give Sully any shit. IRL the NTSB is an extremely lean and professional organization, and most of the time when they investigate a crash it's a horrible time because people, potentially dozens or hundreds of people, died. They were very happy to be working on the Sullivan accident and the NTSB report all but says "hallelujah".
Gordon Schmidt
2023-05-31 17:37:28 +0000 UTCJohn rocks
michael berg
2023-05-31 17:35:38 +0000 UTCmost impressive!
Chad A Eklund
2023-05-31 17:14:15 +0000 UTCWhy not Magnum Force and Pale Rider? Harry Calahan blowing away a group of vigilante motorcycle cops? Sudden Impact and especially Tightrope were terrible.
Poppy Chulo
2023-05-31 17:04:14 +0000 UTCI would love to hear Will's list of top underrated movies that you would never find on a Internet list of best movies PLEASE
Kristin Gerick
2023-05-31 16:35:19 +0000 UTCAlbert Popwell is in every Dirty Harry movie! He's a bank robber in the Scorpio one, he's a murdering pimp in Magnum Force, he's the leader of a knock off "Black Panther" group in The Enforcer (the Symbionese Liberation Army one). He even geta referenced in Hot Fuzz.
Yairo Martis
2023-05-31 15:22:37 +0000 UTCI swear Clint upgraded to the Automag because Bronson whipped out a Wildey in Death Wish 3.
Yairo Martis
2023-05-31 15:19:10 +0000 UTCshould we have had any expectations at all abt wills ability to pronounce nguyen?
Woods Edge Builders Collective
2023-05-31 14:21:22 +0000 UTCYou can’t get away from Clint. Even if you don’t agree with his politics, don’t like his aesthetic, the guy is absolutely baked into not just American culture but the art of cinema in general and you are missing out on something fundamental about the the medium if you’re not familiar with his work
Nick Muscatiello
2023-05-31 14:12:58 +0000 UTCIncorrect
Nick Muscatiello
2023-05-31 14:10:49 +0000 UTCEastwood is thee most overrated director. Gran Torino-Freaky Friday meets Karate Kid, with the ending of Cool Hand Luke tacked on
Bloggystyle
2023-05-31 12:25:07 +0000 UTC
