Clint Eastwood presented his war movie Letters from Iwo Jima at the Berlin Film Festival and he had some very enlightened things to say at the presentation. The nice folks over at yahoo.com gives us this:
BERLIN (AP) Clint Eastwood says he found that U.S. veterans of the 1945 fighting on Iwo Jima were curious to know about the Japanese side of the story chronicled in his Oscar-nominated “Letters From Iwo Jima.” Eastwood presented “Letters” the companion piece to “Flags of Our Fathers,” which related the fighting from the American perspective as an out-of-competition entry…”I was wondering what American veterans of the battle of Iwo Jima would think of ‘Letters From Iwo Jima,’ because most of, a lot of them probably had very bad experiences on that island,””I found that most of the Americans that I’ve talked to … were very curious about it and they were very curious about how the other side lived,”
Good for Eastwood, he is really the industry standard for tough rough guy turned cool and calm in Hollywood.
When a guy can go from swinging guns with a chimpanzee to directing a film that tries to enlighten the world to both sides of a controversial war…well that’s a real man.
