Reuters
By Stephane Mahe
CANNES, France — Clint Eastwood was just like any other
American boy growing up on the Westerns of the 1930s and ’40s, he told a
seminar at the Cannes Film Festival where he recounted his rise to movie star
and acclaimed director.
"Every kid wanted to be in a Western and every kid
wanted to pack a gun and ride a horse," Eastwood, 86, told admirers at a
master class he gave on the fringes of the festival.
"So as a kid I liked [Westerns] very much."
After playing the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's
'spaghetti Westerns' in the 1960s, Eastwood became "Dirty" Harry
Callahan, the cop who broke all the rules.
"A lot of people thought it was politically incorrect,"
he said of "Dirty Harry," the 1971 film in which he points his .44
Magnum pistol at bad guys and asks them if they "feel lucky" before
he pulls the trigger.
"That was at the beginning of the era that we're in
now where everybody thinks everybody's politically correct and we're killing
ourselves by doing that, but we've lost our sense of humor," he said of
the film's critics.
"Anyway, I made it, I thought it was interesting,
and it was daring at the time, and that was the only reason," Eastwood
said. "Big guns: it was the ultimate kid's dream."
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