Clint Eastwood’s Lonely Heroes

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🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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In this episode, Matthew Schmitz joins Rusty Reno at The Editor’s Desk to talk about his article, “Clint Eastwood’s Law” from the October 2024 print edition of the magazine. Please subscribe to the magazine at https://www.firstthings.com/subscribe in order to access this and many other great pieces!

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to the Editor's Desk. This is the podcast where we take a closer look at the essays and articles in the latest print issue of First Things Magazine. I'm Rusty Reno on the editor of First Things Magazine, and I'm here with you today at the editor's desk.
0:24.2	I have with me Matthew Schmitz, founder and editor of Compact Magazine, and we're going
0:29.7	to talk about his piece on Clint Eastwood, one of the great American figures in movie in the October 24 issue.
0:40.7	Welcome to the podcast, Matthew.
0:42.2	Thanks for having me, Rusty.
0:44.4	Clint Eastwood, how would you characterize the classic Clint Eastwood character?
0:51.5	He is a solitary figure.
0:55.8	That's very important.
0:58.4	He's laconic.
1:00.3	And... I mean, that really is true of every Clint Eastwood movie.
1:04.9	You don't...
1:06.2	Does he ever have a wife in any of his movies?
1:09.0	I mean, I haven't seen them all, but...
1:11.7	Well, he has a wife at the beginning of the outlawed Josie Wales.
1:15.3	His wife is brutally murdered by red-leg union men.
1:21.4	He is, you know, divorced in several films.
1:29.7	Yeah, he's a lonely figure.
1:33.4	I'm hard-pressed to think of one in which he has a wife,
1:35.1	though there surely must be one.
1:35.9	I mean, he's... Made a lot of films.
1:37.5	Yeah, probably acted in around 50 or, you start in about 50 or 60 films.
1:43.2	But the great signature, the famous role, and in your piece, you zero in on the dirty
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