During Monday Night Football they played the new TV spot for Grand Torino. It's pretty much the opposite of the trailer. This TV spot would seem to suggest the following storyline: Clint Eastwood befriends nerdy Asian boy neighbor and together they take on an entire Asian street gang and clean up the neighborhood. Strangely there's no mention in this TV spot of the words Swamp Rats or the blatant racism on display in the 2 minute trailer. Still the movie seems as awesome as ever. Getting better by the minute.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
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This is a good observation. The tv spot is a shameful, shameful departure from what the trailer promised; a highly fed-up, highly racist and high-strung Clint Eastwood on the verge of devastating, hate-inspired violence.
The only upside to this is that when we do see this in the theaters, there will be many gasps from the audience when he goes full-bigot on some Hmong.
I saw this on TV and thought the same thing! But I like how they still keep the movie's tag line intact.
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