Eastwood, C.

Japanese: イーストウッド,C. - いーすとうっど
Eastwood, C.

...American film. A popular action movie series that propelled Clint Eastwood to become the biggest "money-making star" since the 1970s. Detective Harry Callahan of the San Francisco Police Department's Homicide Division, a man of absurd energy who wields a Smith & Wesson .44 magnum, "the largest handgun on earth," and pursues violent criminals, sometimes ignoring his superiors' orders and legal procedures, is not only the central character of Eastwood's hero image, but also had such a great influence that it is said to have become the prototype of the detective image in subsequent "police action" movies.

From "Spaghetti Western"

…And in turn, it stimulated the production of westerns in Hollywood (37 westerns were produced in the United States in 1967), and had a major influence on the style of the films. Clint Eastwood (1930- ), who teamed up with director Sergio Leone on For a Few Dollars More (1965) and For a Few Dollars More (1966), returned to Hollywood from an unsuccessful third-rate Hollywood star to an international superstar, starring in Hang 'Em High! (directed by Ted Post, 1967) and High Noon (directed by Don Siegel, 1969), and also directed Strangers in the Wilderness (1972). In addition, films such as The Wild Bunch (1969) directed by Sam Peckinpah (1925-1984), which took the depiction of bloodshed and massacres to the extreme, are considered representative of Hollywood westerns after the Spaghetti Western.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Eastwood, C." is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…アメリカ映画。クリント・イーストウッドを1970年代以降現在に至る最大の〈マネー・メーキング・スター〉に押し上げる推進力となったアクション映画の人気シリーズ。〈地上最大の拳銃〉スミス&ウェッソン44口径マグナムをひっさげ,上司の指示も法的手続もときには無視して兇悪犯を追う,荒唐無稽なまでに行動力にあふれたサンフランシスコ市警殺人課のハリー・キャラハン刑事は,イーストウッドのヒーロー・イメージの中核をなす当り役であるばかりでなく,以後の〈ポリス・アクション〉映画の刑事像の原型になったといわれるほど大きな影響を及ぼした。…

【マカロニ・ウェスタン】より

…そして逆にハリウッドの西部劇製作を刺激し(1967年にはアメリカでも37本の西部劇が製作された),作風においても大きな影響を与えた。《荒野の用心棒》に続いて《夕陽のガンマン》(1965),《続・夕陽のガンマン》(1966)でセルジオ・レオーネ監督と組んだクリント・イーストウッドClint Eastwood(1930‐ )は,売れない〈三流ハリウッド・スター〉から国際的大スターとなってハリウッドに返り咲き,《奴らを高く吊るせ!》(テッド・ポスト監督,1967),《真昼の死闘》(ドン・シーゲル監督,1969)に主演するとともに,《荒野のストレンジャー》(1972)ではみずから監督もつとめた。また,流血と大量殺戮(さつりく)の暴力描写を極限まで推し進めたサム・ペキンパーSam Peckinpah(1925‐84)監督の《ワイルドバンチ》(1969)などが,〈マカロニ・ウェスタン以後〉のハリウッド西部劇の代表的作品とみなされる。…

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