Study Of Clint Eastwood’s Art Of Film Direcying

Clint Eastwood is a legendary director in Hollywood, he has been working in movie industry for more than 60 years. During his filming career, he has appeared in 48 films, and directed 32 movies; also, he is the producer of 18 movies, and he produced 9 songs for films. The films he directed not only penetrate the inner spirit of American people, but also express his intuitive thinking of individual life state from the point of view of mankind. This essay is trying to make a comprehensive and clear analysis to his creative process, based on the research of his works and his life story.The creative process of Clint Eastwood can be divided into two period, in the earlier period he was focus on filming genre films, such as western and crime movies. However, in the later period of his filming career, he finally unshackled from the bound of genre movies, and focused on filming realistic themes movies; on the other hand, the story that adaptation from real events and real biography makes his works more depth and thoughtful; also, it makes his works become mature.Clint Eastwood was born in an authentic American middle-class family; therefore, Eastwood has a instinct worship to the spirit which is supporting the whole American society. The spirits of United States such as freedom, equality and democracy are fully penetrated into his films, and he use film as a special media to passing all of these spirits to every American citizen.Clint Eastwood is a very humanity director, his film is concerning about the survival situation of individual characters and the mental health of people who are stay in a difficult situation. Also he is expressing his own attitude and opinion through his films from a point of view which is beyond race and beyond nations. In the later period of his filming career, he is completely focus on the human nature themes; therefore, his later works is always full of humanistic thoughts. However,With the increase of his creating experience and life experience, his attitude and opinion to salvation, violence and death is keep changing. Because of his unique vision and his intuitive life experience his works usually have more possibilities; therefore, each of his new creation will always cause a round of introspection for people.The Film style of Clint Eastwood is very unique; however, his recounting measure is simple but very efficient. Clint love to use cool color configuration and the design of nature light to emphasize the realism style image, and the "Dark" effect is a good tool of him to increase the objectivity of the narrative subject. Jazz is an unique variety of music in America; also, it is Clint’s favorite music form, and it is involved into film’s narrative and emotional expression to add some lyrical meaning for the image show of reality objective.