In the course of his seven-decade career, Clint Eastwood has come to be identified with a single striking proposition. Appearing as a hard-bitten detective, a nondescript pilot, or an aging boxing coach, he advances the claim that upholding a system—legal, mechanical, moral—will occasionally require operating outside its normal bounds. His paradigmatic heroes are sometimes righteous and pitiless, sometimes tragic and conflicted, but always they believe that irregular, sometimes scandalous measures must be taken when, inevitably, law fails.
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