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Clint Eastwood

A Wolf in Sheepdog’s Clothing? A review of American Sniper

January 21, 2015 by Randal

American Sniper tells the story of Chris Kyle (played by a substantially beefed-up Bradley Cooper), at 160 recorded kills, the deadliest sniper in the long military history of the United States. I’m not up on sniper score cards, but that certainly sounds like a lot of blood and brains. Through four tours of duty in […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: American Sniper, Bradley Cooper, Clint Eastwood, ethics, nationalism, review, war

The Atonement in Clint Eastwood’s “Gran Torino”

July 18, 2014 by Randal

A few years ago I was having an email exchange with atheist Ken Pulliam about his speciality, the atonement. Ken was a rare individual who had no antipathy toward the evangelical Christianity he’d left behind. He had none of the condescension one often finds in the atheistic blogosphere (and, it must be said, the Christian blogosphere). […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atonement, Clint Eastwood, Girardean theory, Gran Torino, Ken Pulliam, theology

Existential reflections on the Clint Eastwood speech

August 31, 2012 by Randal

In case you missed it, the Clint Eastwood speech at the Republican National Convention is all the rage today. Indeed, it appears to have overshadowed both Marco Rubio’s eloquent self-promotion and Mitt Romney’s capable acceptance speech. Here it is:   Clint started off alright. The first minute and a half was not bad. But then it […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Clint Eastwood, existentialism, mortality

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