Bronco Billy (1980)
Directed by Clint Eastwood
An idealistic, modern-day cowboy struggles to keep his Wild West show afloat in the face of hard luck and waning interest.
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En Francotirador (American Sniper, EU, 2014), ambiguo filme 34 del insigne estilista californiano y aún actor rudo de 85 años Clint Eastwood (de nuevo endurecido y belicoso inmediatamente después de una ficción en apariencia tan blanda como Jersey Boys, persiguiendo la música 14), con guión de Jason Hill basado en el libro autobiográfico que Chris Kyle redactó al lado de Scott McEwer y James Defelice, el experto marine exterminador de élite SEAL sin piedad Chris (Bradley Cooper barbudo anticarismático) es asaltado evocadoramente, en un momento crucial de puntería y decisión francotiradoras, por su trayectoria vital y por las circunstancias particulares que en cadena de flash-backs lo convirtieron en un hombre-leyenda viviente porque “Nuestras vidas se desenvuelven ante nuestros ojos como reflejos enigmáticos en el espejo”: su fascinación por las armas desde que solía cazar alces con su padre en Texas, su sorprendente tino (digno de un redivivo Sargento York de Hawks 41), su aceptación de…
He shows off his comic chops more fully than in any film since “Bronco Billy” more than a quarter-century ago.
This turn exemplifies the most compelling aspect of any of Eastwood's generic interventions, in his use of the male character for typically female roles -- he's the object of a stalker in Misty (1971), ridicule in Bronco Billy (1980), obsolescence in Perfect World (1993), sexual desire in Bridges of Madison County, and tabloidy excess in True Crime (1999).
And he had shown, as a director, a strong interest in crafting unusual westerns: look at High Plains Drifter, The Outlaw Josey Wales (which offers the surprising sight of Clint Eastwood crying, though everyone thought it was a big deal when he shed a tear or two in In the Line of Fire), Pale Rider, and even the oddball, heartfelt non-hits Bronco Billy (Eastwood as a New Jersey salesman who poses as a sharpshooter) and Honkytonk Man (Clint as a dying country-western singer).
But if there's any picture in which he makes the West into a vision of America, it would be his 1980 romantic comedy Bronco Billy, which is set in the present and has him playing a shoe salesman from New Jersey.