The forgotten movie about the Cold War Clint Eastwood is a necessary observation of Top Gun fans

In 1982, the clint of Eastwood was 52 years old, but regarding American moviegoers, it was only a movie star for 15 years (just then all three sections of the “trilogy” of dollars were theatrical in the US). And although his films “Dirty Harry” They were considered politically conservative, it was still largely regarded as a revolutionary figure in the film. Its westerner was an revisionist and at the time incredibly rigid; His Flicks police were napologically ratings and, with “every but free” and “any way”, he had every child in the country, wishing them to have a beer, an orangutan-orangutan.

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Throughout his career, Clint Eastwood took note of which films are binding to the audience and sought to put their personal back on them. He replied to the phenomenon of Buddy-Cop 1980s Big budget quasi-snout “Beginner” . It does not show its peers as it is done, but -L Stephen Spielberg or James Cameron. He just wants to show how Clint does it. And this is often more than good enough for moviegoers.

Thus, when Istwood noticed that Hollywood knocked out the blockbuster, loaded with innovative visual fx after the watershed, which was “Star Wars”, he advanced forward to an expensive spy thriller with an optical sight with the support of the blaspherapy, which, on his way, the chairman.

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Based on the Craig Thomas’s novel, Firefox was a felling, a spying spy, in which he worked with the “sanction of Eger” in 1975. He established against the background of a long Cold War, Eastwood sent himself as a pilot -veteran, who instructed to abduct the prototype of the Soviet Soviet Miga, capable of Mach 6 and, as it was, as it was able to work in thought. Such a craft can swell the balance of air energy in favor of the Soviet Union.

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Released during the Magic film of the summer of 1982, “Firefox” managed to become a more mandatory event than “Blade Runner” or “Thing” because of the strongly promoted optical FX maestro-control that made “Star Wars”, John Distar. The thusast lived on the bleeding of special effects and for the first time entered the reverse blaspheed technology, which made the air sequences look photoreistic. Warner Bros. knew they had something special with exciting hypersonic dogs so they instructed Atari to do Arcade game lasers It gave the players an invigorating feeling of piloting the titular aircraft. It was a 50 percent game at a time when one quarter was the norm, and it is worth it until you realized that it was very clay and almost impossible.

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However, “Firefox” received a generation of children who dreamed of becoming a Hotshot fighter pilots, and these dreams turned into karma after four years later “Top Gun” Tony Scott. This movie has become a much bigger hit than Firefox, but it is not a stretch to say that the film is ostovud (which made a respectable $ 47 million compared to $ 21 million) made it commercially viable. Clint knows. He always knows.