This is freaking hilarious. So would it be Clint Eastwood or
Bruce Lee? To someone who grew up on a diet of Clint Eastwood films and was fed
the one magic film of Bruce Lee, it’s a tough choice to make. On one hand you have the legend wooden face
who came in these spaghetti westerns (called so because they were produced by the
Italians) and shot the shit out of the baddies. On the other hand you have the
one film wonder. I think he has come in a few more movies, but Enter the Dragon
was the only movie I have seen of him. I think the tragedy was that he died
before its release making it a bigger cult. I would emulate both in my
childhood depending on the movie I had just seen. Enter the dragon was I had
seen many times. In Dubai, when I was a
little boy, the club would have a movie night every week and we would look
forward to it. Largely the movies were repeated and Enter The Dragon was
favorite. Yaaaiiieee. There comes my Karate chop.
Like any other boy I too had an interest in guns. I loved
guns and it helped that I was naturally good at aiming and keeping my hand steady.
I loved the guns I had and would play with them every day. even today I would
love to play and practice with a toy gun :). I remember playing so much that
once the servant in the house put a really small parrot toy in one corner of the
room and challenged me to hit it from the other side of the room. And whack… it
flew. I was pretty cool. Then I remember trying to hit while moving and all
sorts of different situations. It was fun. Clint Eastwood gave me a lot to
dream of.
So for sheer breadth of movies and the dreams that followed guess
in my head it was clint Eastwood that won. After all I don’t remember ever
wearing that yellow track suit but I do remember wearing cowboy boots. The
cowboy western image is still more resonant with me that the lanky pants flexi
kick kung fu. Guns defeated the nang chaku in my life. Aiiiieeeee….. yaooo… Bang.
Poop.
And nothing else exemplifies this philosophy than this scene
from the greatest of them all – INDIANA JONES. The epic adventurer, searching
the worlds for lost treasure and an unlikely action star.
And here is another legendary one from a Clint Eastwood
movie, though not featuring him.
