EASTWOOD: PLAY MISTY FOR OUR FATHERS

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S2 E4 PLAY MISTY FOR OUR FATHERS

1971's PLAY MISTY FOR ME is the first of Clint's 8000 films he directed so dissecting it is  a landmark for our podcast. In it, Clint plays DJ Lank'n $quinty and gets in over his head with obsessive fan, and future Bluth, Jessica Walter. Then in 2006's FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS, we learn why objective masterpiece Letters From Iwo Jima (covered in S2 E3) was rushed into theaters in late 2006 for Oscar eligibility, when Flags was originally seen as the surefire Oscar Bait film earlier the same year with the same director. Flags has a great pedigree of bestseller, screenwriters, producers and director. Why did it fall flat on the sticky floors of American multiplexes and not billow majestically in the wind? We find out and are joined by an honest-to-god DJ, Patrick, who also runs a record store and refuses to play Misty for us.

PLAY MISTY FOR ME: 00:03:33

FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS: 00:31:20