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He’s making a movie about Iwo Jima. And then, using the same creative team, making another entire movie about Iwo Jima from the Japanese perspective!!!.
This is one of the bravest things ever done by American cinema. I can’t wait to see both films. I’ve always respected Clint in a kind of vague way before now, but this is absolutely awesome.
Eastwood is simply one of the best in Hollywood. I have no doubt that he will do a spectacular job.
Well, not exactly the same creative team. Writer Paul Haggis was replaced (at his own choosing) by Iris Yamashita.
If you like this idea, then by all means check out Lucas Belvaux’s remarkable Trilogy: *On the Run, An Amazing Couple*, and After the Life.
Taking an identical set of incidents, Belvaux uses the characters’ perspectives to fashion, respectively, a political thriller, a romantic comedy-of-errors, and a drug addiction/marital drama. You see the exact same scenes, but each new film paints the events and characters in constantly changing lights. An excellent achievement (especially After the Life, the best of the 3).
Thanks for the suggestion, but where in the heck do I find (relatively obscure) movies like this. It’s my eternal dilemna.
Yeah, unfortunately I see they’re not even available on tape/DVD. I saw all 3 in the theater (on the same day, no less), but it was an extremely limited engagement. Maybe if Belvaux does more high profile work, they’ll become easier to find…
Excellent. Now all he has left to do is a cop movie in the vein of Unforgiven in which he deconstructs the “Dirty Harry” persona.
Shouldn’t we wait to actually see the movie before passing judgement? It might stink x 2.
It could. But Clint deserves credit for at least trying something this interesting.
In the Japanese version, does Godzilla win?
I’m probably going to Hell for that, for several reasons.
Probably. 
One might stir up some controversy with this sort of thing. There are still folks alive who laid on the beach with their eyeballs hanging out pretending to be dead so the Japanese wouldn’t bayonet them.
'Course, there may be Japanese guys still around who survived having their cave attacked with a flame thrower…