8/6/2023 0 Comments In the line of fireThe sense of danger (or lack thereof) is established in this scene. There’s the usual tough-talk, smirking bad guys and, naturally, the meeting takes place on a boat. We first meet him on an undercover job, infiltrating a group of counterfeiters (led by Saw’s Tobin Bell with an alarmingly full head of hair) with young agent and would-be protege Al (Dylan McDermott). Divorced and liable to spend most evenings playing jazz piano in lonely bars, the married-to-his-job trope wanders close to cliché, but Eastwood’s gravitas gives it truth. ![]() He’s good at what he does so good in fact that the job eclipses the rest of his life. The story follows Frank, an experienced Secret Service agent with decades of experience. If Unforgiven marked the end of one chapter and laid to rest the aspirations of staying young and riding the plains, then In the Line of Fire was the beginning of the next chapter-one in which his age is worn without shame or denial. He was older, no longer interested in keeping up with the young cowboys, and he’d lost the angry energy that had fuelled Dirty Harry (1971). Unforgiven felt like a swan-song, but the unfathomably hard-working Eastwood was really just moving into the next phase of his incredible career. It’s the soothing cinematic equivalent of a late night tumbler of whiskey.Ĭlint Eastwood had just starred in and directed his masterpiece, Unforgiven (1992), a haunting rumination on a career in front of the screen and behind the barrel of a gun, when he became a screen hero all over again as Agent Frank Horrigan in In the Line of Fire. If it’s gone midnight and you can’t sleep, there’s a good chance you’ll find In the Line of Fire (1993) is playing somewhere a cosy and unremarkable political thriller packed with character actors, quiet conversations, and the occasional foot chase. ![]() However, they’ve carved out a legacy through familiarity, maturing into works that will be showing on some late night channel somewhere in the world at any given time, and probably until the sun burns out.
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