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I'm not sure, it felt like he was trying to have it both ways to me. He got to play the horrible old man using slurs left right and centre but he was also the charming old man who won over everyone he met. It felt incongruous rather than 3 dimensional to me. Maybe I'm being hard on it and not giving the character development the benefit of the doubt because I found it quite dull and literally every performance in the film was shit.
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Eastwood doing the I’m not a racist but I use slurs has been his whole non cowboy career ever since his hippy punching days.
I quite enjoyed the mule though because he was trying to play against type, he was a scumbag and a toady in that film. We weren’t supposed to be rooting for him, the character was a total rotter.