Dirty Harry wasn’t just a scowling cop badass in an underworld thriller he was a guy who did what had to be done. The reason that’s very Clint Eastwood, even though you can imagine filmmakers from Edward Zwick to Richard Linklater coming up with the same concept, is that Eastwood has always had a unique investment in the gritty conviction of the men of action he portrays, as both actor and director. It also means - theoretically - that the movie will bring the bravery of their actions close to the audience with a rare existential authenticity: the feeling that this is how it looked, this is how it felt, this is how it went down. ![]() None are professional actors, but they’re heroes playing heroes, and that means that they’ve got a bit of inside expertise. The highly unusual premise of “The 15:17 to Paris” is that Stone, Skarlatos, and Sadler all portray themselves. He goes back to their delinquent boyhood in Sacramento, then follows them through military training and, finally, the impromptu vacation in Europe that led the three of them - by chance? or was it fate? - to board that train. He also dramatizes the three young men’s lives leading up to the incident. ![]() ![]() Eastwood re-enacts the incident, shooting it in a conventionally forceful and exciting hair-trigger hand-held moment-of-truth style, breaking it into dramatic pieces and circling back to it throughout the film.
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