Hasn't aged well

I applaud Clint for showing a lot of old white America for what it really is under the guise of "oh he's just a lonely old man" excuse.

Sure, what his character calls non-whites is offensive but that's the point. This isn't a story of some sanitized American suburb. It's a story about a demographically changing world where Clint's old character is surrounded and isolated. It could be criticized for pandering to the old trope of "White Saviour" as you point out, but I would only hold to that notion if his character survived in the end and the boy that he saves goes to college and marries his blonde grand daughter, so in essence "white washing works".

Are you an idiot? The character is a very old man who fought in Korea!!!! Why would he use words common for 2008?

So we cannot make movies about bigots any longer? Because it bothers morons? He is playing a role! It is a movie!!!

He had these generic bigoted views but came to see his neighbors as real people and not just some ethnic group.

surprised he hasnt been called out by the woke mob...

He was supposed to be racist. The premise of the movie is that he sees the error of his ways.

Actually it aged fantastically. He was out in the open about his racism (he didn't hide it) and because of that we got the opportunity to see how much he changed through the film. He was also alienated and alone and found community in people he initially hated due to prejudice.

You know, my parents and aunts and uncles, were even older than Clint's character, and none of them ever talked like that.

And we were VERY working class.


That being said, it was and still is a good movie, even if it's presentation of working class whites in America is kind of off base.

How about when Walt was called a "Honkey?" Oh wait, he's white.

Trash thread bro!!!