The Eastwood Car Trilogy - Serious Nonsense

Greg Dyro and Tom Burka discuss the Clint Eastwood Car Trilogy and other random thoughts from the Alternate view.

Podcast Episode: 001

The Clint Eastwood Car trilogy

Gran Torino: 2008

Monte Carlo: 2010

Malibu: 2011

Gran Torino

Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, Thao Lor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski’s prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino.

Monte Carlo

Former Las Vegas Security Consultant “Henry”in his mid 80’s living in Vegas suburban development far off the strip suddenly finds himself entangled in his next door neighbors young son “Karson” who has made a major margin buy that want wrong in his online Day Trading Wall Street account. Suddenly he owes 60 thousands `dollars. He enlists Clint’s character “Henry” to help in scamming the Casino (The Monte Carlo Casino) that fired “Henry” years earlier for a sophisticated robbery that happened on his watch that cost the casino millions. He had been very bitter because he had no part in that robbery of the Monte Carlo But now he had a plan to pay off “Karson’s” debt by recreating that very robbery. Clint drives a classic Monte Carlo as they plot the caper and make off with millions in the scam robbery.

Malibu

Depressed Former Beverly Hills police captain “Jack” living now in an old run down house on Pt. Dume in Malibu gets involved in a young surfer on Zuma beach one winter day as they find a dead body with bars of gold strapped to his legs. “Jack” drives an older classic Chevy Malibu with a distinct puff of smoke from the exhaust. Intrigue as they hide the gold in Clint’s Orchid hot house and search for the killers. A major car chase on Kanan road accelerating thru the tunnels in a major chase as “Jack” tells the story of the Pink Lady painted above the tunnel (his wife at the time was the artist and he helped her paint it) the authority’s removed the painting a week later. The character “Jack” comes to realize that the young surfer can carry on his love for his wives art and near the end of the film commits suicide in his Chevy Malibu. We end with the surfer alone on the beach at pink sunset as he notices a nude woman walking out of the surf looking very much like the “Pink Lady”