On May 1, 10:49 pm, brushoff
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>> Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino is Not Dirty Harry 6. Character
>> Descriptions Released.
>> Posted on Thursday, May 1st, 2008 at 12:01 pm by: Hunter Stephenson
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>> All of us wily fans of highly unlikely action premises can let out a
>> logical sigh, as MovieHole has received the official casting breakdown
>> for Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino: a dirty, septuagenarian Harry
>> Callahan is no where to be found. Dirty Harry 6 is back to being a
>> daydream, but I’m sure Eastwood had a good laugh and perhaps gave a
>> hmmmm into his lemonade. So, what is Gran Torino?
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>> As previously rumored, it’s a “coming of age buddy comedy” between an
>> old fart (Eastwood, no offense) who cherishes his titular muscle car
>> and a young, troubled Asian kid who tries to steal said car to impress
>> a gang. MovieHole draws careful comparisons to the tone and age
>> juxtaposition of Eastwood’s soporific, underrated A Perfect World. It
>> being my favorite film directed by Eastwood, that’s cool to hear, but
>> I’m also getting Dannon Activia vibes off this. We’ve pasted the
>> lengthy character rundown/synopsis after the jump because it contains
>> spoilers. This November brings Eastwood’s latest directorial effort,
>> Changeling, with Angelina Jolie and it’s riding particularly nice
>> buzz.
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>> Discuss: Would you rather see DH6 or Gran Torino based on the info
>> here? And speaking of minors committing grand theft auto did you see
>> this?
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>> GRAN TORINO
>> Feature Film
>> Warner Brothers
>> SAG
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>> Producer: Clint Eastwood, Rob Lorenz, Bill Gerber
>> Director: Clint Eastwood
>> [TAO VANG LOR] A 15-19 year old Hmong (Southeast Asian) boy, Tao is
>> slight, with long hair and long lashes, but he is very good looking,
>> like an Asian Johnny Depp. His father is dead, and he lives in the
>> house next door to Walt, a house full of women who disrespect him
>> because he has no inner strength and resilience. A boy who would
>> rather be a bookworm and be left alone, he’s pressured to join his
>> cousin’s street gang, and he’s brutally humiliated when he tries to
>> steal Walt’s Gran Torino. Intent on making amends to Walt, who has
>> been befriended by his sister Sue, Tao works for Walt around the house
>> for two weeks — and in the process, earns a smidgen of respect from
>> Walt for his stoicism. Very protective of his family, and desperately
>> in need of a male role model, Tao is pleasantly surprised when his odd
>> friend pays him back for his labor — by helping Tao get both a job and
>> a girlfriend. When Sue is raped by a pack of Hmong punks, Tao wants to
>> get revenge — but Walt decides to carry that burden himself alone.
>> HMONG LANGUAGE SKILLS A PLUS…LEAD (6)
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>> [SUE] Tao’s younger sister, 15 - 19, Sue is smarter than her brother
>> when it comes to social skills and emotional IQ. A charmer, expert at
>> using her communication skills to build bridges, Sue is contemptuous
>> of local gang recruiters, Spider and Smokie — but she views Walt with
>> wary interest. All too aware that her brother could use a masculine
>> influence in his life to teach him the basics, Sue gently nudges Walt
>> and Tao together, hoping for the best, and quite pleased when Tao
>> acquires both a father figure and a few much-needed callouses. But
>> when the local gang decides to punish Walt for his aggressive
>> insolence by kidnapping Sue and raping her, she fears that the two
>> strong men in her life will die avenging her honor. HMONG LANGUAGE
>> SKILLS A PLUS…LEAD (16)
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>> [F Ashley and Josh. Treated with contempt by his father, who regards
>> Mitch and his family as yuppie scum, Mitch returns the favor and then
>> some, ducking his dad’s rare calls and not realizing that when Walt
>> asserts that everything at home is “fine,” that he’s a bald-faced
>> liar. He shuts Walt out of his life completely after Walt refuses to
>> go into a home…LEAD (1)
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>> [PHONG] The grandmother of Tao and Sue, Phong speaks only in her
>> native language of Hmong. Utterly contemptuous of Tao because he’s
>> bullied by the women in the house, Phong has an active, blistering
>> hatred for Walt, the “stupid, hairy white man” who lives next door. A
>> woman who chews betel juice and spits at Walt whenever he comes into
>> view, Phong is outraged when Sue invites him to the house. Protective
>> of her grandchildren in spite of her caustic manner (which precisely
>> mirrors Walt’s), she knows something is drastically wrong when Walt
>> asks her to care for his ancient dog. MUST SPEAK HMONG…LEAD (9)
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>> [SMOKIE] The 18 - 20 year old leader of a local gang of Hmong
>> teenagers, Smokie intervenes when he sees Tao being bullied by some
>> black kids, and tries to talk Tao into joining the gang. But Tao’s
>> initiation (stealing Walt’s Gran Torino) is a botched disaster, and
>> he’s furious when Tao backs out of the gang. Believing he’s being
>> disrespected, Smokie is intent on punishing both Walt and Tao, and he
>> begins a war of nerves that quickly escalates. When he opts to strafe
>> Tao’s home and rape his sister Sue, it’s a declaration of war that
>> Walt intends to answer alone…LEAD (14)
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>> [VU] The mother of Tao and Sue, this 40s - 50s Asian woman speaks only
>> in her native language of Hmong. She is profoundly grateful to Walt
>> from intervening when her son is threatened by Smokie. MUST SPEAK
>> HMONG… several scenes (27)
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>> [KOR SHUE] This old Hmong man is a shaman, who only speaks in his
>> native language of Hmong, and who asks to give a reading of Walt’s
>> character. His reading is painfully close to the bone. MUST SPEAK
>> HMONG…1 speech & 1 line, 1 scene (49)
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>> STORY LINE: Walt Kowalski is a widower, a grumpy, tough-minded,
>> borderline-hateful, unhappy man who can’t get along with either his
>> kids or his neighbors, a Korean War veteran whose prize possession is
>> a 1972 Gran Torino he keeps in cherry condition. Drawn against his
>> will into the lives of the Hmong family that lives next door to him,
>> Walt grows increasingly fond of TAO and his sister SUE, and takes
>> steps to protect them from the gangs that foul his neighborhood with
>> their strutting presence…
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Extremely ambiguous.
