Clint Eastwood turned 52 in 1982, but as far as American film films are concerned, he would only be a 15 -year -old film Star (which is when all three chapters of the "dollar trilogy" were published in the United States). And though his films "Dirty Harry" It was considered a political conservative, it was still considered a great deal of revolutionary figure in the film. His Western were revisionist and, during time, incredibly violent; His policemen of the policemen were non-ranked with R and R and, "any way, but loose" and "Anyone the way you could," he had every child in the country who wanted to have an orangutan that penetrated the beer, birds as a best friend.

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During his career, Clint Eastwood noticed what films are associated with viewers and tried to set their own turns on them. He responded to the Buddy-Cop phenomenon of the 1980s with The big budget quasi-weakness "rookie" (One of his worst films), omitted on the nonsense of World War II films with a rich textured duo of "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters from Ivo IMAIMA" and, at the age of 94, worked a sneakily subversive riff of the legal thriller. He is not out to show his peers how he is doing that à la Steven Spielberg or James Cameron. He just wants to show how he makes Clint. And it's often more than good enough for movie movies.

So when Eastwood noticed that Hollywood knocked out blockbusters loaded with an important visual FX after the event in the watershed, which was the "war on the Starvali", he was moving forward on the expensive spy thriller with a blues-screen optical spectacle.

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Based on Craig Thomas's novel, "Firefox" was to scratch the itching of the espionage he worked with "Sanction of Eiger" in 1975. Set in the middle of the current Cold War, Eastwood was directed as a veteran fighter pilot, tasked with stealing a Soviet MIG prototype capable of the speed of Mah 6 and, in what felt like a foretant science fiction at the time, capable of being powered by thought. Such a craft could sway the balance of air power in favor of the Soviet Union.

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Posted during the 1982 Magical Film, "Firefox" has managed to be more than an event that must be seen by "Blade Runner" or "Things" because of the strongly promoted optical FX created by the maestro-control of the movement, which made the "Starwell" war, Johnon Dikstra. Dikstra lived on the bleeding edge of special effects and a pioneer of reverse blues technology that made the air sequences look photorealistic at the time. Warner Bros. knew they had something special with exciting hypersonic fights, so they ordered Atari to do Arcade plays with Laserisk It gave the players an encouraging sense of piloting the title plane. It was a game of 50 cents at a time when a quarter was the norm, and it was worth until you realized that it was super shiny and practically unable to play.

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However, "Firefox" has received a generation of children who dream of being pilots of combat fighters, and those dreams have turned into fodder for employment four years later with Tony Scott's "Top Gun". That film was a much bigger hit than "Firefox", but it's not much to say that Eastwood's film (which made a respectable $ 47 million against a $ 21 million budget) made it commercially sustainable. Clint knows. He always knows.