1993 was Clint Eastwood's victory in the year. After winning the best picture and the best Oscars for "The Perfect" in March (which, along with critical success, also earned $ 101 million in the North American treasurer), he would be Hollywood's toast because he promoted two very different films: "In the Fire" and "Perfect World". The latter was the most insecure of the two, just because it would mark his directorial tracking of "Unfugiven", as well as to pair him on the screen with the best winner in the 1990s, Kevin Costner.

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"In the Fire Line" was not, on the surface, an unusual film. Directed by Wolfgang Petersen, The celebrated German director of "Das But", It was a thriller for action with an irresistible hook. Eastwood was caught as Frank Horigan, a long -plot secret agent, who believes he is targeted by a psychopath that plans to kill the United States president. Horigan is no longer in protective details, and this is for a very good reason: he is the only member of the agency that was part of the Fon Fon procession. Kennedy in Dallas on the day of the president's assassination. The upset chorigan returns to the protective duty, believing that he is the agent who is best equipped to capture this destroyed killer.

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But "in the line of fire" was a unique project for Eastwood not only because he did not direct it. And it is possible that this aspect of the film's production has allowed him to stand out from the types of films he made before the "unforgivable" and much of what he would do.

When Clint Eastwood founded Malpaso in 1968, it was removed from one year to become the largest western starvet on the planet. He was already the top western starvet outside the United States, but due to legal problems for The obvious similarities between a "dollar fist" And Akira Kurosawa's "Yodzimbo" (apparently because they both worked from Dashiel Hammet's "red harvest" and "The Local Key"), United artists hesitated to publish "Dollar Trilogy" until they knew they would not be sued. When a "dollar fist", "for a few more more", and "good, bad and ugly" hit American theaters in 1967, Americans were suddenly just as much for Clint as the rest of the world.

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Eastwood boldly bet on himself, and that bet paid off comfortably. From that point forward, he made films only through Malpaso. This makes it "in the line of fire" an extreme rarity in that it is produced through Castle Rock Entertainment. This was the first non-Malpasso film of Eastwood since the 1970s "Kelly Heroes", and it was really Petersen's film. It is definitely the most Directed The movie Eastwood has been since Don Siegel's "Dirty Harry". What was refreshing because the Starwar's idea for an action film at this point was the idiocy of the rock from the "rookie".

This was basically the last purely action of Eastwood, and it is beauty. He directly and Starwar in Brian Helgeland's "blood work" in 2002, but it is a moody "dirty Harry" riff that is short of high -caliber excitement. Well, let's take a look at "in the line of fire" at Eastwood's farewell to the shareholder rejoicing the crowd. And because we are in mind, to calm down for diverting because Petersen's film affects the mark every time.

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