클린트 이스트우드의 개인주의적 윤리관 연구 : 영화 <그랜 토리노>를 중심으로

Abstract

The research aims to trace an American film director, Clint Eastwood’s unique viewpoint on the world based on the film text of Gran Torino. The research has resulted from the idea that a film would be motivated from a director’s totalitarian outcome of thinking. It means that to produce a cinema is to create a world, in which the director’s viewpoint of the world can be reflected into the film. Therefore, the film text does not render audience’ seeing toward the other world but give a chance of watching into the internal world of a character, Walt Kowalsky created by the director, Clint Eastwood. The films of Clint Eastwood would be categorized into the ethics of individualism itself in which he would praise a person’s individual conviction toward the society, not the kind of totalitarian one or aesthetics penetrating across an artistic work. So he would like to play a jazz song refusing normal rhythms, enjoying some improvisational concerts. The improvisational concert would be a newly trajectory odyssey to find out his own rhythm or music, not the determined notes of songs. In fact, we can say that the life of Clint Eastwood would be compared to the freely concerted recital. In the research let me tries to arrange some fields of criticism on the ethics of individualism displayed by Clint Eastwood, focusing on ‘keeping off one’s own space’, ‘acting here and now’, and ‘finding one’s own way of salvation’ as his own viewpoint of the world among the director’s some convictions in life ethics of individualism.