1. Clint Eastwood
Here's my dream. It's not a life-long dream, nor is it one that I've held onto for a particularly long time, but it's a dream, nonetheless: Clint Eastwood's last ever movie features him as the most sickening, perverse and unsavoury villain in movie history. Why? Well, because Clint Eastwood - for all my research shows - has never played a full-on bad guy. Yeah, he's played about forty-six varying anti-hero types, a bunch of good guys, and some characters who escape categorisation entirely, but this legendary icon of the cinema screen has never been a balls to the walls "bad guy." Even in recent award-winning flick
Grand Torino he turned out to be a lovely bloke. Wouldn't it be great to have him playing a real b*stard, though, just
once? Especially given that audiences have had it drummed into their skulls for the last fifty years that Eastwood can never appear as a legitimate villain - even his turn in
Unforgiven, which perhaps marks the closest he ever came to such a role, is purposely evasive and impossible to categorise. He's not a hero or a villain in that movie on purpose, after all. Although this will probably never happen, then, given that Eastwood has spent the sum of his career avoiding bad guy roles, I can't help but imagine how awesome it'd be to see him playing the head honcho in some horrific crime organisation, kicking puppies and burning down retirement homes for laughs. An anti-swan song, if you will.
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