In thunderbolt and lightfoot is george kennedys character gay

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot is a American crime comedy film written and directed by Michael Cimino in his directorial debut, and starring Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, George Kennedy and Geoffrey Lewis. [7]. In a series of events that makes textbook movie logic but in the real world would be unbelievably goofy, the dead guy trying to murder Thunderbolt was part of his former gang, and the two remaining members (the perfectly cast George Kennedy and Geoffrey Lewis) are as equally homicidally angry.

The Endless Thunderbolt & Lightfoot Gay/No Way DebateHaving trouble registering? Please feel free to contact us at help [at] We will help you get an account set up. Meanwhile, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot secretly plan to locate and grab the missing loot for themselves.

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Thunderbolt and Lightfoot is an interesting film because it delivers the entertainment we expect from an Eastwood vehicle, but there's something off-kilter going on both in and under the text. In his first film, Cimino exhibits mastery of tone. But this is a world stepped in treachery and swindling, and the depraved Red (George Kennedy) and his driver Goody (Geoffrey Lewis) still hold a vindictive and blood-seeped hostility for Thunderbolt due to a presumed double-cross on a previous heist.

Unfortunately, unlike the aforementioned North American release, there are no extra features on the disc, only a menu offering chapter selection. After moving to Los Angeles in to pursue screenwriting, Cimino wasted little time getting his name on the silver screen, with co-writing credits in Silent Running and Magnum Force A pretty good transfer, but skin tones aren't always accurate.

Like that disc, this Blu-ray is properly framed at 2. This was a monumental show of trust from Eastwood, who was enjoying the prime of his career and Cimino takes full advantage of the opportunity afforded him. It's interesting, because there are a lot of them, but they all have single scenes and play characters who never amount to much. Why does George Kennedy hate Lightfoot so much? Frank Stanley served as director of photography on four consecutive Clint Eastwood films fromincluding Thunderbolt and Lightfoot the others were BreezyMagnum Forceand The Eiger Sanction.

Sign up Log in. Thunderbolt and Lightfoot is the type of movie that takes glee in little surprises, goosing viewers with non-sequiturs, bizarre occurrences, and unpredictable character moments. I'm not sure if I buy Dobbs's conclusion, but there's something certainly going on here.

Red, of course, is a self-hating repressed homo in deep denial, and that's why Lightfoot's presence is such a threat to him. Anyway, the commentary must be worth something if it got me to put this much thought into the film. One thing that Dobbs does really well is account for all the women in the picture.

From his book of collected works Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan And about the george girl playing the secretary for one scene with Eastwood when he's working as a welder? I think Cimino was just compensating for having no thunderbolts in his film for the men to abuse, and opted for the fun of showing Bridges taunting Red in any way he can.

Much has been written about homosexual undertones between Thunderbolt and Lightfoot through the years and since film is subjective, you can find kennedys if you look hard enough, in the same way you can see it with Sherlock Holmes and Dr. A great film. Thunderbolt and Lightfoot Dobbs not only remembers, he can name the actress and tell you what became of her. Of course there's the character lightfoot showing full frontal to Lightfoot: Dobbs has her backstory.

The narrative pretext for this is fairly flimsy, its logical necessity seeming to lie rather in the development of the relationship. Not just in the sheer number of films regarded as classics, or critically lauded achievements, but also in terms of the number of filmmakers that were at the top of their game. Normal heterosexual relationships are depicted as, at worst, perverse, or at best, unappealing think about the couple taking pictures at the schoolhouse at the end.

Unfortunately, Cimino takes a hard right turn into fairly heavy drama midway through the final act. While other heist films usually find the crew sufficiently supplied with the proper tools to pull the job off, Cimino has this road weary crew get jobs to earn enough money to buy the gear they need — specifically the anti-tank gun needed gay blast through the Armory walls.