Back in the day, nobody made more action films than Clint. And not all of them were masterpieces. But Eastwood, legend has it, would take his script and mark out big chunks of his dialogue. It wasn't just that he could act without words, or that words were never his strong suit. He knew bad dialogue is a serious buzz kill for a guy carving out a piece of movie cool...
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