Movies

especially since his hard right politics often leak into his films.

The vigilante wet dreams that were his Dirty Harry films being one prime example. The whole stereotype of the two fisted cop tied down by all those silly civil rights laws and corrupt bureaucrats from protecting decent (i.e. white) citizens is a glorification of the whole macho cop culture we see acted out in the streets most every day,

"Sully" was much the same--American hero being hung out to dry by pointy-headed small-minded Washington bureaucrats. The film was so full of BS Sullenberger went so far as to publicly disavow it.

Those films are all just high budget versions of his empty chair debate--setting up "liberal" straw men and then burning them down to the cheers of the MAGA crowd.

Yeah, an "icon of [toxic] masculinity."

And don't get me started on "Million Dollar Babies."

I thought Malkovich was good in "In the Line of Fire."