Noel Gallagher on the best movie Clint Eastwood ever made
Noel Gallagher was never a massive snob when it came to films, but he knew genius when he saw Clint Eastwood at work. Read more here.
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Sat 8 February 2025 7:30, UK
For any true artist, the lines between every medium begin to blur after a while. Even if people have found new ways of inhabiting the studio every time they make a record, many artists want to take things beyond the typical album rollout, whether that’s Radiohead putting out everything for free or the advent of the visual album by artists like Beyonce in recent years. While Noel Gallagher is the last person that ‘The Chief’ wants to see on camera, he does know a good performance when he sees one.
But looking at any of Oasis’ videos back in the day, Gallagher couldn’t be bothered to make anyone think he was a true thespian. He was a musician first and foremost, which meant making music that could make people want to laugh, cry, or dance, and no part of that involved him showing off his acting chops in the same way that Michael Jackson did in his videos.
Then again, could you really blame him? The rock world had only just come off of the era of Axl Rose swimming with dolphins in the ‘Estranged’ and Slash playing a guitar solo after rising out of the water, so trying to make the Britpop equivalent of Apocalypse Now was probably what made Noel realise that they had gone too far when making the promotional videos for ‘D’You Know What I Mean’.
Because that form of video never suited Noel. Every one of the band’s best songs was about them being men of the people, and that didn’t cater to the same kind of Hollywood blockbuster video that everyone else loved. Noel was much at the thousand-yard stare through the camera lens, and that was something Clint Eastwood had down to a science before Noel was even born.
From the first roles he ever took on, Eastwood could play the kind of stoic badass in his sleep. Whether that was him working as a cold-blooded badass in Dirty Harry or watching him keep up that persona in Gran Torino, Eastwood could take pretty much any line and make it sound like it was the most important thing that anyone would ever hear.
But for Noel, there are few things that Eastwood has ever done that will eclipse his performance in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, saying, “It’s beautifully written, beautifully shot. It’s a great story about greed, hope and adversity. If no one has ever seen it, Clint Eastwood is at his coolest. It’s possibly the greatest film of all time.”
While Noel did casually nod to the movie when helping Brian Cannon put together the band shot for Definitely Maybe, rock and roll has never forgotten the film, either. Ramones always held the film in high regard, and to this day, Metallica uses Ennio Morricone’s ‘The Ecstasy of Gold’ as their entrance music whenever they perform live.
Even though Noel has been far more concerned with his career as a musician rather than spending any time onscreen, there is a subtle hint of Eastwood’s demeanour in every song he has ever put out. Not every one of them is great, and there can be moments where it comes off as a little bit off-putting, but never once did Noel ever lose that far-away stare that made the final standoff in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly work so well.
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