Clint Eastwood is so far from being Dummy.. He has managed a style for many years.. His movies are creative.. and the violent content aside from being more adaptive to more violence more often explains more than it destroys.. .. The funny side of Clint Eastwood often explains little except alot to do in the moment/alot to do for yourself.. even Bruce Springsteen applies the adage--"get something for yourself".. .. The spagetti western/or cowboy movie/the gun battle/the man w/no name.. .. From watching the DVD-movies of Clint Eastwood I think Beguiled places some of the action/in the example of dangerous-story telling.. .. But the movies are very good for the soul in the inside of your head-->>by the time you catch up with the culprit..you have gained something.