The life-changing 1964 movie that Clint Eastwood almost turned down: “A lot of irony going on”Every day, we make decisions that drastically change our lives, but while we’re in the moment, we’re none the wiser. Clint Eastwood knows this all too well. Every man wanted to be Clint Eastwood. If he had turned down the role of The Man with No Name, who knows what would’ve happened to Eastwood? As a fan of Akira Kurosawa’s film, Eastwood had even identified the movie’s potential to become a western when he’d first seen it.