Blog: That music in Clint Eastwood’s ‘The Mule’? It’s jazz legend Arturo Sandoval in his film-scoring debut

“You cannot relate that behavior and those lines with the movie itself, or with Clint,” he said, citing online footage of the arrest of the man who inspired the story, Leo Sharp. “You have to put it in context, and think about that old man — that was his mentality. That was the way he talked, and the way he thought.”