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Unforgiven
Unforgiven is a modern classic that "summarizes everything I feel about the Western, " director/star Clint Eastwood told the Los Angeles Times. Marking its 10th Anniversary with this dazzling new transfer, this American Film Institute Top-100 American Movies selection rode off with four 1992 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Director, Supporting Actor (Gene Hackman), and Editing (Joel Cox). Eastwood and Morgan Freeman play retired outlaws who pick up their guns one last time to collect a bounty. Richard Harris is an ill-fated killer for hire. And Hackman is a lawman of sly charm... and chilling brutality. Unforgiven is "a Western for the ages" (Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times).
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Unforgiven - bbryon1
Clint Eastwood's 1992 Oscar-winner examines the mythic violence of the Western, taking on the ghosts of his own star past. Disgusted by Sheriff "Little Bill" Daggett's decree that several ponies make up for a cowhand's slashing a whore's face, Big Whiskey prostitutes, led by fierce Strawberry Alice take justice into their own hands and put a $1000 bounty on the lives of the perpetrators. Notorious outlaw-turned-hog farmer William Munny is sought out by neophyte gunslinger the Schofield Kid to go with him to Big Whiskey and collect the bounty. While Munny insists, "I ain't like that no more," he needs the bounty money for his children, and the two men convince Munny's clean-living comrade Ned Logan to join them in righting a wrong done to a woman.Brilliant Anti-Western - Sonikmike
I think what I liked best about Unforgiven was its realism. There is a great scene where Little Bill (portrayed excellently by Hackman) is debunking many of the Western 'myths'. This them then courses strongly throughout the film, as it takes many of the standard conventions of the genre and tweaks them perfectly, resulting in a very dark and cynical film. Even if you don't like Westerns, this film is one worth seeing.The perfect western. - Nominus
Clint Eastwood has made a big contribution to westerns both as actor and director but "Unforgiven" and "Pale Rider" are as close to perfecting the genre as I think anyone can come. What makes the perfect western? Hard to define but you know it when you see it. Not just the story, not just the setting? Not just horses and cowboys but something more. Maybe self-reliance? Maybe self righteousness? Certainly justified revenge as a recurring theme.
Whatever it is, this movie has it in spades!
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Unforgiven - bbryon1
Clint Eastwood's 1992 Oscar-winner examines the mythic violence of the Western, taking on the ghosts of his own star past. Disgusted by Sheriff "Little Bill" Daggett's decree that several ponies make up for a cowhand's slashing a whore's face, Big Whiskey ...Brilliant Anti-Western - Sonikmike
I think what I liked best about Unforgiven was its realism. There is a great scene where Little Bill (portrayed excellently by Hackman) is debunking many of the Western 'myths'. This them then courses strongly throughout the film, as it takes many of the ...The perfect western. - Nominus
Clint Eastwood has made a big contribution to westerns both as actor and director but "Unforgiven" and "Pale Rider" are as close to perfecting the genre as I think anyone can come. What makes the perfect western? Hard to define but you know it when you see ...