His law says: No guns inside the city limits. Fortunately, F. Scott Fitzgerald came to the rescue. He tells William Munny the story of two drunken cowboys who savagely attacked a prostitute in Wyoming: "They cut up her face, cut her eyes out, cut her ears off, hell, they even cut her teats. He comes up with no alternative to Sheriff Bill’s perverted mercantile justice, except to terrify people into doing what is right. "[13] Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert criticized the work, though the latter gave it a positive vote, for being too long and having too many superfluous characters (such as Harris' English Bob, who enters and leaves without meeting the protagonists). On closer examination, though, Munny is simply defining human life in terms of. Not realizing Munny's identity, Bill beats him up and kicks him out of the saloon for carrying a pistol. 1992 American Western film directed by Clint Eastwood, AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition), "Unforgiven (1992) - Financial Information", "Clint Eastwood reveals why UNFORGIVEN may be his last Western", "Clint Eastwood on 'Jersey Boys,' taking risks and a life well lived", "How Unforgiven laid the classic movie western to rest", "Unforgiven (1992) – Deep Focus Review – Movie Reviews, Critical Essays, and Film Analysis", "Weekend Box Office: Eastwood Still Tall in the Saddle", "Weekend Box Office: 'Unforgiven' at Top for Third Week", https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-01-24-ca-2356-story.html, "AFI Crowns Top 10 Films in 10 Classic Genres", Arts & Faith Top100 Spiritually Significant Films, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), London Film Critics' Circle Award for Film of the Year, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Film, National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Film, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Unforgiven&oldid=981250614, Films about prostitution in the United States, Films featuring a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award-winning performance, Films featuring a Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe winning performance, Films whose director won the Best Directing Academy Award, Films whose director won the Best Director Golden Globe, Films whose editor won the Best Film Editing Academy Award, United States National Film Registry films, National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Film winners, Wikipedia articles with CANTIC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat-VIAF identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 1 October 2020, at 05:49.
This process takes place against a full sense of the town's life. ... A thousand dollars reward, Will. But deserve’s got nothin’ to do with it. When the two cowboys arrive with horses—and one in particular for Delilah, which had not been asked for by the sheriff—Strawberry Alice violently rejects them. Munny feels they must finish the job. When William Munny prepares to saddle up, he finds to his humiliation that he can hardly mount a horse anymore. Munny says, "That's right. Many of the film's exteriors are widescreen compositions showing the vastness of the land. [5] By Eastwood's own recollection he was given the script in the "early 80s" although he did not immediately pursue it, because, according to him, "I thought I should do some other things first".
“I guess I’d rather be blind and ragged than dead,” he responds. It is one of the best movies ever made, but very few understand it except, maybe, a few French cinéphiles. A fantasy—but a noble one. Eastwood chose this period for "Unforgiven," I suspect, because it mirrored his own stage in life. The film was the third Western to win the Oscar for Best Picture,[4] following Cimarron (1931) and Dances with Wolves (1990). Vain men try to make names for themselves, and their chronicler only further embellishes those names. Munny says, "I ain't like that anymore, Kid. Men who slept under the stars are now building themselves houses. Munny has already stated in the film that he was drunk during much of his previous killing, before he married, but he has very carefully avoided drinking up to this point in the film. [5] The concept for the film dated to 1976, when it was developed under the titles The Cut-Whore Killings and The William Munny Killings. also contains perhaps a half-dozen other themes that one could write about: redemption, gun control, aging, memory, class, politics, and so on. Its point of view isn’t exactly Marxist, but isn’t exactly advocating the free market either. Despite this, Munny draws his pistol and calmly kills several of the deputies as all of their panicked shots miss him before ordering the bystanders to leave the saloon. As Strawberry Alice observes, “Just because we let them smelly fools ride us like horses, don’t mean we gotta let them brand us like horses. The Kid is blind as a bat, and can't hit anything with his trademark revolver. The plot of the 2013 version is very similar to the original, but it takes place in Japan during the Meiji period, with the main character being a samurai instead of a bandit. [20], In June 2008, Unforgiven was listed as the fourth best American film in the western genre (behind The Searchers, High Noon, and Shane) in the American Film Institute's "AFI's 10 Top 10" list.
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