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Title: Unforgiven William H. Munny's Take on Killing a Man View count: 318 Rating: 4.0 (4 ratings) Description: Unforgiven is a 1992 Western film produced and directed by Clint Eastwood with a screenplay written by David Webb Peoples. The film tells the story of William Munny, an aging and retired gunslinger who takes on one more job years after he had hung up his guns and turned to farming. A dark Western that deals frankly with the uglier aspects of violence and the myth of the Old West, it stars Eastwood in the lead role, along with Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris, Jaimz Woolvett, Saul Rubinek and Frances Fisher. Eastwood dedicated the movie to former directors and mentors Don Siegel and Sergio Leone. The film won four Academy Awards including Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Hackman), Best Director, Best Film Editing and Best Picture. Eastwood himself was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance, but he lost to Al Pacino for Scent of a Woman. Unforgiven was inducted into the United States National Film Registry in 2004. In June 2008, AFI revealed its "Ten Top Ten," the best ten films in ten "classic" American film genres after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. Unforgiven was acknowledged as the fourth best film in the western genre. The three assassins regroup at a barn outside of town, where the prostitutes nurse Munny back to health. Three days later, the men ambush a group of cowboys in the canyons and kill one of the targets — though it becomes apparent that Logan and Munny no longer have much stomach for murder. Logan decides he won't stick around to kill the second cowboy and sets off back home. Munny and the Kid head to the cowboys' ranch, where the Kid ambushes the second target in an outhouse and shoots him dead. After the two men escape from the ranch, the Kid confesses he had never killed anyone before. When a prostitute meets the two men to give them their reward money, they learn that Logan was captured by Little Bill's men before he got out of the county. He was tortured to death, but not before giving up the identities of his two accomplices. When he learns of his friend's death, Munny takes a swig from the Kid's bottle of whiskey. An alcoholic in his past life, Munny had until this point refused all offers of drink. The Kid heads back to Kansas to deliver the reward money to Munny's and Logan's families, while Munny heads into town to get revenge for Logan's death. That night, Logan's corpse is displayed outside the whorehouse/saloon as a warning to all assassins. Inside, Little Bill has assembled a posse to pursue Munny and the Kid. Munny walks straight into the saloon with a shotgun and shoots the owner/pimp. A wild gunfight ensues, in which Munny shoots five men, including Little Bill, without taking a hit. When the shooting stops, Munny orders everyone "who doesn't want to die" to leave the saloon, then starts drinking whiskey at the bar, surrounded by corpses. The biographer crawls out from behind a body and asks Munny details about the gunfight — who he shot first and why. He is obviously more impressed with Munny than either English Bob or Little Bill, but Munny soon sends him out of the saloon. Little Bill, it turns out, was only wounded. Munny disarms him when he tries to cock his gun. "I don't deserve to die like this," Little Bill says, as Munny points a gun at his head. "Deserve's got nothing to do with it," says Munny, then shoots the sheriff dead. As he leaves the bar, Munny shouts out that he will return and kill everyone in Big Whiskey if they don't "bury Ned right." Tags: unforgiven, 1992, western, movie, clint, eastwood, william, munny, david, webb, peoples, gunslinger, gene, hackman, morgan, freeman, logan, jaimz, woolvett, segio, leone, ned, helluva, thing, killing, man, little, bill, english, bob, Author: WickedNemesis |
