Unforgiven - Wikipedia. Unforgiven is a 1. American revisionist Western film directed by Clint Eastwood and written by David Webb Peoples. The film portrays William Munny, an aging outlaw and killer who takes on one more job years after he had turned to farming. A dark Western that deals frankly with the uglier aspects of violence and how complicated truths are distorted into simplistic myths about the Old West, it stars Eastwood in the lead role, with Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman and Richard Harris. Eastwood stated that the film would be his last Western for fear of repeating himself or imitating someone else's work.
The film won four Academy Awards: Best Picture and Best Director for Clint Eastwood, Best Supporting Actor for Gene Hackman, and Best Film Editing for editor Joel Cox. Eastwood was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance, but he lost to Al Pacino for Scent of a Woman. The film was the third Western to win the Oscar for Best Picture, following Cimarron (1. Dances With Wolves (1. In 2. 00. 4, Unforgiven was added to the United States National Film Registry of the Library of Congress as being deemed . Two cowboys, Quick Mike and . Instead of punishing the cowboys, Little Bill allows them to pay compensation to the brothel owner, Skinny Dubois. Unforgiven (Los Imperdonables) William Munny (Clint Eastwood) es un pistolero retirado que vive en el Viejo Oeste. Viudo, con hijos a su cargo y atravesando. When prostitute Delilah Fitzgerald (Anna Thomson) is disfigured by a pair of cowboys in Big Whiskey, Wyoming, her fellow brothel workers post a reward for their. The rest of the prostitutes, led by Strawberry Alice, are infuriated by this leniency and offer a $1,0. Miles away in Kansas, the Schofield Kid, a boastful young man, visits the pig farm of William Munny, seeking to recruit him to help kill the cowboys. In his youth, Munny was a bandit notorious as a cold- blooded murderer. Now a repentant widower raising two children, he has sworn off alcohol and killing. Though Munny initially refuses to help, his farm is failing, putting his children's future in jeopardy. Munny reconsiders a few days later and sets off to catch up with the Kid. On his way, Munny recruits his friend Ned Logan, another retired gunfighter. Back in Wyoming, Britain- born gunfighter English Bob, an old acquaintance and rival of Little Bill, is also seeking the reward and arrives in Big Whiskey with a biographer, W. Little Bill and his deputies disarm Bob, and Bill beats him savagely, hoping to discourage other would- be assassins. The next morning he ejects Bob from town, but Beauchamp decides to stay and write about Bill, who has impressed him with his tales of old gunfights and seeming knowledge of the gunfighter's psyche. Munny, Logan and the Kid arrive later during a rain storm and head into the saloon/whorehouse to discover the cowboys' location. With a bad fever after riding in the rain, Munny is sitting alone in the saloon when Little Bill and his deputies arrive to confront him. With no idea of Munny's past, Little Bill beats him and kicks him out of the saloon after finding a pistol on him. Logan and the Kid, upstairs getting advances in kind on their payment from the prostitutes, escape out a back window. The three regroup at a barn outside of town, where they nurse Munny back to health. Three days later, they ambush a group of cowboys and kill Bunting, though Logan and Munny show that they no longer have much stomach for murder. Logan decides to return home while Munny feels they must finish the job. Munny and the Kid head to the cowboys' ranch, where the Kid ambushes Quick Mike in an outhouse and kills him. After they escape, a distraught Kid confesses he had never killed anyone before and renounces life as a gunfighter. When Little Sue meets the two men to give them the reward, they learn that Logan was captured by Little Bill's men and tortured to death . The Kid heads back to Kansas to deliver the reward money to Munny's children and Logan's wife, while an embittered Munny . Inside, Little Bill has assembled a posse to pursue Munny and the Kid. Munny walks in alone and kills Dubois. After some tense dialogue, a gunfight ensues, leaving Bill wounded and several of his deputies dead. Munny then threatens the townsfolk before finally leaving Big Whiskey, warning that he will return for more vengeance if Logan is not buried properly or if any of the prostitutes are harmed. A title card epilogue says that Munny moved to San Francisco with his children where he prospered in dry goods. Production. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes registers a . They also acclaimed it as a fitting eulogy to the western genre. Jack Methews of the Los Angeles Times described it as . Despite his initial reservations, Ebert eventually included the film in his . Special features include an audio commentary by the Clint Eastwood biographer, Richard Schickel; four documentaries including . North America. In its 3. April 2. 8 with a gross of $2,5. The film closed on July 1. North America, and another $5. In 2. 00. 5, Time named it one of the 1. It was also admitted to the National Film Registry in 2. The music for the Unforgiven film trailer, which appeared in theatres and on some of the DVDs, was composed by Randy J. Shams and Tim Stithem in 1. The main theme song, Claudia's Theme, was written by Clint Eastwood himself. The plot is very similar to the original, but takes place during the Meiji period in Japan with Watanabe's character being a samurai of old regime instead of a bandit. References. British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved January 1. Retrieved January 1. Retrieved 1. 0 October 2. Box office/business for Unforgiven. Retrieved September 2. Miscellaneous Notes for Unforgiven. Retrieved 2. 0 September 2. Mc. Gilligan, p. Rogerebert. The Los Angeles Times. The Los Angeles Times. American Film Institute (2. American Film Institute. Writers Guild of America, West. Retrieved September 1.
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