Unforgiven (1992) Reaction & Review! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2024
- This was one of the best westerns I’ve ever had the pleasure of watching. The film was shot to perfection. Clint Eastwood did a top-notch job with the directing and acting. Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman were just amazing to watch as usual. The story was slow and deliberate. The cinematography and sound design were of the highest caliber. I would easily recommend this film for not only lovers of westerns but the mainstream audience too since it had such an emotional impact and dealt with a lot of morality.
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0:00 Intro
2:01 The Film
20:49 The Review
28:24 Outro
Hey guys, I'm Shaneel (Shan). Welcome to the channel!
My reaction and review to Unforgiven (1992) for the first time. Hope you enjoy the video!
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Nobody seems to be suggesting "The Outlaw Josey Wales" which is another Eastwood classic, so I'm going to suggest it.........The Outlaw Josey Wales......there, I did it.
Dyin’ ain’t much of a livin’...when you’re around Josey!
I still love the good, the bad and the ugly.
@@kickassandchewbubblegum639 That remains my favorite. Tuco is one of the best movie characters ever.
Don't forget High Plains Drifter
@Jaiden Barrett Since yousing product or service my pubic hair is falling out.
Little Bill Daggett: You just shot an unarmed man.
Bill Munny: He should have armed himself if he's gonna decorate his saloon with my friend.
"Deserves' got nothing to do with it."
That's the moment you know... this movie is epic. The dialogue... holy sht its so good
Classics lines for such a fantastic movie ❤
@@KurticeYZ "We all got it comin', kid."
Clint Eastwood is the coolest dude on Earth.
"Hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away all he ever had, and all he's ever gonna have". Great line.
"We all got it coming."
The definitive line on what killing really is.
@@DSmith264 ''Yeah'', ''but do you feel lucky.''
"Deserves got nothing to do with it".
I like how Will keeps saying "I ain't like that no more", as if he's trying to convince himself rather than his companions.
That's exactly what he's trying to do
Indeed. You can also see it as chastising himself for considering taking the job.
He knows tho that he's speaking the truth about letting go of those old ways because he truly loved his wife and will always honor her by never wanting to go out and kill just out of wanton violence, because this current situation was a contract they were taking as work to kill "criminals" that destroyed the prostitute. So he meant it that he was not like that anymore in the sense that he doesn't seek it out in pure passion + pettiness, but he DOES have to repeat it out loud to himself just to reaffirm it all.
After he's done with the work of killing the "criminals" and he's waitin by the tree with the kid he thinks he's DONE it: he got the job done, didn't do any drinking, didn't go out and kill people out of spite or pettiness, and now is collecting the money, and going home clean and perfect. He thought he done it. Of course he didn't. In that exact moment he actually drinks, he knows what he's about to do, and the dark vengeance was summoned without choice to destroy little Bill.
Academy awards won- Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Film Editing, Nominated - Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Production Design. It was shot in Alberta.
the first four it won, the rest were nominations
@@fmellish71 Ah, sorry. I'll correct that.
Did Shan just confirm that South Park does indeed affect the impressionable mind of our youth? Hack-Man!
To this day I have to stop myself from saying 'Respect' my authoritah!' to subordinate.
Eastwood has such a unique style of melancholy. It's not mopey or even actually depressing, it's just this weighty sense of time. Somehow it's life-affirming even though the events in the movie are grim.
I think his acting style has been referred to as, "Still waters run deep."
@@jackasswhiskyandpintobeans9344 - "Stony".
Very well said
He could play a man from Finland, perfectly.
That's such a perfect way to describe it
"We all have it coming, kid."
The dialogue in this film is phenomenal. The same guy wrote 12 Monkeys and Blade Runner.
I gotta be honest the dialogue is a bit too cliche and predictable. Too many biased people getting off on the nostalgia seem to not recognize the fact.
@@verycoolguy5947 Yeah, kinda like the name "very cool guy"... not cliche, biased or predictable at all.
@@KevMcKean What are you getting upset about enough to talk shit about my name? Did I talk shit to you? No, I made an unbiased speculation about the film and you took it personally and got butt hurt lmao. You know I’m right and it makes you triggered because you wish it wasn’t true. Lol and how can my name be predictable if it’s literally written out on full display. Didn’t think that through did ya? Nah, just like the script not quite thought through. Lmao what a clown.
@@verycoolguy5947 Having an opinion _is_ a bias. There's no right or wrong way to direct a movie because filmmaking is an art form, and art itself is subjective. Also I like how you call out the guy, then proceeded to do the same thing they did 2 months ago. Just funny.
@@kaylons Except that my statement was more of a fact than an opinion because the dialogue is clichéd to hell with phrases used in so many films before it. That’s not just an opinion thats just reality. I guess if you never seen a single western before it you might not notice it but pretty much 75% of the film is clichéd and unoriginal. It’s fun to watch Clint nonetheless but to say the dialogue is original is pretty ignorant. Also not sure why you decided to teach me how there’s no right or wrong way to direct a movie as if I was opposed to that. The movie was directed exactly how Clint intended it to be, full of clichés just how he wanted. I’m not saying he’s wrong for his choice I’m just stating that what he chose to do by filling the script with clichés made the film filled with clichés and predictable. Pretty simple really. Have a nice day. 😀
One line that sticks with me is when Clint says “killing a man is a hell of a thing you take away all he has and all he’s ever gonna have “ or something like that it’s such a powerful scene and the actor who portrayed the kid did a great job and don’t think I seen him in anything else, thanks again Shan
This is still one of, if not the best movie reaction channel on RUclips.
He’s absolutely an ‘S’ tier reactor. Can only think of 2 or 3 others that can be placed with him at the very top
I feel the same way.
@@susanmaggiora4800 agreed
I Agree. Great job as always Shan.
One of the best, certainly. Definitely the best at breaking a movie down and most in depth. I would say most professional.
It's about time somebody reacted to this movie. Good choice.
When it involves Clint Eastwood you can bet it is going to be a great movie!!!
you never saw the one with the Orangutan or the one with the elegant or the one he did with Bret Reynolds lol
this movie still holds its weight even today, just phenomenal.
Definitely!
@@ShanWatchesMovies dude you need to react to one of his earlier western films. Here's one The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976). It's my favorite Clint Eastwood film. It's surprisingly violent for a PG rated movie. Other westerns you should react to is
Once Upon A Time In The West (1968)
Rio Bravo (1959)
Fort Apache (1947)
Pale Rider (1985)
The Searchers (1956)
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
The Quick & The Dead(1995)
And it was written in the 1970’s.
@@jesselester9722 The Searchers is a gorgeous film. Also, the first film where the director also set out to make a "making of" behind the scenes film.
@@jesselester9722 yes to all movies listed....and Open Range 2003, Kevin Costner stars and directs. And extra bonus, ROBERT DUVAL
The script for "Unforgiven" had actually been around for nearly 20 years. When Eastwood first read it, he wanted to direct it but he waited until he was old enough to play the role of William Munny-- and it's all the more better for it. Yea, to fully appreciate this film, you need to be familiar with westerns that came before it.
"Unforgiven" is primarily concerned with deconstructing the morally black-and-white vision of the American West that was established by traditional works in the genre, as David Webb Peoples’ script is saturated with unnerving reminders of Munny’s own horrific past as a murderer and gunfighter haunted by the lives he's taken, while the film as a whole "reflects a reverse image of classical Western tropes": the protagonists, rather than avenging a God-fearing innocent, are hired to collect a bounty for a group of prostitutes. Men who claim to be fearless killers are either exposed as cowards and weaklings or self-promoting liars, while others find that they no longer have it in them to take another life. A writer with no conception of the harshness and cruelty of frontier life publishes stories that glorify common criminals as infallible men of honor. The law is represented by a pitiless and cynical former gunslinger whose idea of justice is often swift and without mercy, and while the main protagonist initially tries to resist his violent impulses, the murder of his friend drives him to become the same cold-blooded killer he once was, suggesting that a Western hero is not necessarily "the good guy", but rather "just the one who survived".
DUDE. WHAT A PERFECT FILM. IN ALL ASPECTS. BRAVO. 10 OUTTA 10 MY FRIEND.
This film is the kind you just watch in awe. Amazing. Never seen an Eastwood movie I did not like. The man is a legend.
Eastwood dedicated this one to his two mentors Sergio Leone and Don Siegal. Recommending Leone's non-Eastwood film "Once Upon A Time In The West".
Beauchamp pisses himself. "Dude, he *is* a writer." Best. Leo.
Hahaha there were more comments that were cut out Leo!
@@ShanWatchesMovies I'm not certain what connection you were making between a writer and peeing in fear, but it brought a smile to my face. Best. Leo.
@@michaelbastraw1493 I just assumed a geek like him would have stayed as far away as possible from guns all his life lol
@@ShanWatchesMovies - His character (Beauchamp) perfectly illustrated the sensationalism that happened surrounding the "wild west". This film not only shattered the illusion that writers have created over the years but portrayed the west in all its grim reality.
PS - Much of America is still like the scenery you saw in this film. But those are not the places that tourists tend to visit. People visit New York, LA, or other cities, and think they "saw America" ... when they really, REALLY didn't.
Eastwood is the man. One of the last great westerns
''Dying Aint' Much of A Livin', Boy''... a line I remembered from Clint Eastwood's "The Outlaw Josey Wales" (1976) :)
This movie was shot in my beautiful home province of Alberta, Canada.
The farmhouse scenes in Interstellar was also filmed in this area.
I saw this in the theater when it first came out. One of the quietest audiences I've been in. You could feel the tension in that final showdown and more than a few people clapped or "yeah'd" when Eastwood shot Hackman on the floor.
That scene was also a culmination of "bearding the dragon" and/or "beware the silent ones". Simply put, they roughed up a man they didn't know, and when the dragon he really was, a dragon they did know, later came calling, they were scared out of their minds. The secondary characters and extras did a good job of portraying that.
Also, if you've ever fired a gun in an enclosed space without hearing protection, you'll find it is a bit shocking of an experience. It is very loud and you can even get the concussion bouncing off the walls. So you can imagine first that shotgun firing and then all those large caliber pistols blazing away, just how loud, jolting, and overwhelming it would be, especially with essentially an avatar of death standing calm in the middle of it all killing your friends.
Richard Harris ❤️ born and bred in limerick Ireland, not far from me. When he won awards and did well the British press referred to him as 'the British actor Richard Harris', but when he went out on a bender and caused mayhem, which he did on ap regular basis, they referred to him as 'the Irish actor Richard Harris' lol
Love westerns! I'm 38 and started watching them when I was 7, thanks to my dad, Clint Eastwood was born to play in them, just phenomenal, The Good The Bad and The Ugly is one of my favorites and my all time favorite western is actually a miniseries Lonesome Dove with Robert Duvall, definitely a must watch!
I grew up watching "The Outlaw Josie Wales", "Hang em High", and "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly". Love those classic Eastwood movies
Open Range is my favorite Bobby Duvall western
High Plains Drifter and Outlaw Josey Wales are two more excellent Eastwood helmed westerns. Not the biggest fan of Pale Rider myself, but a lot of people like it, and it's not bad at all.
The Outlaw Josey Wales is another great film of his. I always loved the casting of the film with gritty, rough characters. You can almost smell them, if that makes sense.
This film has this odd similarity with 'Sling Blade' in that you know exactly where it's going, and there's somehow still tension and anticipation EVERY time you see it. Very few films pull that off. I'm not big on rewatching films, but this film gets better each time. Your experience may not get better, but the depth of the statements it makes and the contradictions it explores get stronger. 'Deserve's got nothing to do with it' is the ultimate expression of an unusual idea: the idea the concept of 'justice' is not what repaying violence with violence is about. He may as well have said, 'I'm not killing you because you deserve it, but because I'm hurt and angry and want to get rid of those feelings'
Well said.
One of the greatest movies ever made very classic, this film was released when i was 12 years old in 1992 and now in my 41 years old i still love this movie. Unforgiven starring Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman and Richard Harris. This film won an Oscar for best picture, best director for Clint Eastwood and best supporting actor for Gene Hackman, thanks so much Shan great reaction👍🙏😎
(Once upon a time in the west) Charles Bronson leading actor 💯🔥
Yes! That's one of the best. Listen to this dude Shan. You won't be disappointed.
Bronson is the man.
Also a great role by Henry Fonda. And amazing music. This is probably my all time favourite movie.
my favourite movie of all time.
Yes, absolutely yes. Please react to this movie.
You should watch the Outlaw Josie Wales and the Old guard on Netflix.
What a great choice for a film 👍
Eastwood is a master at his craft. His films' heaviness and melancoly he mastered even within his first films as a director, Play 'Misty' for Me, and High Planes Drifter (1970 and '73). Please watch those 👍 And he has stuck to his style ever since, and it's only gotten better. 😁
Nothing better than the sound of Thunder as Will is seen by all in the saloon.
And "I guess you think I'm kicking you Bob. But it ain't so."- 🤣🤣🤣
One of the great movies. Another great and older classic Western: "The Searchers," another "The Man Who Killed Liberty Valance" or "Red River" all with John Wayne
Thanks for the recommendations!
@@ShanWatchesMovies The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is one of my favorite westerns. James Stewart and John Wayne.
This is one of my favorite Westerns of all time.
There are so many great performances. Hackman's portrayal of Little Bill is, in my opinion, one of his best.
He plays a similar character in the Sam Raimi western The Quick and the Dead, Which stars Sharon Stone, Russel Crowe, and Leonardo DiCaprio, with appearances by Lance Henriksen and Ernie Hudson as well. It's well worth a watch for the stellar cast and Sam Raimi's unique directorial style.
Unforgiven came first.
Every time you say “Hack-Man” I think of that South Park episode. It makes me so happy to know that’s where you got it from!
Two of my favorite western Eastwood movies are Pale Rider and The Outlaw Josey Wales. Both show Clint at the top of his game.
Now that you've found a Western you liked - I'd LOVE to see you dive into more Clint Eastwood ones, especially the Spaghetti Western era. The Outlaw Josey Wales is a stone-cold classic; The Good, The Bad and the Ugly is just one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen.
For a Few Dollars More is my favorite.
Silverado is awesome
Great Western and such a good job by Hackman and Eastwood
Another great Clint Eastwood western is The Outlaw Josey Wales from 1976. If you have never seen it, please do, it’s a classic.😎
To really appreciate this movie, I would highly recommend you watch several other Eastwood Western movies, especially the Dollars trilogy and Outlaw Josey Wales. He really plays kind of the antithesis to all of those characters in this movie.
I hope you do Wyatt Earp with Kevin Costner. Gene Hackman has a small roll in it. It's a very well done western as well.
You have to react to Kevin Costner's Dances with wolves, that will surely change your mind about westerns.
This has the best atmosphere during a gunfight at the end. You can feel the pressure of the storm outside.
A very insightful reaction as usual, Shan. Please consider watching one of these outstanding westerns : "Shane" , "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" , "Open Range" , and the greatest of all - "Once Upon A Time In The West".
Totally agree about this being one of the best of all time...great reaction. Have you seen Open Range with Robert Duvall and Kevin Costner? I think I might have suggested it before, but it is just such a great western...I hope to see you react to it soon.
This film, the Outlaw Jose wales, and the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. All masterpieces
One of the funniest and most unusual movies is "Every Which Way but Loose" with Clint Eastwood.
Of the films he has directed I liked "Letters from Iwo Jima" and "Changeling".
The lady that played Strawberry Alice was Clints wife at the time.It was filmed in Alberta,Canada.
Shan! I liked your reaction! This film was good! Congratulations on 11.9k subscribers! Your channel is the best on youtube!
Thanks Anastasia!
Early to mid 1990s was just an amazing era for movies.
I like how the house Little Bill is building leaks like a sieve. Not a right angle in the whole place!
When Munny finds out Ned is dead, the whole film takes a badass turn. I love this film. I don’t think of most films as “art”, but this is definitely one that I do.
When he takes the bottle from the kid o boy little Bill in trouble
I don't know if you've ever seen Eastwood's film Gran Torino, but its another film you might like. (Its not a western, fyi.)
Gran Torino & Million Dollar Baby are two of my favorite non-western films from Eastwood.
Eastwood actually had this script for many years before he made the movie, he waited until he was older to do the part. 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".
FYI Concerning the screenplay of this film. It was written by David Peoples.
The screenwriter of Blade Runner and 12 Monkeys.
And the script was actually written back in the 70s. The writer, Peoples, was very impressed and influenced by the film Taxi Driver, and its approach to violence.
An approach that treated movie violence as something serious with profound impacts on the soul.
As opposed to many movies where kills and deaths are treated casually or trivially.
Eastwood bought the script back in the 70s and just sat on it.
Knowing one day, when the time was right, he would make the film.
Wow. That's great bit of information. Thank you for sharing it
If I’m not mistaken your profile pic is of the main character from the amazing, German movie, Dr. Caligari’s Kabinet. And more relating to your comment, David People’s screenplays are phenomenal, and the script for Taxi Driver is also excellent.
Another great directorial outing by Eastwood is Mystic River. Definitely check that one out for storytelling and acting.
Great feel good movie too ;)
"Once Upon a Time in the West" is a classic Western with an an amazing cinematography and a fantastic soundtrack. I think you´d find it interesting.
This film has stood through the tedt of time ... this film is almost 30 years old... it is consdiered the last Best Western of its time & consdiered one of the Top 10 Best Westerns of all time
Forgiven is one of my top Westerns. Now you just need to watch True Grit (2010), 3:10 to Yuma (2007), Open Range, Dances with Wolves, Pale Rider, The Outlaw Josey Wales, High Plains Drifter, The Wild Bunch, Hang em High, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, The Dollars Trilogy, The Man who Shot Liberty Valance, The Magnificent Seven, The Searchers, Shane and High Noon. That's a start.
Why does no one like Silverado?
Young Guns can be on the list...if he hasn't done it yet
It's ridiculous that you listed this many movies and ignored Once Upon a Time in the West.
@@johnmay9598 Actually I meant to. Great movie.
@@willv7868 Now that you've called me by name...
When I saw this movie as a teen, I began to appreciate Westerns.
Shan actually liked the cinematography in a film, surely this is a first.
This is one of those westerns that if you come to it cold without much experience with the genre, then you've just seen a very good western. But if you are familiar with the genre and can therefore better see the metatextual context of this film's commentary on the genre, its myths, and its filmic history, then you've seen a fantastic film.
The thing with the money is odd. Why do they have to show or discuss the money in order to understand that they received it? Or even possibility was able to make a life without it, after going through all that hell to get it?
This has to be one of the best westerns ever. It will stand the test of time just like "The outlaw Josie Wales ".
Wow what a treat. This is one of my all time favorites.
All time classic film!
Unforgiven won Oscars for best picture and best director.
The town of this film, Big Whisky, was actually built from the ground up for the film using only tools that were available in 1880. Handsaws, etc.
And don’t know if you caught it, but the actress who plays the prostitute whose face is cut up, she was the same actress who starred in
“The Crow” as the drug addict mother of the little girl.
Remember Brandon Lee excises the dope from her body.
Another great video Shan. 👍
Also the town was built from scratch for Open Range and that movie the town was still being build when they started shooting which was put in the story.
Unforgiven is right next to The Silence of the Lambs (1991) on my list of movies that have no betters. A perfect film all around. I am always impressed with the second confrontation between Will and Little Bill. The low light makes the scene very imtimate. And everyone besides Eastwood, Hackman, and Anthony James does a magnificent job of making the confrontation feel like the spectacle of their lifetimes.
"Have I mentioned how much I like this film?" It would be an understandable oversight on anyone's part. Best. Leo.
Great movie. First time I saw this movie I did not like seeing Client Eastwood as an old cowboy after seeing and loving his old classic westerns (like The Dollar trilogy you should see that also ) but now I love it. You should see other great Clint Eastwood movie like Dirty Harry , Absolute Power, Escape from Alcatraz, In the Line of Fire. Also a great Jean Hackman western is the Quick and the dead.
Eastwood often puts his current female partners in his movies. In the 70's - 80's you often saw Sondra Locke in his films. By the time he did Forgiven, he was seeing Frances Fisher (Alice). This is not suggest that Fisher just got the role because of her relationship with Eastwood. She's proven herself to be a capable actress on many occasions
I would watch this in a double bill with The Wild Bunch.
I agree, double bill with The Wild Bunch, but more importantly the best movie to watch after Unforgiven would be Eastwood's High Plains Drifter. Eastwood does play a different character but u can also say, he would be as that younger version of William Munny was before his character in Unforgiven.
@@scottjo63 I have always been more partial to Pale Rider.
@@Dacre1000 In Pale Rider, he was a good guy, loved Pale Rider myself, however with High Plains Drifter a different character all together. He is more the younger version of Will Munny. As close as Eastwood's character of killing women, his character rapes a woman off screen after she assaults him.
@@scottjo63 I disagree. He is in for vengeance towards the whole town. Munny was just a piece of shit before he met his wife, no revenge in it.
18:43, yes, you and everyone else. I miss watching good cinema in theaters.
Yes, a masterpiece of the Western genre. Other worthy Eastwood Westerns I recommend are "The Outlaw Josie Wales" and "Pale Rider".
Arguably the best Western ever made .. right with the Good , the Bad , the Ugly . More of a modern take than the former . Eastwood will always be the King of the Westerns .
Hackman won the Oscar for best supporting actor. Eastwood for best director. Joel Cox for editing and the movie won best picture. It's one of the great films ever made, and everybody knew it when it was released. Firmly establishing Eastwood as a legend as a film maker and actor.
You probably have the most insight into these films of any reactor on RUclips. I absolutely love the channel! Please check out 'Heist' with Gene Hackman, Delroy Lindo, and Sam Rockwell ( written by David Mamet)!
Wonderful reaction and review! One of my favorite westerns. Tombstone is another. If you haven't seen it, I do recommend you react to it. But if you're looking for a western that is something a little different try The Quick and the Dead. It also stars Gene Hackman, as well as a young Leo DiCaprio, Sharon Stone and Russell Crowe, in his very first American film.
Thanks Iliana! I saw The Quick and the Dead when I was less than 12 running on tv. The only scene I remember is involving Leo's character *spoilers* and I remember feeling very emotional about it lol.
@@ShanWatchesMovies then maybe a rewatch is in order? 😀
I remember some people at the time calling this The Last Western. Not in the sense that no one would make more, but in the sense that it spoke an ultimate message about the genre. It deconstructs it, taking away the luster of so much of its mythology. No white hats and black hats, no knights of the golden prairie. People scrabbling to survive, making hard choices, justice sold on the barrelhead. William Munny as a bad, bad man who tried as hard as he could to be good and it cost him his best friend and maybe his soul.
Yes, I think this is exactly right. This movie is a goodbye to the mythic iconography of Hollywood's best Westerns, as well as Clint Eastwood's role in creating them.
Winner of 4 Oscars including Best Picture.
"Deserves got nothing to do with it.."
Also..Hot Shots. ☺
"That's duke"
"Duck, I says"
I really appreciate you looking into genres you are unfamiliar with. I'm excited for the day you watch some of the great classics (1940's-1960's) from not just Hollywood but around the world.
I'll definitely get there Jesse!
Once Upon a Time in the West is one of the top westerns of all time along with this. Another that would be a good watch is Open Range.
One of my favorite movies. I've recommended it to other people to react to, nobody has, you did a fantastic job. Great, great movie.
No one has mentioned The Good the bad and The Ugly. Truly the best of the spaghetti westerns, and one of the greatest westerns. 1966 - Client Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef
Excellent reaction. Clint Eastwood is a great director and actor. He learned from the master Sergio Leone. I recommend Once upon A Time in The West by Leone and the other great western by Clint The Outlaw Josie Wales.
Gene Hackman won best supporting actor oscar for Unforgiven.
You have to watch Once Upon a time in the West at some point
I will!
@@ShanWatchesMovies Don't watch "Once Upon a Time in the West" until you watch the Dollars Trilogy first! Same director, filmmaking style evolved from film to film.
About to go to bed and you're doing Unforgiven!? Sigh, no energy tomorrow AGAIN!
Thank you for watching man! 😂
The original screenplay does show Munny returning home with the cash, and it says that he and his family did leave to start a new life. Eastwood only made a few small changes to the script, and I think letting him disappear into the darkness at the end is a better choice. I think this is pretty close to a perfect screenplay, and one that Eastwood optioned and then sat on for years until he felt he was old enough to play the part. It's impossible to imagine this picture working as well with anyone else; his whole history with the western genre is underlined here, and few movie stars have ever had such a sure understanding of their own screen persona. I think this is also one of the greatest films ever made about what it means to kill. The violence here leaves a mark on both the victim and perpetrator. "I'll see you in Hell, William Munny." "......yeah."
I'd recommend following this with Clint's subsequent films A Perfect World and The Bridges of Madison County. That was an extraordinary run.
Very Excited that you chose this film it's one of Clint's best western. I noticed that you commented on the cinematography, once you finally watch The Outlaw Josey Wales with Clint Eastwood you will love it not just because of the story but the cinematography as well. You will need to watch all 3 Sergio Leone's Trilogy Starring Clint Eastwood starting with A Fistful of Dollars, A Few Dollars More and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Clint is a well balanced Director and Actor. He said in a Interview that he had to explain the role of the sheriff Gene Hackman who is amazing in the role of the sheriff. Another fun fact is that when Clint Directs a film he makes no changes to the script it is from the first draft written by the writer. I saw an interview with a writer who said when he watched this movie he could not believe that everything that he had written in the script was in the movie nothing was changed.
Joel Cox won Best Film Editing at the Oscar's that year.
Thank you.
Eastwood got hold of this script, bought it, and sat on it until he was the right age to play the lead. That's patience.
He got his start at stardom on the Western TV series Rawhide (1959-65). It's kinda been his go-to genre all his life, along with cop and military stuff. He was even a Country-Western singer when he was young.
One anachronism in the film: The story date is 1880. Ring-necked pheasants, native to Asia, were first introduced into the United States in 1881, in Oregon. For them to be common enough in Wyoming to target-shoot them from a train, it would have to be several years after that. (Young Guns makes the same mistake.)
That music as William is ridding away, ugh so amazing.
I loved the movie from the biographer’s point of view. He’s traveling with English Bob (the Duck of Death) who is the embodiment of the glorified gunfighter who turns out to be a lying blow hard. He meets Little Bill who is also a killer but is more of a hot headed bully. He then meets Will, who is a true stone cold killer. Meeting these 3 men would make one hell of a book. I saw this movie in the theater when I was a kid and it’s one of my favorites. A true western not a glorified action movie set in the American west.
This film was brilliant. Harris, Hackman, Eastwood, Freeman. All great. Hackman and Mr. Beauchamp in the jail, telling that story. Seeing Richard Harris made me realize how much his son Jared Harris is like his father.
Loved your visceral reaction. That's what Eastwood elicits in this film because of its unvarnished realism. No Hollywood hype, overdirecting, overacting etc. Stand back and watch the result of a master craftsman at work creating one of the greatest westerns of all time and hand picking a team of legends to realize his vision.
Not a Fan of Westerns Myself But This was one Fantastic Movie i could Watch over and over Along with Quick and the Dead and Hateful 8.
The Outlaw Josey Wales,(original) True Grit, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance/2 western legends John Wayne & Jimmy Stewart. Also The Shootist all excellent westerns.
The actress playing Alice is Francis Fisher who was Clint`s girl friend at the time. She is also the mother of one of his daughters. Their Daughter Francesca Eastwood is also an actress.
Also with Francis Fisher, if u ever use Twitter, she might answer you. She did answer me.
6:55 - cinematography was nominated for Academy Award and BAFTA
One of the greatest westerns of all time, I put this up there with The Wild Bunch as my personal favorite westerns, there was a Japanese remake to this in 2013 starring Ken Watanabe called "Yurusarezarumono" and it is just as good, Ken plays an ex outlaw samurai and has a similar role as Clint Eastwood, great reaction Shan, love seeing reactions to these classics
Couple of interesting points for me, the woman who actually was scarred seemed to be the one least interested in revenge. Also, the younger cowboy who didn't really do anything and was just friends with the cowboy doing the cutting seemed genuinely remorseful and ended up having the worse death.
That always bothered me. He tried to do the right thing and without even asking the victim, they branded him a perpetrator. It's so wrong
@@LA_HA Well I think thats part of the point. How revenge isn't justice and all that.
@@Aladelicous Yes. Agreed. It's the playing out of the old saying about digging two graves when one seeks death as revenge.
Justice and Revenge are two seperate things.
Absolutely fantastic movie, one of my favourites. Your review was spot on. Thanks for choosing this gem.