Friday, July 15, 2011

Unforgiven (1992)

Unforgiven is a 1992 American 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 outlaw and killer 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, with Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and Richard Harris.

Eastwood dedicated the movie to deceased 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. In 2004, Unforgiven was added to the United States National Film Registry as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

The film was only the third western to win the Oscar for Best Picture following Cimarron (1931) and Dances With Wolves (1990).

A group of prostitutes in Big Whiskey, Wyoming, offers a $1,000 reward to whoever can kill two cowboys who disfigured one of them (Anna Levine). This upsets the local sheriff, a former gunfighter known as Little Bill Daggett (Gene Hackman), who doesn't allow guns or assassins in his town.

Miles away, in Kansas, the Schofield Kid (Jaimz Woolvett), a boastful young man, visits the farm of William Munny (Clint Eastwood), seeking to recruit him to kill the cowboys. In his youth, Munny was a bandit who was notorious for being a vicious, cold-blooded murderer, but is now a widower raising two children on a pig farm. Though Munny initially refuses to help with the assassination, his pigs are sick, putting his children's future in jeopardy, so he reconsiders a few days later and sets off to catch up with the Kid. On his way, Munny recruits Ned Logan (Morgan Freeman), another retired gunfighter who reluctantly leaves his wife to go along.

Back in Wyoming, gunfighter English Bob (Richard Harris) and his biographer, W. W. Beauchamp (Saul Rubinek), arrive in Big Whiskey, also seeking the reward. Little Bill and his deputies disarm Bob and Bill savagely beats him, hoping to set an example for other would-be assassins. While Bob is in jail, Bill plays a psychological game in which Beauchamp is allowed to present a firearm to Bob: believing this to be an unloaded gun trick, Bob refuses to take it. When Bill shows it to be loaded with five shots, he tells Bob he did the right thing refusing the gun. The next morning, Bob is ejected from town; however, Beauchamp decides to stay and write about Bill, who has impressed him with his tales of old gunfights and seeming knowledge of the inner workings of a gunfighter's psyche.

Munny, Logan and the Kid arrive in Big Whiskey amid a rain storm and head to the whorehouse to find out where the cowboys are. Munny has a bad fever after riding in the rain, and is sitting alone in the saloon when Little Bill and his deputies arrive to confront him. Little Bill has no idea who Munny is and informs him that firearms are not allowed in Big Whiskey and asks him his name and if he is armed. Munny gives him a false name and tells him he isn't carrying a weapon. Bill searches him and finds his gun, then he beats him and kicks him into the street. Logan and the Kid, upstairs getting "advances" 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 one of the targets — though it becomes apparent that Logan and Munny no longer have much stomach for murder. Logan decides he will not 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 kills him. After they escape, the now distraught Kid confesses he had never killed anyone before.

When a prostitute meets the two men to give them the reward, they learn that Logan was captured by Little Bill's men. 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. Munny, whose drinking had led to him to commit deplorable acts in the past, had refused alcohol until this point. The Kid heads back to Kansas to deliver the reward money to Munny 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 saloon as a warning to all assassins. Inside, Little Bill has assembled a posse to pursue Munny and the Kid. Munny walks in with a double-barreled shotgun and shoots Skinny Dubois the owner/pimp. After a tense moment of exchanged dialogue, Munny turns his attention to Bill, but the shotgun misfires. Munny then hurls the shotgun at Bill who draws his gun, fires, and misses. A gunfight ensues, in which Munny shoots five men, including Little Bill. When the shooting stops, Munny orders everyone out, then starts drinking whiskey at the bar.

Beauchamp crawls out from behind a body and asks Munny about the order in which he shot Bill and his men, but Munny quickly tires of his questions and sends him on his way. Bill, who is wounded, attempts to shoot Munny, but is quickly disarmed and when Munny hears him cock his pistol. Bill implores Munny to show mercy, but Munny refuses, and finishes Bill with a final gunshot. Before exiting the saloon, Munny orders everyone to stay out of sight, threatening to kill anyone who does not comply. He warns the townsfolk that he will return and kill everyone if they do not bury Ned properly or if anyone harms one of the prostitutes again. The final scene is a silhouette of Munny's farm. Scrolling text says that Munny was rumored to have moved to San Francisco and "prospered in dry goods."

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