"Yeah, well, you sure killed the hell out of that fella today"

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Just finished watching "Unforgiven".

Every award well deserved for that film.

What an asskicker.

[shesemsmom]

1. Fill me in . What is it about? n/t

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2. It's a western, directed by Eastwood and starring him and Gene Hackman

And Morgan Freeman and some others.

Eastwood plays an old outlaw, who's sobered up and living respectable and married and refuses to kill, etc. etc. etc., now a pig farmer, and ends up getting caught up in another foray to kill some guys who cut up a prostitute. Ends up killing pretty much everyone and drinking again.

But, even with all the violence, there's a lot of anti-violence sentiment in the movie, coming from Eastwood's character and some others. Showing that, contrary to the old-style of westerns, gunslinging and killing really is neither honorable nor a path of any kind of glory; even when the violence is done to kill a killer.

Incredibly acted, written, and filmed. And the final scene is, I'd have to say, my favorite western scene of all.

It won the 1992 best picture, best director, and best supporting actor (Hackman) Oscars, and two other ones, but I can't remember what they were. Also picked some Sundance awards, and multiple awards from other awards sources.

[shesemsmom]

3. Will have to watch it. Thanks

[charlyvi]

4. Hackman was the best thing in the movie....

but then again, Hackman is the best thing in any move.

[signmike2]

5. That's exactly the line I thought of

when the marine killed the wounded Iraqi in the mosque.

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6. It's a good line for such times

Along with "Yeah, it's a hell of a thing - killing a man."

And both lines said not with pride or a sense of "Yay cool", either, but a sense of "and it's stupid as shit, as well".

[charlie]

7. It took me a looong time to warm up to Clint Eastwood

Apart from the spaghetti westerns, I never liked his vigilante schtick. And the best I could say about his self-produced films was that they were workmanlike (though I though Bronco Billy had a quirky charm).

I was bowled over by The Unforgiven, shocked that the action mannequin had greatness in him. The William Munny character was a brilliant vehicle for Eastwood's understated acting -- his usual quiet menace was suffused with an aching, palpable torment. And what a story. Justice is served, wrongs are righted... and everyone is diminished for it.

[MrSlayer]

8. I love the ending.

"I'll come back and kill every one of you sons of bitches and your families and your friends and I'll burn your goddamn house down." Something like that anyway, it was brilliant.

[charlie]

9. "I don't deserve this..."

"I was building a house!"

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10. There were two parts to it -

the first part, as he was leaving the bar, was "I'm coming out - if I see anyone, I'll kill ya. If anyone shoots at me, I'll kill, I'll kill your wife and all your friends, and I'll burn your house down."

And then, as he was leaving town, he said, "And you better give him a decent burial (speaking of his friend that they killed) and not cut any more whores. If I hear of (anything? I can't quite remember how he said it)... I'll come back and kill every one of you son of a bitches."



I also love when the kid says "Well, I guess he had it comin' to him" about the guy he killed (which he said soon after the "killed the hell out of him" line), Eastwood says "We all have it comin' to us, kid."

Great line.