![]() Ned is later captured and flogged to death by Little Bill to learn the whereabouts of Will and the Kid. Ned decides to quit and sets off back to Kansas. After missing Davey and hitting his horse, Ned falters and Will shoots Davey instead. Ned and the Kid escape through a back window and take Will to an unoccupied barn outside of town, where they nurse him back to health. Not realizing Will's identity but correctly guessing that he wants the bounty, Bill confiscates his pistol and beats him. While Ned and the Kid meet with the prostitutes upstairs, Little Bill confronts a feverish Will. Will, Ned and the Kid arrive in town during a rainstorm and head to Skinny's saloon. Little Bill explains to Beauchamp that the best attribute for a gunslinger is to be cool-headed under fire, rather than to have the quickest draw, and to always kill the best shooter first. Little Bill humiliates Bob and banishes him from town the next morning, but Beauchamp stays out of a fascination with the sheriff, who debunks many of the romantic notions Beauchamp has about the Wild West. Enforcing the town's anti-gun law, Little Bill and his deputies disarm Bob, and the sheriff beats him savagely to discourage others from attempting to claim the bounty. Beauchamp, who naively believes Bob's exaggerated tales. He arrives in town with his biographer W. He recruits his friend Ned Logan, another retired outlaw, and they catch up with the Kid, who they discover is severely near-sighted.īack in Big Whiskey, British-born gunfighter "English" Bob, an old acquaintance and rival of Little Bill, seeks the bounty. After initially refusing to help, Will realizes that his farm is failing and that his children's future is in jeopardy. ![]() Formerly a notorious outlaw and murderer, Will is now a repentant widower raising two children. He calls himself the "Schofield Kid" and claims to be an experienced bounty hunter looking for help pursuing the cowboys. In Hodgeman County, Kansas, a boastful young man visits Will Munny's hog farm. Outraged, the prostitutes offer a $1,000 bounty for the cowboys' deaths. As punishment, sheriff "Little Bill" Daggett orders Mike and his associate who was with him at the brothel, Davey Bunting, to turn over several of their horses to her employer, Skinny DuBois, for his loss of revenue. In 1881, in Big Whiskey, Wyoming, a cowboy-Quick Mike-slashes prostitute Delilah Fitzgerald's face with a knife, permanently disfiguring her, after she laughs at his small penis. Eastwood has long asserted that the film would be his last traditional Western, concerned that any future projects would simply rehash previous plotlines or imitate someone else's work. ![]() The film was remade into a 2013 Japanese film, also titled Unforgiven, which stars Ken Watanabe and changes the setting to the early Meiji era in Japan. ![]() In 2004, Unforgiven was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Eastwood dedicated the film to directors and mentors Sergio Leone and Don Siegel. The film was the third Western to win Best Picture, following Cimarron (1931) and Dances with Wolves (1990). 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 won four Academy Awards: Best Picture and Best Director for Eastwood, Best Supporting Actor for Hackman, and Best Film Editing for Joel Cox. Unforgiven grossed over $159 million on a budget of $14.4 million and received widespread critical acclaim, with praise for the acting (particularly from Eastwood and Hackman), directing, editing, themes and cinematography. The film co-stars Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and Richard Harris. The film tells the story of William Munny, an aging outlaw and killer who takes on one more job, years after he had turned to farming. Unforgiven is a 1992 American Western film starring, directed, and produced by Clint Eastwood, and written by David Webb Peoples. ![]()
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