Unforgiven

I don't really know what to say about this movie, it had an interesting storyline and had Clint Eastwood which added intensity into the scenes he was in. This is by far the most interesting film we have watched in Art of Film in my opinion, probably since it was in color. But this film is important because it revises of the stereotypical western films of the past. A revisionist point of view tries to correct the errors of stereotypes in films. In this film the hero, Will Munny isn't shown as the expert marksman in the beginning of the film, but an old pig farmer and former murderer with two kids. He can't even shoot a can with all six bullets from his revolver, this scene was created to show how he isn't the stereotypical cowboy from the western films of the past. I find it interesting how he turns into that stereotypical cowboy close to the end of the film. He walks straight into the lion's den, the brothel where the sheriff and a whole platoon of armed men were having a meeting. Munny is able to kill the sheriff, the person who owns the brothel, and several other men while able to avoid being shot by another handful of men. This scene is incorporated into the film because it allowed the viewers to compare the two heroes. Munny in the beginning and Munny at the end, two very different people. One being the washed up murderer that can't shoot a can, while the other is fed off of revenge, fearless, and maser marksman. This comparison of the two heroes was my favorite part of the film overall.

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