Analysis Of Unforgiven

Clyde Shelton watched an assailant rape and kill his wife and daughter as he wept and bled on his living room floor. The two guys, one being Darby, jumped Clyde and beat him slightly unconscious while he was tied up and mouth duct taped shut. Shelton was so weak he couldn’t do anything even if he tried to save his wife and daughter. In the movie, Shelton wanted to get up and save his family, he wanted to stop all that monstrosity but being so vulnerable and tore down he just had to sit there and watch those disgusting men torture his wife and daughter and in the end one of the men stating and i quote, “kids like me better” after Darby just got done raping and killing Clyde’s wife he heads for his little girl next. Then to watch them slowly die.. Is honestly the worst thing anyone could possibly

According to the film critic, Phillip French, “The Western has always been about America rewriting and reinterpreting her own past,” if this is indeed the case, then the two most popular Westerns of the early 1990s reveal that many Americans had rejected the traditional interpretation of the Old West. The critically and commercially successful, Dances with Wolves and Unforgiven, repudiated the patriotic frontier myth that had characterised the Western when it was the preeminent genre in American cinema. Informed by new Western historiography, itself an expression of political concerns that had been moving into the American mainstream since the 1960s, the movies display a complex and nuanced understanding of the frontier experience. Dances with Wolves rejected the traditional narrative of the inherent superiority of the Anglo-American hero conquering both Native Americans and the wilderness, and also focused on the environmental destruction that accompanied the ideology of Manifest Destiny. Unforgiven would similarly reject the frontier myth, replacing the democratic, civilised frontier town, with a brutal regime in which white men’s property rights prevail over any sense of justice. The film is noted for its self-reflexive nature, with a writer documenting and embellishing the tales of the Old West before the viewer’s eyes. This self-reflexion indicates that Americans were re-evaluating the myths of the frontier, and seeing them for what they were, creations by the

“You’ve called down the thunder, well now you’ve got it,” shouted Wyatt Earp to the cowboys, in the movie about his life, Tombstone. As you can tell by Wyatt Earp’s famous quote, Tombstone is a violent, interesting, and crazy movie. Tombstone is a movie full of fighting, death, reckless cowboys, guns, and more, in the city of Tombstone. It is attention grabbing, and once you start watching it, you won’t ever want to stop. Although Tombstone is usually upbeat and full of fighting, it does have sad moments. Overall, this movie is about Wyatt Earp, his brothers, and Doc Holliday’s crazy experiences and adventures in Tombstone, Arizona.

“True redemption is when guilt leads to good,” Khaled Hosseini. Most think that a simple apology is redemption, others think that a grand gesture is in order. Yet, it is clear that redemption is a long process that takes time for healing of the mind and of the soul. True redemption happens when one is finally able to admit their mistakes when themselves without trying to find some type of justification. In The Crucible, Arthur Miller uses a multitude of his characters such as Giles Corey, John Proctor, and Reverend John Hale, to demonstrate that in order to be redeemed, one must make a great sacrifice.

Unforgiven strays from the Western formula by including personal threats to certain people, rather than providing a threat to a community of people. In Unforgiven, Delilah Fitzgerald is brutally beaten by a pair of cowboys, leaving scars all over her formerly beautiful face. Having never faced a threat this dangerous in all their years of working at the brothel, Delilah and her fellow workers seek revenge. Eastwood does not incorporate one threat into his film, but he builds one threat off the other to create a more interesting story. After William Munny was sought out to kill the cowboys for disfiguring Delilah, he loses a fellow retired gunfighter and accomplice in the process, Ned Logan. Not only was Delilah threatened by the cowboys for abusing her, but William Munny was also threatened by Sherriff Little Bill Dagget for killing his best friend. Although there are threats in Unforgiven, they do not represent the typical threats to communities as do the ones in traditional novels and films created based off the Western

Throughout the years, there has been an abundance of movies depicting the wild west during the nineteenth century. One of these films includes Tombstone which was released in the year 1993. Based on real events, this movie is about a man named Wyatt Earp, played by Kurt Russel, who is a retired officer that settles in a town called Tombstone with his two brothers. Later, they encounter a group of outlaws called the Cowboys which was led by Curly Bill and Johnny Ringo. Due to some conflict between the opposing sides, it causes a massive gunfight called the O.K. Corral in which the Earp brothers and long-time friend Doc Holliday, played by Val Kilmer, ultimately win the battle. As a result of the fight not ending in the Cowboys favor, they ambush the town in which leads to Virgil, played by Sam Elliot (Tombstone, 1.), becoming handicapped and Wyatt’s younger brother, Morgan played by Bill Paxton, dead. This infuriates Wyatt which then leads him to seek vengeance for his brother’s death. While Wyatt kills Curly, Doc and their posse attack the remaining Cowboys. After the ambush, Doc’s tuberculosis progressively gets worse and is left on bed rest. As Wyatt and the posse continue to meet up with Johnny and the Cowboys, Doc has already arrived and murders Johnny legally.

In the beginning of the short film, it stated that 400 women were slaughtered, rapped, then killed, but little did I know the video would turn out to be what it ended up being. In the little town of Chihuahua, a seventeen year old girl named Lily was once a factory worker and used

A person’s house is often reflective of who they are as a person. It gives insight into their personality, values, fears, among others. Armando J. Prats, in his article “Back From the Sunset: The Western, the Eastwood Hero, and Unforgiven,” analyzes the character of William Munny, and how much of him is grounded in myth and how much in history. Unforgiven uses symbols to discreetly give its audience insight into its characters and their motives. In particular, Unforgiven uses homes as symbols for Will Munny, Ned Logan, and Little Bill’s true character. Understanding how the houses reflect the characters of Unforgiven supports and strengthens Prats’ argument that Will Munny is more than who he seems at the surface.

The western film “The Cowboys” directed by Mark Rydell, which stars John Wayne as the main character Wil Andersen, who is a stiff necked rancher in Montana, stuck with working with a bunch of inexperienced boys. Wil Andersen is faced with a difficult situation when all of the ranch hands get involved in the local gold rush and he has no more workers. Andersen’s friend Anse will get the idea of having the local schoolboys help him on the drive, but Andersen is not sold on the idea and is still concerned and worried about the drive. The next day the boys from the school will show up at Andersen’s ranch ready to help. Andersen is not fond of wasting daylight and will test the boys by having them ride on the back of a wild horse he is trying to break. The boys, are lead by the oldest Slim Honeycutt, who will surprise Andersen by being able to staying on. Cimarron , a young lonely Mexican boy, will come in and ride the horse successfully but will get into a fight with Slim. Andersen breaks up the fight and turns Cimarron away. The boys have a lot of learning yet that they need to do from Andersen. Andersen will be faced with another problem when three men ride in asking for work. The three men lie to Andersen and this does not go over well with him and he refuses to hire the three. Shortly after this the cook Jeb Nightlinger shows up and now Andersen has a full crew to drive the cattle. They will start the drive and the boys will soon become tired and sore from the strains of

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was released in New York on September 24, 1969. The film received mostly negative reviews but became a success throughout the public. Eventually the National Film Preservation Board deemed the film culturally and artistically significant and it’s central themes and heros resonated with the youth movement of the time. The importance of the movie is what it came to represent to the people who saw it. While the director, George Roy Hill used the chase of the main characters to add more action and fiction to the historical aspects of the film, the symbolic line behind the pursuit of Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid by the superhuman posse is the timeless struggle between rebellion and authority.

Violence in the road is very present. The Man and The Boy witness death and dying frequently. As Foster says in his book, violence has meaning in literature. The first time we see The Man kill in the book is the scene with the marauder. This act, as well as scarring The Boy, also speaks the nature of the world. The whole scene was The Man interrogating

People sometimes kill themselves when these types of things happen, considering they were already under tremendous stress or barely making it. The movie conveyed a lot of passion and strength, as the women looked out for one another. I get from this movie is when people work together they can do anything; with the effort place on robbing a bank, they could have worked together to start their own janitorial service. The weakness is seeing someone commit a crime and get away with it, gave them the idea of robbing banks, that ultimately lead them to killing and being killed. “Crime does not pay, if you commit a crime, you must do the

Hawks’ celebration of the Western frontier, as one could argue about most films, includes a great deal of quality material shrouded in substandard treatment. Red River (1948) is a sprawling, epic telling the tale of the rugged ranchers that dared the first great cattle drive along the Chisholm trail from Texas to Kansas. Complications occur when attempting to define the genre and Red River, especially, is a useful tool to do just that. As Kitses deliberates, the western genre is of a “varied and flexible structure, a thematically fertile and ambiguous world of historical material shot through with archetypal elements” (Kitses, 1969). The John Wayne starrer is exactly that, a tasteful aggregation of western themes and sensibilities wrapped up into a tight, beautiful and genuinely enjoyable film.

During the scene, Will’s only friend, William Munny later finds out that, Ned Logan a man who has done no wrong in the entire movie, has fallen victim to the vicious beatings of the sadistic lawman Bill. In Richard Schickel’s definitive biography of Clint Eastwood, Schickel interviews Gene Hackman on the set of Unforgiven in which Hackman tells Shickel that he needed to excuse himself to go do his “Rodney King” scene (461). Additionally, the sadistic viciousness of Bill’s actions shows the atrociousness of America's violent expansion into the West, but also subversively reenacts a present day (at the time) sociopolitical event. In my opinion, Eastwood is showing the present situation juxtaposed with the past to accomplish two goals: show the

The 1990 film, Wild at Heart directed by David Lynch, is a violent satire on the power struggle of a working class criminal and his girlfriend who are fighting against the girlfriend’s evil psycho mother who wants him dead because the mother is controlling and jealous of her daughter’s sexuality and youth. The film follows young rebellious lovers, Sailor and Luna who seek to run away from the craziness of their worlds to live a fantasy but end up finding the violent reality of America. Lula’s mom, Marietta causes them to face obstacles within their relationship by trying to get Sailor killed twice. These young lovers decide to run from their problems and go on a road trip to California, on their way they make stops in New Orleans and Texas. Throughout the film there are concepts and terms of the comic spirit that are showcased throughout the film such as parody, bragger male archetype, euphemisms, contamination, disguise, parabasis, and inversion.