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This 5 page report discusses the 1992 Oscar-winning (best picture, best director, best supporting actor, best editing) movie that stars and was directed by Clint Eastwood, “Unforgiven” and shows the ways in which Eastwood explores many of the most archetypal of characters. Ultimately it is a story of hypocrisy and morality, revenge and regret, and the futile nature of reform and redemption. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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"serious" movies -- a dark and brooding character that exists outside of societys norms, violence and redemption through violence, and the need for the hero to "set things right." Where
"Unforgiven" differs from the typical Eastwood movie is that its primary character, William Munny, knows that he is himself is unforgiven and unredeemable as surely as any of the characters
he attempts to redeem. Eastwoods character is, as is typical again, a violent hero but in this story he is one who battles for socially outcast prostitutes. Munny accepts the
burden of murders necessary to balance the scales of justice, regardless of the fact that he has so often acted as a killer only for his own purposes. Ultimately it
is a story of hypocrisy and morality, revenge and regret, and the futile nature of reform and redemption. Archetypes and the Myths of the West In the myths that
exist about Americas western frontiers and the days of the "wild, wild west," the heroes and heroines are always characters with determination and a painfully stubborn belief in themselves and
their "mission." They more often than not are good people who err on the side of righteousness and the audience understand that what is being portrayed is hero against the
world and right against wrong. Certainly, those factors are present in "Unforgiven." However, it cant be forgotten that the characters of "Unforgiven" are not necessarily people with any heroic attributes
-- former drunks and killers, whores, sadistic cowboys, and crooked law enforcers form both the good and the bad of the population. As a result, the audience constantly sees the
evil in the good and the good in the evil. The entire movie is one of shades and then even darker shadows. Light only comes at the hands of the
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