UNFORGIVEN
First Stage (fever breaks)
- Recognizes beauty of Delilah
- Become a straight forward western figure
- He stops his talk about reformation & reverence to his wife
- Reborn
- Capable of killing
Second Stage (Revenge)
- Complete transformation
- Outlaw hero
- He is able to get on his horse easily
- Once again, violence has been his way out
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Characters
Ned Logan
- Reasonable man
- Reputation as a good shot
- He was Will's partner
- He can't kill anyone in cold blood anymore
William Munny
- A changed murder and thief who starts as a pig farmer.
- He convinces everyone that he is a changed man.
- He's reborn and becomes a sharp shooting, fearless Western figure
Little Bill Daggett
- The Sheriff
- Calm/Intelligent
- Controls his anger
- Campaigns gun control in his town
- Psycho Path
- Brutal, excessive, and unpredictable
Schofield Kid
- Has a big ego
- Wants a reputation like Will Munny
- He is short sighted and has no sense of danger
Transformation
Will Munny
Discussion
Schofield Kid
Classical and Revisionist Western Genres
Classic
- Fixed formulas and conventions
- Occurs in a specific place in history
Revisionist
- Changes historical and cultural context that modifies formulas and conventions
Discuss whether and how Unforgiven exempliefies classical or revisionist characteristics.
EGO --> REGRET
- Confession
- Reality shock
- Doesn't desire to become a gunfighter
SOURCES
Willing to look for solutions but...
Controlled Anger
Brutal
He is gripped by fundemental evil
Cruel Nature
Anarchy of volence
Excessive
Psycho Path
Unpridictable
Absolution Courage
Cynical Man
Good ole boy in his mannerisms,
On a short fuse
- Brod, Harry. "Unforgiven." (movie reviews) Tikkun v8, n3 (May-June, 1993):30.
- Richard Schickel Commentary of Unforgiven
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1041911-unforgiven/
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105695/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unforgiven
- http://www.allmovie.com/work/unforgiven-51847
- http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E0CE7DB103EF934A3575BC0A964958260
- http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/5948103/review/5948104/unforgiven
- http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/5948103/review/5948104/unforgiven
- http://www.qwipster.net/unforgiven.htm
A Hell of a Thing
"Here to Kill You"
"We both got scars"
Cinematography
- Long shot
- Shot/reverse shots
- High angle shot
- Medium shot
- Natural lighting
- Close up
- Clean cuts
- Low angle shots
- Camera zooms
- Diegetic and non-diegetic sounds
- Low-key lighting
- Handheld camera work
- Clean cuts
- Tracking shots
Western Genre elements
Cinematography
- Extreme long shot
- Log shots
- POV shots
- Medium shot
- Diegetic sound
- Extreme close up
- Cowboy hats
- Whiskey
- Horses
- Language
- Vast landscape
- Will's courage-Vigilante