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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

'Pullin a Trigger'

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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

Western Genre

He is gripped by fundemental evil

Cruel Nature

Anarchy of volence

Excessive

Psycho Path

Unpridictable

Absolution Courage

Cynical Man

Sheriff

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
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