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- Set in Wyoming in the 1880s, William Munny (Clint Eastwood) is a former murderer who, transformed by the love of a good woman, gave up a life of killing to raise a family and try his hand at pig farming.
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Aug 4, 2015 · While William Munny has become one of Clint Eastwood’s most unforgettable characters, was Unforgiven based on a true story? In keeping with the film’s theme, the answer isn’t so clear-cut. Technically speaking, William Munny wasn’t an actual historical figure, but he may have been based on several.
Unforgiven is a 1992 American Western film produced and directed by Clint Eastwood. It stars Eastwood himself, as William Munny, an aging outlaw and killer who takes on one more job, years after he had turned to farming. The film co-stars Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and Richard Harris and was written by David Webb Peoples.
AwardCategoryNominee (s)Result20/20 AwardsBest PictureWon20/20 AwardsBest DirectorNominated20/20 AwardsBest ActorNominated20/20 AwardsBest Supporting ActorNominatedApr 8, 2024 · Essentially, Clint Eastwood‘s character, William Munny, goes through the standard Clint Eastwood hero arc of getting beaten within an inch of his life (in some movies, he’s actually killed and rises from the dead), then coming back to righteously murder a bunch of people.
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Unforgiven, American revisionist western film, released in 1992, that was directed by and starred Clint Eastwood. It won four Academy Awards as well as both critical and popular praise for its uncompromising approach to the mythology and pathology of the genre in a brutal story that laid bare the emptiness of a life dedicated to violence.
Unforgiven takes place in 1880 and 1881, near the end of the period of the Old West. William Munny (Eastwood) is a former outlaw and gunslinger who has given up that life under the influence of his late wife and has become a hog farmer and father to two children. After a young, myopic would-be gunslinger, the self-proclaimed Schofield Kid (Jaimz Woolvett) arrives to suggest that he and Munny partner up to collect the bounty on the heads of two cowboys who have mutilated the face of a prostitute in the Wyoming town of Big Whiskey, Munny rides out to pick up his old partner, Ned Logan (Morgan Freeman) and join the Schofield Kid on his quest. Meanwhile, another outlaw, English Bob (Richard Harris), arrives in Big Whiskey with his biographer, W.W. Beauchamp (Saul Rubinek) in tow, intent on winning the bounty himself. The town’s sheriff, Little Bill Daggett (Gene Hackman), disarms and viciously beats English Bob and then runs him out of town (leaving Beauchamp behind). Munny, Logan, and the Kid arrive in Big Whiskey shortly thereafter, and Munny is also beaten by Daggett. He is cared for by the prostitutes who are offering the bounty, and once he has recovered, the three men head out to find the offending cowboys. After they have dispatched one of them, Logan loses his stomach for killing and decides to return home. As Munny and the Kid corner and kill the second cowboy, Logan is captured by Daggett’s deputies and taken back to Big Whiskey, where Daggett proceeds to beat him to death; his corpse is displayed in front of the tavern and brothel. Munny then returns to Big Whiskey for revenge. In a climactic gun battle, Munny kills the unarmed tavern owner and five deputies and then savagely murders Daggett.
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•Studios: Warner Bros. and Malpaso Productions
•Director: Clint Eastwood
•Writer: David Webb Peoples
•Music: Lennie Niehaus
•Clint Eastwood (William Munny)
•Jaimz Woolvett (the Schofield Kid)
•Morgan Freeman (Ned Logan)
•Gene Hackman (Little Bill Daggett)
•Richard Harris (English Bob)
•Saul Rubinek (W.W. Beauchamp)
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•Lead actor (Clint Eastwood)
•Supporting actor* (Gene Hackman)
•Art direction
•Cinematography
•Directing*
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Sep 16, 2022 · William Munny is a gunslinger who goes against all conventions of what an outlaw should be. Instead of dying in a hail of bullets or riding off into some mythological sunset, Munny has to...
Aug 3, 2017 · With Clint himself playing reformed outlaw William Munny – a hog farmer, widower and father, who returns to his old ways for one last job, to collect the sizeable bounty on a scoundrel who disfigured a prostitute – it remains Eastwood’s definitive statement on the western as an American art form.
Sep 16, 2021 · A former killer and criminal with a notorious past, named William Munny (Eastwood), is alerted to the bounty by a young would-be assassin called the Schofield Kid (Jaimz Woolvett). Munny has long...
