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Unforgiven

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Unforgiven	comment	A Western from 1992, written by David Webb Peoples, produced, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood.In the town of Big Whiskey, normal people are trying to lead quiet lives. Cowboys are trying to make a living. Sheriff Little Bill Daggett (Gene Hackman) is trying to build a house and keep a heavy-handed order. The girls of the town's brothel are just trying to get by. But when one of a pair of cowboys cuts up one of the brothel's girls, who goes by the name of Delilah Fitzgerald (Anna Levine), the prostitutes are not satisfied with Little Bill's justice and put out a $1,000 bountynote Adjusted for inflation that would be approximately the equivalent of over $29,000 in 2021 on the heads of both cowboys, Quick Mike and Davey Bunting.William Munny (Eastwood) is a Retired Gunfighter. Formerly a notorious cold-blooded killer, Munny was seemingly reformed by his late wife Claudia, who convinced him to give up his murderous ways and settle down as an honest farmer, living peacefully with their two children. However, farming is hard and his family are in financial difficulties, so Munny is drawn back into a life of killing when Gunfighter Wannabe the Schofield Kid (Jaimz Woolvett) offers to split the reward on the bounty. Together with his old partner Ned Logan (Morgan Freeman), Munny and the Kid set off on one last job, and in the process run afoul of Little Bill. In the ensuing hostilities, the ruthless demon that laid dormant within Munny is unleashed with a vengeance.The film has gone on to be considered one of the greatest westerns ever made. It won four Academy Awards (and was nominated for five others), garnering Best Picture and Best Director for Clint Eastwood, Best Supporting Actor for Gene Hackman and Best Film Editing for editor Joel Cox.It was also a huge box office success, spending its first three weeks as the #1 film in the United States, and earning a total of $159.2 million worldwide, against a budget of $14.4 million.A Japanese remake starring Ken Watanabe was made in 2013.Not to be confused with the older western film The Unforgiven, which tells another story entirely.
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Unforgiven / int_112daba0	type	Retired Badass
Unforgiven / int_112daba0	comment	Retired Badass: Deconstructed with Will and Ned. They have latent skills, but have been out of the game so long they don't have the same instincts and reflexes they once had. Ned starts off confident but loses his nerve trying to kill the first cowboy. Will starts off almost catatonic, but slowly descends into the cold killer he once was. Subverted with English Bob, an old man who admittedly demonstrates some proficiency with a pistol, but it turns out that he is literally only a badass on paper.
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Unforgiven / int_113472aa	type	Miles Gloriosus
Unforgiven / int_113472aa	comment	English Bob has his gun dismantled, is beaten savagely, and is abandoned by his trusted scribe Beauchamp. It's supposed to illustrate the near-boundless cruelty of Sheriff Little Bill, but considering many of the stories Bob told Beauchamp were heavily exaggerated, if not outright fabricated, and considering Bob did little to ingratiate himself to his American hosts beforehand (mocking Americans for having a president for a leader instead of a monarch, for example), his mistreatment landed him much closer to this trope for many viewers.
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Unforgiven / int_117b3429	type	A Taste of the Lash
Unforgiven / int_117b3429	comment	A Taste of the Lash: Little Bill captures Ned and wants information, immediately breaking out the whip. Ned does not survive.
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Unforgiven / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Unforgiven / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Of the Western. Even compared to the Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western films.
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Unforgiven / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Unforgiven / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: In keeping with the overall Deconstruction of the Western, a running theme throughout the movie is that many of the characters are either actively trying to rewrite their pasts in order to make them seem better than they were, or have hazy recollections of them to begin with. These fraudulent and flawed recollections then go on to become myths of the West. This starts off early on, as Will only considers the offer from the Schofield Kid because he said the target graphically maimed a prostitute, cutting up her face, carving her body, and chopping off her fingers, when in realty she just had some cuts to her face.
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Unforgiven / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
Unforgiven / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: One trailer has a bystander yell at Munny that he just shot an unarmed man, and Munny replying matter-of-factly, "well, he should have armed himself." That's actually just half the line he speaks in the movie - what he actually says is, "well, he should have armed himself, if he's going to decorate his saloon with my friend."
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Unforgiven / int_1c5599e4	type	Reformed, but Rejected
Unforgiven / int_1c5599e4	comment	Reformed, but Rejected: Ned's wife Sally doesn't trust Will.
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Unforgiven / int_1d18887f	type	Pay Evil unto Evil
Unforgiven / int_1d18887f	comment	Pay Evil unto Evil: The last 20 minutes of this are William Munny falling deeply into this trope after Little Bill kills Ned Logan.
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Unforgiven / int_1daa7fce	type	In the Back
Unforgiven / int_1daa7fce	comment	Subverted with English Bob, who tells Beauchamp these beautiful badass speeches about his 'exploits'... only to have Little Bill debunk them, noting "The Duck of Death" shot first and In the Back with most of the gunfights Bob himself started.
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Unforgiven / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Unforgiven / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: The Wild West is shown to be a world where cruelty, misogyny, violence, and racism are all accepted as normal, and kindness, honour, and the law mean hardly anything; the only reliable protection you can garner is having such a dreadful reputation that nobody in their right mind would want to cross you.
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Unforgiven / int_222969af	type	All There in the Script
Unforgiven / int_222969af	comment	All There in the Script: The screenplay reveals what happened to The Schofield Kid â€” he drowned himself out of guilt.
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Unforgiven / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Unforgiven / int_222dc873	comment	In particular, "Fatty"'s gun handling in the final shootout strays into Black Comedy: he is so rattled that he desperately "fans" his pistol's hammer with his free hand, trying to fire faster, but only manages to ratchet his hammer 2-3 times for each actual trigger pull (which probably results in dropping his hammer on an empty chamber), and finally fires his last shot into the ceiling as he turns to flee.
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Unforgiven / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Unforgiven / int_225b682	comment	Throw-Away Guns: Clyde, one of Little Bill's deputies, carries three guns for this reason. He has only one arm and would be unable to reload in a fight. Also, contrary to the myth of the Colt Peacemaker, most of the guns available in the West during the time period were older cap-and-ball revolvers such as the Colt Navy, Dragoon, and 1860 Army. Reloading one of these weapons is a very slow processnote The fastest way to do so would be to swap out the cylinder. Otherwise, each chamber would have to be hand-charged with powder, a round seated, and a cap placed on the nipple. Paper cartridges helped speed the process, but it's still not something that can be done quickly. Any of those methods would be completely impractical in the heat of a fight. so it was quite common for a gunfighter to carry multiple pistols and to just draw a backup weapon rather than stop and reload. Subverted in English Bob's real backstory regarding "Two Gun" Corcoran. In Bob's embellished version, Corcoran had the Meaningful Name of "Two Gun" because he always went Guns Akimbo. In actuality, he was so nicknamed thanks to being well-endowed. Little Bill tells W.W. Beauchamp that had Corcoran actually carried a second gun, Bob would not have killed him even after Corcoran's gun blew up in his hand, because Bob was too drunk to shoot straight.
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Unforgiven / int_23e32a30	type	Genre Deconstruction
Unforgiven / int_23e32a30	comment	Genre Deconstruction: This whole movie is a more realistic portrayal of what life is like in the Old West. From how quick drawing in a fight would actually be a disadvantage to how stories are altered and/or exaggerated to make someone look more heroic.
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Unforgiven / int_267a0440	type	My Parents Are Dead
Unforgiven / int_267a0440	comment	My Parents Are Dead: When the Schofield Kid pitches his bounty hunt to Munny, he suggests Munny could use the money to buy his wife nice things. The latter cuts the conversation short by mentioning that his wife is dead.
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Unforgiven / int_26852e3d	type	Persona Non Grata
Unforgiven / int_26852e3d	comment	Persona Non Grata: After beating and jailing English Bob, Little Bill sends him off on a wagon going out of town with a warning never to return.
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Unforgiven / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
Unforgiven / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: English Bob has his gun dismantled, is beaten savagely, and is abandoned by his trusted scribe Beauchamp. It's supposed to illustrate the near-boundless cruelty of Sheriff Little Bill, but considering many of the stories Bob told Beauchamp were heavily exaggerated, if not outright fabricated, and considering Bob did little to ingratiate himself to his American hosts beforehand (mocking Americans for having a president for a leader instead of a monarch, for example), his mistreatment landed him much closer to this trope for many viewers. The Schofield Kid, who starts out eager to Badass Boast about his prowess and five-man kill count to anyone willing to hear. Which is all a lie because Quick Mike is his first ever kill and he ends up ashamed and emotionally broken by it. He's last seen skipping town, tearfully vowing to never pick up a gun ever again. In earlier drafts of the script, the shame was enough to drive the poor boy to suicide.
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Unforgiven / int_2d047747	type	Gossip Evolution
Unforgiven / int_2d047747	comment	Gossip Evolution: When the Schofield Kid tells Munny about the attack, he says that the cowboys had cut out Delilah's eyes and cut off her ears, neither of which was true. When Munny tells Ned about it, he adds that they cut off her fingers and her breasts. It is implied that these Chinese whispers intended to make other people sound better or worse than reality is how these old Western legends begin to form.
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Unforgiven / int_308a5ff0	type	Strange Minds Think Alike
Unforgiven / int_308a5ff0	comment	Strange Minds Think Alike: When Little Bill first meets Beauchamp, who insists he's just a writer, Bill asks, "Writer? Of notes and such?" After the climactic shootout, Beauchamp tells Will Munny he's just an unarmed writer. Will's reply? "Writer? Notes and such?"
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Unforgiven / int_30c40e9a	type	Deconstructor Fleet
Unforgiven / int_30c40e9a	comment	Deconstructor Fleet: Of Westerns. A wide variety of tropes, archetypes, and the general formula are all decontructed. Munny himself is a Deconstructed Character Archetype of the Man With No Name and his expies, both of which are the kinds of characters Clint Eastwood played in the 60s and 70s. The Man With No Name was a cool, unstoppable Anti-Hero whose lethal skills let him gun down dozens of bad guys. William Munny is a Retired Monster who was a cruel, unhinged, and cold-blooded killer who killed whoever was in his way regardless of who they were with his lethal skills. One aspect of this is how the movie shows Munny dealing with his re-submersion into the violent, dangerous environment he left behind before he became a family man. He doesn't become a more heroic figure, rising to the occasion. Instead, he degrades, with his layers of civility being stripped away until at the end, he's the cold-blooded killer that he once was. Eastwoodâ€™s trademark squint was subject to this too: the Schofield Kid is almost constantly squinting, but itâ€™s just because of his poor eyesight and doesnâ€™t look badass in the least. The final showdown deconstructs Conservation of Ninjutsu. Will kills almost all Little Bill's deputies because they are not experienced in actual gunfighting like Will is and none of them have a killer instinct despite their numbers. He mostly prevails because he quickly, accurately, and unhesitatingly shoots while his foes are indecisive and panicking. Honor Before Reason is also deconstructed. Consider the title. The prostitutes can't forgive Quick Mike for cutting Delilah. Little Bill can't forgive the prostitutes for putting a hit on the cowboys. The Schofield Kid can't forgive himself for actually killing a man, and finally Will Munny can't forgive Little Bill for killing Ned. As a result, most of these characters are either dead, dying, or emotionally broken at the end of the movie. The roles of the good guys and bad guys in the classic Westerns are deliberately reversed. Will Munny is a violent (former) criminal who rides into town and stirs up trouble, while Little Bill is the Sheriff trying to maintain order by throwing out the criminals, and rounds up a posse to go after them. Note that Will Munny's entrance just before the final shootout is almost a perfect Western villain entrance, complete with Munny standing eerily in the shadows and being dressed in all dark clothing. During the final shootout, William guns down an unarmed man, while Little Bill shows extraordinary bravery in his final moments. Ultimately and deliberately, neither of them comes out looking all that great. More than perhaps any deconstruction in this film in contrast to most Clint Eastwood westerns (or any western) where the lead will casually gun down a group of people like it is nothing, this movie makes a point about how there is nothing glamorous about killing a person even if you think it is for heroic reasons. Will Munny is plagued by the guilt over all the people he has killed and the Schofield Kid has a breakdown after he finally kills one of the bounty targets. When Munny finally goes after Little Bill, they don't have a Showdown at High Noon; instead, Munny fights Bill on a rainy night. This allows Munny to leave Big Whiskey without much trouble since the water and darkness obscure sightlines and discourage the townspeople from chasing and attacking Munny in retaliation. Little Bill himself calmly deconstructs the idea of The Gunslinger while talking with Beauchamp. Yes, there really were dangerous men who made a living killing people. But there was nothing heroic or brave about any of them, and many of the stories Beauchamp has heard are often exaggerated by the very people they are about in order to hide that they won gunfights through less admirable methods. He also explains how being quick to draw your gun means nothing unless you can keep a cool head, which is shown in the ending where many characters end up missing Munny simply because they panicked and didn't bother to aim. Little Bill himself can be seen as a deconstruction of the town sheriff in your typical Western movie. Like most sheriffs in this type of film, he is just trying to keep the peace. The problem is that when Delilah gets her face slashed up, Bill does not punish the men after Delilah is attacked (granted one of them had nothing to do with it and even tried to stop the other) and lets them go scot-free. He is also later shown to be a vicious tyrant and bully who delivers violent beatdowns to others - who are already at gunpoint or restrained - and is no better than the criminals he claims to protect the town from. The Fastest Gun in the West as a trope is repeatedly deconstructed; Little Bill speaks at length about how trying to draw that fast is likely to throw off your aim, and in the climax Little Bill does manage to draw faster than Munny, but misses the only shot he can get off before Munny shoots him. Meanwhile Bill's deputies all panic, drawing and firing as quickly as they can, and hit absolutely nothing. The Instant Death Bullet is averted on multiple occasions, and characters are depicted as suffering in terrible pain as a result of being shot. Instant death bullets and (often) Bloodless Carnage do a lot of work to keep the tone of Westerns relatively light, without them things quickly become much darker and more horrific.
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Unforgiven / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Unforgiven / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: (In this case, Even Anti-Heroes Have Standards). After killing the men at the saloon, when writer W.W. Beauchamp asks him who he chose first (in an effort to romanticize the brutal events that Munny committed), Munny replies only by threatening him with death. All the players in the movie were eager to justify their Disproportionate Retribution, except for Munny: he knows that he did evil things once and heâ€™s doing evil things now, and for that he will go to hell. He will not try to hide that from himself or anyone else. Even when he cold-bloodedly murdered an unarmed Skinny for displaying Ned's corpse outside his saloon and when he was about to shoot Little Bill, both times Munny warned the people standing near his target to move away for their own safety because he's using a shotgun, showing a remarkable concern for the welfare of people he doesn't have any specific intention of killing (and a surprising effort to avert Reckless Gun Usage).
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Unforgiven / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
Unforgiven / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: In this version, Ichizo's men do not receive names or any character development.
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Unforgiven / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Unforgiven / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: An in-universe version; English Bob, who normally speaks with a plummy upper-crust accent, slips into Cockney when suddenly confronted by Little Bill and his posse. Apparently he's pretending to be an upper-class gent when he's really from the gutter (he says "I thought you was dead" before correcting himself to the more "correct" "you were".) To some, Bob's accent sounds American (Southern or Midwestern) at this point, indicating that his entire identity as "English" Bob is a fabrication. His first words upon seeing Little Bill, "Shit and fried eggs," may be more evidence for this. They are almost inaudible but show up in closed captions. The very loud rant he gives the people of Big Whiskey (see under Defiant to the End) as they run him out of town is spoken in what sounds like very coarse Cockney. By that point he's totally humiliated and blinded with rage and has no reason to pretend anymore.
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Unforgiven / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
Unforgiven / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Probably one of the most cynical Westerns of all time.
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Unforgiven / int_373e2b9f	type	Murder the Hypotenuse
Unforgiven / int_373e2b9f	comment	Murder the Hypotenuse: According to Little Bill, English Bob took this approach when he found himself in a Love Triangle with Two Guns Corky and a French lady.
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Unforgiven / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Unforgiven / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: When Will notes that Ned is still using a Spencer rifle, it would imply that Ned carried it in the Civil War as a member of a U.S. Colored Troops cavalry regiment. Morgan Freeman also starred in Glory as a member of a U.S. Colored regiment. The earlier scene when Clint Eastwood practices firing guns is reminiscent of him firing guns before the credits of The Outlaw Josey Wales. Will, beaten and bloody, crawling out of the saloon and across the boardwalk outside, is highly reminiscent of a scene from A Fistful of Dollars.
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Unforgiven / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Unforgiven / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Little Bill, staring down Will Munny's gun. Subverted all to hell with every other death. Nobody else in the film dies as cleanly or quickly.
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Unforgiven / int_39a8fc83	type	The Can Kicked Him
Unforgiven / int_39a8fc83	comment	The Can Kicked Him: The Schofield Kid kills one of the marked men while he's sitting in an outhouse.
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Unforgiven / int_39b8d3d6	type	Boring, but Practical
Unforgiven / int_39b8d3d6	comment	Boring, but Practical: Will's gunfighting style is revealed to merely make himself a smaller target and carefully take his time with his shots while everyone else is moving and firing off as fast they can, with being drunk helping him stay calm. This even gets mentioned earlier by Little Bill as the best way to gunfight.
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Unforgiven / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Unforgiven / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Will and Ned often talk about their past exploits and their former gang. Subverted a bit in that Munny was drunk most of the time and doesn't remember all the details either.
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Unforgiven / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
Unforgiven / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: During the final shootout Beauchamp is more concerned about mining material for his dime novels than he is about the fact that he is in the middle of a shootout surrounded by dead bodies.
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Unforgiven / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Unforgiven / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Little Bill delivers a brutal one-sided beating to both English Bob and William Munny at two different points in the movie Despite being outnumbered, William Munny is able to easily outgun and kill Little Bill and his men; if only because of his experience and knowing better than anyone in the bar the business of gunfighting.
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Unforgiven / int_401d4116	type	Broken Aesop
Unforgiven / int_401d4116	comment	Something of a Broken Aesop in that case: While Little Bill went too far in killing Ned and is repeatedly portrayed as a sadist who takes pleasure in doling out his version of justice, he believed the man he killed had murdered the babyfaced and relatively innocent â€” but still guilt-ridden â€” Davey in cold blood just for a quick pay-off. Munny convinced Ned to come along and help him commit a couple of contract killings despite the latter's misgivings; who's really responsible for getting him killed?
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Unforgiven / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Unforgiven / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Munny goes back to his old ways and Ned is murdered, but Munny avenges him. And with the money he earns from the bounty on the two cowboys, he's able to move on and make a better life for himself and his kids — rumored to be San Francisco, where he prospered in dry goods.
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Unforgiven / int_42fef4ea	type	The Alleged House
Unforgiven / int_42fef4ea	comment	The Alleged House: Sheriff Bill Dagget built his own wood-frame house on a lonely parcel away from town. While recounting the exploits of The Wild West to biographer W.W. Beauchamp, both men set out assorted vessels to catch all the rainwater that's leaking through the roof. One of the sheriff's own deputies put it succinctly; "You know, he don't have a straight angle in that whole god-damned porch, or the whole house for that matter. He is the worst damn carpenter."
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Unforgiven / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Unforgiven / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason is also deconstructed. Consider the title. The prostitutes can't forgive Quick Mike for cutting Delilah. Little Bill can't forgive the prostitutes for putting a hit on the cowboys. The Schofield Kid can't forgive himself for actually killing a man, and finally Will Munny can't forgive Little Bill for killing Ned. As a result, most of these characters are either dead, dying, or emotionally broken at the end of the movie.
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Unforgiven / int_469e49de	type	Booze-Based Buff
Unforgiven / int_469e49de	comment	Munny also apparently works best while drunk. He drinks a bottle of whisky (his first in the movie) before entering Skinny's for the showdown.
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Unforgiven / int_4852f325	type	I Just Want to Be Normal
Unforgiven / int_4852f325	comment	I Just Want to Be Normal: As Will insists to Ned, "I'm just a fella now. I ain't any different from anyone else no more."
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Unforgiven / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Unforgiven / int_49a2599d	comment	Platonic Prostitution: Just for Munny, though. His partners readily take "advances".
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Unforgiven / int_49cca1f3	type	Villain-by-Proxy Fallacy
Unforgiven / int_49cca1f3	comment	Villain-by-Proxy Fallacy: The working girls put out a $1,000 bounty on the heads of two cowboys, Quick Mike and Davey Bunting. While this is understandable in Mike's case (he cut up one of the prostitutes pretty badly), Davey's only crime is his poor choice of friends.
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Unforgiven / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Unforgiven / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: The beautiful Hokkaido landscape gets a lot of attention from the camera.
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Unforgiven / int_4b0ef86e	type	Advertised Extra
Unforgiven / int_4b0ef86e	comment	Advertised Extra: English Bob is memorable, but not as big a character as being featured in the poster would imply.
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Unforgiven / int_4e34d653	type	See You in Hell
Unforgiven / int_4e34d653	comment	See You in Hell: Little Bill, to William Munny. And Munny accepts the truth of it.
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Unforgiven / int_4efc4fae	type	Good Scars, Evil Scars
Unforgiven / int_4efc4fae	comment	Good Scars, Evil Scars: Averted. Delilah, who's as "good" as anybody is in this movie, has some really nasty-looking facial scars, even though her beauty is still there if you look past them.
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Unforgiven / int_4f6cf75	type	Mirroring Factions
Unforgiven / int_4f6cf75	comment	Mirroring Factions: Part of the point of the movie is that the forces of law and order and the forces of criminality and villainy in the Old West often weren't as different as later mythologizing have made them out to be.
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Unforgiven / int_505f6a99	type	Showdown at High Noon
Unforgiven / int_505f6a99	comment	When Munny finally goes after Little Bill, they don't have a Showdown at High Noon; instead, Munny fights Bill on a rainy night. This allows Munny to leave Big Whiskey without much trouble since the water and darkness obscure sightlines and discourage the townspeople from chasing and attacking Munny in retaliation.
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Unforgiven / int_508d91a2	type	Pre-Mortem One-Liner
Unforgiven / int_508d91a2	comment	Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Averted when Munny kills Little Bill. Little Bill says "I'll See You in Hell, William Munny," and instead of dashing off a clever retort, Munny simply replies "Yeah..."
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Unforgiven / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Unforgiven / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Just about everyone is guilty of this: The entire movie is a result of Quick Mike cutting up Delilah's face for laughing at his small penis. In retaliation for this (and Little Bill's feeble punishment), Strawberry Alice and the other whores put a $1,000 bounty not only on Mike but his pal Davey, who didn't do anything to Delilah and even tried to give her a pony as an apology. Davey ends up being killed by the protagonists with a slow gutshot. After they break his leg by shooting his horse out from under him. Little Bill beats the crap out of a defenseless English Bob, then does the same to Munny. He says in each case that he's making an example of them to deter other would-be assassins, but he seems to enjoy beating unarmed old men just a little too much. When he's alone with Beauchamp and English Bob he forces a confrontation in which he almost certainly would have killed Bob and possibly Beauchamp too, while allowing him to claim self-defense during an escape attempt. English Bob prudently does not take the offered gun. He also whips Ned to death while trying to get information about his partners out of him. Ned comes along primarily because he's Munny's friend, but when it comes to it he finds that he can't actually shoot anyone anymore and he decides to go home instead. Little Bill's men catch him and Bill whips him to death. According to Little Bill, English Bob killed Two-Gun Corcoran purely for sleeping with a woman he also had his eye on. Munny murders Skinny the unarmed saloon owner for displaying Ned's corpse. As he leaves the saloon having killed five men, he warns: In fact, Munny spent most of his career doing this. He recounts to Ned that he once murdered a drover by shooting him in the face, but upon sobering up he reflected that his victim had done nothing to deserve that. He further recalls that most of the men he had rode with at the time both hated and feared him, worrying that Will would kill them out of "pure meanness".
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Unforgiven / int_51640e80	type	Bond One-Liner
Unforgiven / int_51640e80	comment	Bond One-Liner: William Munny blows a guy away and then utters one of the best of these in a Western ever:
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Unforgiven / int_52196c03	type	Age-Gap Romance
Unforgiven / int_52196c03	comment	Age-Gap Romance: Claudia Munny was 29 years old when she died, 3 years before the events of the movie, while Munny himself looks old enough to be the father of a woman that agenote Eastwood was 61 years old when the movie was filmed.
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Unforgiven / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Unforgiven / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The movie starts and ends with silhouette shots at sunset showing Munny working at his homestead.
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Unforgiven / int_54bb502b	type	Nobody Poops
Unforgiven / int_54bb502b	comment	Nobody Poops: Averted, fatally. Will and the Schofield Kid find out where Quick Mike is holed up and sit out behind the outhouse waiting for him to come out to use it. Quick Mike also decides not to bother to bring the deputy assigned to protect him, which proves a fatal mistake.
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Unforgiven / int_551c5b1a	type	Dime Novel
Unforgiven / int_551c5b1a	comment	Dime Novel: W.W. Beauchamp writes these. One example is "The Duke of Death", about English Bob. Little Bill insists on calling it "The Duck of Death".
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Unforgiven / int_559b4bb3	type	Call to Agriculture
Unforgiven / int_559b4bb3	comment	Call to Agriculture: As with everything else, Deconstructed. William Munny, the legendary outlaw gave up his violent ways to become a peaceful pig farmerâ€¦ and by the time the movie starts he is failing miserably, his stock is severely depleted and he is forced to take up the Schofield Kid on his offer so he doesn't lose everything. The film emphasizes this at the end when it tells the audience that it was agriculture in particular and not honest work in general that he was ill-suited for, since Munny eventually became successful as a shopkeeper in San Francisco.
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Unforgiven / int_5af55436	type	Forced to Watch
Unforgiven / int_5af55436	comment	Forced to Watch: Bill makes two of the prostitutes witness him torture Ned to death, just to scare them over their decision to put a hit out on the cowboys.
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Unforgiven / int_5d576f8c	type	Death Is Such an Odd Thing
Unforgiven / int_5d576f8c	comment	Death Is Such an Odd Thing: The Schofield Kid feels that way after his first kill.
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Unforgiven / int_5d6f4033	type	Agonizing Stomach Wound
Unforgiven / int_5d6f4033	comment	Agonizing Stomach Wound: Will shoots Davey Bunting in the stomach and he dies slowly and painfully.
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Unforgiven / int_61313315	type	Off the Wagon
Unforgiven / int_61313315	comment	Off the Wagon: Munny has quit drinking, but he drinks a bottle of whisky before the final showdown.
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Unforgiven / int_614a4e11	type	Do You Want to Copulate?
Unforgiven / int_614a4e11	comment	Do You Want to Copulate?: After Delilah nurses Munny back to health, she asks him outright if he wants a "free one". He turns her down on account of his late wife.
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Unforgiven / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Unforgiven / int_6163afd9	comment	Reliably Unreliable Guns: Misfiring guns feature prominently in both the backstory and the climax, which is appropriate for the time period, in which lower-quality guns and ammo were more common. The rainy night of the climax might also have played a factor in one rather important misfire. Little Bill, when telling W.W. Beauchamp the real story about how English Bob killed Two-Gun Corcoran, explains that Corcoran's Walker Colt exploded on him, allowing Bob to get the drop on him. This was a problem that Walker Colts really had.
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Unforgiven / int_64b46855	type	Chinese Laborer
Unforgiven / int_64b46855	comment	Chinese Laborer: Apparently, English Bob earned a living killing them for the railroads.
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Unforgiven / int_66907f54	type	Hourglass Plot
Unforgiven / int_66907f54	comment	Hourglass Plot: The Schofield Kid starts off as a novice bounty hunter looking for his first kill whereas Munny is a Retired Gunfighter who has developed an aversion to taking lives. By the time Ned is dead, the Schofield Kid is the one regretting his only kill whereas Munny has fully returned to his old habits and is out for blood.
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Unforgiven / int_66cdb21b	type	Gag Penis
Unforgiven / int_66cdb21b	comment	Gag Penis: As Little Bill tells Beauchamp, English Bob once killed a man who was nicknamed "Two-Gun Corcoran." Although Beauchamp was under the impression it was because Corcoran carried two guns, Little Bill explains in detail how he got the name, even though he in fact carried only one gun.
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Unforgiven / int_67792344	type	Grievous Bottley Harm
Unforgiven / int_67792344	comment	Grievous Bottley Harm: Ichizo cuts Jubei's face with a broken bottle.
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Unforgiven / int_67e53056	type	Gun Porn
Unforgiven / int_67e53056	comment	Gun Porn: Most westerns depict everyone carrying a Winchester rifle, a Colt Peacemaker, or a double-barreled shotgun (largely due to the use of the five-in-one blank round in movie production). Unforgiven features a very wide selection of old-west firearms, and several are identified by name.
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Unforgiven / int_6858aca8	type	Punctuated Pounding
Unforgiven / int_6858aca8	comment	Punctuated Pounding: As Bill kicks the shit out of English Bob (and later William Munny), he extols the reasons for the beating and derides the quality of his victim.
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Unforgiven / int_6860368a	type	Mook Horror Show
Unforgiven / int_6860368a	comment	Mook Horror Show: Will Munny's entry into the bar, shotgun raised is played out practically like the introduction of an archvillain in a horror movie, complete with Dramatic Thunder.
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Unforgiven / int_6a0b03a6	type	One Last Job
Unforgiven / int_6a0b03a6	comment	Munny is a former bad man, who tried to make a go at being a farmer for the sake of his wife. When she dies and his farm fails to earn him anything beyond a wretched subsistence, in desperation he decides to take on One Last Job for enough money to start over. When Ned dies he fully slides back to his old ways for one evening. Afterwards, it was rumored that he eventually returned to a mundane life once more.
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Unforgiven / int_6b18b774	type	"What Now?" Ending
Unforgiven / int_6b18b774	comment	"What Now?" Ending: The fate of the town of Big Whiskey is left up in the air after Will massacres Little Bill and his deputies.
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Unforgiven / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Unforgiven / int_6bda9a30	comment	Subverted in English Bob's real backstory regarding "Two Gun" Corcoran. In Bob's embellished version, Corcoran had the Meaningful Name of "Two Gun" because he always went Guns Akimbo. In actuality, he was so nicknamed thanks to being well-endowed. Little Bill tells W.W. Beauchamp that had Corcoran actually carried a second gun, Bob would not have killed him even after Corcoran's gun blew up in his hand, because Bob was too drunk to shoot straight.
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Unforgiven / int_6fb7cf97	type	Bigger Stick
Unforgiven / int_6fb7cf97	comment	Bigger Stick: In the final fight at the saloon, Will Munny uses the Schofield revolver that used to belong to the Schofield kid. Now, this is certainly not the only reason of his victory; but the fact remains that, as per the trope, Munny had better equipment than any of his foes and Munny handily defeated everybody in the large posse of about sixteen people, either killing them or scaring them into running away.
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Unforgiven / int_6fca80fd	type	Oblivious Mockery
Unforgiven / int_6fca80fd	comment	Oblivious Mockery: Beauchamp tells Little Bill jokingly to hang his carpenter for the crappy work he did on the cottage, only for Bill to reveal that it was him who built the place.
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Unforgiven / int_72b0dfd2	type	Being Good Sucks
Unforgiven / int_72b0dfd2	comment	Being Good Sucks: Kind of. It's noticeable that during his period of trying to be good, Munny is an unsuccessful pig farmer eking out a wretched existence, is wracked by guilt, and comes across as kind of pathetic (note how often he falls off his horse, and his beating by Little Bill). After returning to his old ways, he becomes a scarily effective gunfighter and the epilogue indicates he became financially successful. Not to mention that things don't turn out well for Ned after he admits he's lost his stomach for killing and tries to return home.
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Unforgiven / int_72e54916	type	Retired Monster
Unforgiven / int_72e54916	comment	Retired Monster: There's a reason why Will Munny is unforgiven. He doesn't seem to really regret his previous life all that much, except when it comes to his deceased wife. But then Munny got pissed at what they did to Ned. Little Bill describes both English Bob and himself as bad men, implying he thinks they both are this. It's never exactly stated but given he's an old friend/colleague of Munny's, it can be presumed Ned has a pretty bad past too.
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Unforgiven / int_7335ffa9	type	Grey-and-Gray Morality
Unforgiven / int_7335ffa9	comment	Grey-and-Gray Morality: None of the main characters are truly heroic or villainous. The closest you get to morally white in the story is the late Claudia Munny, whose memory acts as William's Morality Chain throughout the story and this chain slips in the end with the Big Whiskey saloon massacre.
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Unforgiven / int_744e3311	type	Police Brutality
Unforgiven / int_744e3311	comment	Police Brutality: Little Bill enjoys doling out beatings whenever he has someone from out of town at his mercy. When English Bob claims he's unarmed Bill's posse takes his weapons at gunpoint, and then Bill proceeds to make an example of him by kicking the crap out of Bill while loudly declaring he won't tolerate assassins in his town coming to collect on the bounty. That night he sets up English Bob to get shot while trying to escape, but Bob wisely doesn't take the bait. A few days later he beats the hell out of Munny (and doesn't bother to arrest him) for lying about having a gun. Even later, he accidentally whips Ned to death for his involvement in killing Davey. Bill certainly doesn't seem too upset about having accidentally whipped a man to death while rounding up the posse to go catch his partners.
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Unforgiven / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Unforgiven / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "I ain't like that no more." "I guess they got (had) it coming"
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Unforgiven / int_77063cd7	type	Hooker with a Heart of Gold
Unforgiven / int_77063cd7	comment	Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Delilah seems to emphasize the "heart of gold" aspect, being portrayed as the sweetest and most innocent of the working girls. Deconstructed with Strawberry Alice, the caring big sister of the group. While she does look after Delilah when she's hurt, she's also eager for revenge, she angrily refuses Davey's attempt at an apology, and she shows no remorse when she finally gets her revenge.
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Unforgiven / int_77538ed4	type	Admiring the Abomination
Unforgiven / int_77538ed4	comment	Admiring the Abomination: Beauchamp's face is positively ecstatic when Will enters the bar and admits that he's killed women and children.
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Unforgiven / int_7ab81664	type	Kick Them While They Are Down
Unforgiven / int_7ab81664	comment	Little Bill himself can be seen as a deconstruction of the town sheriff in your typical Western movie. Like most sheriffs in this type of film, he is just trying to keep the peace. The problem is that when Delilah gets her face slashed up, Bill does not punish the men after Delilah is attacked (granted one of them had nothing to do with it and even tried to stop the other) and lets them go scot-free. He is also later shown to be a vicious tyrant and bully who delivers violent beatdowns to others - who are already at gunpoint or restrained - and is no better than the criminals he claims to protect the town from.
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Unforgiven / int_7c14d0f2	type	Rejected Apology
Unforgiven / int_7c14d0f2	comment	Rejected Apology: Davey trying to give his prize horse to Delilah as an apology for her newly scarred face. (Remember, it was Davey's partner who had cut up Delilah, and Davey tried to stop him.) Before Delilah could accept or reject it, the other prostitutes drive off Davey in rage, declaring that a simple horse isn't going to fix what was done to her.
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Unforgiven / int_7d34f23a	type	Reckless Gun Usage
Unforgiven / int_7d34f23a	comment	Even when he cold-bloodedly murdered an unarmed Skinny for displaying Ned's corpse outside his saloon and when he was about to shoot Little Bill, both times Munny warned the people standing near his target to move away for their own safety because he's using a shotgun, showing a remarkable concern for the welfare of people he doesn't have any specific intention of killing (and a surprising effort to avert Reckless Gun Usage).
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Unforgiven / int_7de3aec2	type	What Does She See in Him?
Unforgiven / int_7de3aec2	comment	What Does She See in Him?: Will Munny and his wife. As the opening narration says: "She was a comely young woman and not without prospects. Therefore it was heartbreaking to her mother that she would enter into marriage with William Munny, a known thief and murderer, a man of notoriously vicious and intemperate disposition."
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Unforgiven / int_7f298d3d	type	Lame Comeback
Unforgiven / int_7f298d3d	comment	Lame Comeback: Sort of. Instead of a witty one-liner, Munny responds in rather bland fashion, but the effect is, if anything, more intimidating because it's clear Munny no longer cares about anything like regular human communication.
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Unforgiven / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Unforgiven / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Invoked by Ned Logan when he tries to guess what provoked the placing of a deathmark on the heads of the cowboys:
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Unforgiven / int_82b039b7	type	ArtisticLicenceLaw
Unforgiven / int_82b039b7	comment	Artistic Licence â€“ Law: Everyone refers to the $1,000 that the girls are offering for the killing of two men as a "bounty". However, a private citizen cannot legally offer a reward for the extrajudicial killing of a person, meaning that the girls are inciting murder of specific persons, which is a crime. Given the reaction of Sheriff Little Bill for the whole rest of the movie, it can be inferred that the only reason the girls themselves weren't arrested was that the sheriff only knew of the "bounty" through multiple levels of hearsay. This is why Bill and his deputies refer to Munny, Ned and the Kid as "assassins" throughout the film — because that's what they are, not bounty hunters.
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Unforgiven / int_82f5ced1	type	Conservation of Ninjutsu
Unforgiven / int_82f5ced1	comment	The final showdown deconstructs Conservation of Ninjutsu. Will kills almost all Little Bill's deputies because they are not experienced in actual gunfighting like Will is and none of them have a killer instinct despite their numbers. He mostly prevails because he quickly, accurately, and unhesitatingly shoots while his foes are indecisive and panicking.
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Unforgiven / int_84764598	type	Dramatic Thunder
Unforgiven / int_84764598	comment	Dramatic Thunder: On Will's appearance in the bar, and after his ultimatum to the entire town of Big Whiskey.
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Unforgiven / int_851dda8f	type	Humanoid Abomination
Unforgiven / int_851dda8f	comment	Humanoid Abomination: Although William Munny is (probably) human, it's implied several times there is something quite wrong about him.
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Unforgiven / int_85b91cc1	type	Retired Gunfighter
Unforgiven / int_85b91cc1	comment	Retired Gunfighter: Both Will Munny and Ned Logan were retired and had families until the Kid convinced them to come along for a bounty.
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Unforgiven / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Unforgiven / int_86b21114	comment	The Schofield Kid, who starts out eager to Badass Boast about his prowess and five-man kill count to anyone willing to hear. Which is all a lie because Quick Mike is his first ever kill and he ends up ashamed and emotionally broken by it. He's last seen skipping town, tearfully vowing to never pick up a gun ever again. In earlier drafts of the script, the shame was enough to drive the poor boy to suicide.
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Unforgiven / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
Unforgiven / int_875615dd	comment	This is Truth in Television: Revolvers of the time were notoriously inaccurate, even at close range. So as Little Bill says, accuracy trumps speed, and in fact shooting faster would likely make it less accurate, not more. Plus, Munny admits he's "always been lucky in killin' folks."
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Unforgiven / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
Unforgiven / int_890d4ef2	comment	Non-fatal example with English Bob. For all his cowardice and exaggeration of his deeds, he gives a spectacular, furious speech against the people of Big Whiskey as they're running him out of town. Given what we've seen of Big Whiskey, even though Bob is little better, it kind of comes off as Jerkass Has a Point.
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Unforgiven / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
Unforgiven / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: The main characters are Professional Killers looking for a pay-out on an illegal bounty. They are opposed by The Sheriff who is actively trying to keep law and order and stop the hit. The Killers happen to be reluctant and fighting their own demons, while the Sheriff has a sadistic streak and the reason for the bounty itself was considered Disproportionate Retribution. The film in general features Grey-and-Gray Morality.
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Unforgiven / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
Unforgiven / int_8ae880f7	comment	While the movie is primarily a Deconstruction, the final fight scene is more or less played straight and Munny isn't portrayed as in the wrong. Word of God says that the movie wasn't so much "violence is bad" as it is "violence is complex and only applicable in certain situations".
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Unforgiven / int_8c431f2a	type	Band of Brothels
Unforgiven / int_8c431f2a	comment	Band of Brothels: When one of theirs is maimed by a bad john, the working girls pool their resources and put a bounty on the wrongdoers' heads, kicking off the action.
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Unforgiven / int_9303d6d1	type	Battle Amongst the Flames
Unforgiven / int_9303d6d1	comment	Battle Amongst the Flames: Downplayed; a fire starts at the saloon right at the beginning of the final showdown, but it doesn't really get that big until the fight is mostly over.
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Unforgiven / int_94e7d8f	type	Shoot Him, He Has a Wallet!
Unforgiven / int_94e7d8f	comment	Shoot Him, He Has a Wallet!: W.W. Beauchamp is detained along with English Bob. When asked to provide credentials, Beauchamp reaches into his bag to produce a sample of his writing... and immediately realizes that every gun in sight is now cocked and pointed at him. He promptly wets himself.
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Unforgiven / int_95bca4c9	type	Tuckerization
Unforgiven / int_95bca4c9	comment	Tuckerization: Corky Corcoran was named after a cameraman who was filming a promotional spot for another Clint Eastwood movie. During a break in the interview, Eastwood asked what his name was, and when told it was Corky Corcoran, Clint did not believe him. His given name is John, but he went by Corky his whole life. Clint said that was a hell of a name.
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Unforgiven / int_966da803	type	Defiant to the End
Unforgiven / int_966da803	comment	The very loud rant he gives the people of Big Whiskey (see under Defiant to the End) as they run him out of town is spoken in what sounds like very coarse Cockney. By that point he's totally humiliated and blinded with rage and has no reason to pretend anymore.
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Unforgiven / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
Unforgiven / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: We never learn why Claudia and William married, only the effect it had on the latter.
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Unforgiven / int_96ecc67e	type	Shotguns Are Just Better
Unforgiven / int_96ecc67e	comment	At the start of the film, Munny is a horrible shot, missing a tin can with all six shots at close range. This leads him to bringing a shotgun along just in case. It's only after he discovers that Ned is dead that he gets his old focus back.
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Unforgiven / int_9788e2b1	type	Black Dude Dies First
Unforgiven / int_9788e2b1	comment	Black Dude Dies First: Ned is beaten to death by Little Bill, even though he wasn't the one who fired the fatal shot at cowboy Davey.
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Unforgiven / int_97fa0a10	type	Mass "Oh, Crap!"
Unforgiven / int_97fa0a10	comment	Mass "Oh, Crap!": Everyone in Skinny's bar when they see Will Munny walk in.
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Unforgiven / int_9bfb2f41	type	Dead Guy on Display
Unforgiven / int_9bfb2f41	comment	Dead Guy on Display: Done with Ned. Munny is angry and ready to kill by this point, but seeing Ned's body out in the open like that visibly enrages him further. Truth in Television — towns often put the unidentified dead out on display as well, in hopes that someone would identify them/claim the bodies.
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Unforgiven / int_9f7769a2	type	The Gunslinger
Unforgiven / int_9f7769a2	comment	The Gunslinger: If they're not a whore, they're a gunslinger. Or a writer ("What, letters and such?").
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Unforgiven / int_9fd18130	type	Animals Hate Him
Unforgiven / int_9fd18130	comment	Animals Hate Him: When he cannot mount his own horse, William Munny claims that his horse is taking revenge on him because he was mean with all the animals in his past. See Badass Boast to know how much Munny had mistreated and killed animals. Broken-down pig farmer Munny can't even manage his own sickly livestock, who probably resist his attempts to wrangle them out of spite as much as illness.
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Unforgiven / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
Unforgiven / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: Will pretty much drags his feet throughout the whole contract killing, but when he is given a personal reason to kill someone, like when Little Bill kills Ned, he goes back to his old ways, with increased focus and gusto.
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Unforgiven / int_a1f82f86	type	Enemy Chatter
Unforgiven / int_a1f82f86	comment	Enemy Chatter: Little Bill's deputies get screen time talking about random stuff, showing they are a bunch of regular guys just doing their jobs.
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Unforgiven / int_a4905771	type	Double-Meaning Title
Unforgiven / int_a4905771	comment	Double-Meaning Title: "Unforgiven" can conceivably refer to a few characters in the story. It can refer to Munny, who is a Retired Monster who can never feasibly be forgiven for his past crimes. Or Little Bill, who brutally kills Ned and invokes the wrath of Will, who is willing to revert back to his old ways to settle the score, even if it means dishonoring his late wife's memory. Or maybe the Schofield Kid, who can't forgive himself when he kills Mike and leaves the story emotionally broken and vowing to never pick up a gun again. And it most certainly applies to the cowboys, Quick Mike and Davey, who the whores refuse to forgive for cutting up one of their own. It bites especially hard in Davey's case, whose only fault was being Quick Mike's friend and being with him the night of his rampage. Davey even tries to make amends to Delilah, but her friends drive him away.
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Unforgiven / int_a49f4fb2	type	How Did You Know? I Didn't
Unforgiven / int_a49f4fb2	comment	How Did You Know? I Didn't: One scene is a subversion of Eastwood's film The Outlaw Josey Wales, where Wales survives a shootout with an armed posse and then explains how he did a Sherlock Scan of his enemies to figure out which one he had to shoot first. After Munny survives a similar encounter and is asked how he did it, he just shrugs and says he's always been lucky when it comes to killin' folks.
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Unforgiven / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Unforgiven / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: There is a humorous scene depicting Quick Mike among his bodyguards, where one jokes about handing Mike over for five cents, eliciting uproarious laughter. Mike himself comments that he's not worried, as he has "protection", and the camera switches to an overweight deputy snoring away. Then the scene immediately changes to a posse with a captive and bound Ned on horseback...
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Unforgiven / int_a54534a0	type	Parental Neglect
Unforgiven / int_a54534a0	comment	Parental Neglect: Munny leaves his two young children to fend for themselves while he risks his life to collect the bounty.
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Unforgiven / int_a61d8e40	type	Fastest Gun in the West
Unforgiven / int_a61d8e40	comment	Fastest Gun in the West: This film deconstructs the hell out of this. Sheriff "Little Bill" Daggett recounts no less than two instances where merely being able to unholster and draw your pistol in a gunfight faster than the other guy doesn't guarantee you'll win; on the contrary, you're more likely to either miss your opponent, or worse, shoot yourself in the leg or foot, and that's if the gun doesn't jam or blow up in your hand. Played With in Little Bill's admission that there's always a chance that a man who draws and fires too fast might not miss, which means "he'll kill you." Fulfilled in the final gunfight: When Little Bill and all the deputies yank out their guns and blaze away at Will without hitting anything, he calmly aims and fires, and each shot is a hit. In particular, "Fatty"'s gun handling in the final shootout strays into Black Comedy: he is so rattled that he desperately "fans" his pistol's hammer with his free hand, trying to fire faster, but only manages to ratchet his hammer 2-3 times for each actual trigger pull (which probably results in dropping his hammer on an empty chamber), and finally fires his last shot into the ceiling as he turns to flee.
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Unforgiven / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Unforgiven / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Somewhat downplayed. While Will doesn't get any retribution at the end for his crimes, they were all either implied or justified in some way since he's given a Sympathetic P.O.V. throughout the film. And he knows he's going to pay for it in Hell anyway.
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Unforgiven / int_a754fa9a	type	Instant Death Bullet
Unforgiven / int_a754fa9a	comment	The Instant Death Bullet is averted on multiple occasions, and characters are depicted as suffering in terrible pain as a result of being shot. Instant death bullets and (often) Bloodless Carnage do a lot of work to keep the tone of Westerns relatively light, without them things quickly become much darker and more horrific.
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Unforgiven / int_a796d2a6	type	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
Unforgiven / int_a796d2a6	comment	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Discussed, and ultimately Deconstructed. The deputies in the final showdown panic, blaze away at Munny, and hit exactly zip. Munny, on the other hand, keeps a cool head and rations out a bullet for each one. At the start of the film, Munny is a horrible shot, missing a tin can with all six shots at close range. This leads him to bringing a shotgun along just in case. It's only after he discovers that Ned is dead that he gets his old focus back. Munny also apparently works best while drunk. He drinks a bottle of whisky (his first in the movie) before entering Skinny's for the showdown. This is Truth in Television: Revolvers of the time were notoriously inaccurate, even at close range. So as Little Bill says, accuracy trumps speed, and in fact shooting faster would likely make it less accurate, not more. Plus, Munny admits he's "always been lucky in killin' folks."
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Unforgiven / int_a7acd9aa	type	ChekhovsLecture
Unforgiven / int_a7acd9aa	comment	Chekhov's Lecture: Little Bill explains to Beauchamp, at length, about how proper aim trumps speed in a real gunfight. Illustrated bloodily during the movie's climactic gunfight: Munny systematically guns down the men surrounding him while standing still with no cover except merely crouching a little in a cramped bar. The deputies are so freaked out by his ruthless execution of the owner and Bill that they all miss him. Though Munny says that it has as much to do with pure luck as anything else.
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Unforgiven / int_a8bfbd9a	type	Redemption Failure
Unforgiven / int_a8bfbd9a	comment	Redemption Failure: Munny is a former bad man, who tried to make a go at being a farmer for the sake of his wife. When she dies and his farm fails to earn him anything beyond a wretched subsistence, in desperation he decides to take on One Last Job for enough money to start over. When Ned dies he fully slides back to his old ways for one evening. Afterwards, it was rumored that he eventually returned to a mundane life once more. Little Bill, too. By his own admission, he is a bad man, but he's trying to make a go of it by being a sheriff. He just happens to be a little too brutal at his job and pisses off the wrong assassin.
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Unforgiven / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Unforgiven / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: A major part of the film's goal of de-romanticizing the West: racism (whether against Englishmen, "Chinamen" or "injuns") is rampant, prostitutes are seen as the scum of the earth (Skinny refers to the cut-up prostitute as "damaged property"), and an exchange of goods is seen as acceptable punishment for slicing them up. Unfortunately, all of this period-appropriate realism makes the fact that Ned's skin color is not even remarked upon, never mind serving as a plot point, extremely jarring. This was heavily criticized by the film's detractors (Ned was presumably not written with Morgan Freeman in mind).
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Unforgiven / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
Unforgiven / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: Although the prostitutes treat Davey as equally responsible for Mike's mutilation of Delilah's face, when Delilah hears of Davey's fatal shooting at the hands of Munny, she takes a remorseful and sympathetic tone.
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Unforgiven / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Unforgiven / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: English Bob upon seeing Little Bill: "Shit and fried eggs." Everyone in the saloon has a moment when Little Bill is talking about how they're going to catch the "assassins"... and then they hear a gun click behind them, and standing in the doorway is a very pissed looking Munny, holding a shotgun. Munny, very briefly, when he goes to shoot Bill and his shotgun misfires. The Schofield Kid gets one when he hears that he's the only friend Will has.
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Unforgiven / int_adbbb5c5	type	Writers Suck
Unforgiven / int_adbbb5c5	comment	(In this case, Even Anti-Heroes Have Standards). After killing the men at the saloon, when writer W.W. Beauchamp asks him who he chose first (in an effort to romanticize the brutal events that Munny committed), Munny replies only by threatening him with death. All the players in the movie were eager to justify their Disproportionate Retribution, except for Munny: he knows that he did evil things once and heâ€™s doing evil things now, and for that he will go to hell. He will not try to hide that from himself or anyone else.
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Unforgiven / int_b1619b3c	type	Omnicidal Maniac
Unforgiven / int_b1619b3c	comment	"You be William Munny outta Missouri. Killer of women and children!" "That's right. I killed women and children. Killed just about everything that walks or crawled at one time or another. And I'm here to kill you, Little Bill, for what you did to Ned." Doubles as Oh, Crap! for the rest of the spectators.
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Unforgiven / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Unforgiven / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Little Bill gives Munny a chance to disarm and stay in town peacefully, even giving him the excuse that maybe he didn't see the sign at the edge of town in the dark and the rain. But when Munny lies to him by saying he's not carrying a gun... Little Bill's deputies are visibly uneased to see how severely Little Bill is beating William Munny in the bar, despite the fact Munny is now unarmed and is clearly so ill that he can't be much of a danger to anyone.
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Unforgiven / int_b4de919d	type	Make an Example of Them
Unforgiven / int_b4de919d	comment	Make an Example of Them: Bill's beating of English Bob is meant to serve as a warning, but we later find out that the beating has far more to do with personal reasons, and the public warning is just an excuse.
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Unforgiven / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Unforgiven / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Really, Skinny? You don't even carry a gun but you thought it would be a good idea to put Will Munny's best friend on display outside your saloon? And then just stand there when he tells everyone else to clear out? Ned told Little Bill: "If you kill me, Will Munny will come for you!" Little Bill ignored the warning and killed Ned. Later, with Munny's rifle pointing at his face, Little Bill whines: "I don't deserve to die like this!" Bub, you had been warned.
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Unforgiven / int_b6c6e9ed	comment	Violence Is Disturbing: Best shown by Davey's death. There is nothing noble or glorious about it. Little Bill's beating of Munny, which we get to see in full, is also disturbing. Judging from their expressions even Bill's deputies seem to agree.
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Unforgiven / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
Unforgiven / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: Will took the kids and left for San Francisco, where he prospered in selling dry goods. And Claudia's mother visited her grave, finding no explanation why her only daughter had married "a known thief and murderer, a man of notoriously vicious and intemperate disposition."
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Unforgiven / int_b8d3f642	comment	Illegal Religion: Christianity was illegal in Japan until very recently, and Jubei is believed to have executed women and children for practicing it.
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Unforgiven / int_ba26aa0d	comment	Teeny Weenie: Quick Mike cut up Delilah because she laughed at his small penis.
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Unforgiven / int_be30e493	comment	Undignified Death: Quick Mike is killed squatting on the john in his underwear holding up his empty hands. His last words before he was shot were begging the boy who had him under a gun not to kill him.
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Unforgiven / int_be8416ea	type	Shrouded in Myth
Unforgiven / int_be8416ea	comment	Shrouded in Myth: William Munny. Funnily enough, it seems that the real facts about Will Munny's exploits are more fantastical than the urban legends. He claims he was drunk during most of them, so even he isn't clear on the details. English Bob is a subversion. While he does seem to have some genuine skills (shooting a bird in flight from a moving train with a pistol is pretty damn impressive), it seems likely that most of his exploits are padded. Subverted also when The Schofield Kid is babbling about his kill. "He reached for his gun and I shot him." In truth, when the Kid shot him the man had his hands up and his gun was well out of reach. This is probably how most of the myths come about. What the kid said was basically true, but he didn't tell the middle part (the man did reach for his gun, but his gunbelt was hanging on a peg on the inside of the outhouse door and moved completely out of his reach when the Kid opened the door. He tried raising his hands and talking instead, and the Kid shot him with his empty hands raised). There's also probably a bit of selective rewriting of history going on in the process, since given the mood the Kid is in, he would probably rather remember (and have others remember) that he shot a man who was preparing to shoot him rather than that he shot an unarmed and entirely defenseless man pleading for his life with his empty hands raised.
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Unforgiven / int_bedd799b	type	Blunt "Yes"
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Unforgiven / int_c222dde4	type	TakingAThirdOption
Unforgiven / int_c222dde4	comment	Taking a Third Option: Little Bill, to prove how difficult it actually is to shoot a man, hands a pistol to biographer W.W. Beauchamp. He sets the keys to English Bob's cell on the table and tells Beauchamp all he has to do is shoot him and then Beauchamp and English Bob can escape. Beauchamp questions whether the gun is loaded at first and is indeed extremely nervous to even hold it (failing to put his finger on the trigger), and Little Bill moves to take the gun back. Then Beauchamp gets the bright idea of giving the pistol to Bob, reasoning that the far more experienced gunslinger will not hesitate to shoot his tormentor. Bill, seemingly unfazed, dares him to do so. English Bob stands up and comes to the bars of his cell within reach of the gun and Little Bill moves his hand near his own pistol, staring him down. After a moment's hesitation English Bob declines to take the gun. He shakes his head, possibly at his own cowardice, as Little Bill demonstrates that the gun was indeed loaded by emptying it in front of him.
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Unforgiven / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
Unforgiven / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!:How William Munny kills Little Bill. Shotgun blast to the face. Point blank.
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Unforgiven / int_c5c79ad3	type	And Your Little Dog, Too!
Unforgiven / int_c5c79ad3	comment	"Alright, I'm comin' out. Any man I see out there, I'm gonna kill em! Any sumbitch takes a shot at me, I'm not only gonna kill him, I'm gonna kill his wife, all his friends, (and) burn his damn house down!"
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Unforgiven / int_c633ea76	type	Campfire Character Exploration
Unforgiven / int_c633ea76	comment	Campfire Character Exploration: Multiple times the heroes share intimate stories by a campfire.
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Unforgiven / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Unforgiven / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: "The Duke" was a reference to John Wayne. Speaking of Wayne, Munny talking to his wife's grave was inspired by She Wore a Yellow Ribbon.
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Unforgiven / int_c7686239	type	Clint Squint
Unforgiven / int_c7686239	comment	Eastwoodâ€™s trademark squint was subject to this too: the Schofield Kid is almost constantly squinting, but itâ€™s just because of his poor eyesight and doesnâ€™t look badass in the least.
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Unforgiven / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Unforgiven / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Subverted after Little Bill kills Ned; while Munny stalks into town to take his cold-blooded revenge on the man who killed his best friend and the owner of the saloon who put his corpse on display, he's remarkably controlled. Despite being described throughout the film as a psychotic butcher, once he guns down all the men who are actively shooting at him, he tells everyone else to just Get Out!, even those who are still clutching loaded weapons. Even before that, he warns bystanders to move away to avoid collateral damage before he shoots Skinny and Bill.
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Unforgiven / int_d09eafbc	type	Floating Head Syndrome
Unforgiven / int_d09eafbc	comment	Floating Head Syndrome: The movie poster shows the heads of the major characters stacked up in a column.
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Unforgiven / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Unforgiven / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Subverted when Little Bill calls out Will for shooting an unarmed man, Will has none of that since the man is desecrating Ned's body by putting it in front of his saloon as a warning, you don't get to play innocent.
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Unforgiven / int_d567ce13	type	Who Will Bell the Cat?
Unforgiven / int_d567ce13	comment	Who Will Bell the Cat?: At the end of the film, after the climactic shoot-out, Munny shouts out a threatening warning that anyone who takes a shot at him as he leaves will pay dearly for it. Two men, one a deputy holding a rifle, are hiding behind a wagon as Munny emerges and have him dead to rights... but the deputy is too terrified to take the shot, in case he misses. He offers the rifle to the other man, but he won't touch it either, and Munny rides away unmolested.
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Unforgiven / int_d7c3ba61	type	Race Lift
Unforgiven / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: The characters are all Japanese, obviously, but notably Goro is Ainu. This adds tension to his characterization, as many "Wa" (ethnically Japanese) look down on the Ainu as little more than animals, and an Ainu who kills a Wa will be hunted for the rest of his life.
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Unforgiven / int_d80e9526	type	Sex for Services
Unforgiven / int_d80e9526	comment	Sex for Services: The whores allow Munny's companions to take 'advances' on their payment as they don't actually have the full amount they're promising.
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Unforgiven / int_d842e380	type	Love Redeems
Unforgiven / int_d842e380	comment	Love Redeems: Well, almost. Munny did change his ways for his wife, but eventually reverted to his old ways after she died.
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Unforgiven / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
Unforgiven / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: "Billiards."
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Unforgiven / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Unforgiven / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Ned decides he can't shoot people for money anymore, and he leaves town to go home. Munny insists he will still get his share of the reward regardless. Beauchamp quickly leaves the saloon and the town of Big Whiskey after the saloon massacre. And he probably had nightmares about Munny for the rest of his life.
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Unforgiven / int_da909e61	type	Villainy Discretion Shot
Unforgiven / int_da909e61	comment	Villainy Discretion Shot: Judging from the details given on their backstories, English Bob, Munny, and Ned did some pretty horrific things in the past. Part of the reason Munny and Ned can remain sympathetic is that those things are only described, not shown (although William Munny's crimes, at least, are described in enough detail to remind the audience that while he's not without sympathetic qualities, he's also capable of pure, remorseless evil).
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Unforgiven / int_dbd43caa	type	Power Equals Rarity
Unforgiven / int_dbd43caa	comment	Power Equals Rarity: The Schofield Kid uses a Smith & Wesson Model 3 revolver; more specifically, one of the modified and improved 1875 "Schofield" models. This is a state-of-the-art revolver that shoots straight, won't jam and won't blow up in your hand. His is the only Schofield in the movie; it even gives him his nickname. This revolver grants his owner a definite advantage compared to other weapons like shotguns that misfire or the prone-to-explode Colt Walker. Predictably, the Schofield ends up in Will Munny's hands who uses it in the final gunfight.
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Unforgiven / int_deefb79e	type	Saloon Owner
Unforgiven / int_deefb79e	comment	Really, Skinny? You don't even carry a gun but you thought it would be a good idea to put Will Munny's best friend on display outside your saloon? And then just stand there when he tells everyone else to clear out?
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Unforgiven / int_e431c24c	type	Not Quite Dead
Unforgiven / int_e431c24c	comment	Not Quite Dead: Little Bill Daggett doesn't die immediately when William Munny initially shoots him, and this enables him to nearly get the drop on Munny. But at the last second, Munny notices Bill stirring and stops him from reaching his pistol, then finishes him off for good with a blast to the face. One of the deputies Munny previously shot is still alive, with his groans of pain giving him away. Munny polishes him off, as well.
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Unforgiven / int_e44a1a70	type	Bounty Hunter
Unforgiven / int_e44a1a70	comment	Bounty Hunter: Will Munny, Ned Logan, and The Schofield Kid.
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Unforgiven / int_e50987a9	type	Reconstruction
Unforgiven / int_e50987a9	comment	Reconstruction: While the movie is primarily a Deconstruction, the final fight scene is more or less played straight and Munny isn't portrayed as in the wrong. Word of God says that the movie wasn't so much "violence is bad" as it is "violence is complex and only applicable in certain situations". Something of a Broken Aesop in that case: While Little Bill went too far in killing Ned and is repeatedly portrayed as a sadist who takes pleasure in doling out his version of justice, he believed the man he killed had murdered the babyfaced and relatively innocent â€” but still guilt-ridden â€” Davey in cold blood just for a quick pay-off. Munny convinced Ned to come along and help him commit a couple of contract killings despite the latter's misgivings; who's really responsible for getting him killed?
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Unforgiven / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
Unforgiven / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: Little Bill's insistence on referring to English Bob as the Duck (of Death) rather than the Duke. Even after being corrected, he replies "duck, I says," suggesting it's an expression of contempt for Bob himself, who's hardly fearsome in his estimation. Little Bill and his deputies repeatedly refer to bounty hunters as "assassins." The tone they use makes it sound like they're using the word as kind of an insult, but in fact it is an entirely valid distinction: offering money for straight-up killing two men is contract killing and the men seeking to collect are hired assassins.
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Unforgiven / int_e5a6888c	type	Quick Draw
Unforgiven / int_e5a6888c	comment	Quick Draw: Downplayed; As Little Bill notes when he's talking to the writer while being fast on the draw is perfectly fine...those who draw and start blazing away without taking the time to properly aim as a rule end up dead — while a slower, but more accurate, gunfighter will, as a rule, end up the victor. Demonstrated to brutal effect in the final shootout where, even though Munny throws his misfiring shotgun at him to buy time, Little Bill draws his gun and shoots faster than Munny can- and misses. Munny then guns him down, and steadily blows away the deputies one by one as they all blaze away at him in a panic.
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Unforgiven / int_e8b295de	comment	Played With in Little Bill's admission that there's always a chance that a man who draws and fires too fast might not miss, which means "he'll kill you."
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Unforgiven / int_ea7e3be8	type	Dramatic Gun Cock
Unforgiven / int_ea7e3be8	comment	Dramatic Gun Cock: Drawn guns are only cocked when the tension is at its highest.
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Unforgiven / int_ebb8b676	type	Not His Blood
Unforgiven / int_ebb8b676	comment	Not His Blood: After the climactic gunbattle in which William Munny kills Little Bill and most of his deputies, Munny hears moaning coming from a pile of bodies. Mr. Beauchamp (Little Bill's biographer) moves a dead body off of himself, sees a patch of blood on his chest and says "I'm shot! I'm shot!" Munny tells him "You ain't shot", and he's right. The blood came from the dead man lying on top of him.
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Unforgiven / int_ec9a5f50	type	Deconstructed Character Archetype
Unforgiven / int_ec9a5f50	comment	Munny himself is a Deconstructed Character Archetype of the Man With No Name and his expies, both of which are the kinds of characters Clint Eastwood played in the 60s and 70s. The Man With No Name was a cool, unstoppable Anti-Hero whose lethal skills let him gun down dozens of bad guys. William Munny is a Retired Monster who was a cruel, unhinged, and cold-blooded killer who killed whoever was in his way regardless of who they were with his lethal skills.
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Unforgiven / int_edeafb2e	type	Malicious Misnaming
Unforgiven / int_edeafb2e	comment	Little Bill's insistence on referring to English Bob as the Duck (of Death) rather than the Duke. Even after being corrected, he replies "duck, I says," suggesting it's an expression of contempt for Bob himself, who's hardly fearsome in his estimation.
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Unforgiven / int_f1919d5b	type	Being Evil Sucks
Unforgiven / int_f1919d5b	comment	Being Evil Sucks: Since it's not necessarily obvious: The Schofield Kid has this one pretty bad right before the final showdown Where It All Began.
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Unforgiven / int_f5e59782	type	A Real Man Is a Killer
Unforgiven / int_f5e59782	comment	A Real Man Is a Killer: The whole point of the film is to point out that you'd have to be pretty cold-blooded or crazy to work as a gunfighter. An alternate point (which the Schofield Kid seems to get) is that killing someone costs the killer almost as much as the victim.
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Unforgiven / int_f87470d1	type	Dying Truce
Unforgiven / int_f87470d1	comment	Dying Truce: William Munny shoots and mortally wounds the cowboy Davey Bunting. Davey becomes thirsty and begs one of his friends to bring him water. His friends are reluctant to do so due to fear of being shot themselves. Munny calls out to them to give Davey some water and promises not to shoot them. One of them believes him and goes to Davey with a canteen.
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Unforgiven / int_f933e594	type	How the Mighty Have Fallen
Unforgiven / int_f933e594	comment	How the Mighty Have Fallen: Once a feared gunslinger, William Munny is now a rheumatic old pig farmer who can barely get on his horse and can't even shoot straight anymore...
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Unforgiven / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
Unforgiven / int_fac4ff79	comment	Meta Casting: Eastwood has stated on occasion that he considers this to be something of a direct sequel to his earlier Westerns, showing what happened when the Man With No Name grew old and ran out of bad guys to kill.
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Unforgiven / int_fcd46998	type	Red-Light District
Unforgiven / int_fcd46998	comment	Red Light District: Not a whole district of them, but there's at least one brothel. It does turn up a lot in the film, though.
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Unforgiven / int_fe614133	type	Beauty Is Never Tarnished
Unforgiven / int_fe614133	comment	Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Averted with Delilah, whose injuries kick off the plot. While she's isn't exactly disfigured, and arguably still pretty good-looking, she has permanent scarring on her face.
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Unforgiven / int_ff04e190	type	Inciting Incident
Unforgiven / int_ff04e190	comment	Inciting Incident: Delilah laughing at Quick Mike's Teeny Weenie set the entire movie in action.
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Unforgiven / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Little Bill, when telling W.W. Beauchamp the real story about how English Bob killed Two-Gun Corcoran, explains that Corcoran's Walker Colt exploded on him, allowing Bob to get the drop on him. This was a problem that Walker Colts really had.
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Unforgiven	hasFeature	And Your Little Dog, Too! / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Animals Hate Him / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Band of Brothels / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Batman Grabs a Gun / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Blemished Beauty / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Blunt "Yes" / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Bring My Brown Pants / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Camping a Crapper / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Celibate Hero / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Chinese Laborer / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Clint Squint / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Convenient Misfire / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Coup de GrÃ¢ce / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Cryptic Background Reference / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Cultural Posturing / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Cultured Badass / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Dead Guy on Display / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Deconstructor Fleet / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Deliberate Values Dissonance / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	"Do It Yourself" Theme Tune / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Drunken Master / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Dying Truce / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Epic Movie / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Fastest Gun in the West / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Films of 1990â€“1994 / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Floating Head Syndrome / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Formula with a Twist / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Good Scars, Evil Scars / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Gossip Evolution / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Gun Porn / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Guns in Church / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Gut Punch / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Hooker with a Heart of Gold / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Hourglass Plot / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	How Did You Know? I Didn't / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	How the Mighty Have Fallen / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Insistent Terminology / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Kick Them While They Are Down / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Lawful Evil / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Love Redeems / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Make an Example of Them / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Malicious Misnaming / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Mandatory Unretirement / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Miles Gloriosus / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Mundane MacGuffin Person / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Nerves of Steel / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Not His Blood / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Off the Wagon / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	One Last Job / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Place Worse Than Death / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Playing with Character Type / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Plot-Triggering Death / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Pretender Diss / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Price on Their Head / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Quick Nip / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Redemption Failure / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Rejected Apology / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Remittance Man / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Retired Gunfighter / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Retired Monster / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Saloon Owner / int_4139b0e7
SaulRubinek	seeAlso	Unforgiven
Unforgiven	hasFeature	See You in Hell / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Sexual Euphemism / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Shoot Him, He Has a Wallet! / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Shrouded in Myth / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Spared by the Cut / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Stealth Sequel / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Tagalong Chronicler / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Teeny Weenie / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	The Alleged House / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	The Can Kicked Him / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	The Dung Ages / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	The Expy With No Name / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	The Gunfighter Wannabe / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	The MÃ¼nchausen / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	The Trope Kid / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	The Wild West / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	They Call Him "Sword" / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Throw-Away Guns / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Throwing Your Gun at the Enemy / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Token Good Cop / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Tragic Dream / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	seeAlso	Unforgiven
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Verbed Title / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Villain-by-Proxy Fallacy / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Violence Is Disturbing / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Who Will Bell the Cat? / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Win Back the Crowd / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Young Gun / int_4139b0e7
unforgiven	sameAs	Unforgiven
Unforgiven	hasFeature	AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies / int_4139b0e7
Unforgiven	hasFeature	Death Is Dramatic / int_4139b0e7

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