UNFORGIVEN

I hadn't seen any westerns before stagecoach and after watching it I didn't want to see anymore, but I thought that Unforgiven was a pretty good movie. After seeing Unforgiven, I can see the differences between classical westerns like Stagecoach, and newer revisionist westerns like Unforgiven. I also now like the revisionists westerns more than the classical westerns. Although Unforgiven followed a plot similar to a lot of westerns I though that the way it all happened was better. Unforgiven was unique from most westerns. Unforgiven showed that the westerns heroes might not be such respectable characters. This is shown through the main character William Munny, because of that fact that he has killed women and children, and because by the end of the movie he is back to his old ways of drinking and killing. Another example is of the character English Bob. English Bob at first seems like he would be a typical cowboy hero, but it is later revealed that he killed a man whose gun miss fired and had to walk up and shoot him point blank because he was so drunk. Also killing is portrayed differently in this film. When Will, Ted, and the Schofield kid are shooting down the first cowboy, they miss a few times and once they actually hit him he doesn't instantly die, which is what you would expect from watching other movies. Also the second cowboy they kill is not in a typical or expected way. They kill the second cowboy while he is in the outhouse, and not in some shoot out like you would see in other westerns.