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The Unforgiven

 

            
             Winner of four Academy Awards, including best picture, director, supporting actor, and best editing, Clint Eastwood's 1992 masterpiece stands as one of the greatest and most thematically compelling Westerns ever made. .
             The film was commercially successful at the time of its release and its acting was universally praised - it helped to revive the reputation of Westerns, becoming only the third Western ever to win the Best Picture Academy Award - two years earlier, another Western film Dances With Wolves (1990) took the top honor. .
             The first Western to win the Best Picture Oscar was Cimarron (1930/1931). .
             Overall, the film was nominated for nine Academy Awards and won four of 1992's Oscars: Best Picture (Clint Eastwood as producer), Best Supporting Actor (Gene Hackman - his second Oscar after winning for The French Connection (1971)), Best Director, and Best Film Editing. It won dozens of other Awards, among which 4 Golden Globes, also for Best Film, Best Director and Best Supporting Actor.
             "Unforgiven" is dedicated to Eastwood's mentors Sergio Leone and Don Siegel and features a colourful role for Richard Harris, who, before his recent death, starred as Professor Dumbledore in the first two Harry Potter movies.
             The film stays very close to the original script, except for the opening shot, which was not in the script, written by David Webb Peoples in 1984, two years after another great script of his, "Blade Runner".
             One of the many haunting things about Unforgiven, is its title.
             The script floated around Hollywood for 6 years (!) under the original title "The Cut Whore Killings, later changed to "The William Munny Killings".
             Eventually Clint Eastwood bought the script and waited until he thought he was old enough to play the lead character, William Munny.
             (By the way, the script was offered to Gene Hackman first, but he turned it down, because he thought it was too violent!!).
             Eastwood changed the title, significantly, to "Unforgiven".


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