Unforgiven

Beware the Duck of Death! In this episode, Greg and Susan discuss "Unforgiven," the 1992 American revisionist Western film produced and directed by Clint Eastwood and written by David Webb Peoples. The film stars Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman, Richard Harris, and Frances Fischer.

The couple discusses the various ways in which the film subverts the tropes of classic Westerns that formed the foundation of Eastwood's career. Themes of violence, transformation, the past, and legend versus reality are reviewed. Susan and Greg also explore the complexity of different characters of the film - including Hackman's Little Bob, Eastwood's Will Mooney, and Harris' English Bob - and discuss the ways certain characters counterbalance others in the movie.

Sources referenced:

http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/william_beard/Unforgiven.htm
https://nofilmschool.com/2017/09/unforgiven-deconstructing-western
https://deepfocusreview.com/definitives/unforgiven/