How did the Unforgiven win Academy reward? Recommend more westerns please

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons

How could a legendary gun fighter become a feeble useless pig farmer?

Age and regret. But if you watch the entire movie he isn't quite so feeble....

Other than the last bar scene when is he not feeble?

The kid was friggin annoying as well. Munney should have shot him to to shut him up.

 

[Shantanu]

Originally posted by: Spoooon

Originally posted by: Shantanu
Academy awards are usually given out on the basis of how well a movie is made, i.e. acting talent. The movie itself can suck, e.g. English Patient.

Unforgiven was the politically correct, anti-Western. That's why most Western fans didn't like it.

I didn't see it as an anti-Western. Unforgiven tells the story that most other westerns don't: what happens to a gunfighter burdened by guilt, children, and old age.

That's why it's the anti-Western. It has the same setting as a Western, but doesn't follow the typical story arc.

 

[emu10k2]

See if you can find the Peter Fonda movie, "The Hired Hand". Brilliant!

 

[Tom]

OK, but anti-Western sounds like something that opposes the traditional Western, when Unforgiven is actually a lovingly crafted ode to the Western.