Unforgiven (1992). Arguably the best anti-violence Western ever made. Directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, along with great performances from Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and Richard Harris. Eastwood dedicated the film to his two mentors: Sergio Leone and Don Siegel.
The scene below is one of the more memorable ones from the film. In fact, it is probably the film’s best non-action scene. Note the anti-violence undertones, with Eastwood’s character stoically getting across the point to his young outlaw partner of just how unglamorous killing is. Simple, but highly effective and poignant writing and acting–The hallmark of Eastwood films as he has gotten older.
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I don’t see any video clip.
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Dogs woke me up at 7..watched Hang em High this AM
nice!
“I’d rather be blind and ragged than dead.”
Classic Chess, I featured it myself a time or two:
http://economicdisconnect.blogspot.com/2010/07/banks-are-crooks.html
To me the scene was both a desire to leave the old ways (for Eastwoods character, as much as Little Bill wanted to go back to his old ways, a nice dichotomy during the film BTW) but in the ned he HAS to live up to the old story for what happened to Ned. Become the nightmare folks get chills over. Excellent clip, dig it.
excellent
Very weird chess. It come up on the desktop, but not on the I-Pad and I can get both U-Tube and Vimeo on both. It’s not a problem for me, but thought you should know. Maybe just a one time thing. I’ll let you know if it happens in the future.