Unforgiven
In this morality play written in the Western schematic, former gunslinger William Munny takes on the job of killing cowboys who disfigured a prostitute. The only thing in his way is the sheriff who, in the name of justice, tries to prevent justice being done. Clint Eastwood, who against all odds could not part with his beloved film genre, worked with a script written in the 1980s by David Webb Peples (Blade Runner) in the form of a realistic Western to produce a true genre masterpiece and contribute to a revival of movies about the Wild West. Unforgiven is not only a story that plays out in Big Whisky in the 1890s, but also a film that is contemporary on its own terms, that speaks of wrongs unpunished that beget greater evil. It's also a film about the violence used to subdue the West, to bring law and order, as well as the violence that continues to now pervade America as a force of destruction and disintegration.
awards
Academy Awards 1993 – Best Picture, Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Gene Hackman), Best Director, Best Film Editing; Golden Globe 1993 – Best Director – Motion Picture, Best Performance by an Actor in Supporting Role in a Motion Picture (Gene Hackman); Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 1992 – Best Picture, Best Supporting Role (Gene Hackman), Best Cinematography
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood (b. 1930, San Francisco) is a living Hollywood legend. Steven Spielberg called him maybe the last real man in American film. He abandoned sports and military careers in favor of television, making his debut in the Rawhide TV series. From there, he ventured to Italy where, inspired by Sergio Leone, he created the man with no name for the Spaghetti Western Dollars Trilogy. After getting back stateside, he portrayed another now iconic character, inspector Harry Callahan, aka Dirty Harry. On the set of that film, he replaced the director, Don Siegel, in several scenes. The same year, he debuted as a director in his own right with the thriller Play Misty for Me, produced by his own Malpaso studio established in 1967. Up until Bird, Eastwood's directorial efforts (mainly Westerns and action movies) were primarily a successful reworking of genre schematics. Starting with the Charlie Parker biopic, Eastwood's seasoned work takes on qualities of realistic psychological cinema with a moralist streak. Winner of two Oscars for directing, the Irvin Thalberg prize and an honorary Golden Palm (2002).
Selected filmography
1971 Zagraj dla mnie, Misty / Play Misty for Me
1980 Bronco Billy
1992 Bez przebaczenia / Unforgiven
2000 Kosmiczni kowboje / Space Cowboys
2003 Rzeka tajemnic / Mystic River
2006 Sztandar chwały / Flags of Our Fathers
2006 Listy z Iwo Jimy / Letters from Iwo Jima
2014 Jersey Boys
