Oscar project- Unforgiven
Feb. 14th, 2006 03:55 pmI watched this movie last week, but I wanted to wait until Darren had returned from Northern Voice.
Unforgiven , directed by Clint Eastwood, is one of the few Westerns to have claimed the Best picture (1992). It stars Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Richard Harris, Morgan Freeman and Frances Fisher. Alberta stands in for Wyoming again. In fact, in one scene, I recognized a particular stretch of the Badlands. Movies set in the prairies make me nostalgic and sad; I guess I'm homesick for Big Sky Country.
The movie, which was originally supposed to be called "The Cut-Whore Killings", starts in media res, which is great. The viewer is immediately interested. The premise begins because a prostitute has her face cut up because she insults one of her clients. The group of prostitutes in town want justice, so they hire a gunslinger and some of his buds. Gene Hackman is the sheriff who wants to keep things civil in his town.
Eastwood looks pretty spry in this film, especially compared to "Million Dollar baby." This is a tight script, and the dialogue is quick. It wasn't my favourite film, but I still thought it was good and really enjoyed Frances Fisher. I would have liked to have more of her character.
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Since the last Oscar project movie I watched was an Eastwood picture, I started thinking about Eastwood's last few movies (Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, and Mystic River, which I loved). Eastwood picks tight scripts with good dialogue. In one of the critiques that I read about "Unforgiven", someone mentioned that the film has a message about anti-violence. If you think about Eastwood's last three films, there is an overarching theme of how violence can destroy lives and rip them apart. If you compare and contrast the three films, you could probably write yourself a decent essay.
And no, I was never an English major.
ETA- My favourite line- "I ain't got no guns. I'm a writer."
Unforgiven , directed by Clint Eastwood, is one of the few Westerns to have claimed the Best picture (1992). It stars Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Richard Harris, Morgan Freeman and Frances Fisher. Alberta stands in for Wyoming again. In fact, in one scene, I recognized a particular stretch of the Badlands. Movies set in the prairies make me nostalgic and sad; I guess I'm homesick for Big Sky Country.
The movie, which was originally supposed to be called "The Cut-Whore Killings", starts in media res, which is great. The viewer is immediately interested. The premise begins because a prostitute has her face cut up because she insults one of her clients. The group of prostitutes in town want justice, so they hire a gunslinger and some of his buds. Gene Hackman is the sheriff who wants to keep things civil in his town.
Eastwood looks pretty spry in this film, especially compared to "Million Dollar baby." This is a tight script, and the dialogue is quick. It wasn't my favourite film, but I still thought it was good and really enjoyed Frances Fisher. I would have liked to have more of her character.
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Since the last Oscar project movie I watched was an Eastwood picture, I started thinking about Eastwood's last few movies (Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, and Mystic River, which I loved). Eastwood picks tight scripts with good dialogue. In one of the critiques that I read about "Unforgiven", someone mentioned that the film has a message about anti-violence. If you think about Eastwood's last three films, there is an overarching theme of how violence can destroy lives and rip them apart. If you compare and contrast the three films, you could probably write yourself a decent essay.
And no, I was never an English major.
ETA- My favourite line- "I ain't got no guns. I'm a writer."