Twenty-one years in the making. Clint Eastwood's final Western. The film that destroyed the myth of the gunfighter while creating a masterpiece about the costs of violence.

Unforgiven was Eastwood's reckoning with his own screen persona and the Western mythology that made him famous. We examine how William Munny—a retired killer trying to be a pig farmer—became the dark evolution of the Man with No Name, and how Eastwood used everything he'd learned about violence and heroism to create the Western that ended all Westerns.

From Gene Hackman's complex Sheriff Little Bill to the film's uncompromising treatment of violence, we explore how Eastwood deconstructed every comforting lie the Western genre had ever told. This is the film that proved he wasn't just a movie star or skilled filmmaker, but an artist capable of examining and ultimately rejecting the very myths that had made him famous.

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