Unforgiven had a different ending (1 Viewer)

[Dago]

'Unforgiven' screenwriter describes the lost ending Clint Eastwood cut from classic 1992 Western

David Peoples shares behind the scenes secrets about "Unforgiven" on the film's 30th anniversary.

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I would love to see the scene, but it sounds like Eastwood made a good call IMO

 

[Merl]

'Unforgiven' screenwriter describes the lost ending Clint Eastwood cut from classic 1992 Western

David Peoples shares behind the scenes secrets about "Unforgiven" on the film's 30th anniversary.

www.yahoo.com

I would love to see the scene, but it sounds like Eastwood made a good call IMO

I agree. Eastwood easily made the best decision. There was no "hero" in that movie. They all had their major faults.

 

[longtime lurker]

Great read. It would be something to eventually watch that scene. It’s such an iconic film, scene after scene, crazy to think this alternative ending is sitting in Eastwood’s vault.

 

[Saintman2884]

I agree. Eastwood easily made the best decision. There was no "hero" in that movie. They all had their major faults.

Eastwood's character, as well as Morgan Freeman's, at least were somewhat reformed, "moral" individuals who had largely turned their backs of robbing banks, blowing up passenger trains, and killing other violent outlaws in saloons. Compared to Gene Hackman's character and his deputies in Big Whiskey, who were corrupt, immoral, self-righteous, massively hypocritical masquerading as impartial law men. The way they systematically humilated, beaten, insulted, and destroyed Richard Harris' character in front of his biographer and the entire town was shameless from the time he entered their town to the moment he left on a passenger train. Eastwood's character was just simply the best of a bad, rotten core.

I do think that without revionist Westerns like Unforgiven and to a certain extent, The Quick and the Dead, that later, cult TV series that never were fully appreciated until later on like Deadwood never happen.