Clint Eastwood made a movie called “The Unforgiven.”
He had made all those spaghetti westerns and Dirty Harry movies, so Eastwood decided to make a movie that all the critics would think was GREAT.
He did.
You have to give Eastwood credit for knowing what he is doing. He wanted all the critics to say all those other movies were just entertainment, but “The Unforgiven” was The Real Thing.
Keep in mind that the last person who could possibly know what The Real Thing was in the real west would be a New York movie critic.
Have you ever seen a Woodie Allen movie?
Absolutely every single whie person in “The Unforgiven,” including the one Clint Eastwood played, was a Woodie Allen clone.
All of them were absolute cowards. Clint’s character was a coward until he got drunk.
The only real hero in the movie was Eastwood’s Faithful Negro Companion. He never showed an ounce of fear. He was the martyr the evil sheriff totured to death and for whom Eastwood got drunk and killed the white gentiles for.
To say this movie was a critical success is a gross understatement. Whoever and Ebert pronounced it a truly realistic picture of the Old West, with which they were apparently intimately familiar.
Reality, realistic, true to life, all of New York praised the movie.
Eastwood made the movie precisely to get this bunch of retards to say that.
#1 by Leshrac on 05/27/2006 - 6:53 pm
The movie was great anyway 😉
#2 by joe rorke on 05/27/2006 - 8:35 pm
Never saw the movie. Thanks for telling me what it was about. Eastwood sure is a tough guy. He sure can put on a tough looking face. I never met a cop like Dirty Harry. He fought with his own department and won all the time. What a guy! Must have taken a lot of guts to make a movie like “The Unforgiven.” Or could it have something to do with filthy lucre? Doesn’t sound like the kind of guy I like to ride the dusty plains with.
#3 by Pain on 05/28/2006 - 1:04 pm
I think his last real Western was Pale Rider, the one where LaHood is defenestrated.
#4 by Elizabeth on 05/29/2006 - 3:10 pm
NOT SPAM
He’s made two good mysteries since then: ABSOLUTE POWER and BLOODWORK.
ABSOLUTE POWER is about a career high-end thief who inadvertently witnesses
a murder ordered by the President. Eastwood’s character vs. evil, venal Clintonesque
President, conniving Press Secretary, etc.
I don’t recall much publicity about either, other than both were new Eastwood
movies and ABSOLUTE POWER was based on the #1 bestseller (actually very good)
by that name.