Category: Unforgiven
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The Last Word on Westerns: Clint Eastwood’s ‘Unforgiven’ Closes the Chapter
Unforgiven is both a love letter to and total demystification of the genre. It portrays the Old West as a violent, savage place while Eastwood’s Munny is no hero. In almost any other Western, the final shootout is framed as a cathartic release where the bad guys finally get their comeuppance; in Unforgiven, it’s a…
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A Cinematic Influence: How ‘Unforgiven’ Shaped ‘Red Dead Redemption’
Video games are no longer just ‘video games‘. Whilst they take on many different forms, more often than not, the games that make the most impact on the player and popular culture are those that are immersive, cinematic and tell a story that pierces the emotions in such a profound way that it’s comparable to…