Innovation in Westerns

Norberto 2022-04-20 09:01:07

One way to innovate is to do it the other way around. There are so many Westerns out there, how can Eastwood's 1992's "Unforgiven" be innovative? 1. The first is to put the time to the end of the 19th century. The law and police power have basically been established in a small town. Bounty killers are already illegal and unpopular. Therefore, the protagonist comes to face not only the slain cowboy , mainly facing the police. Of course, in this way, the police will be blackened. In the film, there is no justice for the prostitutes, and they are more violent. 2. The bounty killers came here to offer bounties for the revenge of the prostitutes. The murdered are not really heinous, they are just cowboys who commit crimes on impulse. This mission is between good and evil. 3. The most important innovation is the reversal method of character's desire to be suppressed first and the desire to suppress first to be promoted. Killer William used to be notorious, but at the beginning he has been washing his hands for 11 years. He has become a pig farmer. ; When he arrived in the town, he was also ill in the rain, and he was ill. He was madly flattened by the sheriff, Little Bill. The little killer who contradicted him was a big talker, claiming to have killed 5 people, but he was actually short-sighted. After killing people, he was so panicked that he didn't dare to kill again. The old partner played by De Man, who at first seemed to be vigorous and vigorous, known as a hundred steps through Yang, was full of sympathy for William, thinking that he was a powerful character, and he flinched at the critical moment of shooting. That's how nice the story is. Another notorious killer, England Bob, brought a biographer to play cool, and was exposed by the experienced sheriff Bill Jr. to be nothing more than his own bragging, claiming to be a duke, but actually a duck. This is also a kind of satire on the tradition of western films. Many legends are the result of literary and artistic processing. The mysterious martial arts masters may be fighting the king and eight fists, just like today's Chinese martial arts. In Deadly Thrill, the vengeful cowboy turned into Sharon Stone is of course another big innovation.

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Unforgiven quotes

  • Strawberry Alice: Just because we let them smelly fools ride us like horses don't mean we gotta let 'em brand us like horses. Maybe we ain't nothing but whores but we, by god, we ain't horses.

  • The Schofield Kid: Like I was saying, you don't look no meaner-than-hell, cold-blooded, damn killer.

    Will Munny: Maybe I ain't.

    The Schofield Kid: Yeah, well, Uncle Pete says you was the meanest goddamn son-of-a-bitch alive, and if I ever wanted a partner for a killin', you were the worst one. Meaning the best, on account as your's as cold as the snow and you don't have no weak nerve nor fear.

    Will Munny: Pete said that, huh?

    The Schofield Kid: Yeah, yeah he did. I'm a damn killer myself. 'Cept, uh, I ain't killed as many as you because of my youth.