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William Munny's final rampage for justice
This powerful western starring and directed by Clint Eastwood was the ultimate step in turning the Western genre into a new phase. Westerns before had often depicted its main characters has heroes, but movies and scripts have evolved, and the Western hero is all that heroic anymore, and we see these individuals as real people, and perhaps the experience the Old West as it most likely happened, besides happy cowboys shooting and fighting and always winning the day. A number of Westerns, ever since BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID, put a whole new spin on the Western hero, but Eastwood's William Munny is a man with a past, a man who's killed women and children, and who is called back into killing one last time when a crime has been committed, and normal justice is not helping. Finally, when Munny's friend, played by Morgan Freeman, is killed by the local sheriff, Little Bill, played brilliantly by Gene Hackman, Munny declares an all-out war, and in the last fifteen minutes, his final rampage is revealed in stark detail, with excellent dark cinematography. Munny finds Little Bill, stating he's going to kill him for what he did to Ned, and does, also killing several others in the bar, and rides out of town in the pouring rain. The image of the Western hero was changed forever, and was changed by none other than a man who had made several Western films in their heyday. |
