It's like the women are relieved that they've gotten justice, but also relief that their summoning, which was so much darker than they could have known, recedes back into the night.
When they wanted vengeance, they didn't quite know what they were asking for. They got the human embodiment of it riding on a horse- and as soon as his job was finished, they were more than happy to see that death rider vanish back into the darkness.
"Summoning" is how I might characterize Clint's character in High Plains Drifter. The doomed sheriff knew his avenger would not be found among the living.
I watched this movie with my father in 1993 I think . It was the last time I went with him to the cinema. I ask him: what do you think is the lesson of this film? And I remember his answer that day: "Well, leave the whores alone".
I always loved the reaction of the women during and after the shooting. When he blew Skinny away without any hesitation or remorse, not caring that he wasn't armed. Casually admitting to being a cold blooded killer and casually admitting to killing women and children. Then he gunned down half a dozen armed men, shooting one in the back and running away and one who was laying on the floor defenseless. Their reaction was like what in hell have we brought here and unleashed. It was like they were in shock that someone could be capable of doing what he did. They also knew that under different circumstances he would have killed them with as little consideration. They were all terrified of him.
All except the woman who was cut up. She had been waiting for some kind of justice for awhile. Don't forget the talk that they had when she offered herself to him, and he declined. She thought her scars were the reason, and he actually said that he was the ugly one. That small touch of humanity was shocking coming from a man with his history. She isn't afraid of him. She'd prayed for an avenging angel, and her prayers were answered. Old Testament style...
Yes!!!! I thought the same thing! So much irony in this movie. The bad guys you root for yet they are not really good people. They are simply doing a job for money. The "good guy" (Hackman) is really a bad guy who rules with an iron fist but fools himself into thinking his approach is good by keeping out assassins. In some ways it IS some type of good thing as order was needed to a certain extent. And then finally the women want revenge but they probably at the end wish they had never asked for help from Munny as he goes way further than the revenge they were looking for. In the end, they look terrified except for the cut-up girl who THINKS she understands him. Perhaps Munny saw something in her gentle spirit that reminded him of his late wife. I think the movie ultimately tells us that every human being is flawed and cannot be put in a box as to who they are. Such a great final bow on of all the Clint Eastwood Westerns.
@@andrebethune394- Perfectly stated! I also like at 0:37, where William Munny passes by Ned’s corpse - the expression on his face, so many thoughts all at once: - Sorrow at the loss of his one friend - Anger and disgust at how Ned was treated - The recognition that if anyone deserved to be in that box, it was himself - A sense of trepidation that someday, even if not today, he would be held accountable for all he had done - Resignation to all of these things Such a brief moment, but so powerful, and so powerfully done by an absolute master of his craft.
Love this scene as it's the antithesis of the typical hero riding into the sunset, here instead we see Bill Munny as the personification of death upon a pale horse riding into the storm to close the tale before the brief epilogue. This film is an absolute masterpiece.
The character itself never strays very close to hero. There is a reason this character is set up in the beginning as a widower with two young children on a farm. The traditional action hero's arc of gambling his own life for revenge/rescue is tainted by the never-mentioned-but-present knowledge that he is also gambling the lives of his children. It's a story about the protagonist falling off the wagon.
There’s not one scene in this movie that’s out of place or weaker than the rest. This scene is just incredible. One man controls the town and they stand in awe and fear of him and rightly so. It’s like God enacting righteous judgement against bad men, using a demon.
We spend the whole film hearing about, but not really seeing, what a badass killer Munny was. But in the last 10 minutes, we see what a real, dyed in the wool, bad guy black-hat gun hand really looks like, and how every other supposed gunslinger we saw was just imitating.
When this film first came out it was reveared as "the greatest western ever". At the time, I didn't think it was. However, with time and maturity, I think it is. The last 10 minutes are a spell binding cinematic wonder that just gets better with age.
Completely agree. This is probably the most honest western film ever made. The portrayal of the women working as prostitutes is especially realistic. Unlike other films where the woman are dolled up, these actresses look like the hardscrabble prairie pioneers.
The last scenes of Fistful Of Dollars is spellbinding every time I see it... Ramon's shattered confidence is brilliantly captured when Eastwood gets up after being shot in the "heart". The quick glances of fear & doubt in his men as Ramone (who apparently never misses) can't seem to put him down. The last scene when Ramone picks up his rifle as Eastwood picks up his revolver & spins the cylinder is a masterpiece...the music, the focus on the eyes. 1964 movie, but phenomenal!!
I like it better everytime I see it. This is a man who was fighting his inner demons every day. I can identify with that to some degree. The score was ominous.
It's not really a western in the traditional sense. Every gunslinger is portrayed as either cowardly, or just angry drunks who shot people over petty things. And everyone who idealizes those gunslingers, ends up traumatized or disgusted by the realization of who they are dealing with. There's no romance to any of it, yet it still manages to be poignant and respectful to the genre it's demythologizing.
@@moondogspot5442 I think it was more Muney was more coordinated and alive on booze. Off booze he was just a broken down pig farmer. Once he hit the booze and had hate and murder l in his heart again he became the old, deadly, William Muney.
Such a powerful scene. I’ve never seen anything quite like it, it’s like a twist that you don’t seem to catch straight away. He’s a monster. Death incarnate, and only after he’s avenged Ned does his true identity come to the surface. A representation of the cruelty and ruthlessness of the wild west.
He is the reaper, the taker of souls good and bad, women and children and everything that walks or crawls. Knowing who he is, is his penance. He's the Unforgiven, death, just Will and his journey into the darkness.
The man with no name (The Good, The Bad & The Ugly/Fist Full of Dollars), the stranger (High Plains Drifter), the preacher (Pale Rider), Josie Wales... William Munny is the most badass of them all... and the most realistic. The movie was gold!
Perfect scene. No one is willing to roll the dice, even under the cover of rain and darkness, because it means a practiced and dispassionate killer turns his eye upon you with intent...
You just saw a guy kill multiple men without reloading, including the best gunman in the town. Even if you're just across the street with a shotgun, it's dark and raining and you're scared as hell. What if you miss?
The buildup of the character, the stories which sounded like myths and tall tales, and the realization that everyone of them was true, is absolutely terrifying. Earlier on when during his fever he asks Ned if he remembers the time he shot the Sheriff through the mouth and his teeth came out through the back of his head - - he does the same thing to Hackman. Absolutely horrifying and brilliant.,
The camera angle at 1:40 wasn’t by accident. Everything Clint does is a masterpiece, but that shot is one of the best. The American flag in the background, the rain falling off his hat, his expression, it’s the epitome of the Old West. That should’ve been the poster shot for the movie.
It was literally a dark reflection of that "epitome of the Old West". It is actually the darkest scene of any Western as it captures a moment of pure hatred and retribution. The pitch-black night and violence of the storm reflects the soul of William Munny in that moment. Little Bill ruled Big Whiskey through fear, but Munny has the entire town terrified in a way Little Bill never managed to pull off, so much so that none of the surviving deputies will dare take a shot at him. The inclusion of the flag in that panorama is also reflecting the uglier aspect of American culture: its worship of violence.
I really like the line: "Deserves got nothing to do with it." It a direct response to Little Bill's sense of entitlement. Bill thought he should be immune to justice since he is on the side of the law. But I think the line has a deeper meaning. I think Munny was referring to himself. Because if deserve had something to do with it, William Munny should have been killed too. He was lucky, as he said. Bill wasn't.
Yes indeed, a host of well-defined characters; Ned Logan, Strawberry Alice, Skinny, Charlie, the excellent Saul Rubinek as Beauchamp, and all the minor characters the supporters - Munny's taciturn children, Sally Two Trees, even the farmer who challenged English Bob to a shooting match, it goes on and on, every character plays his part. Munny's horse won't obey him until he (Munny), reprises his gunslinger persona, but the one person who could have stopped it all, his wife Claudia "Feathers" Munny, cold in the ground, was missing from the movie. She nearly succeeded in changing him, almost. In the context of this movie she must have been a remarkable lady.
That being said, Little Bill WAS a tough man, a bad man. Maybe not a cold-blooded killer, but he was the toughest bastard out there as far as he knew. Except there’s levels to being a bad man. And Munny was the worst.
I think Bill and Munny were cut from more-or-less the same cloth. Except Bill is a narcissist, he likes the audience, he's a bully and enjoys hurting people and scaring other people. He thinks he's the "main character" of a story. Munny doesn't strike me as having some sort of intrinsic deficit of moral feeling. He knows what he's doing is wrong and he does it anyway. Because what moral scruples he has can be drowned in a bottle, and because in the end the impulsive, angry killer is the most honest part of him. He probably started out like the Kid. A faker with an abstract idea of what being an outlaw was like. Only he didn't turn away.
yes you say it right - the pale horse is an Eastwood trademark, repeated in several movies, High Plains Drifter, Pale Rider, from Revelations 6:8 a powerful verse "I looked and beheld a pale horse, and the name of he who sat on him was Death, and Hell followed after"
The look on the faces of those women when they came out to watch him ride away. They started out wanting revenge, but ended up with a feeling of validation and worth.
It's been a long time since I watched this film, but the last time I really appreciated the story behind it. Apparently, Eastwood encountered the script sometime in the Eighties. He loved it so much that he bought the script and then sat on it for a decade until he felt he was old enough to play the part.
What's even more impressive is this scene was shot before a blizzard swept through the set. It was so cold the water in the rain machines kept freezing and the cast and crew worked 21 hours straight without food
Clint is the master of western cinema. A true class act and a wonderful Person. Thank you mr. Eastwood for all the years and great movies and acting and directing and casting. You sir. Are a true legend !!!
It was like all of the other Clint Eastwood westerns were just the build up for Unforgiven... I will never forget this movie. I have always been a fan of western movies, but I always knew that movies dramatized the good guy versus bad guy scenarios. The good guys always won, bad guys either died or met justice.... This movie is one of the most realistic westerns you will ever see. The lines between good and evil are always blurred, never clear cut, even in our every day lives.
The movie is all about the romance of gun fighters and their legecies, all the pomp and reputation and bluster, until the very end, when William walks into that saloon and everyone is face to face with a bonified badass killer.
I still remember watching this over my parents and they came in from a night out. my late father who was a massive clint eastwood and western fan caught the last 20 mins and was genuinely shocked i still remember his shocked face at this scene like it was yesterday 😂
The whole movie builds to this scene and it’s incredible. The portrayal of Little Bill being ruthless in how he treats William Munny in their first encounter, then English Bob and finally the death of Ned. When Munny finds out about Ned, then grabs the bottle and starts drinking, is Little Bills FAFO moment. S**t got real right then and there.
0:39 That look that he gives net is very layered. There is the grief, but there's also the guilt. The guilt of bringing him into this, as well as the guilt that he feels for breaking his sobriety, knowing that Ned would never have wanted him to do that on his behalf. Will started out, saying this job doesn't mean he returns to his old ways. He broke his word to himself and his wife to honor his friendship with Ned and right now he's feeling low about it, not in the least victorious.
I have always loved how this scene is a clear nod to the ending of Apocalypse Now yet the major difference is the fact that Munny left after he had avenged and defended the women of the town and empowered them in doing so.
This scene won them the Oscar, it gave you a full sense of what he’s done in the past and what he’s capable of, and which was alluded to throughout the film but was a mystery.
Revelation 6:8. “And I looked, and behold a pale horse:and his name that sat on him was death and bell followed with him.” The detail in this scene is amazing.
I love how atmospheric and spiritual this film's ending. Not like an asian film about buddhism, it's not the positive spiritual world but the ugliest. It's like Munny's finally becoming his true self, a broken ghost wandering into darkness. Masterclass.
No, Li'l Bill is the genuine article. Hexs a dust toughened cow town lawman. He's used to being on the lawless frontier, so an iron fist is needed. It's just that William Munny is better than him.
I wonder if it was only Munny's kids that kept him from completely backsliding into what he had once been. Much as it would have been something to see Munny first meeting his wife, I think it would have been impossible to do the story justice. What she must have been, to turn him around so completely. Maybe her memory would have been enough.
I'm glad that no modern music was thrown in. Imagine if Clint was riding away in the rain with Aerosmith's "back in the saddle" playing in the background?
When I put this on at home with the surround sound on, it feels like the barometric pressure of the room changes. That's how atmospheric this scene is.
The best part is a few minutes before this when he's doing the, 'I've killed everything' speech and the camera zooms on Beauchamps and you can see the gears turning in his head already trying to turn this scene into a western legend.
An evil man attempting to do good. I can't think of a movie that did it better. A bit like Frankenstein except the monster walks. The monster created of his environment. Brilliant movie.
I've seen this movie multiple times, but this is the 1st time I noticed that even the onery horse obeyed Munny's commands. I don't know if that was intentional or they just ended the movie and just wanted him to ride out of town & it worked that way, but it sure adds to the story either way.
some years past and the ladies are sitting around the fire place and one say, Hey! do you remember that time, we summon a demon and unleash it on the town?
And I looked,and behold a pale horse:and his name who sat on him was Death,and Hell followed with him.And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth,to kill with sword,and with hunger,and with death,and with the beasts of the earth. Revelation 6:8
The macabre ending was set in place only after Will(Clint) started drinking again out of a booze bottle, when accepting the money from woman and learning that they had made a mockery of his only friends dead body. Once he stopped mentioning the memory of his beloved wife and turned to the bottle, he became the demon of his past. Best western of all
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It's like the women are relieved that they've gotten justice, but also relief that their summoning, which was so much darker than they could have known, recedes back into the night.
When they wanted vengeance, they didn't quite know what they were asking for. They got the human embodiment of it riding on a horse- and as soon as his job was finished, they were more than happy to see that death rider vanish back into the darkness.
I love that you call it a "summoning" as if they called up the Grim Reaper himself from the pit.
"Summoning" is how I might characterize Clint's character in High Plains Drifter. The doomed sheriff knew his avenger would not be found among the living.
Beware the pale horse. For the man who rode on him was death.
And hell followed with him.
Chicks.....never thinking things thru......
The last line ever spoken by Clint Eastwood in a Western:
"Or I'll come back and kill every one of you sons of bitches."
With a literate screenplay too: He used the word “son” in plural rather than singular.
double meaning words just like he comesback in this movie the last best WESTERN movie🔥🔥🔥
Classic LOL love this movie....
"Sonsabitches "
Damn right
The last ten minutes of this film makes it worth every penny you buy or rent it for.
It’s all great.
Amazon prime
Absolutely greatest fair well western to a classic western star
I watched this movie with my father in 1993 I think . It was the last time I went with him to the cinema. I ask him: what do you think is the lesson of this film? And I remember his answer that day: "Well, leave the whores alone".
Absolutely true
This has to be one of the best endings in movie history. The way he rides off into the darkness is epic. Love this movie.
True story Clint Eastwood had the script for decades but didn't think he was old enough to play the part. He waited to mature like wine.
I always loved the reaction of the women during and after the shooting. When he blew Skinny away without any hesitation or remorse, not caring that he wasn't armed. Casually admitting to being a cold blooded killer and casually admitting to killing women and children. Then he gunned down half a dozen armed men, shooting one in the back and running away and one who was laying on the floor defenseless. Their reaction was like what in hell have we brought here and unleashed. It was like they were in shock that someone could be capable of doing what he did. They also knew that under different circumstances he would have killed them with as little consideration. They were all terrified of him.
All except the woman who was cut up. She had been waiting for some kind of justice for awhile. Don't forget the talk that they had when she offered herself to him, and he declined. She thought her scars were the reason, and he actually said that he was the ugly one. That small touch of humanity was shocking coming from a man with his history. She isn't afraid of him. She'd prayed for an avenging angel, and her prayers were answered. Old Testament style...
Yes!!!! I thought the same thing! So much irony in this movie. The bad guys you root for yet they are not really good people. They are simply doing a job for money. The "good guy" (Hackman) is really a bad guy who rules with an iron fist but fools himself into thinking his approach is good by keeping out assassins. In some ways it IS some type of good thing as order was needed to a certain extent. And then finally the women want revenge but they probably at the end wish they had never asked for help from Munny as he goes way further than the revenge they were looking for. In the end, they look terrified except for the cut-up girl who THINKS she understands him. Perhaps Munny saw something in her gentle spirit that reminded him of his late wife. I think the movie ultimately tells us that every human being is flawed and cannot be put in a box as to who they are. Such a great final bow on of all the Clint Eastwood Westerns.
@@andrebethune394- Perfectly stated!
I also like at 0:37, where William Munny passes by Ned’s corpse - the expression on his face, so many thoughts all at once:
- Sorrow at the loss of
his one friend
- Anger and disgust at how Ned was treated
- The recognition that if anyone deserved to be in that box, it was himself
- A sense of trepidation that someday, even if not today, he would be held accountable for all he had done
- Resignation to all of these things
Such a brief moment, but so powerful, and so powerfully done by an absolute master of his craft.
He wasn’t good or bad or evil, he was just a guy doing what he knew best(but hated doing) he was a killer.
Love this scene as it's the antithesis of the typical hero riding into the sunset, here instead we see Bill Munny as the personification of death upon a pale horse riding into the storm to close the tale before the brief epilogue. This film is an absolute masterpiece.
The character itself never strays very close to hero. There is a reason this character is set up in the beginning as a widower with two young children on a farm. The traditional action hero's arc of gambling his own life for revenge/rescue is tainted by the never-mentioned-but-present knowledge that he is also gambling the lives of his children. It's a story about the protagonist falling off the wagon.
There’s not one scene in this movie that’s out of place or weaker than the rest. This scene is just incredible. One man controls the town and they stand in awe and fear of him and rightly so. It’s like God enacting righteous judgement against bad men, using a demon.
So..High Plains Drifter.
We spend the whole film hearing about, but not really seeing, what a badass killer Munny was.
But in the last 10 minutes, we see what a real, dyed in the wool, bad guy black-hat gun hand really looks like, and how every other supposed gunslinger we saw was just imitating.
A dark angel. The angel of death
Death on a horse. Death doesn't wear a white hat. Wherever he goes, mayhem follows, heads roll, and blood spills.
@@DarrinSK Azrael
When this film first came out it was reveared as "the greatest western ever". At the time, I didn't think it was. However, with time and maturity, I think it is. The last 10 minutes are a spell binding cinematic wonder that just gets better with age.
Completely agree. This is probably the most honest western film ever made. The portrayal of the women working as prostitutes is especially realistic. Unlike other films where the woman are dolled up, these actresses look like the hardscrabble prairie pioneers.
The last scenes of Fistful Of Dollars is spellbinding every time I see it... Ramon's shattered confidence is brilliantly captured when Eastwood gets up after being shot in the "heart". The quick glances of fear & doubt in his men as Ramone (who apparently never misses) can't seem to put him down. The last scene when Ramone picks up his rifle as Eastwood picks up his revolver & spins the cylinder is a masterpiece...the music, the focus on the eyes. 1964 movie, but phenomenal!!
I like it better everytime I see it. This is a man who was fighting his inner demons every day. I can identify with that to some degree. The score was ominous.
Only after seeing it twice did I recognize "Unforgiven" for the absolute masterpiece it is! Thank you Mr Eastwood for yet another fantastic film!
It's not really a western in the traditional sense.
Every gunslinger is portrayed as either cowardly, or just angry drunks who shot people over petty things. And everyone who idealizes those gunslingers, ends up traumatized or disgusted by the realization of who they are dealing with.
There's no romance to any of it, yet it still manages to be poignant and respectful to the genre it's demythologizing.
It wasn't until after William returned to his old ways that his horse didn't give him any trouble getting on. It was as if it finally recognized him
Didn't want to be turned into glue........
Never noticed that
good catch
@@moondogspot5442 I think it was more Muney was more coordinated and alive on booze.
Off booze he was just a broken down pig farmer. Once he hit the booze and had hate and murder l in his heart again he became the old, deadly, William Muney.
A rider on a pale horse, and hell followed with him.
Such a powerful scene. I’ve never seen anything quite like it, it’s like a twist that you don’t seem to catch straight away. He’s a monster. Death incarnate, and only after he’s avenged Ned does his true identity come to the surface. A representation of the cruelty and ruthlessness of the wild west.
It's not just the "ruthlessness of the wild west" but of mankind in general. We like to believe that we are civilized but we're not.
He is not a monster, he is a man of uncommon abilities who uses them to put right a wrong
@@dancooper6002dam right he’s a monster, killer of woman and children! They brought the monster back
He is the reaper, the taker of souls good and bad, women and children and everything that walks or crawls. Knowing who he is, is his penance. He's the Unforgiven, death, just Will and his journey into the darkness.
@@MrMice...: Well said.
The man with no name (The Good, The Bad & The Ugly/Fist Full of Dollars), the stranger (High Plains Drifter), the preacher (Pale Rider), Josie Wales... William Munny is the most badass of them all... and the most realistic. The movie was gold!
Yes broth! But Tucko Ramirez was damn good character as well. Fuckin love him.
Perfect scene. No one is willing to roll the dice, even under the cover of rain and darkness, because it means a practiced and dispassionate killer turns his eye upon you with intent...
Dudes a mass killing Monstrosity whereas most folks are just trying to get by. So imagine firing and missing!
They saw what he was, and what he could be again if crossed.
@@dirdib69 yes, this is a much more elegantly succinct way of saying it
You just saw a guy kill multiple men without reloading, including the best gunman in the town. Even if you're just across the street with a shotgun, it's dark and raining and you're scared as hell. What if you miss?
How do you shoot the Devil in the back? What if you miss?
The Grim Reaper has left the building. With acting this good, it's easy to see why this movie earned a Best Picture Oscar award.
The music! That low sound of creeping death when he walks down the street is amazing. What a film.
My coming outta Quarantine quotes, lol
Lol. Barricaded on a highway by “protestors”...”Anyone attacks my family in this car, I’ll kill ALL you sonsabitches! Burn your damn house down!”
"i just found my CLEAN PACK OF UNDERWEAR and i'm coming out! nobody shoot!" :-(
The Angel of Death, incarnate. Sent chills down my spine when I first saw this scene, and has every time since. Brilliant.
The buildup of the character, the stories which sounded like myths and tall tales, and the realization that everyone of them was true, is absolutely terrifying. Earlier on when during his fever he asks Ned if he remembers the time he shot the Sheriff through the mouth and his teeth came out through the back of his head - - he does the same thing to Hackman. Absolutely horrifying and brilliant.,
The camera angle at 1:40 wasn’t by accident. Everything Clint does is a masterpiece, but that shot is one of the best. The American flag in the background, the rain falling off his hat, his expression, it’s the epitome of the Old West. That should’ve been the poster shot for the movie.
It was literally a dark reflection of that "epitome of the Old West". It is actually the darkest scene of any Western as it captures a moment of pure hatred and retribution. The pitch-black night and violence of the storm reflects the soul of William Munny in that moment. Little Bill ruled Big Whiskey through fear, but Munny has the entire town terrified in a way Little Bill never managed to pull off, so much so that none of the surviving deputies will dare take a shot at him. The inclusion of the flag in that panorama is also reflecting the uglier aspect of American culture: its worship of violence.
Best western ever made. Not one bad scene, the camera work, music, and all the actors were cast perfectly and did phenomenal.
One of the strongest lines in movie history
YET EDITED
I really like the line: "Deserves got nothing to do with it." It a direct response to Little Bill's sense of entitlement. Bill thought he should be immune to justice since he is on the side of the law. But I think the line has a deeper meaning. I think Munny was referring to himself. Because if deserve had something to do with it, William Munny should have been killed too. He was lucky, as he said. Bill wasn't.
he had alot of lines... which one?
The best western of all time . Memorable characters such as little bill , English Bob and the Schofield Kid . I love this movie
Yes indeed, a host of well-defined characters; Ned Logan, Strawberry Alice, Skinny, Charlie, the excellent Saul Rubinek as Beauchamp, and all the minor characters the supporters - Munny's taciturn children, Sally Two Trees, even the farmer who challenged English Bob to a shooting match, it goes on and on, every character plays his part. Munny's horse won't obey him until he (Munny), reprises his gunslinger persona, but the one person who could have stopped it all, his wife Claudia "Feathers" Munny, cold in the ground, was missing from the movie. She nearly succeeded in changing him, almost. In the context of this movie she must have been a remarkable lady.
The greatest thing about this movie is that Little Bill was pretending to be something that William Munny was hoping to forget.
That being said, Little Bill WAS a tough man, a bad man. Maybe not a cold-blooded killer, but he was the toughest bastard out there as far as he knew. Except there’s levels to being a bad man. And Munny was the worst.
@@SandNebula232 facts.
Well said.. Little Bill was a true badass, but the second Munny took that whiskey bottle to his mouth it was over for him
@@000distructzero Agreed, whiskey was the key that opened the door for the demon to come out....
I think Bill and Munny were cut from more-or-less the same cloth. Except Bill is a narcissist, he likes the audience, he's a bully and enjoys hurting people and scaring other people. He thinks he's the "main character" of a story. Munny doesn't strike me as having some sort of intrinsic deficit of moral feeling. He knows what he's doing is wrong and he does it anyway. Because what moral scruples he has can be drowned in a bottle, and because in the end the impulsive, angry killer is the most honest part of him. He probably started out like the Kid. A faker with an abstract idea of what being an outlaw was like. Only he didn't turn away.
Munny riding on his white horse in the darkness symbolizes Death just fuckin legendary 🙌
yes you say it right - the pale horse is an Eastwood trademark, repeated in several movies, High Plains Drifter, Pale Rider, from Revelations 6:8 a powerful verse "I looked and beheld a pale horse, and the name of he who sat on him was Death, and Hell followed after"
With that scene William Munny just became the bogey man. “Eat your vegetables or William Munny will kill every last one of you!”
Kid chokes from eating broccoli too fast.
Too funny!
I'll bet every one of those cowards checked their closets and under their beds for months, looking to see if William Munny was lurking around.
1:36 😲... Gives me shivers every time I listen to it...what a line .. what a delivery.....only Clint can pull it off so smoothly....💯
I agree. You believe every single word of it.
Exactly. He meant that shit.
Followed by the thunder clap as the exclamation point
I can honestly say, I've watched this movie over 100 times.
The look on the faces of those women when they came out to watch him ride away. They started out wanting revenge, but ended up with a feeling of validation and worth.
Yes, but I think there was also a sense of "What have we done?!" They had no idea what they were going to unleash.
and the slow smile of the cut woman admireingly watch him ride off
@@gothmaug - That was my thought, they were at least slightly terrified of what they had unleashed, but perhaps also vindicated at the same time.
@@dancooper6002 Oh I love The Ten Commandments.
Clint Eastwood's badass line of words.
It's been a long time since I watched this film, but the last time I really appreciated the story behind it. Apparently, Eastwood encountered the script sometime in the Eighties. He loved it so much that he bought the script and then sat on it for a decade until he felt he was old enough to play the part.
What's even more impressive is this scene was shot before a blizzard swept through the set. It was so cold the water in the rain machines kept freezing and the cast and crew worked 21 hours straight without food
Clint is the master of western cinema. A true class act and a wonderful Person. Thank you mr. Eastwood for all the years and great movies and acting and directing and casting. You sir. Are a true legend !!!
Clint Eastwood is absolutely a legend in his own time..
It was like all of the other Clint Eastwood westerns were just the build up for Unforgiven... I will never forget this movie. I have always been a fan of western movies, but I always knew that movies dramatized the good guy versus bad guy scenarios. The good guys always won, bad guys either died or met justice.... This movie is one of the most realistic westerns you will ever see. The lines between good and evil are always blurred, never clear cut, even in our every day lives.
" he had it coming didn't he??"
"We all have it coming kid."
What do you suppose they put on Ned's grave marker? Here lies a bad man with a REALLY SCARY friend so don't mess with his grave.
One of the best lines ever delivered.
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. - Revelations 6:8
Exactly - the choice of a pale horse was (once again) not by chance.
Yep - glad somebody else noticed that detail
Wow. So fitting.
The movie is all about the romance of gun fighters and their legecies, all the pomp and reputation and bluster, until the very end, when William walks into that saloon and everyone is face to face with a bonified badass killer.
Everyone is a cowboy till Eastwood comes to town.
His reaction to Ned's corpse in this scene has always stayed with me.
I still remember watching this over my parents and they came in from a night out. my late father who was a massive clint eastwood and western fan caught the last 20 mins and was genuinely shocked i still remember his shocked face at this scene like it was yesterday 😂
The whole movie builds to this scene and it’s incredible. The portrayal of Little Bill being ruthless in how he treats William Munny in their first encounter, then English Bob and finally the death of Ned. When Munny finds out about Ned, then grabs the bottle and starts drinking, is Little Bills FAFO moment. S**t got real right then and there.
The greatest monologue of ALL TIME!!!!
He is literally Death, one of the riders of the apocalypse. Look at the color of his fucking horse.
0:39 That look that he gives net is very layered. There is the grief, but there's also the guilt. The guilt of bringing him into this, as well as the guilt that he feels for breaking his sobriety, knowing that Ned would never have wanted him to do that on his behalf. Will started out, saying this job doesn't mean he returns to his old ways. He broke his word to himself and his wife to honor his friendship with Ned and right now he's feeling low about it, not in the least victorious.
His spurs jangle like the coming of a terrible beast.
I have always loved how this scene is a clear nod to the ending of Apocalypse Now yet the major difference is the fact that Munny left after he had avenged and defended the women of the town and empowered them in doing so.
I feel like Delilah admired Will and others feared him
Because she saw another side of him when he talked to her about his wife and kids.
@@Mostopinionatedmanofalltime after rewatching a couple times, yeah, I’d agree that’s when she understood him more and not just as a killer
The greatest western of all time by one of the greatest actor/directors of all time.
Hell of a film and powerful. (Understatement).
The most badass warning.
1:01 “How do you shoot the devil in the back? What if you miss?”
This scene won them the Oscar, it gave you a full sense of what he’s done in the past and what he’s capable of, and which was alluded to throughout the film but was a mystery.
Revelation 6:8. “And I looked, and behold a pale horse:and his name that sat on him was death and bell followed with him.”
The detail in this scene is amazing.
To me the peak of this masterpiece of a film is when he and the Kid are on the hill, and he takes the bottle. The universe shifts.
That's when you knew it was over for Little Bill
The way Clint threatened everyone was really scary. Then ordered them to bury his friend right
I love how he was trying to forget his past but, as usual, life has a way of bringing it back to you.
That Theme Music Tho…. Is a Mobius Strip of Descending Terror. 😂
I have a feeling after that rainy deadly night, Ned was given a decent honorable burial!
Even his bad ass horse learnt manners at the end
A guy so scary you're afraid to kill him.
I love how atmospheric and spiritual this film's ending. Not like an asian film about buddhism, it's not the positive spiritual world but the ugliest. It's like Munny's finally becoming his true self, a broken ghost wandering into darkness. Masterclass.
its a film like this that is the reason why i consider Clint Eastwood to be one of my personal heroes.
Everyone is terrified of Will but can't turn away from watching him ride down the street.
And behold there was a pale horse, and he that rode upon him was death.
Everyone stands in awe of the genuine article. Every other self-proclaimed gunslinger in this movie was at most a competent fake.
No, Li'l Bill is the genuine article. Hexs a dust toughened cow town lawman. He's used to being on the lawless frontier, so an iron fist is needed. It's just that William Munny is better than him.
I wonder if it was only Munny's kids that kept him from completely backsliding into what he had once been. Much as it would have been something to see Munny first meeting his wife, I think it would have been impossible to do the story justice. What she must have been, to turn him around so completely. Maybe her memory would have been enough.
Never before or ever since has "you sons of bitches" been such a deeply cutting, grievous insult. Sent shivers down my spine.
I remember in high plains drifter where the townsfolk callousness unleashed a vengeful clint eastwood. This was way worse. What a great movie.
I'm glad that no modern music was thrown in. Imagine if Clint was riding away in the rain with Aerosmith's "back in the saddle" playing in the background?
Nah, music was done brilliantly. Although the only song I think of that's not in the movie but reminds me of it is 'straw in the wind'
When I put this on at home with the surround sound on, it feels like the barometric pressure of the room changes. That's how atmospheric this scene is.
He stole their souls right there!
He put the fear of God in all of that town.
So much for the romance and glamour of the wild west.
Technically, it is a love story.
Clint Eastwood made some of the best Westerns ever filmed. This is the absolute apex - the character development is I feel, unparalleled.
Your post is older than I would usually respond to, but, it's bang on. Unforgiven is the greatest western ever made.
This is how legends are born.
one of my favorite movies. absolutely legendary scene.
The best part is a few minutes before this when he's doing the, 'I've killed everything' speech and the camera zooms on Beauchamps and you can see the gears turning in his head already trying to turn this scene into a western legend.
"All I can tell ya is who's gonna be last."
An evil man attempting to do good. I can't think of a movie that did it better. A bit like Frankenstein except the monster walks. The monster created of his environment. Brilliant movie.
The fear of reality vs the fear of the moment. Such a superb movie
Best line in Movie history!!!!!👍
Greatest movie scene of all time
William Munny delivers fear allright
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat upon him was Death, and Hell followed with him.
One of the greatest scenes in cinema in my opinion
The best defense is a good offense!
That lady who played strawberry Alice is good looking
This movie is just the embodiment of badass. What a movie man
Legitimately terrifying. No heroics here. Just a scary, scary man raging against a helpless town. The women got a lot more than they bargained for.
Classic Clint Eastwood and great ending!
Pale horse
"And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him".
The first 90 minutes of this movie. "This is pretty good."
The last 20 minutes. "holy shit......"
I've seen this movie multiple times, but this is the 1st time I noticed that even the onery horse obeyed Munny's commands. I don't know if that was intentional or they just ended the movie and just wanted him to ride out of town & it worked that way, but it sure adds to the story either way.
some years past and the ladies are sitting around the fire place and one say, Hey! do you remember that time, we summon a demon and unleash it on the town?
"Yeeaaah - we hired Death himself."
And I looked,and behold a pale horse:and his name who sat on him was Death,and Hell followed with him.And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth,to kill with sword,and with hunger,and with death,and with the beasts of the earth. Revelation 6:8
When he declares that "ill come back and kill every one of you sobs"...with the thunder and flag in the background..... 'merica baby
That is the same horse Clint rode in Pale Rider BTW.
The reckoning. The pale horse. Brilliant movie.
The darkest western ever made.
The macabre ending was set in place only after Will(Clint) started drinking again out of a booze bottle, when accepting the money from woman and learning that they had made a mockery of his only friends dead body. Once he stopped mentioning the memory of his beloved wife and turned to the bottle, he became the demon of his past. Best western of all