With Juror 2 finding its audience on streaming, now is a great time to watch or rewatch Clint Eastwood 's final Western. Unforgiven will debut on the streaming service on January 1, It was originally optioned by Francis Ford Coppola , who couldn't get the film financed, before it came to Eastwood.
He decided to make it his final statement on the Western, a genre that had kicked off and defined his career. Eastwood dedicated the film to "Sergio and Don" β Sergio Leone and Don Siegel , who directed Eastwood in several of his iconic roles and mentored him in the art of directing. Eastwood stars in Unforgiven as William Munny, once a feared gunfighter and now a struggling, widowed farmer.
When a group of prostitutes led by Strawberry Alice Frances Fisher place a bounty on a cowboy who mutilated one of them, Munny reluctantly comes out of retirement, bringing his old comrade Ned Logan Morgan Freeman and wannabe gunslinger The Schofield Kid Jaimz Woolvett with him.
He soon finds that the cowboys are under the protection of ruthless sheriff Little Bill Daggett Hackman , who will go to any length to uphold the law in his town.
The film also stars Richard Harris as English Bob, another gunfighter seeking the bounty, and Saul Rubinek as his biographer. There are no heroes or villains in Unforgiven ; the act of killing a man, even an evil one, is depicted not as heroism, but " taking away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have. Unforgiven was remade in , and moves the action to the last days of feudal Japan, where Ken Watanabe plays Jubei Kamata, an infamous ex-samurai who comes out of retirement to avenge an attack on a prostitute.
