"Unforgiven" American mythology = Eastwood's Arrival stripped of Western drama trappings

Western movies are a masquerade of the American spirit.

The official beginning of the Western film was ``The Great Train Robbery'' in 1903, and it remained a cash cow genre in Hollywood until the mid-20th century. There are countless masterpieces such as `` Showdown at the OK Corral '' (57) and `` Rio Bravo '' (59), but most of them are about good and punishing evil, where a good gunfighter punishes the bad guys, and there is a beautiful woman. It was basically an entertainment route that involved a romance with someone.

Men run through the undeveloped west relying on their gun skills and chivalry. Western movies were truly an ``American myth,'' embodying America's national values ​​such as the pioneering spirit and the spirit of challenge. His spirituality has been extolled in the hundreds of works by Dogu Yikyoku. It can be said that by repeating the spiritual values ​​of ``self-help,'' ``independence,'' and ``freedom,'' Americans have secured their identity as ``pioneers'' and have played the role of a tranquilizer.

However, as if to declare that this is a fabricated lie and has no place in modern times, ``Unforgiven'' denied the mythical nature of Western movies. It is a direct expression of the gruesome violence of Western movies. The cycle of violence is the main theme of ``Unforgiven''.

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One day, one of the shepherd boys who came to a brothel in a town called Big Whiskey got angry over something trivial and inflicted a severe cut on a prostitute's face with a knife. The prostitutes put a bounty on the herdsman and try to have a bounty hunter kill him. Manny, played by Eastwood, heads to Big Whiskey with his friends to kill a cowboy in order to live with his children.

The story progresses as one piece of violence leads to another. All the characters in this movie use violence for selfish reasons, and no one questions this.

Among them, Sheriff Little Bill, played by Gene Hackman, leaves a strong impression (Hackman won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor).

Little Bill is a skilled sheriff who has served as sheriff in numerous cities, and shows no mercy towards outlaws. When a bounty hunter shows up in town, he suddenly takes away his gun as a demonstration and beats and kicks him until he can't stand up. Manny also falls prey to it.

Little Bill uses violence in the name of "public safety," but he even seems to enjoy the violence itself. He's a sadist. The design of this terrifying sheriff was influenced by an actual incident.

The sheriff's character model embodies the theme of the movie.