I think it's a great movie, but it tries too hard to be thoughtful and deep.
If Sergio Leone was alive long enough to have seen Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven, in your opinion, what would be Leone's first reactions to this masterpiece?
Okay, I'll follow your line and take Clint out of the Dollars films in my mind. I find that by substituting Bronson back in, the pictures work quite well. They're different, but still amazing works of art. Same if I fill the lead roles with any number of other candidates.
hahahaaha you guys are hilarious. I don't get how a movie that you think has so many flaws would win Best Picture. I don't believe that the Academy just gave it to Clint Eastwood because he was old and in the twilight of his career at the time. I trully believe the movie was well deserving of the title of Best Picture that year. It's such a powerful film.
and as a side thought.. if it works for you, then ****** it.. there's no need to convince us its a masterpiece.there's plenty of film buffs that look down their noses at us spaghetti fans
there's plenty of film buffs that look down their noses at us spaghetti fans
They're called dickheads.
TucumcariBound65, all you have to do is rent or buy Rawhide first season and see the type of character Eastwood played back then BL (Before Leone) its the same with Van Cleef all their parts were pretty type cast.
The score is one of the things I don't like about the film. Another is the casting. Another is the writing. It has its good points: the digression with English Bob works well, largely because it IS a digression. Gives the whole more of an epic (ie. Leonean) feel. Some nice photography as well. But it's too talky, too PC, too earnest. And Hackman ruins everything he touches (3 films excepted).