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[[File:Eastwood_Unforgiven_2.jpg|framethumb|350px|William Munny has a gun in his hands. This is bad for anyone who isn't William Munny... actually, no, it's bad for him, too.]]
 
 
{{quote|''"It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. Take away all he's got... all he's ever gonna have."''|'''Will Munny'''}}
 
A [[Western]] from 1992, written by [[David Peoples]] and directed by star [[Clint Eastwood]].
 
In the town of Big Whiskey, normal people are trying to lead quiet lives. Cowboys are trying to make a living. Sheriff Little Bill Daggett (Gene Hackman) is trying to build a house and keep a heavy-handed order. The girls of the town's brothel are just trying to get by. But when two cowboys cut up one of the brothel's girls, who goes by the name of Delilah Fitzgerald (Anna Levine), the prostitutes are not satisfied with Little Bill's justice and put out a $1,000 bounty on the heads of both cowboys, Quick Mike and Davey Bunting.
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William Munny (Eastwood) is a [[Retired Gunfighter]], having been influenced by his late wife Claudia into giving up his murderous ways to become a normal farmer, living in peace with their two children. However, he is drawn back into a life of killing when [[The Gunfighter Wannabe|Gunfighter Wannabe]] the Schofield Kid (Jaimz Woolvett) offers to split the reward on the bounty, and Munny accepts to alleviate his family's financial difficulties. Together with his old partner Ned Logan ([[Morgan Freeman]]), Munny and the Kid set off on one last job, and in the process run foul of Little Bill. In the ensuing hostilities, the ruthless demon that laid dormant within Munny is unleashed with a vengeance.
 
This film won Best Picture. And it deserved to. (Though there was a slight dash of [[Oscar Bait]] in there.) It also scored Eastwood his first Oscar for directing as well as statues for the editor and supporting actor Gene Hackman. In 2004, it was added to the [[National Film Registry]].
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== Tropes: ==
 
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* [[Affably Evil]]: When he's not in [[Knight Templar]] mode, Little Bill can be fun to hang around with. He even takes on the writer English Bob brought into town, who is more fascinated with Bill's tales.
* [[Animals Hate Him]]: When he cannot mount his own horse, William Munny claims that his horse is taking revenge on him because he was mean with all the animals in his past. See [[Badass Boast]] to know how much Munny had mistreated and killed animals.
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