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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 11:25:00 -0500
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- From: Currie Thompson <cthompso@CC.GETTYSBURG.EDU>
- Subject: RE:Unforgiven
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- My congratulations to Alex for his concise and perceptive comments on
- _Unforgiven_:
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- In Message Thu, 28 Jan 1993 10:52:43 -0500,
- Ens Alexander W Ellermann <ellerman@NORFOLK.NADN.N writes:
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- > Unforgiven is an astonishing film because it succeeds in delivering
- >all the elements of a classic western while questioning the foundations upon
- >which the notion of the classic western is based. This is the most human of
- >Clint's westerns because, as with us other humans, no one is a clear cut char-
- >acter. They all have their strong and weak points, and everyone is just doing
- >as he can to get by. Even Morgan Freeman's character, who struck me as the
- >noblest, cheats on his wife before the movie's over.
- > The photography in the picture is excellent, with nifty juxtapositions
- >between the "cinematic" scenes with sweeping setup shots and point of view
- >images such as the empty whiskey bottle hitting the ground as Clint rides into
- >town for revenge (not justice).
- > Gotta cut it short. Have work to do.
- > Alex
- Currie Thompson
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