Unforgiven Page #22

Synopsis: When prostitute Delilah Fitzgerald (Anna Thomson) is disfigured by a pair of cowboys in Big Whiskey, Wyoming, her fellow brothel workers post a reward for their murder, much to the displeasure of sheriff Little Bill Daggett (Gene Hackman), who doesn't allow vigilantism in his town. Two groups of gunfighters, one led by aging former bandit William Munny (Clint Eastwood), the other by the florid English Bob (Richard Harris), come to collect the reward, clashing with each other and the sheriff.
Genre: Drama, Western
Director(s): Clint Eastwood
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
  Won 4 Oscars. Another 44 wins & 45 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.2
Metacritic:
85
Rotten Tomatoes:
96%
R
Year:
1992
130 min
3,741 Views


Then he goes to Little Bill's body and pokes around in the

pockets and pulls out some shells for the Spencer.

He shoves those in his pocket and he goes to the bar and

picks up the bottle of whiskey and walks over to the door.

Standing to one side, he kicks it open. Then he sets down

the rifle and the bottle and starts to reload the Schofield

and while he loads it he shouts out the door.

MUNNY:

I'm comin' outta here... an' any

f***er I see out there, I'm gonna

kill him... an' any f***er takes a

shot at me, I ain't just gonna kill

him, but I'm gonna kill his wife an'

all his friends an' burn his f***ing

house, hear?

The pistol is loaded and Munny sticks it in his belt and he

takes a long pull on the whiskey bottle and wipes the dribble

from his chin. Then he picks up the rifle in the other hand

and looks out the door.

EXT. MAIN STREET/GREELY'S - NIGHT

The street and it is dark and quiet, shadowy buildings, the

knot of tethered horses, a couple of torches stuck in the

ground sputtering.

MUNNY'S VOICE (O.S.)

Nobody better shoot on account of

I'm as mean as I say... maybe meaner.

I am a damn badman an' you will not

find a worse one in hell.

And Munny steps out the door warily, and looks around and

all he sees are the shadowy buildings and all he hears are

his own boots on the wooden porch. Glancing nervously at the

dark buildings' blank stares he walks past the upright coffin

where the waxy face of Ned stares gruesomely in the light of

the flickering torch and he gives it a glance, wanting to

say he's sorry, but the idea is ludicrous and he steps off

the porch and walks toward the white mare.

EXT. ALLEYWAY - NIGHT

WW Beauchamp and Charley Hecker and Germany Joe crouched in

the alleyway between two buildings across the street and

Charley has a rifle and they can see Munny mounting his horse.

GERMANY JOE:

(whispering)

Go ahead, shoot him.

Charley just shakes his head and offers the rifle to Germany

Joe. And Germany Joe doesn't want it.

GERMANY JOE:

I endt no dehpoody.

WW is watching Munny's unbelievably awkward and prolonged

mounting procedure and he can't believe it, he can't believe

what the Old West is like and it shows on his face.

EXT. MAIN STREET - NIGHT

Munny riding down the dark, lonely street at a trot and he

starts to shout at the top of his lungs.

MUNNY:

You boys better bury old Ned right...

and you better not carve up nor

otherwise harm no whores... or I

will come back an' kill more

sonsabitches, hear?

And there are tears running down Munny's cheeks.

EXT. SOD HUT - DAY

DAYLIGHT and Penny sweeping in the doorway of Munny's sod

hut in Kansas. She is intent on her work until she hears the

snort of a horse and looks up and her jaw drops, and her

face lights up like the sun itself and, dropping the broom,

she dashes toward him.

VIEW ON MUNNY:

Munny walking across the field, leading the mare. He is

covered with dust and heavily stubbled from the trip. Penny

dashes up to him and throws her arms around him and he is

overjoyed but he doesn't have any way to express it except

through awkwardness and embarrassment.

MUNNY:

(fondly)

Ain't you a lady!

And he puts his arm around her and they walk toward the house.

EXT. HOG PENS - DAY

VIEW ON WILL:

Working in the hog pens in back, concentrating on the job.

MUNNY:

Place looks good.

And Will whirls around and sees Munny standing there beside

the house and his first instinct is to run to him and then

he remembers his dignity and stands there like a man, but

the grin is liable to break his face.

WILL:

Hullo, paw.

MUNNY:

I guess you lost some hogs to the

fever.

WILL:

Three.

MUNNY:

Three? That ain't bad considerin'.

Will is pissing in his pants with pride and pleasure and he

joins his father and they walk around the house together.

WILL:

That fella come by... Tom.

MUNNY:

(stopping)

Tom?

WILL:

The one you rode out after... the

one that had the pistol...

MUNNY:

The Kid, yeah...

WILL:

Only he wasn't carryin' no pistol

this time.

INT. SHED - DAY

Will and Munny in the shed and Will is digging deep into a

huge pile of straw.

MUNNY:

(worried)

He say anythin'... The Kid... ?

WILL:

(digging)

Tom? Only how... how if you didn't...

didn't come back in a week...

(upset)

how we was to take half the money to

Sally an' say you was...

MUNNY:

(gently)

Well, I come back, didn't I?

And Will has exposed the saddle bags and Munny moves in and

opens them and gold coins and wads of bills spill out.

WILL:

(upset)

Did you... did you... ?

MUNNY:

(counting)

Did I what?

WILL:

All that money... I mean... did

you...?

MUNNY:

(counting)

Steal it? Naw, I didn't steal it.

WILL:

No... I meant...

MUNNY:

(turning)

What?

WILL:

K-k-kill somebody?

MUNNY:

Who said that?

WILL:

N-nobody... only you took your shotgun

an' that pistol an'...

MUNNY:

(bothered, putting

his arm around Will's

shoulders)

Before I met your maw, God rest her

soul, it used to be I was kinda...

wicked... drinkin' spirits an' gettin'

into scrapes an' all. Only she made

me see the error of my ways an'... I

ain't like I was no more.

WILL:

(relieved)

I guess you didn't kill nobody then.

MUNNY:

(it is an effort)

Naw, son, I didn't kill nobody.

EXT. GRAVE - DAY

The grave of Claudia under the trees and Munny walks up to

it and maybe we hear music or maybe just the wind, but the

words begin to crawl across the screen, supered.

WRITTEN WORDS:

They were married in St. Louis in

1B70 and they traveled North to Kansas

where he engaged in farming and swine

husbandry. She bore him two children

in the eight years of their marriage

and when she died, it was not at his

hands as her mother might have

expected, but of smallpox.

VIEW ON MUNNY:

We are looking at him by now and there is nothing easy on

his face, no big emotions, he is just looking at the grave.

WRITTEN WORDS:

Some years later, Mrs. Ansonia

Feathers made the arduous journey to

Hodgeman County to visit the last

resting place of her only daughter.

VIEW ON THE GRAVE

We are looking at the stone now and the words continue.

WRITTEN WORDS:

William Munny had long since sold

the place and disappeared with the

children... some said to San Francisco

where it was rumored he prospered as

a dry goods merchant under a different

name.

CLOSE ON THE EYES OF WILLIAM MUNNY

The eyes of the husband and the pig-farmer and the man who

shot down five men in the Big Whiskey saloon.

WRITTEN WORDS:

And there was nothing on the stone

to explain to Mrs. Feathers why her

only daughter had married a known

thief and murderer, a man of

notoriously vicious and intemperate

disposition.

THE END:

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David Peoples

David Webb Peoples (born c. 1940) is an American screenwriter, best known for the films Blade Runner, Unforgiven and Twelve Monkeys. more…

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