The Man with no Name

In this paper I shall try to analyze all the possible meanings present in the film by Clint Eastwood Unforgiven. I will apply at least 3 approaches used in film analysis.

William Munny (Clint Eastwood) is a pig farmer who travels from Kansas to Wyoming picking up a group of misfits along the way, his ex partner a black man whose now a farmer whos married to a Native American, a short sighted kid and a victimised young prostitute whose abusers hes paid to avenge. On the journey Munny has to confront his past. A reformed gun singer, his wife Claudia showed him the errors of his ways, turned him into a virtuous husband, a cari ng farther and a hard working farmer. With his wife buried and the chance of losing his farm, word of a $1000 bounty on the heads of two cowboys who stabbed the prostitute convinces him to revert to type.

That is the first half of the film, and is similar to the outlaw Josey Wales (1976), then when Munny reaches his destination; he is turned into a superhuman avenger who steps out of a thunderstorm to shoot down five people before riding off into the distance and resembles High Plain Drifter (1972).

The film opens with a distance shot of a frontier home, lone tree, golden sunset and a man digging a gravesite silhouetted on the horizon. This long shot is similar to one with John Wayne in John Fords She wore a yellow ribbon. Eastwoods familiarity with westerns means this is probably deliberate as is similarities with other western films and conventions found through out the film.

His parts were small ones in poor films. He was dropped by the studio and went on to find his own work. Eastwoods big break came with the TV series Rawhide, where he was cast as cattle driver Rowdy Yates. This led to Sergio Leones spaghetti westerns. In a fist full of dollars (1964), for a few dollars more (1965), and The good the bad and the ugly (1966) Eastwood gained an international reputation, at the same time developing the screen image that was to see him through his career. From 1986 to 1988 he was elected mayor of Carmel, Califor nia. The Unforgiven earned him Oscars for both best picture and best director.

The film worked to enhance the Eastwood The man with no name character and Eastwood himself. Initially I found it a little self indulgent but when considering all factors feel the film is successful in achieving its goals. Released in the cinema in 1992 and with Clint Eastwood and many of the actors over sixty years old this film is not only seen as Eastwoods final western but perhaps the last of its kind in the genre, Eastwoods references to other great westerns not only helps to see him and this film on the same level as them and embodying him within its traditions but can be seen as his tribute to them.

The humanising and rounding of the man with no name character was done brilliantly as somehow the audience is left to wonder and question even more about him. In a way this a film about how when you kill someone they are really dead but perversely the best scenes in the film are those of violence. Hunter (1995) says Unforgivens condemnation of sin has the effect of attaining a spiritual state of grace even though it denies grace to its characters and to the audience.

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Author:: Sharon White
Keywords:: Unforgiven, Clint, Eastwood
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