Thomas Butt is a senior writer at Collider who focuses on classic movies.
For the last 30 years, every Clint Eastwood film carries the wistful and reflective tone of someone looking to walk off into the sunset. Despite starring and directing in a handful of stories about aging people on their last legs, Eastwood refuses to retire or passively accept his screen persona. For someone whose work in the Western and crime thriller milieu is so easily misinterpreted, it's no surprise that he feels obligated to amend his filmography with deconstructions of these genres.
After 30 years in movies, Eastwood would direct a career capstone and a coda for the Western genre. Of course, few could have predicted that Unforgiven, which won Best Director and Best Picture at the Academy Awards, would be a mid-point in his career rather than a swan song. His upcoming film, Juror No. 2, is understood as his last dance, but who is really to say at this point? However, after watching Unforgiven, it was hard not to imagine the film being his send-off to the movies.
Related Over 50 Years Ago, Clint Eastwood Starred in One of the Most Fun, Beloved War Movies of All Time Clint Eastwood perfects his on-screen persona in this exciting war epic. Clint Eastwood Made the 2021 Western 'Cry Macho' Proverbially speaking, Unforgiven was the mic drop that dispensed all the myths and falsehoods of the Western genre. Eastwood recognized the film's profound impact and was certain he'd never return to the genre following his nightmarish deconstruction in Unforgiven.
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