"Well, he should've armed himself, if he's gonna decorate his saloon with my friend." That has got to be one of the coldest lines in cinema. William Munny had ice running through his veins.
DEFINITELY my favorite line. Second fave is probably, "A SIGN on him in front of Greely's." The equal parts disbelief and seething rage in that statement.
It's the calm recognition of Little Bill's statement about killing women and children, and then reinforcing the point by telling Bill he's killed everything, 'at one time or another'. There's really nothing you can say to that. It:s a bit of a conversation killer.
"I'll see you in hell, William Munny." "... Yeah." One of the coldest exchanges in cinema history, especially when you realize that in that moment, Will reconciled it with himself that if there is an afterlife, he would never see Claudia again. He was fully damned, and had embraced it at last.
If you havent noticed. The reason why they couldnt hit him was because they were all shooting in panic, fear, & scattered. Whereas Bill's shooting with calm, ease, & accuracy.
The gunfight went down exactly like Little Bill described in an earlier scene how to win a gunfight to the writer: the other guys drew their guns faster and fired more shots, but Will was cooler.
As a kid, I grew up on Westerns. As an early teen when this came out, I thought this was a good shootout, but was not fully convinced how everybody missed Clint. As an adult, having been in the military and taking part in "open day" shooting range events and seeing people missing a target with a handgun from about 5-10 meters (with no panic and fear of being shot back) this scene is now great in my eyes and very realistic, more so then perhaps any other Western that came before or since.
Granted, it was paintball, but I was basically pinned down by someone about 12 feet away and decided to rush them. They missed me and after chasing them in circles around a tree three or four times, I stopped, turned around and finally got them. The number of shots missed by both of use from an arms length or less was impressive in its unimpressiveness.
I've shot Grand Army of the frontier competition. It is far too easy to miss from five feet when you rush your shots to beat a timer, let alone a situation where targets shoot back. Handguns are way harder to use under stress than most people think.
"Whose the fella that owns this shithole?" One of the first things I always say when I enter a suspect convenience store or bar/restaurant. It's a real ice-breaker!
The gunfight went down exactly like Little Bill described in an earlier scene how to win a gunfight to the writer: the other guys drew their guns faster and fired more shots, but Will was cooler.
Best Western (or anti-Western) ever made. Directed by Clint no less. I love seeing people discover and be impacted by great (and often-overlooked) movies.
Yeah, that line and the one about we all got it coming pretty much sums up everyone's life and what's up the road for each of us. Death. It dont matter how wealthy you are, how good you've been, or evil, deserving has nothing to do with how you go. And everyone goes.
@@mateuszmattias That really makes sense in a poetic way. Whether or not there is any continuity between all of those characters makes no difference. This was the last Western that Clint Eastwood ever did. And it was his send-off and deconstruction of the entire genre - and all of his "past selves". The idea that William Munny is trying to find a way to repent and take care of his children at the beginning of the film, and then slowly begins to accept that finding redemption for all he's done is out of his grasp and he's just going to have to accept what he has always been fits every Western Character he's ever played - except perhaps for Josey Wales. Josey Wales has a completely different attitude towards killing and DOES find a form of redemption at the end of his story. So he is not directly connected to the others you mentioned. It reminds me of Leiji Matsumoto's favorite character - Captain Harlock. Harlock himself is always the same, but the stories he stars in are what's different. There is almost no continuity between any of the Harlock Manga or anime. Harlock and the other characters in his story are like Clint Eastwood and the other actors (his friends) that kept showing up in all his movies of the 70s and 80s. Harlock and Eastwood's various western characters are almost not even characters - but ARCHETYPES that recur again and again.
The Bar took on a whole new ambiance when they realized the man they were hunting was actually hunting them. This was THE coldest ending to a movie i've ever watched. I remember being in the theater and thinking this was a bit of a drawn out so so western. Until the end. The last ten minutes was the most epic, and well shot, pieces of film. From the bottle of whiskey being thrown on the road, to the seeing of Ned in his coffin, to the look on the whores face when she saw William Munney in the shadows while wild Bill was motivating the crowd. Damn, he looked like death. Every word Munney said had everyone in the room terrified. Wild Bill showed courage, but his crew was scared stupid, and they paid big time.
Seems like a pretty realistic depiction of how people panic when confronted with a gunfight situation. William was calm, ready to die, everyone else panic fired all over the place. A plausible outcome.
There's a fascinating book called "On Killing" by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman that describes a series of studies conducted by the US military over the decades. Shooting a man in a close-up face-to-face confrontation isn't a psychologically easy thing to do, even for trained soldiers. Most panic and either freeze or shoot wildly. And these cowboys weren't trained soldiers.
Yep. Plus, remember the line, "Killin' a man's a helluva thing". The Scofield Kid thought it was an easy thing to do, till he did it. He was living in a romanticized fantasy. Also, Big Whiskey was a town (sorta) where fire arms weren't allowed in general, so there was little reason for the men in the bar to have to practice or have any experience in gun fights. William Munny had more than all of them put together times ten, including Little Bill.
Little Bill Daggett: "Yeah, that's why there's so few dangerous men around like old Bob, like me. It ain't so easy to shoot a man anyhow, especially if the son-of-a-bitch is shootin' back at you. I mean, that'll just flat rattle some folks." Now, in this scene, look how many of the posse got rattled and panicked during the gunfight? ALL of them, except for Little Bill.
I've seen all of Clint's movies more times that I can count, 45 years, and this scene never gets old. He is truly an ICON. God Bless him at 93 years young.
Same. He's a true stamp of approval. You see Clint had something to do with a movie you watch it. It will be a sad day when this icon goes. Don't know him but I know I'll miss the man, just glad he has a huge body of work left behind that will always be classics!
The Kuiper belt (or the Oort Cloud - never been clear on if it's the same thing or not) is the remaining ice and asteroid debris left-over from the formation of our Solar System. Far far far out beyond the reaches of Pluto - so cold out there that oxygen and hydrogen - which are gases here on earth - are frozen so solid that they form into rocky ice. Until something disturbs them in their orbit and sends them arcing in toward the inner solar system. To become Comets. THAT's the level of cold that Eastwood's character is in this film at the end. Colder than hydrogen rocks... Cold as a lonely Comet arcing in and back out again into the deep places never to be seen again.
I love how Beauchamp looks enraptured for just a minute at the prospect of seeing a real gunfight, because he has romanticized them in his mind…. And then he’s absolutely terrified when he sees what it’s really like.
@@davidhutchinson5233 Saul Rubinek absolutely slayed in his performance in "True Romance"....movie had arguably greatest cast ever and he was a part of it
Good point. Beauchamp represents writers (particularly screenwriters) who overly romanticize Westerns/frontier life movies to make them more sanitized and easily consumed by the general public. Eastwood wanted to make a film that was anything but that, w/ pure realism, no heroics. The writing, acting, directing, and the visual look of the film are all stellar.
I want a prequel. It starts with English Bob shooting "Two-Gun" Corkrin in the Blue Bottle Saloon, with a young Little Bill sitting in a corner (maybe we learn about how he got the moniker 'Little Bill.' I like to think he was a deputy to a Sheriff also named Bill - 'Big Bill'). It takes us up to WW Beauchamp being enamored with the same, charming, English Bob, embarking West towards the good hospitality of Big Whiskey with English Bob for a job WW is not quite sure of. I'd love a throwaway line early on about 'some guy' dynamiting the Rock Island & Pacific Railroad - a nod to William Munny. And one scene - just one - maybe a flashback, IDK, with William Munny and English Bob. I know it can't be the great Sir Richard Harris and The Man with No Name, but still, just a chance encounter, years before Big Whiskey, where they recognize each other as two Very Dangerous Men. Maybe Will and English Bob got paid by rival railroads "to shoot Chinamen." After all, Will admitted to killing everything that's walked or crawled at one time or another.... There's so much backstory to explore. Who is Claudia Feathers? HOW did Claudia cure Will from drunkenness and wickedness? How did Will meet Ned? How did Little Bill make his way from those tough towns in Kansas and Texas to Big Whiskey, Wyoming? And what did he do to deserve waking up living in Nebraska?? The story took place in 1881 - when President Garfield was shot. Epilogue: 1893. We see WW reflecting on a recent copy of the San Francisco Chronicle, with the obituary of William Munny, prominent business owner. The movie ends with WW Beauchamp hawking his best-selling book about the Old West at the Chicago World's Fair.
I like to look at the movie for the writer's POV. He has quite the book to write. He starts off trailing behind the embodiment of the romanticized gunfighter. Who, turns out to be coward who is known for trying to shoot people in the back, or when the are helpless, or just plane unarmed (Chinese for the railroad ). He is a blow hard capitalizing on his image. He is humbled by Little Bill. he's a person who had probably had his share of gun fights and wild times. He's not famous but seems to harbor a grudge against men like Bob and other wannabe tough guys. He uses his position of authority to as a way to take his anger out on these men. Then, WW meets Will. Somebody who has committed real atrocities but is largely forgotten and unheard of (especially to people back east). Somebody who appears to be your average nobody but is actually the genuine article; a stone cold killer. Not someone who is trying to capitalize on his wickedness like the others. Rather, a man who's trying to bury it.
I remember the first time I saw John Wick and I always thought that whoever directed it wanted Keanu Reaves character to resemble the tone that Clint Eastwood captured in this movie. Like when a character says something to them and they both answer with that dry, "Yeah...."! How they both stare into the eyes of a person they killed. Neither John or William are good. But there more than just bad, its like an necessary evil. I heard a retired Special Forces guy say once, "We aren't good people. We're bad people with good intentions put here to stop bad people with bad intentions! Anyway, thanks so much for taking the time to create this reaction of this scene.
I saw Unforgiven for the first time 1993 in VHS at age 10 with both my parents who always were Clint's fans since 1960's. I already knew Clint from Pink Cadillac and Gene from Superman, two light films, but watch them confront each other like this, in a obscure and brutal scene, make a great impact for me because there nothing to celebrate (unlike countless other westerns films). Unforgiven is a timeless masterpiece.
If I'm ever out strolling about and run into say a lean mean pack of cannibals somewhere...I hope to be accompanied by a large, sloth like companion such as this fella😅ain't no way I'm getting caught😅😅once he goes down, with the bountiful supply of meat his carcass will provide they'll cease pursuit of me immediately once he's secured and will praise the Gods😂😂
The scene where he's telling everyone that they better bury Ned right or " I ll come back here and kill every one of you "Sons of Bithces " gives me chills , because the devil that was dormant came back out in that man!!!
He wrote some of my favorite screenplays. Sparse scripts that say a lot, often with just little. Lots of moral ambiguity. And he expected the audience to be intelligent to read between the lines. Or without lines at all. And some serious badass lines. One of my favorites is from The Salute of the Jugger aka The Blood of Heroes. For me, it is an underrated post apocalyptic film with a really good cast. The film revolves around a brutal team sport. Where the object of the sport is to put a dog's skull on a stake. In it, Rutger Hauer's character, Sallow, is hated by one of the powerful people, the aptly named Lord Vile. So, Lord Vile goes to a real brute of a man, named Gonzo, on a team playing against Sallow. And tries to get him to deliberately blind Sallow. Gonzo shuts him down by saying: 'Lord Vile, I've broken Juggers in half, smashed their bones, left the ground behind me wet with brains. There's nothing I wouldn't do to win. But I never hurt anyone for any reason other than sticking a dog's skull on a stake.'
Further, Eastwood didn't change a word from the writer. When shown a private screening of this film before release, apparently Peoples wept at how beautifully it had been treated by Eastwood. I guess it's a standard recurrence with rewrites, alterations, edits, etc that the screenplay has a rainbow quality as every amendment has different color sheets. This screenplay was the color of the paper on which it was printed.
@@billyboblillybob344 apparently Eastwood did contacted Peoples for some rewrites, but in the end when he watched the movie he realized none of it was used and when he asked Clint about it the other answered "I guess it was good the first time around."
Same here. It was just too much on the first viewing. I expected the man with no name hero instead of a monster that reluctantly became a monster again.
"No one can shoot" That's because they've never been in a gunfight. Munny has. Several. He's calm. They're not. It's easy to shoot some bottles in the backyard. Not so much when the bottles shoot back. Munny, however, is all kinds of used to the bottles shooting back.
I’ve never shot a pistol at a man shooting back at close range. But I’ve been in a situation trying to shoot a large, angry groundhog in a small barn with me blocking the door. When something is focused on harming you to save itself, it’s a crazy feeling and you want to panic and rush it.
My memory of this movie is pretty foggy since I haven't seen this movie in several years but this scene had one of the best buildups and executions I've ever seen in film. Throughout the movie Little Bill is quick to reveal or dispel the mythos of these "legendary" gunslingers in front of his men. He even revels in tearing them down. He's likely done it so much that the men following him are convinced that there are no "legendary" gunslingers out there or at the very least their stories were highly exaggerated. That is until William Munny shows up. Little Bill told his men the same thing Ned told him, about how William Munny committed legitimate atrocities in his life and is not a man to be trifled with. He probably even tried to spin it in a way that it was all hogwash but when Munny walks in with that gun in hand, they get the feeling that he just might be the real deal. Then when he kills the owner and confirms his crimes that's when it hits home to these men that this man is no fairy tale. He's no exaggerated story or some tall tale to scare people or a hack like the first guy we saw in the movie. He's a real killer. So they panic and when Little Bill goes down, their fearless leader, these men who have likely never been in a real scrape in all of their lives don't stand a chance. I almost feel bad for the writer though. This was the very sort of thing he was looking for and he found it. He'll write about it and people will read it say it sounds like bullshit. No way one guy killed all of those people in the saloon and they just happened to miss. Just another story from the Old West is all. Funnily enough, had none of this had happened, Little Bill would've agreed. This was a good video and I'm liking this current format. I've think you've found a good balance.
What is so compelling in the movie is the writing. Little Bill is correct in that most stories are BS. Bill admits he isn't great, just knows how to be real. English Bob is full of it, playing it up to be a cool hero. Schofield Kid is trying to be tougher than he is, admitting at the end he is nothing. Ned chickens out shooting the younger cowboy, forcing Will to deliver the killing shot. But Will Munny, you hear certain stories but they are underplayed. Ned witnessed his actions and knew how bad he was. The girl bringing the money relay how many stories are about him. When Will enters the bar, there was only one way it could end, and only one person who actually would walk out alive. Will Munny was even more than his stories. He IS Death.
Well, that is loosely based on the train robbery by the James-Younger gang. The 1873 robbery of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway. It was one of, if not the, first train robberies. They didn't board the train or anything. They just messed with the tracks, wrecked it and robbed it. Several people were killed and many more horribly injured and maimed. And they were considered heroes by many...so art kind of imitates life, I guess.
We’re conditioned to with westerns.. Which is why this is a masterpiece.. Upon further viewing you understand the western mythos is deconstructed.. There are no good guys.. And a fateful decision to engage in frontier justice brought the devil to their town.. It’s one of the greats, no doubt..
"I'm here to kill you Little Bill...for what you did to Ned." I was in the theater watching this and all 400 people were completely silent for this scene. A great scene with amazing acting by everyone.
IMO, William Munny is one of the scariest characters ever shown in cinema. Heath Ledger Joker scary. When he says "Or I'll come back and kill every last one of you motherfuckers," it always gives me shivers.
"...every last one of you sons o' bitches" but yeah... ice cold. I can watch this movie over and over and over. I've watched it no less than 20 times since the 90's and man it's just peak western cinema and the script and direction is phenomenal.
That's exactly what I always thought too! Most reactors in this video probably have no idea how brutal the end result would have been. William Munny does. And he takes his time to make very shure Little Bill knows whats comming.
I was working in a cinema at the time this originally came out. Then it won an Oscar. They brought it back in again after that and it did even way better business than it did before. Excellent film.
"I'm a writer!" "Writer? Letters and such?" A call back to the same exchange Little Bill had with Mr. Beauchamp. I saw this film in theaters opening weekend. Might sound cliche but at the end of the movie we all sat there quiet taking in what we all just saw. This wasnt the spaghetti westerns or Shane we all had seen. It was truly a world of different shades of grey.
"It was truly a world of different shades of grey." Which is what convinced Gene Hackman to take the role as Little Bill. Apparently he rejected Eastwood initially citing violent movies he'd been in recently (at the time). Eastwood told him to give it another look and view it as a movie speaking to the evils of gun violence with good and evil both being enveloped by the grey area. It's one of those 'drop the remote' flicks...
When Beauchamp asks William Munny “who did you kill first?” What people must understand is that this sets up the “I was lucky in the order. But then I’ve always been lucky when it comes to killing people.” That’s a call back to Eastwood’s dialogue in “The Outlaw Josie Wales” where he’s explaining to the chief about who he shot in what order when he confronted the Union soldiers in town earlier. It’s a nice call back to an iconic role.
You really have to see the entire movie to appreciate this time. You’re right they were scared, but in the beginning of the movie it speaks of how mean he gets when he’s under the influence of alcohol. You also really need to see the end of the movie when he’s outside in the rain on his horse and what he yells to the town folk about burying his friend Ned. You can see the sheer, I guess the best way to describe it is evil and his eyes. Even though evil may be too strong a word, but you can tell he’s extremely mean SOB when he’s drinking
This has been one of my all time favorite movies since i saw it as a young man when it came out in the theaters.. I still watch it two or three times a year. Watching this reaction took me right back to sitting in the theater back in 91.. the look on the faces let you know what a powerful movie and character this is.. As we speak I’m waiting on my official Clint Eastwood authorized William Munny figure from Sideshow.. ordered last year, ships next month. Cant wait. Solid Work on this mashup 👏🏼
For anyone wondering - this was Clint Eastwood's effort to dispel the "myth" of gunfighters. Most films (especially back in the 1960s) portrayed gunfighters as slick "winners" who could kill at will and just shrug it off. The reality is a bit different. Cold, wet, sick, dirty, smelly, afraid, and not very pleasant. That, and the idea that a "gunslinger" wasn't a hero - just a killer, really. Mean and awful. All that, and dispelling the idea that a killer with a badge is somehow better than a killer without one. A bullshit idea then and now This is why this film won all the awards it did.
Definitely a contributing factor but the likely biggest reason is what Little Bill spoke about to WW in the jailhouse about how some folks will freeze up when being fired at...something like that. Those deputies had near zero experience in anything resembling a gun fight. The one-armed guy was likely a war vet so it's probably why he was targeted right after Little Bill was gutshot.
I think it's more that William Munny's reputation preceded him. He's a well known and alleged soulless killing machine and Little Bill basically tells the room that's William Munny. When Will admits that he has "killed just about everything that's walked or crawled at one time or another..." and literally has just walked into a saloon FULL of armed men... those dudes are just about shitting their pants. I think it's more the sheer terror that has them rattled where they can't hit anything except walls...
The whole point of Munny is to show that there are those who can talk, and then there are those who don't need to. When faced with the real thing, just about everyone will panic, be unsteady, be trying to process too much. Munny had practice, yes, but he even says it himself; "I've always been lucky when it comes to killing folks." He's just that, a killer, and I would venture to guess none of us would be ready if we ever came face to face with him.
I remember seeing the trailer for this movie at the theater, when Clint showed up on screen as William Mooney everyone in that theater gasped; at that point it had been almost a decade since Clint made a western. Lastly, this was a great year for movies. I miss the old school feel of going to the movies.
Now here's the big question, fellow viewers: did Munny fire five shots, or six? This is a callback to his famous movie Dirty Harry, where he actually asks the Bad Guy that question at the movie's climax.
It is amazing how many people missed the way Little Bill explained gunfighting earlier in the movie and how it tied into everyone missing Will in the final fight.
Yeah in this reaction you can see Jen Murray saying is that true. Yeap. He don't care. But I have to say. He gave people chances twice in that scene. One that gets me. "We all have it coming kid"
The Spencer rifle is the continuous loading tube magazine rifle commissioned by Abraham Lincoln for the Union Army. He tried it out right on the White House lawn shooting at a wooden target.
I often try to imagine the fear they must have felt. Talking about how they're going to chase this guy, then he walks into the room like - here I am MF'ers!! The level of craziness it takes to do that can't be comprehended.
I don't deserve this.. he says...well the victims that he assaulted and killed earlier in the movie didn't deserve either... shut your trap... sir William munny(Eastwood) was a badass... vengeance at it finest...
Always loved this film. Would love to see one of Tombstone 'Hell's Coming With Me' or maybe Tom Cruise in Collateral shooting the two thugs in the alley.
I am a violence expert in real life & this movie is one of the few movies that understands violence correctly.👍👍 Not seen here, but the part where Little Bill explains the importance of keeping a cool head vs being the fastest draw, is true. Also the people in this scene were thinking “we got one and will get the other in the morning”, they were thinking they were predators… Munny showing up like he did, forced a reset on their OODA loop… 😈 Munny also targeted the most experienced killer first, then he shot the one armed deputy because he was obviously a veteran of battles previously… then deputy Andy, then the fat deputy running just because…. Munny wasn’t just making a menacing presence at the start of this scene… though that was a good bonus… he was noting who was there and where they were. Few movies get this right
@@hulkslayer626 with pleasure…. I have more training in violence than 3 police officers, I don’t play golf or watch football, I study real life violence. How fast do people die if certain veins/arteries are cut, how many rounds does it take before a person drops, how the criminal mind works, etc… “Active self protection “ is a superb resource for the layman to learn more. I hang out with professionally dangerous men.. I listen and observe…
@JacobMcandles ooooh ok. So you have a lot of experience and training regarding violent situations. I mistakenly thought there was some type of degree or certification out there. Or is that what you meant regarding the studying? You took/teach a course in that field?
@@hulkslayer626 there are lots of classes you can take from folks like Clint Smith or Ed Monk, you can read Dave Grossman’s book “on killing” which is literally required reading for Marine Corps officers… The key is to not just read, but meditate on it… read the violent history of the world and realize we are just as violent now as then & always will be… then plan accordingly
My all-time favourite Western. Great movie and a great reaction mash-up to an epic scene. Keep 'em coming, please!! Few suggestions: Sewer Attack (Mockingjay Part 2), Bourne vs Desh - Tangiers Chase & Fight scene (Bourne Ultimatum), Venice foot chase leading to Ilsa Faust vs. Gabriel (M:I - Dead Reckoning), Achilles vs Hector (Troy) & More battle scenes from Lord of the Rings.
The whole movie, stories about what he's done throughout his life were told. William Munny was their boogeyman. And to basically see the devil in the flesh shook them to the core.
I howled when I heard that comment. That, and "Thank God!" when the murderous Will Munny stops the still-living, despicable Sheriff Little Bill Daggett...cheering for the most vile, ill-tempered rodent...err man there was...
“The most terrifying sound in the world, isn’t the growl of a wounded lion in the long grass, the grunt of a charging Cape Buffalo or even the trumpet of an enraged elephant as it charges, it a…*click* when you’re expecting a *BOOM!*” - Peter Hathaway Capstick
Clint’s immediate reaction to grab that whiskey bottle after learning about Ned’s death. And the subsequent bottle toss, he was ready to do some more killin’.
If you enjoyed this, you'll enjoy Little Bill vs English Bob.
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"Well, he should've armed himself, if he's gonna decorate his saloon with my friend." That has got to be one of the coldest lines in cinema. William Munny had ice running through his veins.
DEFINITELY my favorite line. Second fave is probably, "A SIGN on him in front of Greely's." The equal parts disbelief and seething rage in that statement.
It's the calm recognition of Little Bill's statement about killing women and children, and then reinforcing the point by telling Bill he's killed everything, 'at one time or another'. There's really nothing you can say to that. It:s a bit of a conversation killer.
I'd include Doc Holliday's "I wasn't," (to "I was just messin' around...") in Tombstone on that list.
For me the coldest line is "I've always been lucky when it comes to killin' folks."
@@MrBendylaw - So, add "conversations" to the list of everything he's killed?
In my opinion, one of the top 5 movies ever made. A masterpiece.
"I'll see you in hell, William Munny."
"... Yeah."
One of the coldest exchanges in cinema history, especially when you realize that in that moment, Will reconciled it with himself that if there is an afterlife, he would never see Claudia again. He was fully damned, and had embraced it at last.
*Unforgiven*
If you havent noticed. The reason why they couldnt hit him was because they were all shooting in panic, fear, & scattered. Whereas Bill's shooting with calm, ease, & accuracy.
Uh, yeah, most of us clearly noticed.
Steady is quick
The gunfight went down exactly like Little Bill described in an earlier scene how to win a gunfight to the writer: the other guys drew their guns faster and fired more shots, but Will was cooler.
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Obviously my comment is for the ones that didnt get it. Like how many of the reactors who were in disbelief.
Plus, they were already half sauced. Drunk and armed isn't a good combination.
As a kid, I grew up on Westerns. As an early teen when this came out, I thought this was a good shootout, but was not fully convinced how everybody missed Clint. As an adult, having been in the military and taking part in "open day" shooting range events and seeing people missing a target with a handgun from about 5-10 meters (with no panic and fear of being shot back) this scene is now great in my eyes and very realistic, more so then perhaps any other Western that came before or since.
Granted, it was paintball, but I was basically pinned down by someone about 12 feet away and decided to rush them. They missed me and after chasing them in circles around a tree three or four times, I stopped, turned around and finally got them.
The number of shots missed by both of use from an arms length or less was impressive in its unimpressiveness.
Yeah, you got that right. Plenty of police reports where lots of rounds fired and few hits.
I've shot Grand Army of the frontier competition. It is far too easy to miss from five feet when you rush your shots to beat a timer, let alone a situation where targets shoot back. Handguns are way harder to use under stress than most people think.
"Whose the fella that owns this shithole?" One of the first things I always say when I enter a suspect convenience store or bar/restaurant. It's a real ice-breaker!
If you're really lucky there may be an obese male clerk, in which case you can continue with "You fat man, speak up!"
Doesn't work when visiting relatives over the holidays.
Believe me...😊
Doesn't work when visiting relatives over the holidays.
Believe me...😊
Ikr! Really makes people warm up to you :)
When he shoots Skinny off the bat, you knew he was was willing to kill everybody.
The gunfight went down exactly like Little Bill described in an earlier scene how to win a gunfight to the writer: the other guys drew their guns faster and fired more shots, but Will was cooler.
Best Western (or anti-Western) ever made. Directed by Clint no less. I love seeing people discover and be impacted by great (and often-overlooked) movies.
This movie was far from overlooked. It won Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
Tombstone holds that honor for me. Silverado is great, too.
You're right about that; I mean more so now that it's 30+ years old. @@jonfernandez4271
@@infiad1275 - Hero, with Jet Li, for me. It is an epic and beautiful film.
"Deserve's got nothing to do with it."
Words to live and die by, sadly.
That some cold shit!
"We've all got it coming, kid"
Yeah, that line and the one about we all got it coming pretty much sums up everyone's life and what's up the road for each of us. Death. It dont matter how wealthy you are, how good you've been, or evil, deserving has nothing to do with how you go. And everyone goes.
1:18 - That clap of thunder hits, and you realize that William Munny is really The Man With No Name.
In fact he is known under many names: Blondie, High Plains Drifter, Preacher, William Munny. But I see what you mean.
@@mateuszmattias That really makes sense in a poetic way. Whether or not there is any continuity between all of those characters makes no difference. This was the last Western that Clint Eastwood ever did. And it was his send-off and deconstruction of the entire genre - and all of his "past selves". The idea that William Munny is trying to find a way to repent and take care of his children at the beginning of the film, and then slowly begins to accept that finding redemption for all he's done is out of his grasp and he's just going to have to accept what he has always been fits every Western Character he's ever played - except perhaps for Josey Wales. Josey Wales has a completely different attitude towards killing and DOES find a form of redemption at the end of his story. So he is not directly connected to the others you mentioned.
It reminds me of Leiji Matsumoto's favorite character - Captain Harlock. Harlock himself is always the same, but the stories he stars in are what's different. There is almost no continuity between any of the Harlock Manga or anime. Harlock and the other characters in his story are like Clint Eastwood and the other actors (his friends) that kept showing up in all his movies of the 70s and 80s. Harlock and Eastwood's various western characters are almost not even characters - but ARCHETYPES that recur again and again.
Yep, this the conclusion of the story that started with A Fistful of Dollars. All those years people thought it was just going to be a trilogy.
@@mateuszmattias & Manco in Few Dollars More
Whatever his name is, he surly has true grit.
The Bar took on a whole new ambiance when they realized the man they were hunting was actually hunting them. This was THE coldest ending to a movie i've ever watched. I remember being in the theater and thinking this was a bit of a drawn out so so western. Until the end. The last ten minutes was the most epic, and well shot, pieces of film. From the bottle of whiskey being thrown on the road, to the seeing of Ned in his coffin, to the look on the whores face when she saw William Munney in the shadows while wild Bill was motivating the crowd. Damn, he looked like death. Every word Munney said had everyone in the room terrified. Wild Bill showed courage, but his crew was scared stupid, and they paid big time.
Seems like a pretty realistic depiction of how people panic when confronted with a gunfight situation. William was calm, ready to die, everyone else panic fired all over the place. A plausible outcome.
There's a fascinating book called "On Killing" by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman that describes a series of studies conducted by the US military over the decades. Shooting a man in a close-up face-to-face confrontation isn't a psychologically easy thing to do, even for trained soldiers. Most panic and either freeze or shoot wildly. And these cowboys weren't trained soldiers.
You are correct. Look up the acorn cop.
Yep. Plus, remember the line, "Killin' a man's a helluva thing". The Scofield Kid thought it was an easy thing to do, till he did it. He was living in a romanticized fantasy. Also, Big Whiskey was a town (sorta) where fire arms weren't allowed in general, so there was little reason for the men in the bar to have to practice or have any experience in gun fights. William Munny had more than all of them put together times ten, including Little Bill.
As Wyatt Earp said, "Fast is fine, but accuracy is lethal!"
@@carlosdequesada4503 LOL, another classic.
Roger Ebert said the ending of Unforgiven was the scariest and most terrifying sequence ever put on film
Little Bill Daggett: "Yeah, that's why there's so few dangerous men around like old Bob, like me. It ain't so easy to shoot a man anyhow, especially if the son-of-a-bitch is shootin' back at you. I mean, that'll just flat rattle some folks."
Now, in this scene, look how many of the posse got rattled and panicked during the gunfight? ALL of them, except for Little Bill.
When killers meet a murderer.
Ooh I like that play on words.
Like other way more - when murderers meet a killer
Like a bunch of wolves coming up against a grizzly... or a bunch of hyenas up against a lion
Angel of Death.
@@paiman1976 Second one ain't the best example. Lions are bitches alone, hyenas bully them all the time.
When the wannabe tough guys meet the actual tough guy.
I've seen all of Clint's movies more times that I can count, 45 years, and this scene never gets old. He is truly an ICON. God Bless him at 93 years young.
Same. He's a true stamp of approval. You see Clint had something to do with a movie you watch it. It will be a sad day when this icon goes. Don't know him but I know I'll miss the man, just glad he has a huge body of work left behind that will always be classics!
The coldest line ever spoken in cinema history
"I've always been lucky when it comes to killing folk."
Most people who get drunk are hoping to get “lucky”. Just a different kind.
I'd go with, "We all got it coming kid." from this movie. But ya that is a pretty chiller of a line.
People like, "this line is the coldest, that part is the coldest", this entire scene is basically Pluto.
If this scene is "Pluto", Eastwood is "Absolute Zero" the entire film. 😹❤
The Kuiper belt (or the Oort Cloud - never been clear on if it's the same thing or not) is the remaining ice and asteroid debris left-over from the formation of our Solar System. Far far far out beyond the reaches of Pluto - so cold out there that oxygen and hydrogen - which are gases here on earth - are frozen so solid that they form into rocky ice. Until something disturbs them in their orbit and sends them arcing in toward the inner solar system. To become Comets.
THAT's the level of cold that Eastwood's character is in this film at the end. Colder than hydrogen rocks... Cold as a lonely Comet arcing in and back out again into the deep places never to be seen again.
@@slyguythreeonetwonine3172 He's certainly no "Rookie"...
Pluto has geothermal activity😉😂
I was infected with a similar mindset in the Red Dead series.
I love how Beauchamp looks enraptured for just a minute at the prospect of seeing a real gunfight, because he has romanticized them in his mind…. And then he’s absolutely terrified when he sees what it’s really like.
The wonderferully talented Saul Rubinek.
@@davidhutchinson5233 Saul Rubinek absolutely slayed in his performance in "True Romance"....movie had arguably greatest cast ever and he was a part of it
@@bthomas518 You've exhibited none of the pantomimes in your comment...you speak the truth!!!
Good point. Beauchamp represents writers (particularly screenwriters) who overly romanticize Westerns/frontier life movies to make them more sanitized and easily consumed by the general public. Eastwood wanted to make a film that was anything but that, w/ pure realism, no heroics. The writing, acting, directing, and the visual look of the film are all stellar.
I want a prequel. It starts with English Bob shooting "Two-Gun" Corkrin in the Blue Bottle Saloon, with a young Little Bill sitting in a corner (maybe we learn about how he got the moniker 'Little Bill.' I like to think he was a deputy to a Sheriff also named Bill - 'Big Bill'). It takes us up to WW Beauchamp being enamored with the same, charming, English Bob, embarking West towards the good hospitality of Big Whiskey with English Bob for a job WW is not quite sure of.
I'd love a throwaway line early on about 'some guy' dynamiting the Rock Island & Pacific Railroad - a nod to William Munny. And one scene - just one - maybe a flashback, IDK, with William Munny and English Bob. I know it can't be the great Sir Richard Harris and The Man with No Name, but still, just a chance encounter, years before Big Whiskey, where they recognize each other as two Very Dangerous Men. Maybe Will and English Bob got paid by rival railroads "to shoot Chinamen." After all, Will admitted to killing everything that's walked or crawled at one time or another....
There's so much backstory to explore. Who is Claudia Feathers? HOW did Claudia cure Will from drunkenness and wickedness? How did Will meet Ned? How did Little Bill make his way from those tough towns in Kansas and Texas to Big Whiskey, Wyoming? And what did he do to deserve waking up living in Nebraska??
The story took place in 1881 - when President Garfield was shot. Epilogue: 1893. We see WW reflecting on a recent copy of the San Francisco Chronicle, with the obituary of William Munny, prominent business owner. The movie ends with WW Beauchamp hawking his best-selling book about the Old West at the Chicago World's Fair.
I like to look at the movie for the writer's POV. He has quite the book to write. He starts off trailing behind the embodiment of the romanticized gunfighter. Who, turns out to be coward who is known for trying to shoot people in the back, or when the are helpless, or just plane unarmed (Chinese for the railroad ). He is a blow hard capitalizing on his image. He is humbled by Little Bill. he's a person who had probably had his share of gun fights and wild times. He's not famous but seems to harbor a grudge against men like Bob and other wannabe tough guys. He uses his position of authority to as a way to take his anger out on these men. Then, WW meets Will. Somebody who has committed real atrocities but is largely forgotten and unheard of (especially to people back east). Somebody who appears to be your average nobody but is actually the genuine article; a stone cold killer. Not someone who is trying to capitalize on his wickedness like the others. Rather, a man who's trying to bury it.
I remember the first time I saw John Wick and I always thought that whoever directed it wanted Keanu Reaves character to resemble the tone that Clint Eastwood captured in this movie. Like when a character says something to them and they both answer with that dry, "Yeah...."! How they both stare into the eyes of a person they killed. Neither John or William are good. But there more than just bad, its like an necessary evil. I heard a retired Special Forces guy say once, "We aren't good people. We're bad people with good intentions put here to stop bad people with bad intentions! Anyway, thanks so much for taking the time to create this reaction of this scene.
I saw Unforgiven for the first time 1993 in VHS at age 10 with both my parents who always were Clint's fans since 1960's. I already knew Clint from Pink Cadillac and Gene from Superman, two light films, but watch them confront each other like this, in a obscure and brutal scene, make a great impact for me because there nothing to celebrate (unlike countless other westerns films). Unforgiven is a timeless masterpiece.
"He was just a little to big to run" lol hilarious
If I'm ever out strolling about and run into say a lean mean pack of cannibals somewhere...I hope to be accompanied by a large, sloth like companion such as this fella😅ain't no way I'm getting caught😅😅once he goes down, with the bountiful supply of meat his carcass will provide they'll cease pursuit of me immediately once he's secured and will praise the Gods😂😂
The scene where he's telling everyone that they better bury Ned right or " I ll come back here and kill every one of you "Sons of Bithces " gives me chills , because the devil that was dormant came back out in that man!!!
He'd kill everyone including their dogs. Haha
This movie was so well written by David Webb Peoples. One of the best original screenplays ever IMHO.
He wrote some of my favorite screenplays. Sparse scripts that say a lot, often with just little. Lots of moral ambiguity. And he expected the audience to be intelligent to read between the lines. Or without lines at all.
And some serious badass lines.
One of my favorites is from The Salute of the Jugger aka The Blood of Heroes.
For me, it is an underrated post apocalyptic film with a really good cast.
The film revolves around a brutal team sport. Where the object of the sport is to put a dog's skull on a stake.
In it, Rutger Hauer's character, Sallow, is hated by one of the powerful people, the aptly named Lord Vile.
So, Lord Vile goes to a real brute of a man, named Gonzo, on a team playing against Sallow.
And tries to get him to deliberately blind Sallow.
Gonzo shuts him down by saying: 'Lord Vile, I've broken Juggers in half, smashed their bones, left the ground behind me wet with brains. There's nothing I wouldn't do to win. But I never hurt anyone for any reason other than sticking a dog's skull on a stake.'
Further, Eastwood didn't change a word from the writer. When shown a private screening of this film before release, apparently Peoples wept at how beautifully it had been treated by Eastwood. I guess it's a standard recurrence with rewrites, alterations, edits, etc that the screenplay has a rainbow quality as every amendment has different color sheets. This screenplay was the color of the paper on which it was printed.
@@billyboblillybob344 apparently Eastwood did contacted Peoples for some rewrites, but in the end when he watched the movie he realized none of it was used and when he asked Clint about it the other answered "I guess it was good the first time around."
@@billyboblillybob344 That's incredible, thank for sharing that.
I remember being luke-warm to this when it first came out, but as I've watched it over the years, now love it. A true western film.
Same here. It was just too much on the first viewing. I expected the man with no name hero instead of a monster that reluctantly became a monster again.
This is the best editing of a "Mashup" I've ever seen.
thank you. i will tell the editor. 🙂
"No one can shoot" That's because they've never been in a gunfight. Munny has. Several. He's calm. They're not. It's easy to shoot some bottles in the backyard. Not so much when the bottles shoot back. Munny, however, is all kinds of used to the bottles shooting back.
Munny also took a knee as soon as he pulled out his pistol, which made him a smaller target and out of the line-of-sight of half of the shooters.
I’ve never shot a pistol at a man shooting back at close range. But I’ve been in a situation trying to shoot a large, angry groundhog in a small barn with me blocking the door. When something is focused on harming you to save itself, it’s a crazy feeling and you want to panic and rush it.
Exactly. And i bet all of those guys other then Bill had even fired a gun at another person before. They were just hired badges that carried a gun.
I feel this!
My memory of this movie is pretty foggy since I haven't seen this movie in several years but this scene had one of the best buildups and executions I've ever seen in film. Throughout the movie Little Bill is quick to reveal or dispel the mythos of these "legendary" gunslingers in front of his men. He even revels in tearing them down. He's likely done it so much that the men following him are convinced that there are no "legendary" gunslingers out there or at the very least their stories were highly exaggerated. That is until William Munny shows up. Little Bill told his men the same thing Ned told him, about how William Munny committed legitimate atrocities in his life and is not a man to be trifled with. He probably even tried to spin it in a way that it was all hogwash but when Munny walks in with that gun in hand, they get the feeling that he just might be the real deal. Then when he kills the owner and confirms his crimes that's when it hits home to these men that this man is no fairy tale. He's no exaggerated story or some tall tale to scare people or a hack like the first guy we saw in the movie. He's a real killer. So they panic and when Little Bill goes down, their fearless leader, these men who have likely never been in a real scrape in all of their lives don't stand a chance. I almost feel bad for the writer though. This was the very sort of thing he was looking for and he found it. He'll write about it and people will read it say it sounds like bullshit. No way one guy killed all of those people in the saloon and they just happened to miss. Just another story from the Old West is all. Funnily enough, had none of this had happened, Little Bill would've agreed.
This was a good video and I'm liking this current format. I've think you've found a good balance.
What is so compelling in the movie is the writing. Little Bill is correct in that most stories are BS. Bill admits he isn't great, just knows how to be real. English Bob is full of it, playing it up to be a cool hero. Schofield Kid is trying to be tougher than he is, admitting at the end he is nothing. Ned chickens out shooting the younger cowboy, forcing Will to deliver the killing shot. But Will Munny, you hear certain stories but they are underplayed. Ned witnessed his actions and knew how bad he was. The girl bringing the money relay how many stories are about him. When Will enters the bar, there was only one way it could end, and only one person who actually would walk out alive. Will Munny was even more than his stories. He IS Death.
Man the pic that was out there today with Hackman at 94 going out to eat hit me hard. I don't think I ever felt so old.
Jesus Christ..........I looked it up. Pretty sure some of my soul died.
All my friends keep going home.
I remember seeing this in the theatre and being blown away by the concept of a Western with no real "good guy" in it.
He's killed women and children. Yet everyone is rooting for him.
The power of storytelling.
Well, that is loosely based on the train robbery by the James-Younger gang. The 1873 robbery of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway. It was one of, if not the, first train robberies. They didn't board the train or anything. They just messed with the tracks, wrecked it and robbed it. Several people were killed and many more horribly injured and maimed. And they were considered heroes by many...so art kind of imitates life, I guess.
@@AceMoonshot Not 'kinda', all Art imitates life. Life is always the source + inspiration for Art, especially Representational Art
Yes. And a US Marshal in 1870.
@davidhutchinson5233 ..Actually a US Marshal in 70.
But yes sir!
We’re conditioned to with westerns.. Which is why this is a masterpiece.. Upon further viewing you understand the western mythos is deconstructed.. There are no good guys.. And a fateful decision to engage in frontier justice brought the devil to their town..
It’s one of the greats, no doubt..
"I'm here to kill you Little Bill...for what you did to Ned." I was in the theater watching this and all 400 people were completely silent for this scene. A great scene with amazing acting by everyone.
unlike this video, where everyone talked the entire time. They'd have been murdered in the theater.
IMO, William Munny is one of the scariest characters ever shown in cinema. Heath Ledger Joker scary. When he says "Or I'll come back and kill every last one of you motherfuckers," it always gives me shivers.
"...every last one of you sons o' bitches" but yeah... ice cold. I can watch this movie over and over and over. I've watched it no less than 20 times since the 90's and man it's just peak western cinema and the script and direction is phenomenal.
Gene Hackman and Clint Eastwood is to much awesomeness to fit in one movie. Let alone in one room
Add to that Morgan Freemam
@@michaelmurray3800richard harris too, bruh.
ever thought you’d see dumbledore in a western?
"I was lucky in the order. But I've always been lucky when it comes to killing folks" One of the most savage lines in movie history 🤠
That slow aim at the end was brutal.
That's exactly what I always thought too! Most reactors in this video probably have no idea how brutal the end result would have been. William Munny does. And he takes his time to make very shure Little Bill knows whats comming.
Very similar to the shotgun killing in Barton Fink.
I saw this movie in the theater with my dad. I was only 10 and I loved it, RIP to dad for giving me a love for great westerns!🙏
Same here saw it with my dad in the theater when I was 13 he died in 2020 🙏
I was working in a cinema at the time this originally came out. Then it won an Oscar. They brought it back in again after that and it did even way better business than it did before. Excellent film.
The difference between wannabe bad asses and an actual badass!
The film was a deconstruction of the Western myth and this scene a deconstruction if the 'honourable' gunfight myth.
"I'm a writer!" "Writer? Letters and such?" A call back to the same exchange Little Bill had with Mr. Beauchamp. I saw this film in theaters opening weekend. Might sound cliche but at the end of the movie we all sat there quiet taking in what we all just saw. This wasnt the spaghetti westerns or Shane we all had seen. It was truly a world of different shades of grey.
"It was truly a world of different shades of grey." Which is what convinced Gene Hackman to take the role as Little Bill. Apparently he rejected Eastwood initially citing violent movies he'd been in recently (at the time). Eastwood told him to give it another look and view it as a movie speaking to the evils of gun violence with good and evil both being enveloped by the grey area. It's one of those 'drop the remote' flicks...
That Schofield pistol Clint used here was the same type used by Billy the Kid and Jesse James. Classic weapons.
This Mashup video is brilliant. Unforgiven is the best Westerns ever. A masterpiece.
The greatest climax to a movie since The Good the Bad and the Ugly.
When Beauchamp asks William Munny “who did you kill first?” What people must understand is that this sets up the “I was lucky in the order. But then I’ve always been lucky when it comes to killing people.”
That’s a call back to Eastwood’s dialogue in “The Outlaw Josie Wales” where he’s explaining to the chief about who he shot in what order when he confronted the Union soldiers in town earlier. It’s a nice call back to an iconic role.
You really have to see the entire movie to appreciate this time. You’re right they were scared, but in the beginning of the movie it speaks of how mean he gets when he’s under the influence of alcohol. You also really need to see the end of the movie when he’s outside in the rain on his horse and what he yells to the town folk about burying his friend Ned. You can see the sheer, I guess the best way to describe it is evil and his eyes. Even though evil may be too strong a word, but you can tell he’s extremely mean SOB when he’s drinking
This has been one of my all time favorite movies since i saw it as a young man when it came out in the theaters.. I still watch it two or three times a year. Watching this reaction took me right back to sitting in the theater back in 91.. the look on the faces let you know what a powerful movie and character this is.. As we speak I’m waiting on my official Clint Eastwood authorized William Munny figure from Sideshow.. ordered last year, ships next month. Cant wait. Solid Work on this mashup 👏🏼
One thing I've noticed is that after the misfire Little Bill beat Munny to the draw, but Munny ducked and fired, whereas Little Bill simply fired.
That's because Munny has been in far more of these situations than Little Bill.
For anyone wondering - this was Clint Eastwood's effort to dispel the "myth" of gunfighters. Most films (especially back in the 1960s) portrayed gunfighters as slick "winners" who could kill at will and just shrug it off. The reality is a bit different. Cold, wet, sick, dirty, smelly, afraid, and not very pleasant. That, and the idea that a "gunslinger" wasn't a hero - just a killer, really. Mean and awful. All that, and dispelling the idea that a killer with a badge is somehow better than a killer without one. A bullshit idea then and now This is why this film won all the awards it did.
Very few people reacting to this scene realize Munny killed Little Bill with Ned’s Spencer rifle.
This is the best psychological and emotional revenge. Clint Eastwood is the best director and actor.
Watching people talk over monumental scenes of dialogue. Wonderful.
this is my favorite scene in all of cinema. I re-watch it a couple of times a year ever since the movie came out and i get chills every time...
All those men at the tavern was rowdy and drunk. So when money came through they was scared and drunk as well. That’s why they was missing
Definitely a contributing factor but the likely biggest reason is what Little Bill spoke about to WW in the jailhouse about how some folks will freeze up when being fired at...something like that. Those deputies had near zero experience in anything resembling a gun fight. The one-armed guy was likely a war vet so it's probably why he was targeted right after Little Bill was gutshot.
I think it's more that William Munny's reputation preceded him. He's a well known and alleged soulless killing machine and Little Bill basically tells the room that's William Munny. When Will admits that he has "killed just about everything that's walked or crawled at one time or another..." and literally has just walked into a saloon FULL of armed men... those dudes are just about shitting their pants. I think it's more the sheer terror that has them rattled where they can't hit anything except walls...
1:18 the thunder!!
nominated for Best Sound (Les Fresholtz, Vern Poore, Dick Alexander and Rob Young)
The whole point of Munny is to show that there are those who can talk, and then there are those who don't need to. When faced with the real thing, just about everyone will panic, be unsteady, be trying to process too much. Munny had practice, yes, but he even says it himself; "I've always been lucky when it comes to killing folks." He's just that, a killer, and I would venture to guess none of us would be ready if we ever came face to face with him.
There’s a big difference between a murderer and someone who takes care of business and rids the world of someone who is a piece of crap.
I remember seeing the trailer for this movie at the theater, when Clint showed up on screen as William Mooney everyone in that theater gasped; at that point it had been almost a decade since Clint made a western. Lastly, this was a great year for movies. I miss the old school feel of going to the movies.
little Bill was brave as hell.
fuck yeah he was.
@@YoureMrLebowski But in the end his bravery didn't mean a thing.
Now here's the big question, fellow viewers: did Munny fire five shots, or six? This is a callback to his famous movie Dirty Harry, where he actually asks the Bad Guy that question at the movie's climax.
I'm not feeling lucky, punk. 😹
He actually fired eight (or nine if you count the misfire)...
I have to say, I worked at the movie theater when this came out. And all of yalls reactions are exactly what I did and saw. 100!
It is amazing how many people missed the way Little Bill explained gunfighting earlier in the movie and how it tied into everyone missing Will in the final fight.
That scene was cold-blooded! Whoever wrote that scene is a genius. "Deservings" of Best Picture 1992.
Yeah in this reaction you can see Jen Murray saying is that true. Yeap. He don't care. But I have to say. He gave people chances twice in that scene. One that gets me. "We all have it coming kid"
The Spencer rifle is the continuous loading tube magazine rifle commissioned by Abraham Lincoln for the Union Army. He tried it out right on the White House lawn shooting at a wooden target.
I remember when this film first came out, I watched it at the cinema, great film, one of Clint's best.
I got goosebumps the first time I saw this part of the movie
I find it funny everyone roots for the bad guy - Eastwood is a genius
I often try to imagine the fear they must have felt. Talking about how they're going to chase this guy, then he walks into the room like - here I am MF'ers!! The level of craziness it takes to do that can't be comprehended.
The coldest scene in the whole movie.
You should've showed him leaving and how they reacted to that. It's one of the best scenes in a western.
I don't deserve this.. he says...well the victims that he assaulted and killed earlier in the movie didn't deserve either... shut your trap... sir William munny(Eastwood) was a badass... vengeance at it finest...
Eastwood is the Grim Reaper/ Angel of Death in this movie.
Fucking love it. ❤
Always loved this film. Would love to see one of Tombstone 'Hell's Coming With Me' or maybe Tom Cruise in Collateral shooting the two thugs in the alley.
Hell's coming with me!
My wife hates when this comes on because I recite lines. One of my top movies!
8:05 Munny has the same look Joker had at the end of Full Metal Jacket when Joker killed the sniper that killed Cowboy.
Clints last western and great scene
It's the little things in life that bring so much...
You missed probably the best part. When he announced his intentions as he was departing and what he would do to anyone that tried to stop him
I am a violence expert in real life & this movie is one of the few movies that understands violence correctly.👍👍
Not seen here, but the part where Little Bill explains the importance of keeping a cool head vs being the fastest draw, is true.
Also the people in this scene were thinking “we got one and will get the other in the morning”, they were thinking they were predators…
Munny showing up like he did, forced a reset on their OODA loop… 😈
Munny also targeted the most experienced killer first, then he shot the one armed deputy because he was obviously a veteran of battles previously… then deputy Andy, then the fat deputy running just because….
Munny wasn’t just making a menacing presence at the start of this scene… though that was a good bonus… he was noting who was there and where they were.
Few movies get this right
A "violence expert".... you're gonna have to explain that one to me 🤔
@@hulkslayer626 with pleasure…. I have more training in violence than 3 police officers, I don’t play golf or watch football, I study real life violence.
How fast do people die if certain veins/arteries are cut, how many rounds does it take before a person drops, how the criminal mind works, etc…
“Active self protection “ is a superb resource for the layman to learn more.
I hang out with professionally dangerous men.. I listen and observe…
@JacobMcandles ooooh ok. So you have a lot of experience and training regarding violent situations. I mistakenly thought there was some type of degree or certification out there. Or is that what you meant regarding the studying? You took/teach a course in that field?
@@hulkslayer626 there are lots of classes you can take from folks like Clint Smith or Ed Monk, you can read Dave Grossman’s book “on killing” which is literally required reading for Marine Corps officers…
The key is to not just read, but meditate on it… read the violent history of the world and realize we are just as violent now as then & always will be… then plan accordingly
@@hulkslayer626 He's seen all the John Wick and Equaliser movies 5 times each.
Moral of the story: 'If you go looking for Munny, make sure you can handle Munny, 'cause Munny don't recognize any authority.'
My all-time favourite Western. Great movie and a great reaction mash-up to an epic scene.
Keep 'em coming, please!! Few suggestions: Sewer Attack (Mockingjay Part 2), Bourne vs Desh - Tangiers Chase & Fight scene (Bourne Ultimatum), Venice foot chase leading to Ilsa Faust vs. Gabriel (M:I - Dead Reckoning), Achilles vs Hector (Troy) & More battle scenes from Lord of the Rings.
The whole movie, stories about what he's done throughout his life were told. William Munny was their boogeyman. And to basically see the devil in the flesh shook them to the core.
How do you create a genre changing/ending movie that destroys nearly a 100 years of glorification of the genre: You make Unforgiven.
The best western ever.
"He was just a little too big to run! " best line I've ever heard!
hear me out that William Munny was the man with no name and this was how CLint put him to bed
“He was just a little too big to run.”-I love BJ and Asia! Great reaction from the group!
I howled when I heard that comment. That, and "Thank God!" when the murderous Will Munny stops the still-living, despicable Sheriff Little Bill Daggett...cheering for the most vile, ill-tempered rodent...err man there was...
7:40 That line always gets me 🏚️
“The most terrifying sound in the world, isn’t the growl of a wounded lion in the long grass, the grunt of a charging Cape Buffalo or even the trumpet of an enraged elephant as it charges, it a…*click* when you’re expecting a *BOOM!*”
- Peter Hathaway Capstick
My all time favorite scene in cinema, bar none. Clint Eastwood is a legend.
Clint’s immediate reaction to grab that whiskey bottle after learning about Ned’s death.
And the subsequent bottle toss, he was ready to do some more killin’.
Everyone got sent out the back because Will was out of shots! Anybody could have shot him freely.
None of them were counting the shots.
the best gunfighter is one who stays cool under fire ... that was William Munney's
superpower
Am I the only couting shots. Makes the last part of the scene classic.
Lol! "He killed seven gunmen??!". Yes.. It's a movie..... lol
About the most realistic, and intense, scene in western cinema to this day.
The build-up scene before it,
where he learns Ben is dead,
and drinks again,
should be included.
NOBODY KILLED BEN! It was Ned... hehe