Unforgiven (staring, directed, and produced by Clint Eastwood,) looks like just another old-school Western, a nostalgic genre throwback. But upon closer inspection, Unforgiven reveals itself to be a much more interesting film, with a much more meaningful legacy. While the film has the feel of a classic western, it also challenges the genre of the Western and the black-and-white idea of a Western hero. It revisited the myth of the American West in ways that future Revisionist Westerns would continue to build on and take further. So even if you haven’t seen the movie, you’ve probably seen modern neo-Westerns that stand on the shoulders of the revival this movie kicked off.

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CHAPTERS
00:00 How Unforgiven won the Oscar
01:42 Unforgiven's storytelling and deconstruction of Westerns
06:12 A new context for the brutality of the old west
08:49 How Westerns followed Unforgiven's lead

CREDITS
Executive Producers: Debra Minoff & Susannah McCullough
Chief Creative Director: Susannah McCullough
Associate Producer: Tyler Browner
Writer: Harry Harris & Jackie Ferro
Narrator: Charly Bivona
Video Editor: John Clark