WATCH MORE - If Unforgiven provides a poignant take of the old west, then Forrest Gump provides a truthful tale of modern America. Here's our TAKE on the classic's most profound messages: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aKeRlter1JvRqZs.html

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Before Clint Eastwood, cowboys were clean-shaven, wore white hats for the heroes and black hats for the villains, and gun wounds rarely showed blood. After Clint Eastwood, the Wild West became a dangerous unforgiving place, and the heroes were dirty.

The Take should do a video on Buck And The Preacher which was Sidney Poitier's directorial debut and he also stars in with Harry Belafonte. It gives a Black perspective on the classic Western.

Love this video! Would love to see more in this series!

I’d love to see some videos about musicals! Rocky horror would be so fun or more “girly” marketed movies 🤗

This is the sort of video I subscribed for.

Beautiful return to form, The Take! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

I loved this movie. An emotional movie about tough guys. The irony

The legacy of Unforgiven stands on its powerful theme of anti-violence.

There was a mini-series on TNT that had a realistic view of the old west called Into the West.

*'Unforgiven'* is the only movie I've ever seen where KILLING has consequences. It's not just an action, it's an act that digs deep at your soul and makes you live with the guilt for the REST of your life.

Unforgiven is a stone cold masterpiece… Almost all BP winners of he early 90’s are incredible

Please do a video on The English. I think it was one of the best pieces of TV in the last decade and absolutely snubbed for an Emmy (or two). Would love to hear what you all have to say1

I think Heavens Gate by Cimino Is such a great Western... It Is so unfortunate that ir has been so vilified over the years. The portrayal of the power moves by the elite Is so accurate!

Most compelling video by @TheTake in a while.

I would really like to get your take on these older movies individually. great work.

Surprised to see The Take do this but happy for it!

The patreon user who suggested this is the real MVP. if i had the money to sponser a video I'd ask for a 13 part series on Harry and Megan just to piss off veiwers lol

Unforgiven is a great fucking movie. Arguably Clint Eastwood's best film

For those that keep saying that Western Anti-Heroes didn't exist before Sergio Leone & Clint Eastwood, I highly recommend you watch these masterpieces: .Red River (1948), Directed By Howard Hawks, Starring John Wayne .The Searchers (1956), Directed By John Ford, Starring John Wayne .The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), Directed By John Ford, Starring John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Lee Marvin .Vera Cruz (1954), Directed by Robert Aldrich, Starring Gary Cooper & Burt Lancaster .Man Of The West (1958), Directed by Anthony Mann, Starring Gary Cooper .Winchester '73 (1950), Directed by Anthony Mann, Starring Jimmy Stewart .The Naked Spur (1953), Directed By Anthony Mann, Starring Jimmy Stewart I love the Westerns of Leone and Eastwood, but to say they invented the concept of anti-hero is not exactly accurate. Westerns got increasingly darker post-WW2 and these Westerns I've listed highlight that perfectly. All of these Westerns show a much more cynical side of the Old West, and no, the heroes are not exactly White Hat wearers in these movies, either. Yes, the Revisionist Westerns of the 60s and 70s took it up another notch but it didn't happen out of nowhere, Westerns were already getting progressively darker as the decades rolled on. Making a blanket statement and saying that all classic Westerns had absolutely no nuance shows more of a lack of knowledge on the history of the genre and shows you've probably only ever watched Leone's films and The Wild Bunch(which are masterpieces, but weren't the only ones ever made). It's one thing to listen to a video essay of someone telling you that Westerns had no substance before Leone without actually watching them, it's another thing when you've actually seen some of the most acclaimed Westerns before Leone and realize they were more nuanced than those video essays led you to believe. I'd encourage you all to watch the movies listed above to get an understanding of that, as they're all great pieces of cinema, and if you like the Western genre at all, you're more than likely going to like these movies. They're well worth your time!

Tremendous essay! One of my favorite films. These deep dives are lovely.

Loved this new topic, ty!

Ultimately, this may be “The Last Western.” If you think of it, no Western since has advanced the genre like this. There are good ones. Remakes like “ 3:10 To Yuma” and others like “Sisters Brothers” are excellent. But Unforgiven is above them all. It’s my favorite of the genre, and it’s impossible to see how anyone is going to top it.

You are finally reviewing classics again ❤❤❤❤

Given the rampant obnoxious click-bait on KZfaq, I had low expectations for this here video. I was most pleasantly surprised This video had a clearly stated premise, then went about intelligently and thoroughly presenting its argument I rate this video ★★★★ out of 5

Dances with Wolves came first. One probably didn't have much to do with the other, it's not like Unforgiven wouldn't have been greenlit without Wolves being a hit and best picture. But Dances With Wolves was what probably got stuff like tombstone greenlit.

I liked the previous episode but it's to see the show go back to basics.

I miss these types of videos

The Take is back!

I think you may be exaggerating the boom of Westerns that you mention at the end of the video. There was a brief boom in the 90’s but it definitely faded from the film landscape with a few outliers but it has been doing well in television and streaming.

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Perfectly decent essay, altough it's not exactly revealing anything new for those who - you know - actually have seen Unforgiven when it was released. Added to that, Clint Eastwood, often perceived as a reactionary, is a far more complex filmmaker, who deals in a very intelligent and nuanced way with subjects like violence, masculinity and the gap between myth and truth.

Why was Nope shown in the picture when it wasn't even mentioned?

Bone Tomahawk is a great western as well as a thriller with horror elements.

I love how diverse westerns have gotten, with more people of colour involved, as opposed to an all White cast.

Now if only Clint Eastwood applied this same philosophy when making American Sniper (2014) about modern War films... sigh what could've been

Now that HBO's Barry is coming to an end. Please do a take on the show.

The Strong, Silent type

are there really people out there who didnt think unforgiven was a worthy best picture winner?

And then Clint Eastwood interviewed a chair.

I miss when movies left legacies. There isn't a Best Picture from past 10 years (maybe more) that will be remembered the way films like Unforgiven were

This doesn't have anything to do with le sserafim, does it??

I’m happy that you exposed the terrible mistreatment of indigenous people and debunked the myth of settling the west by white settlers.

Yeah those old westerns that I used to watch with my mom growing up you would have never known that there were black people in the West or Chinese. Or Native Americans that were actually Native Americans and not whitewashed. Those movies made the wild west look like it was 100% white.

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I tend to like alternative Westerns like Blazing Saddles, Cat Ballou, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Oklahoma!, or Dances with Wolves, or Westerns centered on families, like The Big Country or How the West Was Won. For TV shows, I enjoy Bonanza, The Big Valley, Wagon Train, and Little House on the Prairie. Lately I've been enjoying on cable TV The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, and early 1960s western starring a preteen Kurt Russell, about a boy and his physician father traveling on a small wagon train toward the 1849 California gold rush. It's based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. I can't stand John Wayne, and I can't stand what he stands for. I find Clint Eastwood a little more tolerable. Some thirty years ago, I wrote a screenplay--unproduced, of course--about a half-Lakota, half-Irish runaway teenage girl who befriends a White family in 1870s Wyoming. (Of course, I've never been to Wyoming.) Some people think of the original Star Wars as a space Western; I think of it as a fairy tale--but then, you could say that the Western is the American fairy tale.

In terms of deconstructions of wild-west movies, I vastly prefer Blazing Saddles. Unforgiven shows these western-heroes to be broken men, Blazing Saddles asks "What if a black-man were the hero?" and answers "The townspeople would be extremely racist, because the wild-west was extremely racist. It's also uproariously funny, but never in a smarmy cynical way.

Not so fun fact. The original title of this screenplay was….”Whore’s Gold.” 🙄 Yes, really.

🙄 Slow, overextended, depressing movie that still comes up with a traditionally just resolution while implicitly embracing a nihilistic journey.

Good vid until the wokeism in the end