Unforgiven

The Movie Unforgiven emphasizes how the characters relate to the legend of the old west. Will Munny is the main character, so he gets to be talked about first. Will was one of those legendary Wild West outlaws. He got drunk a lot, started fights and beat people up. These actions mimic the type of pro-football team that I would idolize. Like a pro-football team, Will also had fame and fans that looked up to him. People would scream and go wild as Will would pillage a town, but not the same way people go wild at football games. Like a Viking boat party though, all good things must come to an end. Will stopped killing, stealing and razing, so he could raise his kids. Will does not want to go back to his barbaric ways. He only agrees to take a job as a hit-man, so his kids will have enough money to get through the winter. The kid that tells him about the job is very different.
The kid is like someone who wants to become the most famous jouster in the world, but the only problem is that jousting is not as popular as it was six hundred years ago. This kid does not want to be a jouster; he wants to be a Wild West outlaw. He wants to be the type of outlaw that people read about in books back on the east coast. Those legendary brigands might be more recent than knights, but their era has also passed. This kid is trying to be a part of something that is going out of style.
Fearing that the kid is living in a dream world (like some kid from the suburbs who thinks they is gangsta, yes that comment was directed at you), Will seeks the help of Ned. Ned is Will’s old sidekick and knows what he is doing. Ned also gets the feeling that the kid is a poser.
When the three of them do kill the two people they are after, it is not as glamorous as it was in other movies. There were no high noon showdowns or any battles of strength between the two contenders. The second man that they kill dies on the crapper. This reminds me of a line from Austin Powers 2. Scott says, “If you have a time machine then why don’t you just go back and kill Austin while he is on the crapper!” The kid thought that this would be an adventure like what you see in a James Bond film. James Bond would never sink so low, out side of the opening to Goldeneye. This was not the type of adventure that the kid wanted. He finds that real outlaws carry a lot of emotional stress or are just plain F-ed up.
At the end of the movie, Will turns into his old self again, and goes on a killing spree. It shows just how brutal outlaws really were. On his running riot, Will shot an unarmed man then wounded six others. The real picture of his cruelty did not sink in until will shot two more people with his gun perpendicular to the ground. He left an entire village in fear of his return.