Unforgiven

Set in 1881.

When the townspeople are forming a posse, they are discussing who will pay for expenses, and one of them says that the store won't sell them any more 30-30 shells unless they pay cash.

The 30-30 was not introduced as a cartridge until late 1893.

When English Bob is shooting the pheasants from the train, strings attached to the pheasants are clearly visible.

Although pheasants were not introduced to the American west from Asia until the 1890s, they are present along the railroad tracks in 1880.

English Bob says that no assassin would dare hold a gun to a monarch.

There were, in fact, six assassination attempts made against 'Queen Victoria' (qv), and they were well known at the time.

He certainly would have known about them, though it should be mentioned that he was concerned with successful attempts (looking at a monarch causes the hand "to shake").

However, it should be noted that English Bob was mainly saying this to antagonize people and not necessarily because he truly believed it.

At the first time in the saloon, Munny pushes the glass on the table until it touches the bottle.

The next shots show the glass a little distant from the bottle.

Belt loops are clearly visible throughout the film.

They were not invented until the 20th Century.

When William Munny wakes up from his fever after being assaulted by sheriff Little Bill he sits outside the shack and talks to Delilah Fitzgerald.

You can see the blue sky behind the house through springs in the wood revealing that it's not the same house/shack as in the first shot and the fact that it's a scene-set.

Several of the characters, including Little Bill and William Munny, are seen sometimes wearing shirts that button all the way up the front.

This is incorrect for 1880/81, when men's shirts were still of the pullover variety, with or without a collar, and a small buttoned placket at the top.

In the bar room shootout scene, many pistol shots are fired.

The foley sound is correct.

When Munny fires the rifle to kill Little Bill, the foley sound adds the classic "rifle shot" sound, with obvious echoes.

In the enclosed barroom, there would be no echoes of the shot, just a loud bang.

When given back his Spencer rifle by Bill (around the 95th minute), Ned's grip on the rifle jumps between shots.

The Schofield Kid shoots Quick Mike three times in the chest.

However, when Fatty runs out to check on him, one shot shows Mike with a bullet wound in his forehead.

When Munny rides to the saloon and sees Ned Logan in his coffin, you can see that his face almost looks unharmed although he died while taking heavy beatings to his face from Little Bill.

When Munny first shows up at Logan's home and Logan's wife can be seen regarding Munny's rifle, the rifle clearly has a molded plastic butt plate.

When we first see the train the whistle is heard blowing while the locomotive is in the shot, but there is no steam blowing from the whistle, which happens on steam engines whenever the whistle is blown.

Near the end of the movie, 'Jaimz Woolvett' (qv) is talking to 'Clint Eastwood' (qv) about how it feel that he just killed a man, if you look at his coat, the buttons are Snap Buttons, which didn't exist in 1880/1.

They weren't invented till 1885.

They were considered specialty buttons and weren't commonly available till mid 1890s.

During the final shootout in Greeley's, you can see the gun shot wound on Deputy Andy's shirt before Will shoots him.

After shooting the pheasants from the railroad car, English Bob holds the barrel of his Colt Peacemaker up and opens the side-gate of the cylinder, rotates the cylinder and the empty shells fall out.

Empty casings cannot fall out of the cylinder as they expand during the discharge of the shell.

The Peacemaker has a spring-loaded push-rod attached under the barrel to eject the casings from the cylinder after they are fired.

As Munny is getting beaten in the bar below, the Kid and Ned begin to flee the room.

Ned falls out the window and rolls off of the wet roof and is heard landing in the mud on his back.

When he jumps up, he's completely dry and not a bit of wetness, or mud/dirt on his back and arms.

When the Kid and Munny are discussing the killings after the last one, the Kid is drinking from a bottle that's fluid level keeps changing around however slightly.

When Munny and the kid arrive at the out house to kill the second cowboy under, the cloak of darkness, the shot in the scene from the rear shows the Kid animated and holding his nose while the ones showing from the front have them both still and no holding of the nose.

When Skinny comes to talk with Bill while he is building his house, you can see a light being reflected from an unknown source to the house.

After Will and the Kid shoot the second cowboy and are riding away, the middle cowboy (kneeling) clearly fires shots in a different direction than the other cowboys, even though Will and the Kid are riding off in the same direction.

At the end of the film, when William Munny is on his horse, riding in the rain after killing Little Bill, a 50-star American flag is seen in the background.

In 1881 the flag had 38 stars.

On several occasions, English Bob pronounces his erstwhile biographer's name as "Boh'champ".

As an Englishman, he would have known that Beauchamp is one the few names that have idiosyncratic pronunciations (such as 'Chumley' for Cholmondley, and 'Urkurt' for Urquhart).

He should have pronounced it 'Beecham' (with a silent 'P'), especially as he revelled in illustrating his English superiority over his American colleagues.

In the scene where they are going to look for Munny, a cowboy states that they bought all for the 30-30 shells.

The 30-30 cartridge did not come out until the mid 1890s.

English Bob is in jail and Little Bill is reading from W.

Beauchamp's novel, but a sheet of script is taped onto the page and clearly visible.

When Little Bill is reading from the Duke of Death book, you can clearly see that there is a script attached inside the book, with bright white paper and bigger print for him to be able to read the part.

When Munny is swearing at his horse in the rain (right after the "I would've killed you" scene in the jail house with Little Bill, English Bob and Beauchamp), Munny mutters "Sorry, horse," he can clearly be seen speaking emphatically after the line, but no sound is heard.

Little Bill says that the Walker Colt blew up in Corkys hand, "a failing common to that model" but the Walker Colt did not have this problem.

One of its successors, the 1860 Army Colt with fluted Cylinder, had this problem due to thinner material in the cylinder.

Near the end of the movie, Jaimz Woolvett is talking to Clint Eastwood about how it feel that he just killed a man, Woolvett is drinking a bottle of Southern Comfort.

Southern Comfort was not sold in sealed bottles until 1889, the film is set in 1881.

The disclaimer at the beginning of the movie says that Will Munny's wife died in 1878 and that the story takes place in 1880.

However, later in the movie Munny says his wife died three years ago, which would be 1877.

When William Munny walks in and confronts the posse his hat and clothes appear completely dry, although he has just come in from the pouring rain.

6.5 out of 10.

Disclaimer: If you are a viewer that mainly prefers art-house-type movies, then you might as well ignore this review. In addition, if you're not able to take Clint Eastwood's last modern classic masterpiece western film, ignore this review, as well.

So yeah, another review by the guy that makes reviews for you, the guy that is searching for a movie to watch! Lets get to it:I gave 9 to the movie because it has a ending and it was so good by the time it reached the end that I really wanted more.

I have seen just about every movie in this genre, and when I saw this film I felt like I had a cathartic moment at the ending sequence that I have never had in a western. If you grew up on things like "The Magnificent Seven", "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly", and "Once upon a time in the west", you are in for a real treat.

Defying the entire mythology of the Old Wild West, Unforgiven is unlike any western before or after it for this tale completely strips bare the very culture & legacy that has built itself around the west and, in simple words, marks the end of a bygone era in cinema. And who better than Clint Eastwood to hammer down the final nail on this spent genre's coffin.

"The meaning of a film is not contained in its declaration of intent." - V.

From the unforgettable one-liners to the very black comedy to the bleak and harrowing violence, this is the film that forever re-wrote the Western genre.

"Unforgiven" (1992) This movie talks about violence and guns. And this movie makes me think about righteousness.

"Unforgiven" stars Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman and Gene Hackman...how can't it be good?