Ep. 138 Unforgiven

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tender and violent of all audiences, one week before their general
release. {www.patreon.com/thepinksmoke} Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven
often comes up in conversation about the greatest Westerns ever
made, and even ones about the greatest films of the last 30 years.
It served not only as a culmination of Clint's fabled career in
cowboy movies but as an austere reflection on 100 years worth of
Western cinema, and was lauded as the ultimate revisionist response
to a genre that never tackled serious themes of violence and
morality or presented a realistic portrait of life on the late 19th
century American frontier. But was it really? The Pink Smoke
welcomes back artist/historian David Lambert to expand upon the
thoughts he presented in his epic Twitter thread examining the
minutiae of its script, casting, authenticity, costuming,
influences and actual place within the overall Western genre.
Unforgiven is a great film, but do people even understand what it's
trying to say? Lambert makes a strong case for reappraisal with
hosts Christopher Funderburg and John Cribbs. David Lambert's
Twitter/X thread that inspired the episode:
https://twitter.com/DavidLambertArt/status/1556511206029946880?t=LgtylPHI5v2XdS5FhtDgeg&s=19
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