Originally Posted by couchgrouch
Unforgiven? Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman play two aging gunfighters who hunt down
and kill two cowboys for the bounty, justifying their actions by saying the cowboys deserved it for cutting up a prostitute. That plot is full of human motivations and backstories. Replace that with Clint Eastwood moves town to town for years trying to escape his past, then is shot out of nowhere by his son, who's given no motivation or story of his own. The end.

That movie wouldn't get made.

Ps. To each his own. If people find this story reminiscent of Shane and Unforgiven, more power to them. Good luck with it.


I don't think anyone is suggesting that this is a parallel to Unforgiven. (I certainly did not). The reference was that it "conjures up iconic westerns". That is a different thing. Certainly nothing wrong with that statement. You are putting words into people's mouth just to make your point - valid or invalid as it may or may not be.

And to say this could not be made into a movie is, again, presumptive on your part. A movie would, of course, likely contain all those heady side stories. After all... it would be a movie! But that is a different thing.