In the film Unforgiven Morgan Freeman plays a role similar to the alpha male cowboy. Morgan Freeman plays the old time partner of Clint Eastwood’s character, William “Bill” Munny. Logan, Freeman’s character, and Munny were once a band of killing machines. There past is stricken with evil deeds that neither have turned back upon. This past is revisionist because it portrays two alpha males one being Logan. His character is a revisionist character because in traditional Westerns an African American would be an “other” character. He would not be able to complete with the alpha male. In traditional westerns the “other” character played a minute part to the Anglo-Saxon prodigy John Wayne. Freeman’s character breaks this tradition, he is a sharpshooter, and he commands respect with a terrifying aura. He even has keen sense like the alpha male, he discovers that Kid cannot see father than 50 yards, and that he hadn’t killed a man. This portrayal of Morgan Freeman’s character is revisionism in the Western genre because it broke old traditional Western ideals. These ideals surround the main character, the alpha male, and his conquest over evil or unjust. The alpha male in “traditional” Westerns is the strongest person in the film. In Unforgiven the power is shared between the three male characters; Kid, Logan, and Munny.