The 1992 film Unforgiven directed by Clint Eastwood is considered to be a revisionist western film, and a great one at that capturing four Oscars. While women play somewhat of a revisionist role, rebelling and asking for a hit to be put on their friend who was killed, the reason this film is considered a revisionist film is because of Morgan Freeman’s character Ned Logan.
Revisionism according to the New Oxford American Dictionary is “a policy of revision or modification…the theory or practice of revising one’s attitude to a previously accepted situation or point of view.” Freeman is one of the first prominent African American characters in the Western films we have seen. Freeman’s character Ned Logan is skilled with a gun however, he is able to pull the trigger, and fires a shot but he is unable to kill the man. For the first time in Westerns, the gun doesn’t solve issues. This revisionist film was an interesting contrast to the films we have seen thus far.
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