Unforgiven / Outlaw Josey Wales [Blu-ray] [US Import]

The quality of the blue ray is excellent and I would buy from this seller again

Die DVD ist in Deutschland leider nicht abspielbar, weswegen der Kauf sich für mich nicht gelohnt hat. Lieferung erfolgte jedoch planmäßig.

Putting The Outlaw Josey Wales & The Unforgiven together in one package must have been the idea of some Western aficionado who likely wondered if anyone would get the irony. OK, I think I did, but you be the judge. The Outlaw Josey Wales concerns, you guessed it, an outlaw named Josey Wales, played, of course, by Eastwood, who also directs. Eastwood's Wales is a driven man. He witnesses his family's massacre during the guerrilla war that was fought between Kansas & Missouri prior to the outbreak of the Civil War. Wales loses his wife & son to guerrillas who support the Union, so he joins a band of Confederate guerrillas, the same kind of black flag flying Bushwackers who counted Jesse & Frank James, The Younger Brothers, & a host of other fighters who would go on to become outlaw legends, in their ranks. The war between the Northern Bushwackers & their Southern counterparts was marked by bloodshed & then more bloodshed, usually visited on hapless civilians who had the misfortune to be in the wrong place as the Bushwackers rode by. For Eastwood's Wales, Lee's surrender at Appomattox might mean the Army of Northern Virginia is retiring from the field, but he isn't. After gunning down a contingent of Union troops who shot his comrades in cold blood after they'd surrendered, Wales lights out for Texas. He is now, it seems, the most wanted outlaw in America & he's being hunted by the very Northern guerrillas who killed his family. Played by Eastwood, Wales is almost a Southern knight without the armour. Whatever he does & whomever he kills is justified because his family & then his comrades were all killed in cold blood. Wales displays the only moral code in the film, one that allows him to kill Federals & other assorted scum, while still rescuing a family of settlers from Kansas, the very state he originally went to war with. At very much the other end of the spectrum vis a vis the telling of Western yarns, is The Unforgiven, a movie I think Eastwood should have won an Oscar for &, in my opinion, is his best film, excepting only Cry Macho. In The Unforgiven, Eastwood plays an aging gunfighter/killer who is lured back to his days as a hired gun 'cause he needs the money to keep his farm afloat & his children fed. He & a couple of other guns, one played by Morgan Freeman who delivers another stellar performance, are hired by a group of prostitutes to kill the cowboy who slashed the face of one of them. Any redeeming qualities any of the characters might have have had have been checked at the door by Eastwood, who also directs. He & his companions are only marginally more palatable than the town sheriff & his deputies Eastwood & company have to overcome to fulfil their mission. That sheriff is played by Gene Hackman, as cold & pathological as Eastwood only he wears a badge. Pay particular attention the results of Hackman's attempts to repair his house's roof, as well as the interplay between his character & English Bob, a gunfighter hailing from the British Isles & brilliantly underplayed by Richard Harris. This is a movie of nuances, much more so than in any other Eastwood movie. Here, the averted gaze, the tough gunfighter who is practically blind without spectacles, Eastwood's partners who lose all the money the ladies of the night paid them by having sex with those same ladies, the reporter who wants to glamourize killers with six shooters, it all contributes to the story Eastwood is telling & it's as tory that has no myths & no glamour, only people killing other people because they can. So, basically, in The Outlaw Josey Wales, Eastwood imbues his character with a certain nobility & a justification for the violence that follows him wherever he goes. In The Unforgiven, Eastwood effectively deconstructs the Western myth that films like The Outlaw Josey Wales helped to both revitalize & propagate. They are both excellent examples of their genres, but if you're looking for the laconic demeanour, slow talking, quick drawing gunman Eastwood played from his spaghetti Western days to the Pale Rider, be warned you won't find that character in The Unforgiven.

Bought the DVD version because my player and smart TV automatically upscale the DVD. It was much cheaper too. Great movies. 😁

"Unforgiven" is fantastic. A gritty, hard hitting redemption story. And probably my favorite Eastwood film. Couldn't find it on any of the streaming services I subscribe to (ok, why do we even have that lever) and the price was right on this one. Now i can watch it whenever. The bonus "Outlaw Josey Wales" is one of my wife's favorite. Win win!

Excelentes películas del viejo oeste. La actuacion de Clint Eastwood magna. Viene doblada al español y también viene en idioma original. Una película por disco.