Continuing on in my list of conceptions of silly sequels to
great classic movies, I move to the Western genre, and one of its towering
achievements: Unforgiven, the classic
gunfighter drama starring Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman, and
Richard Harris. So this sequel would be called: Unforgiven Too:
They’re in the Munny, just to be extra
stupid, and it would go something like this:
So in this film, our anti-heroic gunfighter William Munny
(played again by Clint Eastwood) has retreated to his secluded home as a
recluse, and wracked with guilt over his life of killing others, he is haunted
by the men he has killed one by one. But rather than apologize to them for
killing them, he becomes embittered and accuses them of ruining his life by
making him kill them and thus become wracked with guilt and embittered. And
while he sees and talks to them personally as though they are there with him,
another character who witnesses this only sees him talking to and accusing an
empty chair. (Which would work really well after Clint Eastwood’s RNC speech, where he also spoke to and accused an empty chair.)
And it’s called Unforgiven Too: They’re in the Munny because not only is Clint Eastwood “unforgiven” but
so also are the men he killed, as he does not forgive them either; and since
these specters all come from within William Munny himself, “they’re in the
Munny”, so to speak.
