Revealing mistake: In the jail scene, Gene Hackman is reading from a book. When he turns the book too far towards the camera you catch a glimpse of his lines on brighter white paper attached inside the book.
Unforgiven (1992)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman, Richard Harris
After killing the first cowboy, Ned (Freeman) breaks down and decides to leave Will (Eastwood) and The Schofield Kid (Woolvett). While riding away, Little Bill's (Hackman) boys catch Ned and question him. The Schofield Kid kills the second cowboy. He also breaks down and admits that it was the first person he ever killed and that he was lying before. When receiving the money, one of the whores tells Will that Ned was killed and used for a sign in front of Greely's Bar. This infuriates Will. He travels to the bar, where he shoots Smokey, the owner of the bar. Will gets in a shootout with Little Bill and his men. One of Bill's men gets away. W.W. Beauchamp (Rubinek) pretends to have an interest in what Will just did and angers Will. Little Bill who survived being shot the first time, tries to shoot Will again, but fails. Will executes him with a bullet to the head. Will threatens the town's people as he leaves. The final epilogue states that Will moved to San Francisco with his children, and that there was no mark on Claudia Feathers' grave explaining to her mother why she married Will, a murderer with a dark and intemperate disposition.
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Bill Munny: You better bury Ned right, and don't go cuttin' up... Nor otherwise harm no whores, or I'll come back and kill every one of you sons-a-bitches.
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Question: Does anyone remember the initial theatrical release or perhaps a Director's Cut version of Unforgiven having Little Bill's (Gene Hackman) final word being "F**k?" It was Little Bill's last word when he realised William Munny was definitely going to kill him? That's the only memory I had of the movie. I just watched it last week and Little Bill didn't say it. Am I crazy for having that memory?
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Answer: Not crazy, but maybe there's a bit of the Mandela Effect at play. There's no such line in any draft of the script, and it's not in any version of the film I've seen (including theatrical). In any case, Little Bill already knows that Munny is going to kill him, hence his line, "I'll see you in hell." If there was ever any doubt in his mind what was going to happen-as he lay there staring down the barrel of a shotgun, wielded by a man who'd just murdered a roomful of people-it's certainly gone by that point.
Will was pointing a Spencer at Bill, not a shotgun.