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...seen one or two comparisons of 3:10 to Yuma with Unforgiven. These are not entirely apt. Mangold's offering lacks the blackness and absurdity of Clint Eastwood's great film. It is more in the vein of Anthony Mann's westerns of the 1950s - trim, efficiently paced, full of briskly stated conflicts that edge up to the dark side, but never fully embrace it. That's quite all right. 3:10 to Yuma reminds us that well-made westerns - precisely because they are such a ritualized and conventionalized form - have an ability to isolate moral conflicts in spare, essentially...
...Hepburn women were often women apart, like the Green Mansions Bird Girl, quarantined in her aviary. Race was the improbable barrier in The Unforgiven, where she got a great tan to play Burt Lancaster's "l'il red-hide Injun," the pretty pelt in a sociological showdown...
...felt that heroes a lot of times are disturbed people. But I think a lot of people who do extraordinary heroic things sometimes have got some sort of a little insanity thing. So I've always played heroic people as slightly flawed, slightly haunted by something else. In Unforgiven, William Munny is definitely a flawed guy, and he only becomes heroic at the end because he's just kind of gone crazy...
...Marvin casts the role with just the right note of understated anger, frustration and, most of all, confusion. He incarnates the tragic figure overwhelmed by the consequences of his violent life, assuming the morally beleaguered qualities of a late Clint Eastwood character (“Unforgiven,” “Mystic River?...
FINALLY, HOW DO YOU HANDLE OSCARS? I MEAN YOU'VE BEEN THERE A FEW TIMES. You go. Sometimes you have the goods. With Unforgiven, we were kind of favored and we prevailed, at least as Best Picture, the nicest one to have. And then last year [with Mystic River] we got Hobbitized. Now, here I am back the second year in a row. It's almost like the kid won't go away. Maybe they'll give it to him just...