As an adult, who can look back upon things and form patterns, etc., I am now appreciative of why Unforgiven won so many awards… without it, the remake of 3:10 to Yuma and the OMFGWTFBBQ so awesome Assassination of Jesse James would not have been made (or they would, and they wouldn’t have been such awesome hot sauce…). I suppose, on a certain level, you could lump No Country in there, but I think that’s in its own mentally deranged world.
Now that this has happened, I want to see the remake of The Outlaw Josie Wales, or even better, movies of both Josie Wales books… because a) they were freakin’ awesome, and the books were much more aligned, thematically, with modern Westerns than with Westerns of our parents’ time. This isn’t to say that the spaghetti Westerns weren’t awesome… they were. I wouldn’t have visited the Gene Autry Museum of The West three times if I didn’t think so. I just want to see Josie Wales as dark a hero as the book made him out to be…

carry on…