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Out of the West
Clint Eastwood’s shifting landscape.
by David Denby March 8, 2010
Eastwood in “For a Few Dollars More” (1965), one of the three Westerns that he made with Sergio Leone. As the Man with No Name, Eastwood established his early character as an angry enforcer of order defined not by law but by primal notions of justice and revenge.
On a beautiful day in Wyoming, in 1880, three men gather on a slight rise behind some rocks, ready to do a bit of killing. Two of them—William Munny (Clint Eastwood) and Ned Logan (Morgan Freeman)—are retired professional assassins, disgusted with their past but broke and therefore willing to shoot a couple of cowhands, unknown to either of them, for cash. The third is the excitab
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