COMPARATIVE SCENE PAPER
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Over the course of time, there has been much debate and dissent regarding the depiction
of violence in movies. Despite many objection, violence has been an integral part of film making
as one of the most significant element of storytelling. However, there is a fine difference of
portraying violence on screen as a central theme, and using it as a tool to influence the audience.
In the present analytic discourse, there will be an attempt to describe and comparer two such
piece of work, which, unconventionally enough, use violence as a tool to elicit audiences’
emotion and communicate the message across the screen. One is Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear
Window (1954) and the other is Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven (1992). In both the movies, the
element of violence has been masterfully utilized by the stalwart directors as a means to elicit
conflicted emotional response to violence in the part of the audience. Unforgiven being a classic
revisionist Western movie, has more violent elements as compared to Rear Window, which is a
classic Hitchcock psychological thriller. However, Hitchcock’s use of lighting, close up shots,
classical editing and most importantly, POV angles heightens the tension and anxiety among the
viewers during conflict, despite the short span of the sequence in the movie.
Unforgiven is one of Clint Eastwood’s most talked about works, as it stands as the last of
his classic westerns, a genre introduced and proliferated by Eastwood himself. The movie
starring Gene Hackman, Richard harris and Morgan Freeman, along with Eastwood, has all the
elements that should be there in a classic western, yet breaks the conventional patterns of the
genre. The movie revolves around William Munny, a former outlaw and assassin who has long
retired and turned to pig farming. The story unravels as he takes up one last job—killing two
cowboys with a bounty of $1000. In a classic western, there is expected to be a rugged hero, who
goes around winning duels and seeking justice against negative characters. However, in
Unforgiven, Will is an aged man, dishevelled and broken, anything but a cold-blooded assassin.

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