Clint Eastwood’s gritty deconstruction of the Western genre easily stands as one of the best of its kind.
However, the jailhouse shootout has always been the moment where Unforgiven morphed from being a really good Western to perhaps the greatest Western ever made.
Ironically, in the jailhouse, Bill calls English Bob a pathetic coward for shooting one of his victims in the back.
First, when Bill squares off against English Bob, and second, during his final confrontation with William Munny.