Below is the text from the screen play Unforgiven
UNFORGIVEN - A TRANSCRIPT
Unforgiven
[crawl]
She was a comely young woman and not without prospects.
Therefore it was heartbreaking to her mother that
she would enter into marriage with William Munny,
a known thief and murderer, a man of notoriously viscous
and intemperate disposition. When she died, it was not
at his hands as her mother might have expected but of
smallpox. That was 1878.
EXT NIGHT
Big Whiskey, Wyoming. 1880.
We hear the sound of bed-springs squeaking
DAVEY
Oh! That's Good
DAVEY
Please, just do it.
ALICE
If it's good we'll do it together.
from the next room we hear the sound of shouts and of glass breaking
DELILAH
Please! NO! Please! Please
MIKE
Davey! Come a ruining lad
DELILAH'S ROOM
MIKE
I'll brand you like a damn steer, bitch.
DELILAH
No! Please.
MIKE
Hold that bitch, Davey. Go on, hold her!
Hold her, god Damnit, Davey. Hold her or
I'll cut her tits off
ALICE
Go get Skinny, quick.
(MIKE begins to slash wildly at DELILAH who screams)
ALICE
Skinny!
DAVEY
Jesus, Mike. Don't! Don't, Mike.
Get her away!
MIKE
Do you think it's funny?
ALICE
Skinny! Skinny! Help! Skinny!
(a gun is pointed at MIKE's head. we hear it being cocked by SKINNY as he says)
SKINNY
Get off of her, cowboy,
(in the background we hear the sound of DELILAH sobbing)
EXT NIGHT
rain falls as LITTLE BILL walks quickly toward SKINNY'S
BILL
Wouldn't let you settle it, huh?
CLYDE
Well, you know how Skinny is. He says he's going to shoot them.
I says Skinny, you can't do that! and he says well, let's get Little Bill
in here to settle this thing. I says Little Bill's sleeping and he says
he don't care. In another five minutes he'll shoot those boys.
INT DELILAH'S room
the women are tending to DELILAH's injuries
LITTLE BILL enters
LITTLE BILL
She going to die?
ALICE
She's going to live. She didn't steal nothing.
She didn't even touch his poke. Alls she done, when she
seen he has a teensy little pecker, is give a giggle. That's all.
She didn't know no better. Going to hang them, Little Bill?
LITTLE BILL stares at her and then slowly turns and exits. ALICE and SKINNY follow him.
INT NIGHT SKINNYS
The two cowboys are tied up in the middle of the floor. LITTLE BILL, ALICE, and SKINNY
enter from upstairs.
LITTLE BILL
Clyde, step over to the office and get the bull whip.
ALICE
A whipping? That's all they get after what they done?
LITTLE BILL
A whipping ain't no little thing, Alice
ALICE
For what they done they deserve more.
SKINNY
Alice, shut up! Little Bill, a whipping ain't going to settle this.
This here is a lawful contract between me and Delilah Fitzgerald,
the cut whore. I brought her clear from Boston, I paid her expenses and
all, and I've got a contract here that represents an investment of capital.
LITTLE BILL
Property.
SKINNY
Damaged property. Like if I was to hamstring one of their cow ponies.
LITTLE BILL
So you figure nobody will want to fuck her now, right?
SKINNY
Hell no, least ways they won't pay to do it. Maybe she
can clean up the place or something, but nobody's going to pay
good money for a cut up whore.
LITTLE BILL
You boys off the Bar T. You got your own string ponies?
DAVEY
Yeah, I got four.
(MIKE does not answer. LITTLE BILL kicks him)
MIKE
Six.
LITTLE BILL
I Guess you'd just as soon not have a trial. No fuss, huh?
DAVEY
Uh, no sir.
LITTLE BILL
Alright, you did the cutting so come this fall you bring in
five ponies and you give them over to Skinny here.
MIKE
Five?
LITTLE BILL
And you... you bring in two, you give them over, you hear?
DAVEY
Yes, sir.
CLYDE
Here's your bull whip, Little Bill.
LITTLE BILL
Maybe we won't need this whip now. Let me tell you
come the spring, if Skinny doesn't have those ponies
(he cracks the whip)
I'm going to come looking for you.
ALICE
You ain't even going to whip them?
LITTLE BILL
Well, fined them instead, Alice.
ALICE
For what they done? Skinny get's some ponies, and that's it?
That ain't fair, Little Bill. That ain't fair!
(LITTLE BILL grabs her and pulls her towards him.)
LITTLE BILL
Haven't you seen enough blood for one night, Huh?
Hell, Alice, it ain't like they were tramps, or loafers or bad men,
you know there were just hard working boys who were foolish. If they was
given over to wickedness in a regular way then I could see...
ALICE
Like whores?
SKINNY
Alice! tend to Delilah.
LITTLE BILL
Go ahead.
INT DAY DELILAH'S ROOM
(The women are sitting around a bed where DELILAH lies unconscious.)
SILKY
I got eighty five dollars.
KATE
I don't know, if Delilah doesn't care one way or the other what are we
all getting so riled up about?
ALICE
Just because we let them smelly fools ride us like horses
don't mean we gotta let them brand us like horses. Maybe
we ain't nothing but whores but, by God, we ain't horses.
LITTLE SUE
I've got one hundred and twelve dollars. That's everything.
ALICE
How about you, Faith?
FAITH
Two hundred.
(ALICE stares at her with surprise)
Two hundred and forty dollars.
ALICE
Jesus, Faith, what you been doing? You've been
giving Skinny something Special?
they all laugh
LITLE SUE
She laughed.
ALICE
With what Kate got, and Silky got some, and then mine
and Little Sue's...
KATE
It ain't enough.
ALICE
Not yet, maybe.
EXT --- DAY. William Munny's farm.
KID
You don't look like no rootin-tootin, son-of-a-bitchin,
cold-blooded assassin.
MUNNY
Say what?
KID
My guess is you're calling yourself Mister William Munny
MUNNY
You have me confused with someone else, mister.
KID
The same one who shot Charlie Pepper up in Lake County
BOY
Pa! Hey Pa!
MUNNY
Yeah, What's up son
BOY
Two more hogs got the fever
KID
You shot Charlie Pepper, didn't you. You're the one
who killed William Harvey and robbed that train over
in Missouri.
MUNNY
Now hold on, Mister. Son, you get those hogs separated
there, Penny, why don't you help your brother out.
PENNY
That one's sick too!
MUNNY
Yeah. (to Kid) We'll talk inside.
Interior - Munny's house
MUNNY
So you're Pete Sothow's nephew, huh? I thought maybe
you was someone come to kill me for something I done
in the old days
KID
I could have. Easy.
MUNNY
I guess maybe so.
KID
Like I was saying, you don't look no meaner-than-hell,
cold-blooded damn killer.
MUNNY
Maybe I ain't
KID
Well, uncle Pete says you was the meanest god-damned
son of a bitch alive, and if I ever wanted a
partner for a killing you were the worst one....
meaning the best on account of you're as cold as the
snow and you don't have no weak nerve, nor fear.
MUNNY
Pete said that, huh.
KID
Yeah. Yeah he did. I'm a killer myself, except I ain't
killed as many as you because of my youth.
The 'Schofield Kid' is what they call me.
MUNNY
Why? Are you from Schofield
KID
No, it's on account of my Schofield model Smith and
Wesson pistol.
How about it, Will?
MUNNY
How about what?
KID
How about being my partner. I'm heading up north in
through Niobrera to Wyoming. I'm gonna kill a
couple of no-good cowboys.
MUNNY
For what?
KID
For cuttin' up a lady. They cut her face, cut her eyes
out, cut here ears off, hell, they even cut her teats,
MUNNY
Jesus
KID
A Thousand Dollars reward, Will. Five hundred apiece.
BOY
Pa, I can't move those damn pigs!
MUNNY
Watch your cussin now, will you? Do the best you can
with it and go to the pump and get yourself
cleaned up.
MUNNY
I ain't like that anymore, Kid. It was whiskey done
it as much as anything else. I ain't had a drop of it
in over ten years. My wife, she cured me of that, cured
me of drink and wickedness
KID
Well, you don't look so prosperous. You could buy her
a new dress with your half. We could kill them two,
you could buy your wife one fancy...
MUNNY
She's passed on.
KID
What?
MUNNY
She's been gone near three years now
KID
Oh.
Exterior - Day - Munny's porch
KID
Don't tell no one else about the reward and all. I
don't need no other gunmen trying to collect.
MUNNY
We don't see no one out here
KID
Yeah. Well, if you change your mind might be you can
catch me. I'll be riding due west for the western
trail heading north into Wyoming.
MUNNY
(to children)
Come on. Let's separate those hogs.
PENNY
Pa. two of them others, I think they got the fever!
`EXT DAY
DAVEY and MIKE ride into Big Whiskey with a group of ponies behind them.
The women watch them as they ride toward Skinnys
SKINNY
Took you boys a while. Couple more days and
I was going to call on the sheriff, how about that?
DAVEY
The river was all swolled up, we couldn't cross it.
SKINNY
I'll bet. Sleepy, get them horses into the livery.
Neil, take that one over around back.
(the ponies move towards the barn) Yeah, come on.
Whoo! Now get on.
(he walks toward the pony which DAVEY has held back)
Oh, now here's a beauty.
DAVEY
You got two of mine! this one here ain't yours.
SKINNY
Oh, we going to see about that.
suddenly the women begin pelting MIKE and DAVEY with rocks
Chaos ensues as they ponies begin to bolt.
WOMEN
Get out of town! Get out! Take your girlfriend
with ya, you butcher!
DAVEY
This here pony I bung for the lady. The one my partner cut.
She's the best of the lot, better than the ones I gave him.
She can sell her or do what she wants.
ALICE
A pony? She ain't got no face left, you're going to giver her
a god damn mangy pony?
DAVEY
She ain't mangy, ma'am.
WOMEN
Get out of here! We don't need your charity!
Get out of our town.
INT DAY - MUNNY'S HOUSE
MUNNY is digging through a box. We see a picture of his wife. He looks at it momentarily and then
continues his hunt. He finds what he is looking for.
EXT DAY - MUNNY'S FARM
We see MUNNY firing at a pistol at a can which set up on a stump. He misses with each shot.
PENNY
Did pa used to kill folks?
MUNNY storms into the house and then comes back out with a shotgun. He aims at the can and
shoots hitting it on the first shot.
INT DAY - MUNNY'S HOUSE
MUNNY is shaving in preparation for a journey. As he glances out the window we catches sight of
his wife's grave and stares at it for a time.
EXT DAY - MUNNY'S FARM
MUNNY is on the porch saying goodbye to his children. His son holds the horse which is saddled
and ready to ride
MUNNY
Penny, I could tell your ma liked those
flowers I gave her
BOY
She ain't hardly a saddle horse no more, Pa.
She ain't used to the feel.
MUNNY
Now you take care of your sister now, son. And
you kill a few chickens if you have to, and
keep those hogs that got the fever separate. If
you have any problems go see Sally Two Trees at
Ned Logan's.
MUNNY
(trying to mount horse)
Woah! Woah!
MUNNY
Ain't hardly been in the saddle myself in a while.
This horse is getting even with me for the sins of
my youth. In my youth, before I met your dear
departed ma, I used to be weak and given to
mistreating animals.
(to horse)
Come on, Come on.
This horse and those hogs over there are getting
even with me for the cruelty that I inflicted. I
used to be able to cuss and whip a horse like this
but your ma, rest her soul, showed me the error of
my ways. Now I'll be back in a couple of weeks.
You remember how the spirit of your dear departed
Ma watches over you.
Int. Skinny's
SKINNY is holding ALICE by the arms and shaking her violently.
SKINNY
Where'd you get that money?
ALICE
We ain't got any money!.
SKINNY
You told them cowboys you got it.
ALICE
we was lying.
SKINNY
Lying? What are you gonna do when somebody
comes to collect? huh? You gonna hump 'em?
(yells) You gonna hump em a thousand times?
The kind of people who'll come after that thousand
won't tolerate you not having it! They won't just cut
up your face a little! (he exits muttering)
You stupid bitches. You stupid bitches....
EXT DAY
Little Bill's house. Bill is building a roof on his house with much difficulty.
We hear the sounds of hammering and then LITTLE BILL hitting his thumb
LITTLE BILL
Shit! Damn, damnit, Jesus
SKINNY
Hit your finger, huh
LITTLE BILL
Hello, Skinny. Damn, you snuck up on me. What do
you think of her?
SKINNY
Well, I heard you done the roof yourself.
LITTLE BILL
Roof? Jesus, Skinny, I did practically the whole damn thing
myself. Well, the Roberts boy, he carried some wood for me
but that's all.
SKINNY
What is all that wood?
LITTLE BILL
That's for my porch. I'm building a porch here
so I can sit of an evening and smoke my pipe,
drink coffee and watch the sunset. Well, came all the
way out here just to take a look at her, huh?
SKINNY
Oh, them whores...
LITTLE BILL
Oh, yeah?
SKINNY
Them whores been humpin and humpin all them
cowboys been coming to town the last two weeks.
LITTLE BILL
Shit, skinny. We got our railroad barons, we got cattle
barons. You're going be the first billiard baron.
SKINNY
yeah, well they been humpin them and telling every
bow-legged one of them that they're paying a thousand
dollars to whatever son of a bitch kills the two boys that
cut up Delilah.
LITTLE BILL
Those cowboys are riding that beef down to Kansas and
Cheyenne.
SKINNY
Yeah
LITTLE BILL
How long? All week?
SKINNY
Well, I didn't hear nothing till last night myself.
LITTLE BILL
Hell, the words probably got all the way down to
Texas by now.
SKINNY
Shit, Bill. I'm sure nobody's going to come clear
from Texas.
LITTLE BILL
You sure those whores got all that money?
SKINNY
Well, you know how women can lie. Knock them around
a little bit, ask them where the money is and they ain't got
none. But they could have squirelled away that much, the
five of them. Maybe.
LITTLE BILL
That much, huh.
SKINNY
You could run off them two cowboys.
LITTLE BILL
I could run off them whores.
SKINNY
Well, I guess they'll just up and run anyhow, them two.
LITTLE BILL
No, they'll stay out there at the Bar T, close to their friends.
SKINNY
nervously
Oh, Shit, Bill, could be nobody won't come at all.
(quickly) Well, gotta go. I like your house.
Ext Day Ned Logan's farm. NED, working catches sight of a man riding towards him. He stares
for a moment before his face brightens in recognition.
NED
Well I'll be........ Will. Hey, Will. come on in the
house out of the sun.
MUNNY
Ned,
NED
Sally, tend to Will's horse.
MUNNY
Sally,
NED
What you doing here, Will?
MUNNY
Just thought I'd drop in on you.
INT DAY NED LOGAN'S KITCHEN
NED
Hell, Will. We ain't bad men no more, shit, we're farmers.
MUNNY
Should be easy killing them. Supposing they don't go on
down to Texas first.
NED
How long has it been since you fired a gun at a man, Will?
Nine, ten years?
MUNNY
Eleven.
NED
Easy, huh? Hell, I don't know that it was all that easy
even back then, and we was young and full of beans. I mean,
if you was mad at them, Will. If they'd done you some wrong
I could see shooting them.
MUNNY
We done stuff for money before, Ned.
NED
Yeah. We thought we did. Alright, so what did these
fellas do? Cheat at cards? Steal some strays? Spit on
a rich fella - what?
MUNNY
No, they cut up a woman.
NED
What?
MUNNY
Yeah, they cut up her face, cut her eyes out,
cut her fingers off, cut her tits, everything but her
cunny I suppose.
NED
I'll be dogged. Well, I guess they got it coming.
'Course, you know, Will, if Claudia was alive
you wouldn't be doing this.
MUNNY
(resentfully)
Don't suppose you'd mind looking in on my youngsters
next week, they got some hogs they're trying to separate.
NED
Will, how long you reckon you're going to be?
MUNNY
Two weeks I guess.
NED
Will, uh..... This kid, what's he like? Three ways?
MUNNY
I see you still have that spencer rifle
NED
Yeah and I can still knock the eye out of a bird flying, too.
EXT DAY.
MUNNY tries to mount his horse who, in turn, has other plans.
NED
Jesus, Will....
MUNNY
Down!
Will mounts his horse. Ned and Sally share a long look before the pair ride off leaving the woman
behind.
EXT DAY
MUNNY and NED are riding in pursuit of KID
NED
He must be moving right along
WILL
Yeah, we'll come across him tomorrow I reckon.
EXT - NIGHT
MUNNY and NED are preparing for sleep as a fire blazes
MUNNY
Kind of got used to my bed. This ain't going to be like no home
NED
uh-huh. That ain't the only thing I'm going to be missing,
I'll tell ya. Boy, I'm going to...
(pauses realizing that he is talking to a widower)
Hell, Will, I'm sorry
MUNNY
Don't fret it, it ain't nothing. (pausing) She don't like it much,
does she? You riding off with me.
NED
Sally?
MUNNY
Gave me the evil eye.
NED
Well, you know, Sally's Indian and Indians ain't over friendly, Will.
MUNNY
Hmmm. I ain't going to hold it against her. She knew me back then.
She knew what a no-good son of a bitch I was She just ain't allowing
that I've changed. She don't realize I ain't like that no more.
NED
Well you know, Will---
MUNNY
I ain't the same, Ned. Claudia, she straightened me up,
cleared me of drinking whiskey and all. Just cause we're going on this killing,
that don't mean I'm going to go back to being the way I was.
I just need the money, get a new start for them youngsters.
NED
Yeah, well--
MUNNY
Ned, you remember that drover I shot through the mouth and his teeth
came out the back of his head?
NED
Yeah,
MUNNY
I think about him now and again. He didn't do anything to deserve
getting shot, at least nothing I could remember when I sobered up.
NED
Well.... You was one crazy son of a bitch, Will.
MUNNY
Yeah, no one liked me. Mountain boys all thought I was going
to shoot em out of pure meanness.
NED
Well, you ain't like that no more
MUNNY
Eagle, he hated my guts. Bonaparte didn't think to much of me either.
NED
Quincy neither, I reckon.
MUNNY
No. Quincy used to just watch all the time. Scared.
NED
Well, like I said, you ain't like that no more.
MUNNY
That's right. I'm just a fella now. I ain't no different than anyone
else no more.
EXT DAY
We see a train roll by
INT TRAIN
JOE
All I want to know is what son of a bitch shot him is all.
Was it one of those John-Bulls?
BOB
Oh no, sir. I believe the would-be assassin to be of French ancestry,
or so it would seem. I don't wish to give offense when I observe that
the French are known to be a race of as-sassins, though they can't shoot
worth a damn. Any Frenchmen in the present company are excluded, of course.
PASSENGER
Says here a fella by the name of Guiteau, G-U-I-T-
JOE
Sure as hell sounds like a John Bull to me
BOB
Well, Sir, again I don't wish to give offense when I suggest that this
country should select a, uh, king or even a queen instead of a president.
One isn't that quick to shoot a king or a queen.
The majesty of royalty, you see.
JOE
Well, maybe you don't wish to give offense,
Sir, but you are giving it pretty thick. This country don't need no queens
whatsoever, I reckon. As a matter of fact what I heard about queens---
THIRSTY
Shut up, Joe!
JOE
What's the hell's wrong with you, Thirsty, This dud son of a bitch--
THIRSTY
Might be that this dude here is English Bob. He's the one who works
for the railroad shootin' Chinamen. Might be he's just waiting for some crazy
cowboy to touch his pistol so he can shoot him down.
JOE
Is that a fact, mister? Are you English Bob?
BOB
(to BEAUCHAMP) Pheasants?
(Beauchamp nods approval)
Let's shoot some pheasants. Ten shots at, let's say, a dollar a shot.
I'll shoot for the queen and you for.....well, whomever.
EXT DAY TRAIN
We see the countryside roll by. All of a sudden a flock of pheasants come into view only to be shot
down by BOB.
BOB
Well, that's eight for me and one for you.
That comes to seven of your American dollars.
JOE
Pretty damn good shooting for a John-Bull.
BOB
Well, no doubt your aim was affected by your grief over the injury to your president.
EXT DAY -- BIG WHISKEY
BOB and BEAUCHAMP get off the train and climb aborad a carriage bound for Big Whiskey
BOB
Come On!
BOB
Ah, it's the climate that does it. That and the infernal distances.
BEAUCHAMP
Does what?
BOB
Induces people to shoot persons in high places.
BEAUCHAMP
Yeah, right
(The pass a sign reading)
NO FIRE ARMS in
BIG WHISKEY ordinance h
deposit
pistols & rifles at
COUNTY OFFICE
BOB
You know, it's a savage country really.
That's the second one they've shot in twenty years.
It's uncivilized shooting persons of substance.
(BOB waves at the women as he passes by and then, passing a group of Chinamen, makes a pistol with
his hand and mimes shooting at them...)
BOB
(whispering)
pop! pop! pop!
EXT DAY -- BIG WHISKEY
DEPUTY (Andy) watches coach pull up with BOB and BEAUCHAMP inside it. As they disembark
he sees BOB's pistol beneath his jacket. He walks toward them
ANDY
Pardon me, Gentlemen, the local ordinance requires
you to surrender all side arms to the proper
authority for the duration of your visit.
BOB
Proper authority? Well, I can assure you, young man,
that neither my companion nor I carry firearms on our person.
We rely upon the good will of our fellow man
and the forbearance of reptiles.
INT DAY -- SHERIFF'S OFFICE
(FATTY, ANDY, and CHARLIE are loading their weapons)
ANDY
Unarmed My ass.
FATTY
Aw, Christ it's hot
CHARLIE
If I'm gonna get shot I'd rather it's hot than cold.
It hurts more when it's cold. You know how if you hit your thumb
when it's cold---
ANDY
shut up. Fatty---
CHARLIE
I'm only saying---
ANDY
---Clydes back.
CHARLIE
Is Little Bill with him?
ANDY
No.
CHARLIE
Shit
CLYDE
You boys cleaned my remington?
FATTY
Cleaned and loaded
CHARLIE
Where's Little Bill for Christ's sake?
CLYDE
Building his damn porch
CHARLIE
building his porch?
FATTY
If you were to get shot, Andy, would you like it better
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