(henry sheehan) "unforgiven" attacks virtually every "hero" notion.question of who deserves to die? and if anyone deserves to die, who's going to do the killing? i don't deserve this. to die like this. i was building a house. deserve's got nothin' to do with it. ll see you in h---, william munny. yeah. (gunshot) (rudy wurlitzer) it's the great american form, because it's so simple and elemental and it represents all the schizophrenia of the american experience. it's as if we're between myths. the old myth doesn't really exist anymore. and what is the new one that's to come down the road? that'll be very interesting to see. (elmore leonard) i've never thought of westerns as mythology. i've never thought of the western hero riding in as some kind of a redeemer. i just saw them as good material for stories. ♪ see them tumblin' down ♪ pledging their love ♪ to the ground (clint eastwood) well, i think he was a hero eventually. just a reticent hero, you might say, which i thought gave a certain humanity to him because he didn't rush to be a hero, it just so