It's so hard for me not to see parallels between Unforgiven and Game of Thrones. The way each deconstructs their trope-prone genre, and yet is still inevitably bound to eventually succumb to said tropes.
A deeply, deeply flawed band of protagonists go not to save, but to avenge, not a damsel, but a prostitute, whose face has been brutally slashed. This could just have easily been a side-plot in Westeros.
Complicated characters. Whores. Mutilations. Rampant corruption. Unjust killings. Ugly deaths.…
