The 30th anniversary of ‘Sin Perdón’, the legendary film by Clint Eastwood which was made with 4 Oscars. The truth is that the filmmaker took a long time to make it, since he bought the rights to the script in the early 1980s and it took a decade for him to be able to play the lead. Of course, he respected a lot the original libretto of David Webb Peoplesbut at the last minute he removed a very important scene from the finale inspired by ‘The Godfather’.
The screenwriter himself has been the one who has recalled this fact in a chat with Yahoo in which he reveals that Eastwood he came to record that scene and include it in a first montage of ‘Sin Perdón’ that he was able to see, but also why he decided to eliminate it: “He told me he thought it was one more hit and he wasn’t going to use it.“.
This was the original ending
The scene in question showed Munny returning to his family home, where he was reunited with his children. The meeting is tender and close, but things get complicated when Will Jr. comments that “I guess then you didn’t kill anyone” after seeing how his father did not want to explain the sudden family economic boom. Munny then responds “No son, I did not kill anyone“.
David Webb Peoples himself reveals that the great inspiration for that scene was the end of ‘The Godfather’ with Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) lying to Kay (Diane Keaton) about his link to the massacre that ended up raising him. Furthermore, it so happens that Francis Ford Coppola He came to consider directing ‘Unforgiven’ before the project was left in the hands of Eastwood. Additionally, Peoples clarifies the following about the scene in question:
What’s cool about that scene is that it means the deaths weren’t triumphant killings. Munny doesn’t say “I killed those motherfuckers.” He is ashamed of what he did.
Unfortunately, the scene has never come to light, because not even the writer himself knows what has become of him. I also wouldn’t be surprised if Eastwood just doesn’t want it to be seen. and that is why it has never been included, at least as an extra, in any edition of the film in physical format.