For the most part, the violence in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang was intended to be totally awkward. I love awkward violence — like this one scene in Unforgiven, where [Clint Eastwood] shoots the one kid who doesn’t even really deserve it, and the kid says, “I’m dyin’ boys. Jesus, I’m so thirsty.” And Eastwood says, “Give him a drink of water, goddamn it.” And it’s just not clean, it’s messy, awkward violence. The movie completely debunks the myth of gunslingers, right up until the ending, when it finally reveals there really are guys like this.
— Wright vs. Black: Why Unforgiven Is the Most Influential Movie Ever - Esquire
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