Unforgiven, Taken, and John Wick all play into the fantasy that many men have( which I have sometimes myself) that they live in society by society’s rules by choice. That if someone breaks the rules of society, they can operate outside those rules and even better at it than whomever has wronged them. Will Munny has chosen to be in society. When he is finally driven by Gene Hackman to abandon his civilized ways, he has the power destroy everyone and take over the town. It’s a fantasy like inn taken that older men really find comforting. “If I was pushed, i could do anything”.
