The Other Side of the Wind various reasons. These included John Huston (who was by then terminally ill with emphysemia and was unable to breathe without oxygen tubes), Steven Spielberg, Oliver Stone, Clint Eastwood and George Lucas. Lucas reportedly claimed to be baffled by the footage, saying he didn't know what to do with it, and that it was too avant-garde for a commercial audience. Kodar subsequently accused both Eastwood and Stone of plagiarism from the film, citing Eastwood's performance in "White Hunter Black Heart" (1990) as a copy of John Huston's, including one line of dialogue ("I'm Marvin P. Fassbender." "Of course you are."), and
Clint Eastwood in the 1990s parking space in the Malpaso Productions parking lot. Eastwood won the lawsuit and agreed to pay McLaughlin's court fees if she would not appeal. In 1992, Eastwood revisited the western genre in the self-directed film "Unforgiven". He played aging ex-gunfighter William Munny, long past his prime. The film was first conceived of in 1976 under the titles "The Cut-Whore Killings" and "The William Munny Killings". The project was delayed, in part because Eastwood wanted to wait until he was old enough to play the principal character and to savor it as the last of his western films. The film re-imagined