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In Reply to: RE: The Wild Bunch posted by afilado on January 25, 2008 at 15:44:16
Peckenpah's novel use of graphic violence in a western/drama is the accepted reason. Until then it was either left to the imagination or resticted to overdone caricature in horror pictures.All westerns are cliches to some extent. A lot like science fiction; westerns just provide a setting thats outside the familiar social behavior and relationships.
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy - WB Yeats
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This is the point in the story where Holden silently says "Fuck it," Borgnine silently agrees. Ben Johnson and Warren Oates may not be sure, but they signed on the dotted line a long time ago, and can't back out.Even though one of them is from my home town, I still have to say that The Wild Bunch is not Sam Peckinpah's best Western.
~~~Our lunacies may be infringed..
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gullible, and dirty.
Like Native Americans and African-Americans, Mexicans have been a great source of amusement in many films. That hardly excuses the practice. And, remember, this film was made in an era, though Peck was already older, where these stereotypes were under attack.
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