Staging violence: The Wild Bunch (1969)

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Aoife Bhreatnach

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Staging violence: The Wild Bunch (1969)

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41 minutes 15 seconds

1 year ago

Staging violence: The Wild Bunch (1969)

In Sam Peckinpah’s film, standard Western tropes – outlaws, heroes, beautiful landscape – are used to interrogate an exhausted genre. He knows spectacular gunfights are problematic but did the cut version shown in Ireland convey Peckinpah’s intent?

The Wild Bunch, dir Sam Peckinpah, starring William Holden, Ernest Borgnine

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