Staging violence: The Wild Bunch (1969)

Update: 2024-05-02

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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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Staging violence: The Wild Bunch (1969)

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Staging violence: The Wild Bunch (1969)

Staging violence: The Wild Bunch (1969)