The Wild Bunch
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The Wild Bunch 1969

★★★★★

Even though I've seen The Wild Bunch a bunch of times, this time a lot of it seemed like the first time. Truly mean it. I didn't remember after they break out of the town in the opening it takes them to the desert where William Holden shoots a member of the gang that's too badly wounded to continue. With Sam Peckinpah directing, each death is a pretty dramatic artistic expression of violence. If you're lucky enough to get killed in a Sam Peckinpah film that's pretty badass. There have been lots of paintings done of battles and this is like the rich red oil paint they used in some of those paintings hanging on museum walls. Another thing is the cast was eminently well-suited for this blood-soaked Peckinpah classic, a combination with the end-of-the 60s timeframe and the anti-authoritarian and anti-establishment mood.

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