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A ture gem
The wild bunch is areal masterpiece.
The deep ideas involved in this film makes it not only just a cult movie, but even it`s absolutely necesary watching to understand why the western is the own mythology of the northamercan spirit.
Holden, Borgnne and Ryan are in their best. The angles of shooting, the photograph, the grafic language and that epic final makes that film probably the most original western movie in the story of the cinema.
Wild Bunch
It's 1913, a bunch of outlaws, led by Pike Bishop, have been riding along the U.S.- Mexican border. Their world is changing rapidly around them - progress is changing the land, in one scene they see a motor car and talk about a flying motor car they had heard of. "The Wild Bunch" realize that their place in time is nearly at an end, and they decide to call it quits and retire after one final haul.
Holden is Pike Bishop, the no-nonsense leader of the Bunch; Borgnine is Dutch, his dogged, faithful second-in-command; Jaime Sanchez is a Mexican named Angel; Warren Oates and Ben Johnson are the Gorch brothers, Lyle and Tector; Bo Hopkins is Crazy Lee. Pike's nemeses are his ex-partner, Deke Thornton (Robert Ryan), a haunted man who has been hired out of Yuma Prison to hunt Pike down; the ruthless railroad security chief Harrigan (Albert Dekker); and a scurvy band of "gutter trash" (including Strother Martin and L.Q. Jones) out for bounty.
"The Wild Bunch" is considered one of the masterpieces of the Western film genre, a hard-edged landmark film, beautifully shot in wide-screen by cinematographer Lucien Ballard. With numerous, elaborate montage sequences, the film set a record for more edits than any other film up to its time.
Its unrelenting, bleak tale told of outlaws bound by a code of honour and friendship. The film is book-ended by two extraordinary sequences - the gang of desperadoes are first assaulted in the film's opening ambush following a bank robbery, and then brutally destroyed in the film's conclusion - in some of the bloodiest, most violent shoot-up scenes ever filmed.
Loyalty is certainly a main theme. For all the internal strife within the Bunch, the bonds that tie them together are far more powerful than those which seek to break them apart. Betrayal of any sort is unthinkable, which gives added resonance to the dynamics between Pike and Thornton. Once companions, now enemies, only death can free one from the other. Oaths are important because they cement loyalty. One line, spoken by Pike, summarizes the film's viewpoint: "When you side with a man, you stay with him."
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