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Post by Viced on Jun 18, 2019 16:36:00 GMT
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Post by TerryMontana on Jun 18, 2019 16:45:35 GMT
I slightly prefer The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, but the Wild Bunch is also a masterpiece, if you ask me.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 18, 2019 17:26:52 GMT
I can't remember where I ranked it on our Western poll but it is very high and it is a pivotal movie both in when it was made and in what it said too and one that OUATIH should take as a frame of reference - I'd say it's the most pivotal film that year. That very great 1969 film says a lot of stuff about the passing of time and the 1913 that the Bunch is struggling in/dying in/out of sync with looks a whole lot like 1969 and people/soldiers and most specifically children venturing into adulthood - and The Wild Bunch has quite a lot to say about children which you understand on subsequent viewings imo.
Classic in a lot of ways and even ways that people who think its a classic don't necessarily always see either....it's no coincidence that it comes between Bonnie & Clyde and The Godfather - 3 films that ask us to reconsider American history and film representations of it, violence in film and outside of it, and the intersection of commerce.
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Post by stephen on Jun 18, 2019 18:01:48 GMT
A stone-cold masterpiece that holds up perfectly half a century later. I still can't believe I shook Dutch Engstrom's hand.
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