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gang that couldn’t shoot straight arrows
Historical revisionism that is clearly not even in the category of the plausible. The capture of Jerusalem by Saladin re-jigged to make it seem like hordes of spear chucking natives from the heart of the jungle, primitive and savage, required … Continue reading
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Tagged Balian of Ibelin, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Paul Newman, Pope Gregory VII, Robert Onderdonk, Robert Redford, Saladin capture of Jerusalem, Sam Peckinpah, The Alamo Davy Crockett, The Wild Bunch Sam Peckinpah, Walon Green
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on ole’ boot hill
Where the difference between the good guys and the less good guys was sort of blurry. Boot Hill, Tombstone AZ and the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. The times were a changin’ and America was pushing westward. Like in Peckinpah’s … Continue reading
top bananas: the wild bunch
Entertainment is ideology. Whether it was Gary Cooper in High Noon or the Marx Brothers Go West, the white man was conceiving and furthering his own myth. The frontier mentality. The New World. These cultural myths usually encapsulate the dominant … Continue reading
PESSIMISM AT THE OK CORRAL
Do we blow up the ranch and burn the town or just take it over and run it into the ground? There has been a tendency in the discipline of film studies to treat the Western as ideological and, hence, … Continue reading
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Tagged Akira Kurosawa, Arthur Koestler, Arthur Penn, Bruce Willis, Christopher Frayling, Clint Eastwood, Dashiell Hammett, Drucilla Cornell, Eli Wallach, Henry Fonda, Howard Hawks, John Ford, John Wayne, Pasquale Marco Veltri, Paul Cooke, Peter Bondanelle, R. Philip Roy, Robert Altamann, Robert Altman, Robert Pippin, Ross Miller, Sam Peckinpah, Sergio Corbucci, Sergio Leone, Sergio Sollima, Thomas E. Wartenberg, Thomas Weisser, Tim Dirks, Walter Benjamin, Walter Brennan, William Wellman, William Wyler, Wyatt Earp
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HORSE OPERA: TIME TO CIRCLE THE WAGONS?
“With the stakes raised so high, the heroes of such dramas are indeed often superheroic, near divinities. One man can outduel five others in a shoot-out (as in the Achilles and Patroclus ending of Unforgiven [dir. Clint Eastwood, 1992] or the final gunfight … Continue reading
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Tagged André Bazin, Andrew Samuels, Carl Jung, Clint Eastwood, Corneille, David Brooks, Freud, Gary Cooper, Howard Hawks, James Madison, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Ford, John Wayne, Ken Salazar, Luiga Zoja, Martha Wolfenstein, Michael Vanoy Adams, Nathan Leites, Paul Krugman, Robert B. Pipppin, Robert Pippin, Robert Warshow, Sam Peckinpah, Samuel L. Kimbles, Sarah Palin, Thomas Singer
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WRESTLING WITH THE AESTHETIC OF VIOLENCE
Masculinity in crisis as a black or absurd comedy. Society’s always seems to rejoice in a misplaced misplaced judgment that portrays violence as a reality principle, perhaps reflecting the influence of Quentin Tarantino. A video of a Halifax, Canada area … Continue reading
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Tagged Aesthetic of Violence, Caril Fugate, Charlie Starkweather, Daniel Craig, Daniel Craig Defiance, Griel Marcus, Henry A. Giroux, Josh Boutilier, Kathryn Bigelow, Ken Fells, Kevin Costner, Kevin Costner the Untouchables, Natural Born Killers, Oliver Moore, Oliver Stone, Quentin Tarantino, Robert De Niro, Sam Peckinpah, Samuel L. Jackson, Schindler's List, Steven Spielberg, Tarantino jackie Moore, Truman Capote, Truman Capote in Cold Blood, Violence in Cinema, Woody Allen
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Salad Days with Sam
Monty Python parody of Sam Peckinpah’s film violence. One part superficial and the other firmly following the provocative and shocking tradition of Alfred Jarry and his ‘Pataphysics. Surreal, Dadaist and highly eclectic, the Pythons can articulate violence and its graphic … Continue reading
A Wild Bunch of Chinchillas
Happy Chinchilli Day. the creation of a cultural activity that takes a soft-core approach to the graphic violence of director Sam Peckinpah’s ” The Wild Bunch”, a 1969 film, known for its innovative depiction of action and brutal violence along … Continue reading
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Tagged Happy Chinchilla Day, Happy Chinchilli Day, Mark Jenkins, Sam Peckinpah, The Wild Bunch
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