The Wild Bunch

story and a film 's plot are the “what and the how”. The Story is “what” the film is about and the plot is “how” the writer unfolds the action in the film relating to what the film is about (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2014, p. 54). In describing The Wild Bunch story into the outlaw’s themed plot of violence, director Sam Peckinpah used dramatic impact quick action cuts coupled with slow motion aesthetic balance to create a mood of chaos throughout the fierce gun battle scenes which advantageously draws

supported with information from Slotkin’s book “Gunfighter Nation”, Will Wright’s book “The Wild West: The Mythical Cowboy and Social Theory”, John White’s book “Westerns”, and Jane Tompkin’s book “West of Everything, The Inner life of Westerns” and various films which consist of William A. Wellman “The Ox-Bow Incident”, Fred Zinnemann “High Noon”, John Ford “The Searchers”, Sam Peckinpah “The Wild Bunch”, and Robert Altman “McCabe & Mrs.Miller”. Old western movies are one of the most classic, acquiescent

The southwest is a region of the United States that makes our country unique. Without the southwest, we would undoubtedly lack the spirit, hope, beauty, and truth that this vast region brings to the rest of the United States as a whole. The southwest represents many things, such as journeying, racism, violence, the clashing and cooperation of cultures, and spirituality, as well as primitivism and pastoralism. All of these elements that the Southwest is comprised of is perhaps the reason why the rest

A NOT-SO-ACCURATE prophet once wrote, "As recently as 1972, there were a tremendous number of quality Westerns being made . . . and since there seems to be a ten-year cycle in Western movie making, I'd say we'll see more in about 1982." 1 In 1982 only two Westerns were released, and neither was exactly a major success. Barbarosa, starring Willie Nelson, drew some respectable reviews–and some very damaging ones–but nobody went to see the film. The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez appeared first

of the American Wild West. This genre reached its first success in the mid-twentieth century during the golden age of Hollywood studios, before it had being reinvented by European filmmakers in the 1960s. The term Western has since been attributed to other visual arts such as literature, painting, television, cartoon, and now refers to all artistic production influenced by the atmosphere and the clichés

methods of French New Wave, where realistic situations were portrayed and the fairytale plots of Classical Hollywood were growing tiresome on the youthful generations. One of these such movies that was created to please the new demands was The Wild Bunch. This movie has very violent scenes in which the audience can clearly see when someone is shot because of the use of squibs, exploding blood packs. The final shootout is basically 10 minutes or more of just people getting graphically shot and squibs

There Will be Blood (2007) is an entertaining movie that delineates in various forms that will be discussed from other western genres. It is a story that is formed from a novel by Upton Sinclair’s book, Oil! (1927) (Belton, 2009, p.401). Many westerns were based on dime novels that were written in the mid and late 1800s (Belton, 2009, p.246). American society was going through a transitional period from an agrarian society to an industrial society in the 1800s and early 1900s (Wright 2001; Desk

According to Flanagan, slow cinema emphasizes on "the employment of long takes, decentered and understated modes of storytelling, and a pronounced emphasis on quietude and the everyday...an aesthetic of slow." Strange Days (Kathryn Bigelow) and The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah) are two movies that seem to follow the "classical cinema" formula, and at the same time, resemble both chaos and slow cinema in different ways and at different times.

Butch Cassidy and his members of the Wild Bunch left a remarkable chapter in the history of old American West. Interestingly, Butch was no mean robber, but someone full of charm. The story of the group was made more interesting with the addition of Butch’s constant partner-in-crime, Sundance Kid. Originally named Robert LeRoy, Butch changed his name after working with Mike Cassidy, an infamous cattle and horse rustler. The name “Butch” was taken from Robert’s brief stint as a butcher in town. He

The concept of fantasy can be defined as ‘the forming of mental images, especially wondrous or strange fancies; imaginative conceptualizing’ (Dictionary.com). At one time or another we have all fantasized about different things. However, have any of us ever attempted to incorporate those fantasies into the real world? The following paper will attempt to analyse how the narratives Mickybo and me and The Butcher Boy combine elements of imagination/fantasy and reality. It will discuss how the of mixing