if that was your reaction to the slo-mo deaths in "The Wild Bunch," I'd say you were close to a perfect audience. Peckinpah repeatedly told everyone who asked that the violence was intended to be shocking, especially in showing what a bullet can do to human flesh. he also intended it to serve as an allegory …
if that was your reaction to the slo-mo deaths in "The Wild Bunch," I'd say you were close to a perfect audience. Peckinpah repeatedly told everyone who asked that the violence was intended to be shocking, especially in showing what a bullet can do to human flesh. he also intended it to serve as an allegory about Vietnam, which was pretty obvious in 1969. Peckinpah also cited Kurosawa as a major inspiration and you can see it..."Seven Samurai" has a lot of slow-motion mayhem which is, at the same time, very beautiful.
unfortunately, recent history seems to tell us that Peckinpah (and other directors of that era) might have been rather naive about their ability to shock America out of its gun thing...it's gonna take a lot more than a few movies, no matter how great they might be.
thanks for the disambiguation.
if that was your reaction to the slo-mo deaths in "The Wild Bunch," I'd say you were close to a perfect audience. Peckinpah repeatedly told everyone who asked that the violence was intended to be shocking, especially in showing what a bullet can do to human flesh. he also intended it to serve as an allegory about Vietnam, which was pretty obvious in 1969. Peckinpah also cited Kurosawa as a major inspiration and you can see it..."Seven Samurai" has a lot of slow-motion mayhem which is, at the same time, very beautiful.
unfortunately, recent history seems to tell us that Peckinpah (and other directors of that era) might have been rather naive about their ability to shock America out of its gun thing...it's gonna take a lot more than a few movies, no matter how great they might be.
at this point, I'm out of ideas.