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nocal posted:The violence is one of the best aspects of this movie. Westerns were, mostly, morality plays where a good guy shoots a rapacious injun who at last has the decency to die a bloodless death. The opening bank robbery is great in that regard - there's this slow build up in tension that feels like the Bunch might get away in the crowd or have some sort of traditional western shootout, but nope, the two sides just start gunning down bystanders and hostages without a second thought, and several characters on either side die before the opening even finishes. It's like a game of cinematic chicken where instead of the expected last minute swerve the heroes and villains end up dead in a head-on collision. Random thought, it always feels weird that the Wild Bunch is set almost in the exact same year as the start of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, particularly since both start with the protagonists in turn-of-the-century Army/Scout uniforms.
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