The wild Horde

the wild Horde ( The Wild Bunch in the original version), is a Film carried out by Sam Peckinpah, left on the screens in 1969.

Synopsis

Disguised as soldiers, Pike Bishop and his band of outlaw seek to seize the pay of the workmen of the railroad. But a trap their is tended by Deke Thornton, a former comrade in arms of Pike. To remake themselves of their missed blow, Pike and its men are combined then with a Mexican chief, Mapache, to attack a convoy of weapons of the American army. But Deke is with their cases; it has 40 days to catch up with them and avoid thus turning over in prison.

Comment

With the wild Horde , Sam Peckinpah seems to involve the western towards the exit. Whereas in the beginning, it was a question of testifying to the History and of the values which had constituted the United States (to found the order while pushing back the borders of colonization, the culture and the breeding), these values became fantoches, and it is violence in question to further push back the representation with the screen (the film was interdict with less than 18 years at its exit in France). It omnipresent in the last third of film and is esthétisée (to be noted the idle on the splashes of blood at the time of the impacts of balls). Even the children seem reached by this endemic violence which strikes the universe of Peckinpah: the film opens by a band of children who have fun of a scorpion delivered to a colony of red ants. At the end, they burn them-even to them play and laugh at it. Should the original sin be seen there? In any case, here is a masterly summary of the scenario where the multiple protagonists all, mûs by the revenge or lure of gain, or quite simply stray in a world which does not tolerate them already more, appear interchangeable: stunned bargain hunters, American soldiers, gangsters without faith nor law, Mexican roughneck soldiers sadistic, Prussian military advisers,… the same report dominates: naturally bad and irremediable, the characters advance towards their poor and tragic destiny at the same time. Scorpion or red ant, the characters wanders with the liking of the events such of the animals lost in their own jungle. Moreover, the children kill at Peckinpah. The final scene of the massacre is certainly a catharsis for the spectator but it evokes a biblical punishment, when cities disappear under divine anger. Thornton, only survivor, seems to emerge from a bad dream.

Sam Peckinpah will bury the kind later four years with his following western, Pat Garrett and Billy Kid , in which the legendary figures do not have any more any faith in a world in full transformation. Paradoxically, it will re-use of them the ingredients successfully in its following film, one as of its best and yet ignored, Apportez me the head of Alfredo Garcia (1974).

Data sheet

  • French Title: the wild Horde

  • anglophone original Title: The Wild Bunch

  • Production companies: Warner Brothers/Seven Producing Arts

  • : Phil Feldman and Roy NR. Sickner

  • Original music: Jerry Fielding

  • Director of the photography: Lucien Ballard
  • Assembly: Louis Lombardo

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