The Wild Bunch is by far the best movie I’ve ever seen William Holden is just great as Pike Bishop and Ernest Borgnine as Dutch. What an amazing ensemble. The movie deals with the theme of unchanged men in a changing time, they are basically a dying breed with no future. The film is just filled with great scenes. A great example would be before they hold up the bank, Pike stumbles on an old lady and does something that would contradict his character, he helps the lady across the street and acts like a true gentlemen before doing something vile and wretched. In Pulp Fiction Jules and Vincent also contradict themselves, when we first see them they appear to be normal people, but then we see that they are actually cold blooded killers.
The train robbery was such a magnificent piece played out almost in silence, and from thereafter the action really picks up and in no time the story takes an unexpected turn. Angel is held captive by General Mapache for producing weapons to a rebel group. That ultimately leads to the geatest shoot out in the history of film. Which by the way resembles the House Of Blue Leaves sequence, where Beatrix confronts a staggering amount of armed men. The movie is structured in two different incidents. The Bank robbery, where they soon flee into Mexico and are greeted by Angel’s village. Which eventually leads with them meeting Mapache and devise a plan to assault the train.
Then there’s sort of an intermission where The Bunch rest up, fucking and drinking. Then the second half plays out which is the train robbery sequence where they steal the weapons, and from there it leads to its bloody resolution.
The Wild Bunch is hands down the best movie ever made. I still don’t know what attracts me to it. I’ve been watching it so many times recently, even if it’s over 2 hours or 3 hours long, I really don’t care about the length.
