The Wild Bunch covers, no doubt, a whole variety and mix of genres and sub-genres. As anyone could make an argument for which genre they think is dominant in, “The Wild Bunch” (e.g. crime drama, romance, thriller, drug movie, dark comedy, etc.). The cinematic clues I’ve based my decision on is a subgenre of film known as the "Revisionist Western”. I’m sure you are asking yourself; how does this film that I chose enact the genre it is supposed to represent and how does it subvert it?
Well, according to thescriptlab.com, “Western Film is a genre that revolves around stories primarily set in the late 19th century in the American Old West. Most Westerns are set between the American Civil War (1865) and the early 1900s. Common themes within Western …show more content…
The viewer does not know where the tracks will lead or when the train will stop. Twists and turns keep viewers disoriented but still the train keeps moving and the plot unfolds. There are moments in life that cannot be categorized movies are the same way. Sometimes genres define movies incorrectly. The Wild Bunch pushes viewers to question their perceptions on the west and their perceptions of good and evil. The opening scene, a sequence that’s set up like the final shootout at the end of the movie, represents the Western because it too… consists of excessive amounts of pistol and rifle-fire. So while the “Wild Bunch” is the group of main "hero" characters the audience follows, the characters do not fit the hero archetype; they are bounty hunters who kill people for money. Peckinpah even draws the comparison between the bounty hunters and vultures. The Wild Bunch practically lurks around the places where they know death has consumed an area; and they are ready to pick gold silver from the dead bodies. Though the shots barely lasted half a second sometimes, like in the town battle sequence in the beginning, each shot no matter how short was amazing. There were these amazing stunt shots of dead men falling off buildings, random cuts to children's faces amidst the bloodshed, and other fast action cuts that flowed beautifully fast. This
Well, according to thescriptlab.com, “Western Film is a genre that revolves around stories primarily set in the late 19th century in the American Old West. Most Westerns are set between the American Civil War (1865) and the early 1900s. Common themes within Western …show more content…
The viewer does not know where the tracks will lead or when the train will stop. Twists and turns keep viewers disoriented but still the train keeps moving and the plot unfolds. There are moments in life that cannot be categorized movies are the same way. Sometimes genres define movies incorrectly. The Wild Bunch pushes viewers to question their perceptions on the west and their perceptions of good and evil. The opening scene, a sequence that’s set up like the final shootout at the end of the movie, represents the Western because it too… consists of excessive amounts of pistol and rifle-fire. So while the “Wild Bunch” is the group of main "hero" characters the audience follows, the characters do not fit the hero archetype; they are bounty hunters who kill people for money. Peckinpah even draws the comparison between the bounty hunters and vultures. The Wild Bunch practically lurks around the places where they know death has consumed an area; and they are ready to pick gold silver from the dead bodies. Though the shots barely lasted half a second sometimes, like in the town battle sequence in the beginning, each shot no matter how short was amazing. There were these amazing stunt shots of dead men falling off buildings, random cuts to children's faces amidst the bloodshed, and other fast action cuts that flowed beautifully fast. This