My all-time favorite is "The Wild Bunch." Of course, it helped that I first saw it in a theater in south San Francisco in 1969 a few weeks after it had premiered. Nobody had ever seen anything like it before. You just can't duplicate that sort of shock now. It was a film where everything just clicked perfectly: writing, acting, photography, casting, directing, music score and above all editing. Probably the only film that approaches such perfection in all those categories is "Casablanca."
"The Wild Bunch is a good movie...," in fact, it is one of my all time favorite movies. However, there isn't
much of anything that could be considered
authentic to real life situations.
When you look at the Lee Marvin version of "Monte Walsh,"
everything about it looks authentic. Even Lee Marvin's hair as it is slicked down after his bath, before he visits his lady friend.
Remember the ranch scene where the cook smelled so bad they gave him a bath? And, how the cook got even by adulterating the cowboy's food with croton oil, causing them to have severe diarrhea, and mess their pants? A funny part of this scene was where a cowboy would make a run for the outhouse, and it would be full, then the cowboy would stand there with a perplexed look on his face, letting everything happen.
All of those situations were standard ranch life incidents!
Bill
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