The Wild Bunch Page #11

(Dutch sitting in the sun in front of a Mexican house playing with

a piece of wood. Behind the corner a woman is sitting and a man

sleeping in the shadow of the wall.)

(Pike dressing up himself. Over the door you see a crucifix. The

beautiful, soft and calm looking girl cleaning herself with a

barrel of water, a baby crying in the background, Pike drinks the

remaining tequila from a bottle, plays with the empty bottle. In

the next room a prostitute argues in Spanish with the Gorch

brothers.)

L. GORCH:
You said dos for two. (Pouring a bottle (water(?)) over

his body)

T. GORCH:
(Lying on a bed, playing with some tiny bird) Here's

your dos and one to grow on. That's all you get out of me.

Prostitute:
(in Spanish) Twelve is more than two. That's why I

said twelve each.

(Prostitute sobs. Pike, angry, stands up, goes to the neighbour

room)

PIKE:
Let's go.

L. GORCH:
Why not?

(Pike returns to his room, throws a piece of gold to the table of

the girl, no words. The little bird Tector played with, lies on

the floor, looks like going to die.)

38 Toward a showdown

(They leave the house, Dutch stands up smiling, they take their

rifles, load them. Women singing in the background. They go

through the town. The walking through the town, people at their

daily work, playing, dancing, sleeping, it lasts for 1 minute 41

seconds.)

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49 Scene sequence:

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Pike, Tector, Lyle are leaving the house.

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Dutch is putting the piece of wood into the ground, smiling.

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Tector, Lyle are putting their pistol-belt on.

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Dutch smiling.

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(from behind) Pike, then the others approaching their horses,

putting out their guns and other equipment.

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(from side, then frontal) Pike, then the others loading their

guns, background the desert and children, a Mexican song starts.

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They start walking, an old woman crosses in the background, camera

moving backwards, they pass by the camera on the left side.

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(from behind) the wild bunch going, soldiers with horses, men

in the shadow of the walls. They go towards a gap in the wall in

front. Soldiers are following them watching. Trees in the

background

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(frontal) Wild bunch marching, soldiers cooking, carrying

wood, others just standing around. All look at the gringos.

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The camera approaches a group of Mexicans, including

soldiers, singing.

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(frontal) Wild bunch marching, surrounded by soldiers, who

either go in a different direction or to no direction at all.

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Woman with soldier cap with children, a man with a gun.

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(from the ground right) Wild bunch marching.

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Soldiers and men, one without shirt, getting a shave,

looking.

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(frontal) Wild bunch marching, surrounded by soldiers,

background the man who gets shaved.

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Woman sitting on the bare ground, children, looking.

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(frontal) Wild bunch marching, background soldiers, Tector

pushes a soldier aside.

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A fire burning, soldiers, walls, a tent, the wild bunch

appears from the edge of a wall at the courtyard. Stops.

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Mapache, drunken, looking.

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(THE MARCH LAST FOR 01:41)

Scene sequence END

39 "We want Angel"

(In quick cuts you see soldiers looking, German and Mexican

officers on the table, the wild bunch, women doing something...)

Mapache:
Those gringos again (in Spanish, drunken) What do you

want?

PIKE:
We want Angel.

Mapache:
(chuckling) You want Angel, no? I am going to give him to

you.

(Mapache takes Angel from the ground, talking to him in Spanish.

He tells him, that he will be free now. He cuts the ropes that

binds his hands with a knife. Then he uses this knive to cut the

throat of Angel. Pike, then Dutch shoot Mapache. Herrera

immediatly raises in hands to show surrender.)

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(Wild bunch is standing there with guns ready. Soldiers raise from

their seats, some raising their hands, most just looking. Some

still have guns in their hands. The whole scene takes place under

the arcs of a long ruined cathedral, only the arcs remain, houses

are build inside the room that previously was holy.)

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(Dutch starts cackling. Tector responds, they obviously

understand.)

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(Pike shoots Mohr)

40 The shooting starts

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Pike shoots his automatic pistol ...

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Mohr falls, hit in the breast.

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Dutch smiles.

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Herrera tries to pull his gun ...

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(from behind) the wild bunch looking in Herreras direction,

Pike shoots.

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... Herrera get shot by Pike.

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Pikes face.

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Soldiers in the courtyard are seeking cover, taking their

guns.

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Tector smiles.

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Soldiers in the courtyard are seeking cover, taking their

guns.

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Lyle smiles.

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Herrera dying.

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(from above) Soldiers and women in the courtyard, moving.

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Pike running, a shoot hits the wall behind him.

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(view from the table with the machine gun) Soldiers...

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Dutch running, shooting.

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Soldiers seeking cover.

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Women and children seeking cover, a table with vegetables get

thrown.

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Tectors face.

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A dying soldier, Tector from behind, shooting.

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Soldiers lying on the ground shooting in direction of the

camera.

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A soldiers face, shooting.

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Wild bunch, shooting, running.

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A soldier dying.

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Women and children sitting under a table, looking without

expression.

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The table of the Mexican officers, musicans trying to get

away, soldiers shooting.

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Wild bunch, shooting, running.

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The table of the Mexican officers, men in clean uniform

dying.

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(frontal) Pike's face shooting.

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Soldier with sombrero dying.

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(from behind) The wild bunch is at the table of the Mexican

officers, Pike carrying the gun in his left hand shooting his

pistol with his right hand.

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A Mexican soldier at the machine gun.

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Lyle shooting.

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Soldier at the machine gun gets hit.

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Pike (background) shooting, in the foreground a Mexican

soldier running.

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Dutch shoots the Mexican soldier with his pump gun.

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Wild bunch shooting from the soldiers point of view.

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Tector enters some cover, jumping.

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Someone shoots at him from the dark.

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Tector hits him.

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(frontal) Zamorra shooting his pistol, missing Pike.

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Pike, more seeking cover than shooting back.

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Dutch shoots Zamorra.

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Lyle follows Tector to his cover, Tector shooting.

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Two women entering the room.

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Lyle shooting with his pistol at the soldiers, then moving,

shooting one of the women.

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Lyle shoots a soldier, who runs towards the wild bunch, from

the view behind the soldier.

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same scene seen from behind of Lyle.

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Pike shooting.

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A soldier, surrounded by all the other soldiers, hit.

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Tector, moving.

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Dying of the soldiers in the courtyard in front, some are

running, shooting towards the wild bunch.

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