The Wild Bunch Page #13

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Bullets hit the wall around soldiers firing from a balcony.

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(from behind) Pike shooting his pistol.

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Soldier gets hit.

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(from behind) Pike throws a table to get cover.

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Lyle wailing firing the machine gun.

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Woman and children sitting somewhere under cover on the

ground.

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Soldiers running out of a door hit by machine gun fire.

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Lyle wailing firing the machine gun.

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Soldiers running out of a door hit by machine gun fire.

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Pike and Dutch 'meet' in the cover of the table.

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(side) Soldiers loading their guns coming nearer.

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Pike and Dutch look into each others face.

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Lyle wailing firing the machine gun, Tector in the background

with a revolver.

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Soldier lying on the ground gets hit.

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Soldier standing at a wall gets hit.

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Pike to Dutch: "Come on you lazy bastard."

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Child soldier shooting.

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Lyle gets hit.

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Pike sees Tector and Lyle Dying.

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Soldier shoots from the roof.

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Tector gets hit.

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Soldier shoots.

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Lyle gets hit.

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Pike raises.

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Soldiers approach from under the arcs, in the foreground

bottles and boxes with ammunition.

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Soldier shoots.

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Soldier shoots behind bars.

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Tector and Lyle dying, still standing.

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Pike shoots.

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A soldier got hit.

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(from behind) Pike at the machine gun.

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(side) Pike's face.

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Soldiers, horses.

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Soldier shoots behind bars.

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Tector and Lyle dying, still standing.

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zoom nearer: dying soldiers under the arcs.

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(side) Pike's face.

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Tector and Lyle dying, still standing.

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Dying soldiers under the arcs.

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Dying soldier.

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Lyle and Tector on the floor.

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(frontal) Pike shooting.

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Dying soldiers.

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(frontal) Pike shooting.

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Lyle still moving on the floor.

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Soldier on a balcony got hit.

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(frontal) Pike shooting.

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Soldier on a balcony got hit.

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Dutch standing up.

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(frontal) Pike shooting.

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A box of dynamite explodes, soldiers are thrown through the

air.

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(side) Pike shooting.

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In the foreground horses, while in the background dynamite

explodes.

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Explosion, horses, soldiers.

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Dutch: "Give them hell, Pike!"

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Child soldier, behind bars, shoots Pike.

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(frontal) Pike gets hit.

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Man from the roof shoots.

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Another man on the roof shoots.

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Pike's death dance, shooting with the machine gun in the air.

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Dutch: "No Pike!" Bullets crash in the wall behind him.

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An old man and a soldier shoot Dutch.

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Dutch falling over Pike.

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Dutch: "Pike. Pike."

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Face of Pike, dying.

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Dutch falling.

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Face of Pike, hidden behind the hand that holds the machine

gun, dying.

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Dutch, covered with blood and dust on the floor.

(THE FINAL MASSACRE LASTS FOR 04:04)

Scene sequence END

[There is a lot of dying, but technically I would put it this way:

The pictures of a battle are not objective, but subjective. You

don't see, what actually happens, but what a person believes, that

happens. When Lyle shoots you see his point of view, every shoot

scores.

A real example:
US Bomber crews over Germany believed 1943 to

shoot down about 10 times as many German fighters than they

actually did.]

43 Taking stock

(The shooting stops, soldiers, children soldiers, old soldiers,

leaving their cover, children, men, soldiers, looking. No hard

cuts but soft fades between the scenes. The bounty hunters with

Thornton ride into the town, dead bodies all over, women in black

dress praying, vultures sitting on the walls, the old walls are

made of raw stones, plaster has often fallen down.)

T.C.:
Look at them.

(Vulture is flying through the scene.)

Coffer:
Come on.

T.C.:
Wait for me. Come on, let's get all the guns.

Coffer:
This is fine!

T.C.:
This is just like a big old picknick!

Coffer:
Here's a rifle for you.

(Thornton approaching the machine gun, finding the dead body of

Pike taking his revolver (not his automatic pistol). During this

sequence the sound is reduced to rudimentary filmmusic.)

[Paralell sequence when Coburn took Kristoffersons gun in 'Pat

Garett and Billy the Kid']

Coffer:
He's got a gun.

T.C.. It's him. It's the Gorches!

T.C.:
Get up there, Coffer. Come on.

Coffer:
Mr Thornton. It's them. It is them.

T.C.:
This boy's got gold in his teeth. Let me see your knife.

Coffer:
Here.

T.C.:
Let me see your knife.

[The poor Mexicans didn't make this dead body looting. The

difference between the catholic Mexican culture and the modern

American culture shown in this movie]

Coffer:
Mr Thornton. Shall we load up?

T.C.:
Do we wait for Jess or meet him on the way?

Coffer:
If he's waiting for buzzards to lead him to Sykes, he's

got a long wait.

(One of the bounty hunters with a number of guns around his

shoulder cackles)

Look! We got them all.

T.C. There he is. There is Pike.

T.C.:
There, you ain't so damned much now, are you, Mr Pike?

44 Death echoes in the wind

(Thornton leaving the scene (and we with him) to sit at the gate

in the dust, no shadows, it became cloudy, and it is not necessary

to sit in the shadow...)

(The bounty hunters with the corpses of the wild bunch bound over

package horses leave the empty city through the gate)

Coffer:
You ain't coming?

Thornton:
No.

T.C.:
Maybe we should wait for Jess.

Coffer:
No, no, no. We pick him up on the way.

I want to get out of this damn place.

Anyway, these boys'll start going ripe by tomorrow.

We got to move.

All bounty hunters singing:

I went to the river

and I couldn't get across

Singing 'polly wolly doodle' all the day

I jumped on a buzzard

'cause I thought he was a horse

Singing 'polly wolly doodle' all the day

(Wind howling. People of the city, wounded soldiers, goats,

leaving the town, the sky is dark, birds flying across the scene,

Thornton sitting, watching, his horse on a rope in front of him.

People pass him by.)

(The bounty hunters in the mountain desert)

Coffer:
Jess! Jess! (The others continue singing)

(While the people leave the town, cattle, sundown, gunfire in a

distance, Thornton smiling, understanding what happens.)

45 Some work to do

(Sykes with the indios and Don Jose, the old man from Angels

village. They see Thornton. No preparing to fight, no bbeing

angry, just approaching)

SYKES:
Didn't expect to find you here.

THORNTON:
Why not?

I sent them back.

That's all I said I'd do.

SYKES:
They didn't get very far.

THORNTON:
I figured.

(Soldiers passing by, carrying the machine gun and ammunition out

of the town)

SYKES:
What are your plans?

THORNTON:
Drift around down here.

Try to stay out of jail.

SYKES:
Well, me and the boys here, we got some work to do.

Want to come along.

Ain't like it used to be, but it'll do.

(Sykes cackle, Thornton smiles, gets up his horse.)

46 A last glimpse

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