The Wild Bunch Page #3

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... man still falling.

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Two other children behind a wall.

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Wild bunch under fire riding through the main street.

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From a side street a wagon and a man with a gun.

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Ethan, who is leading rider ...

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Man on the wagon gets ready to fire.

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... gets hit in the face.

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Lyle stops his horse.

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The horses on the wagon are moving.

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Two children behind a wall.

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Wild bunch rides through the main street seen from above.

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The horses pull the wagon to the main street.

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Lyle stops his horse.

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The man on the wagon does not find a good shooting position.

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Lyle shoots the man.

(repeated)

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... man falls, blood.

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Lyle has problems to get his horse under control.

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(close) Lyles face.

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Pike rides back...

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Bounty hunters on the roof shooting.

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Pike takes Dutch, who has lost his horse on his horse.

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shooting on the street.

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Pike, Dutch rides away, Lyle is near them.

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Thornton: They've cleared out, for Christ's sake.

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(THE FIRST MASSACRE LAST FOR 03:36 !!)

Scene sequence END

4 Blazing scorpions

(The children, laughing, are burning the anthill with the

scorpions.)

Child:

(Laughing, while putting straw on the anthill) Put some more on.

PIKE:
(removing woman clothes from his foot) Let's go.

5 Better'n a hog-killin'

(The bounty hunters are looting the dead bodies of the wild bunch

lying on the street, killing Ape. Discussion between Harrigan,

Thornton and officials from the town.)

[The different 'culture' of an American and a Mexican village.]

Coffer:
Take him. (Ignoring one of the dead bandits)

He's mine.

He's mine.

T.C.:
I shot this one.

Look at the size of that hole!

Coffer:
You just dig out that bullet and see if it ain't my .06!

T.C.:
You know I shot him.

Coffer:
You'd claim the whole thing, wouldn't you?

(Thornton going slowly along the street looking at the results of

the massacre...)

Child:
Daddy. daddy.

T.C:
: Did he have any money.

Coffer:
Damn, I can't get his belt off!

Harrigan:
You stupid damned fools.

Why did you shoot this employee and let the others get away?

T.C.:
I didn't! My first shot killed this man right here!

Coffer:
Liar!

He shot that employee while I dropped this bandit and them others

too.

I must've killed all three of them.

T.C.:
What were we doing up on that roof?

Coffer:
Liar! Liar! Black liar!

T.C:
: Don't talk like that to me.

Coffer:
I'm sorry. Come on T.C., help me get his boots.

T.C.:
I think this will do pretty good.

THORNTON:
Harrigan!

Next time, plan the massacre more carefully, or I'll start with

you.

Harrigan:
Why didn't you kill Pike when you had the chance?

(Ape in the office with the three hostages, still singing)

Ape:
Yes we shall gather at the river

The beautiful the beautiful river...

(Hostages escaping)

Hey, stop. (shooting two times)

Feathers flew like a turkey!

Well, they shouldn't have run.

Citizen 1:
(opening the door and shooting Ape) Stay.

Ape:
(hit several times going to the floor)

(to Harrigan and THORNTON) How'd you like to kiss my sister's

black cat's ass?

(Ape shoots 3 men on the street and is hit deadly by Harrigan)

Man 3:
This is better than a hog-killing.

Citizen 2:
Get them out of here!

Citizen 3:
(opening the door, to Harrigan)

We're holding you and your railroad responsible for this carnage!

Harrigan:
Mr Benson...

Citizen 4:

Innocent people are dead.

Women dying and mangled because you used our town as a

battlefield!

The railroad is going to pay for our loss of blood!

Harrigan:
We were trying to catch a band of outlaws!

Citizen 4:
You lured them in here.

The railroad has been blabbing about a big payload for weeks!

Harrigan:
We represent the law!

(Thornton leaving the office, the children on the street, running,

play the shooting.)

6 The dear dead departed

(Wild bunch riding through a sandstone desert, Ethan, whom we saw

in a preceeding scene getting hit by a bullet in the face falls

from his horse.)

ANGEL:
Ethan.

(Pike riding back to Ethan, the others looking. Obviously this

happend not the first time.)

Ethan:
Pike, is that you?

I can ride. Pike. I can ride.

I can't see you but I can ride.

No!

I can't ride.

Finish it, Mr Bishop.

(Pike shooting Ethan. He rides back to the group, who watch him

silently. Silence.)

PIKE:
You boys want to move on, or stay and give him a decent

burial.

T. GORCH:
He was a good man. We should bury him.

PIKE:
He's dead!

He's got a lot of good men to keep him company!

L. GORCH:
Too damn many.

DUTCH:
I think the boys are right.

I'd like to say a few words for the dear, dead departed.

Maybe a few hymns'd be in order!

Followed by a church supper with a choir!

(Dutch displays absolute loyality to Pike.)

L. GORCH:
You crazy bastards, both of you!

(They are moving on.)

7 Judas goat

(Harrigan, in a wooden house speaks to the bounty hunters.)

Harrigan:

Bishop, Engstrom, the Gorch Brothers!

Amounts to a total of 4500 Dollars and you let them ride out on

you!

When the hard-money value of these men you killed less my

commission adds up to 500 Dollars!

And one of those pelts would've not only cleared you with the

company but given you money to raise hell with.

Coffer:
We'll do better next time!

T.C.:
We'll do anything you say, but we'd appreciate liquor money

tonight.

Harrigan:
There won't be any tonight! You go after them in 10

minutes.

Get them! Get Pike and you'll be rich!

If one of you tries to auit on me I'll pay a bonus of 1000 Dollars

to the man that kills him.

(Thornton and the Harrigan exit)

Coffer:
Well, lets pack it up then!

(Thornton and the Harrigan outside the house)

THORNTON:
Mr Harrigan.

Harrigan:
Why should I let you go with them?

THORNTON:
We've been over that.

Harrigan:
You might join them again. You'd like that, wouldn't

you?

THORNTON:

What I like and what I need are two different things. Listen Mr

Harrigan.

I don't want to go back to prison, never again.

It's got to be my way! I need some good men!

You saw what happend out there!

Harrigan:
Use what you have and see that it does not happen again

or I see you spend the rest of your life behind bars.

Try to run, I'll be after you and so will they.

THORNTON:
I gave you my word.

Harrigan:
We'll see what it's worth. Six minutes.

THORNTON:
Tell me, Mr Harrigan, how does it feel, getting paid for

it. Getting paid to sit back and hire your killings with the law's

arms around you?

How does it feel to be so goddamn right?

Harrigan:
Good!

THORNTON:
You dirty son of a b*tch.

Harrigan:
You've got 30 days to get Pike or 30 days back to Yuma.

You are my Judas goat, Mr Thornton.

I want all of them back here, head down over a saddle.

Thirty days to get Pike or 30 days back to Yuma.

(In Thorntons mind a whipping sequence in Yuma prison)

[The techniques of leadership: Harrigan, General Mapache and his

officers, the company leader in the train, Bishop, Thornton,

Mexican village, town officials, Pastor...]

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