<p>In Sam Peckinpah’s film, standard Western tropes – outlaws, heroes, beautiful landscape – are used to interrogate an exhausted genre. He knows spectacular gunfights are problematic but did the cut version shown in Ireland convey Peckinpah’s intent?</p><br><p><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065214/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Wild Bunch</a>, dir Sam Peckinpah, starring William Holden, Ernest Borgnine</p><br><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/censoredpod" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Support us</a> and <a href="https://censoredpod.bigcartel.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Merch</a>!</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>