Straw Dogs (1971)
Directed by Sam Peckinpah
David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ostracized by the brutish men of the village, including Amy's old flame, Charlie. Eventually the taunts escalate.
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What critics say influenced Straw Dogs
D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation is easy to admire for its technical innovation but easy to despise for its virulent racism; the Nazi hagiography Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will has similar pleasures – and problems.
Hoffman thought that the age discrepancy introduced a dissonant “Lolita” element into the story.
The siege scenario, perfected by Howard Hawks's Rio Bravo and The Thing from Another World , is inverted and perverted, obliterating clear distinctions between hero and villain, victim and predator.
The siege scenario, perfected by Howard Hawks's Rio Bravo and The Thing from Another World , is inverted and perverted, obliterating clear distinctions between hero and villain, victim and predator.
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Which is to say that The Wild Bunch is not an exercise in nihilism, despite the endless, indiscriminate bullets and the savage reputation of director Sam Peckinpah (Straw Dogs, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia).
He followed up his controversially violent Western, "The Wild Bunch," with "The Ballad of Cable Hogue," a comic horse opera about individual survival that many rate among the genre´s best.
Sam Peckinpah ("The Wild Bunch"/"Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia"/"Junior Bonner") keeps it gory and shocking.
As in much of his work (The Wild Bunch, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia), Peckinpah depicts a world in which men must act like men—brave, ferocious, willing to do life's dirty work—if they wish to survive, even if the price one pays for such actions is exorbitant.