After 56 years, no one has forgotten the final battle of this final masterpiece of the West that remains an absolute installation of the lesson

The deep drama of Sam Pekinca is that he was born too late. The descendant of the famous pioneers, Pekinka, was born at the moment when his ancestors entered the legend of California: because they could not live their era, he must be happy to collect echoes.

And again it is late, the ten -year delay that it came to the cinema, starting with the start of a terrible career, the lost battles, because it is dedicated to a permanent dwelling house “ Written by film historian Michael Henry Wilson in a wonderful book A La Porte du Paradis: 100 -year -old American Cinema, published by Armand Collin in 2014.

This reflection naturally refers to its masterpiece, which is a wild horde that was the Western Bid as Hollywood’s final response to the West Spaghetti Wave.

It is a dying Western Gangrene from modernity (we are in 1913, we find the first cars …) that the filmmaker depicts the head of this group, Pike Bishop (excited William Holden), seems to have to leave the world he no longer understands. Just like Pekinpa.

With the rough values ​​of the boundary border and the raw moral code of its pioneers and its regularities, Pekinka seeks to portray the pathetic and cramped wandering of the heroic, its last survivors, which is no longer in their size.

His characters, who are guided by honorable feelings and devotion to themselves, will refuse to compromise, even if they were at the cost of their survival. For Beijing, there is sadness that this promise of freedom will disappear forever, which is the essence of America.

Give hell, pike!

In this tragic meditation of dying Western characters, the characters eventually commit suicide, giving the screen one of the most memorable sequences that he has never seen.

Liberated violence, a true friction where a group of bishops wants as many men as possible to take a cruel and degenerate General Mexican Mapache, who holds a prisoner with a member of their friend and group, angel, and kills them. Drunk with revenge and pain, the group was released by the garrison’s slaughter …

This five sequence that is known as Bloody porchEven a masterpiece is a masterpiece. Here is …

“Why does violence have such an opinion in humans?”

Slow movement, eruptions and crowns, work on sound design … This sequence is an absolute summit of the assembly that is even taught in schools. The work we hear about the science of Sam Pekinca and his Assembly, which is very supported by Lou Lombardo and his assistant Robert L Wolf. At least 300 plans follow each other, combining ordinary rows shot with several cameras at the frequency of different images. Merging at slow speed.

It took 12 days to shoot this sequence, about 10,000 fire cinephiliabeyond). And to say that at the beginning, Pekinka was very anxious because he did not know how he was going to understand this scene that would enter the legend …

Beijing has always said that the violence of his work, and especially the wild horde, was precisely done for the hatred of the audience; Contrary to its glorification. In an interview held in December 1976The master says he regrets, given that he undoubtedly went far with his intentions.

“I made a wild horde because I still believed in the Greek theory of Catharsis. I thought we would be sanctified by watching this movie. And surprise: “Why does violence have such an opinion in humans?”

That he calms himself. After 56 years, we did not graduate from meditation on bloody and tragic designed for its heroes, at the end of sequence in the history of cinema.