CIN212H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Akira Kurosawa, Deep Focus, Sam Peckinpah
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Lecture 9 (november 15, 2016): the wild bunch. Sam peckinpah: wild bunch made a new style, changed the idea of the western, wrote lots of tv westerns. Western: genre that is most associated with action and violence, long history in action cinema, going strong in the 40s-60s, popular as a tv show genre. Leone"s dollars trilogy: spaghetti westerns, was made fun of at first but got really popular, clint eastwood. Keeping his dollars persona when he returned to the us, he kept acting in. Westerns: influenced by kurosawa, fistful of dollars clip. Violent shooting is sudden and is just to show what he can do.
