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David Samuel Peckinpah was an American film director and screenwriter. His 1969 Western epic The Wild Bunch received an Academy Award nomination and was ranked No. 80 on the American Film Institute's top 100 list. His films employed a visually innovative and explicit depiction of action and violence as well as a revisionist approach to the Western genre.

Peckinpah's films deal with the conflict between values and ideals, as well as the corruption and violence in human society. His characters are often loners or losers who desire to be honorable but are forced to compromise in order to survive in a world of nihilism and brutality. He was given the nickname "Bloody Sam" owing to the violence in his films.

Peckinpah's combative personality, marked by years of alcohol and drug abuse, affected his professional legacy. The production of many of his films included battles with producers and crew members, damaging his reputation and career during his lifetime. Peckinpah's other films include Ride the High Country , Major Dundee , The Ballad of Cable Hogue , Straw Dogs , The Getaway , Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid , Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia , Cross of Iron and Convoy , the most commercially successful film of his career.



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✵ 21. February 1925 – 28. December 1984
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Sam Peckinpah Quotes

“The whole underside of our society has always been violence and still is. Churches, laws--everybody seems to think that man is a noble savage. But he's only an animal. A meat-eating, talking animal. Recognize it. He also has grace and love and beauty. But don't say to me we're not violent.”

Sam Peckinpah

Playboy, August 1972

“We've all grown up with the idea that gunning a man down is just fun and games. All of us, as kids, played cops and robbers, with toy pistols or pointing a finger at somebody and saying, "Bang, Bang. You're dead!"”

Sam Peckinpah

Both the movies and television have perpetuated the idea that shooting a man is clean and quick and simple, and when he falls down there is only a small hole, or a blood-stain, to show how he died. Well, killing a man isn&#x27;t clean and quick and simple. It&#x27;s bloody and awful. And maybe if enough people come to realize that shooting somebody isn&#x27;t just fun and games maybe we&#x27;ll get somewhere about violence on the screen in the first place. [...] No, I don&#x27;t like violence. In fact, when I look at the film myself, I find it unbearable. I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ll be able to see it again for five years. <br class="br">Responding, circa July 1969, to the question, &quot;Why did you make this film?&quot;, posed by a film critic for Reader&#x27;s Digest; as quoted in &quot;Looking Sideways: Photographic Violence Won&#x27;t Stop Violence&quot; https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=78219633 by Whitney Bolton, Fort-Myers News-Press (July 23, 1969), p. 4

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