For such a warm, elegiac movie, loaded with so much meaning and feeling, it's a really rubbish title, don't you think?
An Album In Montage - now there's a great title.
No Guru, No Method, No Teacher.
Eh. I like the title.
"You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling."
The title is generic sounding (e.g. The Outlaws),
but Peckinpah wanted to evoke the tradition of
the Western and its origins in dime novels that
promised to tell tall tales and fuel the imagination.
It does that, but is also elegiac, because he
wanted to pay homage to the passing of a piece
of Americana that was very dear in the
American consciousness.
Some titles in movies become part of the colourful language of a culture. When spoken describing a situation or thing, it immediately recalls the movie itself, ie, Psycho, High Noon, Terminator, Brief Encounter, to mention a few. For that reason alone I think it is a great title.
I you google Wild Bunch you will see all sorts of uses of the title including a florist shop, er... some irony there I think.
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I'm not just saying this, but it makes a lot more sense now. Some great points there, and it HAS, as you say, passed into the language.
No Guru, No Method, No Teacher.
It should have been called "The Perishing Ne'er-do-wells".
share^^that doesn't exactly have the same strength...
"Did you make coffee...? Make it!"--Cheyenne.
But NO Country for Old Man might :P
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Exactly! No Country For Old Men would have been perfect. If only they had thought of it--or read a little more Yeats.
No Country For Old Men would have been a retarded title. It would have made it sound like a film based in a nursing home. It also would have inappropriately implied that this film has no story, no point and no ending, just like the other film with that title does not.
And the title The Wild Bunch is perfect as is.
Back in the American West of the 1890's, there was a gang of outlaws called "The Wild Bunch", so maybe it's not such a bad title after all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Bunch
Maybe if you were around in the 1890's you could have told them what a rubbish name they had. LOL
"Lovers of Fat Mexican Chicks"
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The Wild Bunch is here