It’s reputation
It’s known for being such a violent movie when there’s not even that much action in the movie. Only the beginning and end. Kinda strange imo.
shareBut those two scenes have more graphic bloodshed and violence than all the Westerns that came before them combined. And all in sloowwww motion so we get a good long look at it, too. No Western before or since ever captured its impact, even the other ones Peckinpah directed.
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