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Modern Day Telling of Billy the Kid?

posted 19 years ago by pvtjoker-1
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Did anyone else see the parallels of this story and that of Billy the Kid? An outlaw, popular with the people, on the run from a not-so-lawful sheriff. Makes a late night deal with the governor of New Mexico during an election year only to have it broken. Finally cornered by the sheriff, he "dies" and becomes a legend? Maybe I've got an overactive imagination.

pvtjoker

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[–] convoy34 19 years ago

I did not think anyone else could come up with that plot other than me. I think Peckinpah had a south west obsession with the Billy the Kid legend. Kristofferson and Peckinpah in both Pat Garrett and Billy Kid & Convoy does prove it. Plus the obsession with filming in NM. I thought about this during the fall this year.

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