Thought I told you not to run|them sheep on my land! “By the end of the day that bottle had taken over. He would shoot with three cameras and just… do it. With James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Richard Jaeckel, Katy Jurado. The creation of the story of an aging sheriff hired to kill his old friend Billy the Kid, however, was riddled with problems. We had a great knife fight in that picture, between Mario Adorf and myself. I asked him one time, when we were doing ‘Major Dundee.’ I said “Sam, what is it that makes my character tick?” And he thought about it for a minute and finally said “Drier. That one you got up and asked|how much you owed. Dry. We were using five or six cameras at once and we didn’t have a camera mechanic because MGM wouldn’t pay for one! Billy: [to his confederates] Hell, that was a year ago. Which ones were they? Here are several photos taken behind-the-scenes during production of Sam Peckinpah’s Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. So we used different lenses, different set-ups, and still, it’s all out of focus. Billy: [Billy's braggadocio is answered by a hail of gunfire] I guess he already had breakfast. All rights reserved. So what we did was, we stole all those shots when the brass didn’t know we were shooting and got it all! Dear every screenwriter/filmmaker, read Rudy Wurlitzerl’s screenplay for Sam Peckinpah’s Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, the wildest western ever made [PDF]. The creation of the story of an aging sheriff hired to kill his old friend Billy the Kid, however, was riddled with problems. Steve added it Oct 09, 2008. 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He doesn’t give a shit.” And that’s who that character was! All material for educational and noncommercial purposes only. Peckinpah would start drinking on the set first thing each morning, and by the afternoon he would be loaded and walking around firing a revolver into the air. We truly appreciate your support. Son of a bitch.|Come on, I'll buy you a drink. The studio took it away from him and re-cut it. I think the alcohol sort of quelled all the influences that were going on around him so he could really focus on what he was doing with the film. Sam had the only true cut that he made, and that’s up in his archives in Sonoma. I think he really despised anybody who displayed artistry. Hailed as one of Sam Peckinpah’s misunderstood masterpieces, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is the film that ended the filmmaker’s informal revisionist western trilogy, after Ride the High Country and The Wild Bunch. Billy: [to Pat Garrett] Come on in Pat, I'll warm ya breakfast! Listen to the audio interview with Sam Peckinpah (MP3 format, approximately 48 minutes) conducted by Tony Macklin. I reckon the whole damn territory's|gonna be one big open jug for us now. . He says “You’re not gonna re-shoot anything. Initially, Wurlitzer suspected that the elusive singer wanted to contribute an original tune to the score of the film but Dylan had other plans—he wanted to be in the movie, despite having no acting experience whatsoever. - I'm just scratching.|- Chisum's cattle is waiting. Trying to get to that old Mex|you're talking about. Write a review. 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It was just mind-blowing! - Goddamn law is ruining the country.|- Ain't you still a part of that law? Say, I understand those Mexican seoritas|are still pretty as ever down there. And it’s probably safe to say that no one will ever again make—or feel the impulse to attempt—a movie like his last Western, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973). Rita Coolidge, Kristofferson’s girlfriend at the time, plays a Mexican woman whom Billy/Kristofferson makes sulfurous love to just before he’s gunned down by Pat Garrett (played by James Coburn), his erstwhile friend and mentor. —James Coburn: The Hollywood Interview. The Web's largest and most comprehensive scripts resource. Your generosity preserves film knowledge for future generations: Get Cinephilia & Beyond in your inbox by signing in, © 2017 Cinephilia & Beyond. You can see there’s a masterpiece in there somewhere. It's gotta be pretty hard|to turn your back on all that. When we started shooting Pat Garrett, I just finished shooting a film with Blake Edwards called ‘The Carey Treatment’ (1973) that Aubrey also took away and re-cut. Web. It turns out the flange in the camera was off by one one thousandth of an inch, or some damn thing. But there’s only about five minutes missing from that cut he originally made. The DVD of the film (two-disc special edition) is available at Amazon and other online retailers. The Peckinpah interview was conducted in his living quarters at Burbank Studios. When Bob Dylan learned that Rudy Wurlitzer was penning a script focusing on the Bonney-Garrett legend, he tracked the writer down and requested a meeting. The audience isn’t gonna know the fuckin’ difference!” Can you imagine?! I shot him straight up. So all the editors got together and gave Sam a cut of his film, but without a soundtrack. Maybe a year or so down in Mexico|will do you some good. We were sitting in his trailer and he said “Goddammit! Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid. But Peckinpah worked weekends and during lunch hours, determined to fully convey his vision of Pat Garret’s story to the screen, and it took ten years for the rest of the world to see this hidden version.

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