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Peckinpah's and influence
However, this influence is also often shallow and purely aesthetic in nature, ignoring some of Peckinpah's greatest strengths in favor of pure imitation of his stylish approach to cinematic violence.
Peckinpah's greatest influence is upon the modern action film and the modern approach to action sequences.
Directors such as Martin Scorsese have acknowledged Peckinpah's direct influence on their approach to film violence.
Additional filmmakers who have noted Peckinpah's influence have included Paul Schrader, Walter Hill, Nicolas Winding Refn, John Milius, Quentin Tarantino, Kathryn Bigelow, Michael Mann, Takeshi Kitano and Park Chan-wook.

Peckinpah's and on
The restored cut, at 115 minutes, is thus not the traditional " director's cut ," but is closest to the director's preferred version, as it was reconstructed based on Peckinpah's notes, and according to his style in general.
" He then puts on a Stetson, and the sketch segues into Hugh Walpole's Rogue Cheddar and a link to the Sam Peckinpah's " Salad Days " sketch.
Stone, Jr. Producer Richard Lyons admired Peckinpah's work on The Westerner and offered him the directing job.
New York critics also discovered Peckinpah's unusual Western, with Newsweek naming Ride the High Country the best film of the year and Time placing it on its best-ten list.
Filmed on location in Mexico, Peckinpah's epic work was inspired by his hunger to return to films, the violence seen in Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde, America's growing frustration with the Vietnam War, and what he perceived to be the utter lack of reality seen in Westerns up to that time.
Shot on location in the Valley of Fire in Nevada, the film was plagued by poor weather, Peckinpah's renewed drinking and his brusque firing of 36 crew members.
The film was for many years banned on video in the UK, although some critics have come to hail it as one of Peckinpah's greatest films.
In 1988, however, Peckinpah's director's cut was released on video and led to a reevaluation, with many critics hailing it as a mistreated classic and one of the era's best films.
Peckinpah's themes have also been influential on other filmmakers and other Western films.
* Peckinpah's penchant for filming action scenes in slow motion was satirized by Benny Hill in a Western skit called " The Deputy " that first aired on his March 29, 1973 special.
Hauer went on to play the adventurer courting Gene Hackman's daughter ( Theresa Russell ) in Nicolas Roeg's poorly received Eureka ( 1983 ); the investigative reporter opposite John Hurt in Sam Peckinpah's The Osterman Weekend ( 1983 ); the hardened Landsknecht mercenary Martin in Flesh & Blood ( 1985 ); and the knight paired with Michelle Pfeiffer in the Medieval romance Ladyhawke ( 1985 ).
Sam Peckinpah's first two choices for the role of Deke Thornton were Richard Harris ( who had co-starred in Major Dundee ) and Brian Keith ( who had worked with Peckinpah on The Westerner ( 1960 ) and The Deadly Companions ( 1961 )).
A professional outcast due to the production difficulties of his previous film Major Dundee ( 1965 ) and his firing from the set of The Cincinnati Kid ( 1965 ), Peckinpah's stock had improved following his critically acclaimed work on the television film Noon Wine ( 1966 ).
Filmed on location in Mexico, Peckinpah's epic work was inspired by his hunger to return to films, the violence seen in Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde, America's growing frustration with the Vietnam War and what he perceived to be the utter lack of reality seen in Westerns up to that time.
A memorable incident occurred, to that end, as Peckinpah's crew were consulting him on the " gunfire " effects to be used in the film.
Coburn teamed with director Sam Peckinpah for the 1973 film Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid ( they had worked together in 1965 on Major Dundee ; the film's producer, Jerry Bresler, took editing responsibilities away from Peckinpah during post-production, resulting in Peckinpah's becoming furious over what he claimed was the producer's deliberate sabotage of his film, and he threatened the studio with a lawsuit.
Sam Peckinpah's final film, the plot twisting spy film The Osterman Weekend ( 1983 ), was based on Robert Ludlum's best-selling novel and starred John Hurt as creepy CIA agent-spy Lawrence Fassett.
Kazanjian's early credits include being an assistant director on Alfred Hitchcock's Family Plot and Sam Peckinpah's Wild Bunch.
Al Lettieri was brought to Peckinpah's attention by producer Albert Ruddy who was working with the actor on The Godfather.
The collaboration continued as he worked on Peckinpah's early films Ride the High Country ( 1962 ) and Major Dundee ( 1965 ).
In addition to being a gifted comedic actor, Hutton also took on dramatic roles such as Sam Peckinpah's 1965 western Major Dundee, then returning to comedy in 1965 with The Hallelujah Trail and in 1967 starred in Who's Minding the Mint ?.
The story explores one of Sam Peckinpah's favorite themes-the end of a traditional form of honor and the arrival of modern capitalism on the western frontier.
Later in his career, Diskant worked exclusively in television on shows such as " Playhouse 90 ", Sam Peckinpah's short-lived " The Westerner ", and many episodes of " The Rifleman ".

Peckinpah's and cinema
Sam Peckinpah's cinematic treatment marked a watershed in the depiction of sexual violence in the cinema though the most controversial scenes are absent from the book.

Peckinpah's and is
Sam Peckinpah's nephew is David Peckinpah, who was a television producer and director, as well as a screenplay writer.
Peckinpah's parents were David Edward Peckinpah and Fern Louise Church, and he is a cousin of former New York Yankees shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh.
At that time, it was a rural area undergoing extreme change, and this exposure is believed to have affected Peckinpah's Western films later in life.
The Deadly Companions passed largely without notice and is the least known of Peckinpah's films.
By some critics, the film is admired as one of Peckinpah's greatest works.
A rare film which can only be viewed at the Library of Congress and the Museum of Broadcasting, Noon Wine is today considered one of Peckinpah's most intimate works, revealing his dramatic potential and artistic depth.
Largely ignored upon its initial release, The Ballad of Cable Hogue has been rediscovered in recent years and is often held up by critics as exemplary of the breadth of Peckinpah's talents.
To this day, the scene is attacked by critics as an ugly male-chauvinist fantasy, claiming it serves as an example of Peckinpah's ( and Hollywood's ) debasing of women.
Though strictly a commercial product, Peckinpah's creative touches abound throughout, most notably during the intricately-edited opening sequence when McQueen's character is suffering from the pressures of prison life.
Today, the film is considered one of Peckinpah's weakest films, and an example of his decline as a major director.
The film performed poorly in the U. S., eclipsed ultimately by the space adventure Star Wars, though today it is highly regarded and considered the last gasp of Peckinpah's once-great talent.
Peckinpah's world is a man's world, and feminists have castigated his films as misogynistic and sexist, especially concerning the shooting of a woman during the final moments of The Wild Bunch, the rape sequence in Straw Dogs and Doc McCoy's physical assault of his wife in The Getaway.
This theme is most evident in Peckinpah's Westerns.
* In the 1986 horror film Chopping Mall, a store in the mall that survivors use to supply themselves with assault rifles, ammunition and grenades is named Peckinpah's Sporting Goods, a wry reference to the director's film violence.
His middle name is in honor of Garret Peckinpah, her friend Sandy Peckinpah's son, who had died suddenly of meningitis at age 16.
The film is believed to have been influenced by Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, and it shares some plot elements with Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, a western also starring Coburn and released a year later.
The first film resembles Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs ( 1971 ), in that it's about a farmer whose family is taken hostage by five UPA guerrillas, and he has to resort to his own ingenuity, plus reserves of violence that he never knew he possessed, to defeat them.
Sometimes " peckerwood " is used in combination with redneck as " redneck peckerwood ", for example in Sam Peckinpah's classic Western Ride the High Country.
All of the cuts were edited out of the released version at the last minute ; it is highly unlikely that Peckinpah's director's cut will ever be fully restored.
This film is a remake of Sam Peckinpah's The Getaway.

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