History Film / TheWildBunch

* HeyItsThatGuy: Emilio Fernandez, Strother Martin, and Dub Taylor appear in supporting roles.

* KillEmAll: Only two named characters survive through the film - [[spoiler:Deke Thornton and Freddie Sykes.]]

* NewOldWest

* CoolOldGuy: Freddie Sykes.
** The Wild Bunch themselves aren't as old as Sykes, but you might count them also, dependent on how the age limit goes for this trope.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: Pike and Dutch. The bounty hunters Coffer and T.C. show signs of being this as well.

* {{Gorn}}: '''Sweet shit.''' This was one of the most violent films at the time it was made, and it's still shockingly violent today. There is frequent bloodshed in the film, and the violence itself is quite realistic. Sam Peckinpah once actually said that, when he made this movie, he wanted to show audiences "what it actually looks like when somebody gets shot".

* DownerEnding: Admit it, you don't want to see any of the main characters dying.

Pike Bishop (WilliamHolden) is the leader of a gang of aging outlaws in the twilight of the Wild West. At the beginning of the film, they rob a bank (the page quote is uttered here) and escape to Mexico, from there on, things get violent.

* KillEmAll: Only two named characters survive through the film.

* CigarFuseLighting: Pike uses his cigar to light the fuse on a stick of dynamite when threatening the general.

Pike Bishop (WilliamHolden) is the leader of a gang of aging outlaws in the twilight of the Wild West. At the beginning of the film, they rob a bank (the page quote is uttered here) and escape to Mexico, but their loot turns out to be worthless. After that, they meet a Mexican warlord, Mapache, who hires them for $10,000 in gold to steal an arms shipment from a U.S. Army train. The gang successfully robs the train, but one of the members, Angel (who is Mexican) sends some of the guns to his own village because he wants his people to have a chance against Mapache. Mapache finds out about the betrayal, so he tortures and kills Angel. The rest of the gang takes revenge, and massacres nearly the entire Mexican garrison, before they are gunned down themselves.

* WouldHitAGirl: Angel guns down a cheating girlfriend on their first meeting with Mapache, and during the final battle, Pike is shot in the back by a Mexican prostitute. He shouts "Bitch!" and shoots her in the chest.

* DryCrusader: the ill-fated temperance rally at the film's beginning.

* AntiHero: None of the Bunch are what you would call heroes, but we root for them because [[CompleteMonster Mapache]] is worse in every conceivable fashion.

* AntiHero: None of the Bunch are what you would call heroes, but we root for them because Mapache is worse in every conceivable fashion.

* MoreDakka: Set in 1913 the characters have access to more than the 6 shooters and lever action Winchesters seen in most westerns. After robbing a Federal armory the Wild Bunch is equipped with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1911 Colt M1911 handguns]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1903_Springfield_rifle M1903 Springfield rifles]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Model_1897#Military_use Winchester Model 1897 shotguns]]. At the end of the film an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1917_Browning_machine_gun M1917 machine gun]] makes an extended appearance, and is the largest contributor to the shootout's massive bodycount.

* MoreDakka: Set in 1913 the characters have access to more than the 6 shooters and lever action Winchesters seen in most westerns. After robbing a Federal armory the Wild Bunch is equipped with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1911 .45 automatics]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1903_Springfield_rifle bolt action rifles]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Model_1897#Military_use pump shotguns]]. At the end of the film an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1917_Browning_machine_gun M1917 machine gun]] makes an extended appearance, and is the largest contributor to the shootout's massive bodycount.

!!''TheWildBunch'' contains examples of:

Shockingly violent, gorgeously photographed, brutally cynical, it is perhaps the ultimate deconstruction of TheWestern, and a true classic of 20th Century filmmaking.

''The Wild Bunch'' is a classic 1969 western directed by Sam Peckinpah. It was quite controversial because of its violence.

* TwilightOfTheOldWest

* TearJerker: After the final shootout is over, Thornton and his band of bounty hunters come across the wreckage. As his subordinates are gleefully looting the dead, Thornton stops in his tracks when he comes across [[spoiler: Pike's body. The camera zooms in on the six-shooter Pike has holstered which Thornton picks up. The look on his face while he's cradling it is just heartwrenching.]]

* CrowningMomentOfFunny:
-->''"You was matching whores, in tandem!"''
-->''"What's that mean?"''
-->''"That's one behind the other."''
-->''"Yup, that what we was doing!"''

* AntiHero: Type V

Pike Bishop (WilliamHolden) is the leader of a gang of aging outlaws in the twilight of the Wild West. At the beginning of the film, they rob a bank (the page quote is uttered here) and escape to Mexico, but their loot turns out to be worthless. After that, they meet a Mexican warlord, Mapache, who who hires them for $10,000 in gold to steal an arms shipment from a U.S. Army train. The gang successfully robs the train, but one of the members, Angel (who is Mexican) sends some of the guns to his own village. Mapache finds out about the betrayal, so he tortures and kills Angel. The rest of the gang takes revenge, and massacres nearly the entire Mexican garrison, before they are gunned down themselves.