#Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid

[vertigoartgore]

Actors James Coburn and Kris Kristofferson during the filming of one of the last scenes of the 1973 movie Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (the death of Billy the Kid, killed by his longtime friend Pat Garrett).

Rest in Peace Kris Kristofferson (1936-2024).

[onemorecupofcoffee]

[yeahiwasintheshit]

video may contain minor spoilers for a movie prob older than some of your parents lol

anyway i rewatched pat garrett and billy the kid again, just to watch the """"directors"""" cut of the movie, named the preview cut. there was apparently alot of fighting between the director, sam peckinpah, and the studio, and the studio eventually split with him and didnt let him cut his own movie. the cut that was originally released theatrically was not his original cut. but peckinpah eventually had his own personal cut of the movie in his private collection, and now 50 years later, all the different cuts were just released. i watched the theatrical and his cut, and tbh i liked both, but actually liked the studio cut a just a little better. which to me is kinda blasphemous normally. but in the video above you clearly hear dylans knockin on heavens door in the death scene, which i think adds more to the scene, but in the "directors cut" you can barely hear the song and its more instrumental. having seen both, the video above is waaaayyyyy more effective. also the directors cut has this weird intro that kinda doesnt fit the flow of the movie. idk. and the end text that scrolls up is just kinda weird and dumb. but peckinpahs cut has a bunch of extra scenes that i think should have been in the theatrical cut.

anyway, part of the reason i posted this clip is because i never knew that one of dylans biggest hits, knockin on heavens door, was written for this movie! had no idea! and not only that but in the lyrics when he sings:

Mama take this badge from me I can't use it anymore It's getting dark too dark to see Feels like I'm knockin' on Heaven's door

hes actually talking about this scene above, the man dying, is slim pickens (who was the guy riding the nuke in dr strangelove) and the woman in the scene... her name is 'mama'. like that kinda blew my mind. lol how amazing to have been that actress, Katy Jurado, and know that bob dylans insanely huge hit, was being sung to you(r character). lol

also, while watching this scene for the first time, i IMMEDIATELY thought of mikes death scene in breaking bad. like there is no way that gilligan isnt referencing pat garrett and billy the kid while mike dies, staring out from the banks of the water. i dont know if its true and cant seem to find gilligan directly saying it, but cmon, it seems so clear now lol

[pepperbag76]

“ James Coburn and director Sam Peckinpah on the set of the film "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" (1973) “

Source: @GroovyHistory

[mad-prophet-of-the-airwaves]

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973, Sam Peckinpah, USA)

[ultra-francesca-mercury]

december 18, 1972

Shooting begins for Bob Dylan's part in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.

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On April 7, 2013, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid was screened Festival Frontieres.

[byneddiedingo]

James Coburn and Kris Kristofferson in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Sam Peckinpah, 1973) Cast: James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan, Richard Jaeckel, Slim Pickens, Katy Jurado, Chill Wills, Barry Sullivan, Jason Robards, R.G. Armstrong, Luke Askew, John Beck, Jack Elam, Rita Coolidge, Charles Martin Smith, Harry Dean Stanton. Screenplay: Rudy Wurlitzer. Cinematography: John Coquillon. Music: Bob Dylan. With its laid-back pace punctuated by moments of violence, not to mention its soundtrack by Bob Dylan, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid may be the ultimate stoner Western*. After being mutilated by MGM -- the credits list six film editors -- it was savaged by critics on its first release, but the release on video of Sam Peckinpah's original preview version in 1988 caused a reevaluation of the film, with some now calling it a masterpiece. I wouldn't go that far: To my mind the narrative is still too elliptical and the inspiration -- rewriting a myth -- too commonplace. But it has moments of brilliance that transcend its flaws, such as the beautiful sequence of the death of Sheriff Baker (Slim Pickens), with its fine use of the iconic performers Pickens and Katy Jurado and the underscoring with Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door." James Coburn, always an underrated actor in his prime, is wonderful as Pat Garrett, and while Kris Kristofferson was never much of an actor, he and Coburn play well against each other. Dylan was no actor, either, but he's used well here as the enigmatic figure who lets himself be known as "Alias," and the scene in which Garrett forces him to read the labels of canned goods while he toys with other members of Billy's gang is nicely done. The gallery of character actors both old (Chill Wills, Jack Elam) and new (Charles Martin Smith, Harry Dean Stanton) is welcome. Its post-censorship era's exploitation of women -- there are an awful lot of bared breasts, though we also get a fleeting butt-shot of Kristofferson -- is overdone, and it certainly wouldn't earn any seal of approval from the American Humane Society after the scene in which live chickens are used for target practice.

*The huge success of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, 1969) spawned a lot of movies that took an irreverent look at the legend of the American Old West and were aimed at the younger countercultural audience. Most of them were seen as commentaries on American violence and the quagmire of the Vietnam War. They include such diverse films as Little Big Man (Arthur Penn, 1970), McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971), The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (Philip Kaufman, 1972), The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (John Huston, 1972), and Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks, 1974).

[cinemajunkie70]

The happiest of birthdays in the afterlife to my other father, Sam Peckinpah! He and his movies mean everything to me!

[bobdylan-n-jonimitchell]

Bob Dylan in Sam Peckinpah’s “Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid” 1973.

[cyber-corp]

Disgruntled 12-year old at a restaurant watching the waiter bring out his birthday cake

[likesummerrainn]

"Seems they've appointed a new sheriff, name's Pat Garrett. That mean anything to you?" "It sure does"

[sigurism]

@hoppkorv, thank you.

Bob Dylan as Alias Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid Dir: Sam Peckinpah

[jillianjansom]

Need a milf???😛

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tom blyth fishing with daniel webber and alex roe.

[tweeterwilbury]

My best friend said i should post this here