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The Wild Bunch

I have a confession to make. I love Sam Peckinpah's films. I shouldn't of course, he glorified violence to the nth degree, he was deeply misogynistic in ways that should make my blood boil, and he a plethora of personality issues that were amplified by drug use which made him paranoid and suspicious at the best of times and downright megalomaniac at his worst. So why am I bringing up this particularity dark pleasure now? Well it came to my attention on a recent Truepenny Show recording session that Tetsuya Naito is in fact reliving Sam Peckinpah's films via a live action role play of the California director's finer moments. It was Marcus Green that clued me in, "Those suits man. . . ", said Marcus as he described Naito's big show finery. Where had I seen that suit before? It was the character Bennie from Peckinpah's lost love child "Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia.". The white linen broad collared affair was perfect for Naito, as ...