Editing in Leone's The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) and Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969)

In the first part of this paper I establish the centrality of editing to cinema as an art form, with specific reference to Rudolph Arnheim, Andre Bazin, Jean-Luc Godard, and Gilles Deleuze. I then examine the approaches to montage editing taken by Sergio Leone and Sam Peckinpah, in The Good, The Bad...

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Main Author: Keith Hennessey Brown
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2014-01-01
Series:Forum
Online Access:http://www.forumjournal.org/article/view/689
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spelling doaj-2aa8ca8056fc4aa3ab3bf9f7c100c9a42020-11-25T03:32:45ZengUniversity of EdinburghForum1749-97712014-01-01689Editing in Leone's The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) and Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969)Keith Hennessey Brown0The University of EdinburghIn the first part of this paper I establish the centrality of editing to cinema as an art form, with specific reference to Rudolph Arnheim, Andre Bazin, Jean-Luc Godard, and Gilles Deleuze. I then examine the approaches to montage editing taken by Sergio Leone and Sam Peckinpah, in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) and The Wild Bunch (1969). While both filmmakers use highly visible editing techniques there are also significant differences, particularly regarding the build-up to an action sequence and the sequence itself, their preferred shots and combinations of shots, and their use of music.http://www.forumjournal.org/article/view/689
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title Editing in Leone's The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) and Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969)
title_short Editing in Leone's The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) and Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969)
title_full Editing in Leone's The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) and Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969)
title_fullStr Editing in Leone's The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) and Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969)
title_full_unstemmed Editing in Leone's The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) and Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969)
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description In the first part of this paper I establish the centrality of editing to cinema as an art form, with specific reference to Rudolph Arnheim, Andre Bazin, Jean-Luc Godard, and Gilles Deleuze. I then examine the approaches to montage editing taken by Sergio Leone and Sam Peckinpah, in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) and The Wild Bunch (1969). While both filmmakers use highly visible editing techniques there are also significant differences, particularly regarding the build-up to an action sequence and the sequence itself, their preferred shots and combinations of shots, and their use of music.
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