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his is a still from the
opening credit sequence of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. It
suggests something of Billy's expansiveness in placing him in the foreground
of one of the many landscapes we see in the film. Some of the dialogue
in the opening sequence unites Billy to these open spaces as well, and
introduces Garrett as a symbol for what destroys them both.
Example of this dialogue
Take a close look at the opening
of this film. What are some of the ways you see these themes expressed?
Why do you think Peckinpah chose to frame
the film with Garrett's death, and how does he work that footage in
(at the beginning and at the end) with the rest of the action?
Compare Peckinpah's version of Billy's
death with Arthur Penn's
in The Left-Handed Gun
The Bob Dylan Soundtrack
Study compositional techniques in
the film
Why does Billy smile so much? He smiles:
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