{"id":13745,"date":"2020-09-11T20:00:29","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T00:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13745"},"modified":"2020-09-09T23:03:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T03:03:48","slug":"bring-me-the-head-of-alfredo-garcia-1974-sam-peckinpah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13745","title":{"rendered":"Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974, Sam Peckinpah)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Locarno 2015 included a Peckinpah retrospective, so I&#8217;m closing out LNKarno by catching up with one of his most acclaimed films.  Warren Oates plays a southern-border scumbag offered $10k to find A.G. by the middlemen who&#8217;ve heard that the dad of the girl Garcia knocked up is paying a million.  Oates takes his ex who knows the late A.G.&#8217;s whereabouts (Isela Vega of Sam Fuller&#8217;s <em>Deadly Trackers<\/em> and a hundred Mexican films) on a road trip, and it turns out everyone along the way is a bigger scumbag than he is.<\/p>\n<p><em>good times:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image20\/alfredo1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>bad times:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image20\/alfredo2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>They start by fighting off would-be-rapist Kris Kristofferson, then when they locate A.G.&#8217;s grave, the guys tailing them kill the girl and take the head.  Oates liked that girl quite a lot (so did I), goes on to kill those guys, the next couple of murderous guys, the guys who hired him, and finally the boss man himself.  It&#8217;s a Western with fast cars and big sunglasses, and I am into it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image20\/alfredo3.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Locarno 2015 included a Peckinpah retrospective, so I&#8217;m closing out LNKarno by catching up with one of his most acclaimed films. Warren Oates plays a southern-border scumbag offered $10k to find A.G. by the middlemen who&#8217;ve heard that the dad of the girl Garcia knocked up is paying a million. Oates takes his ex who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[400,2448,1998,807],"class_list":["post-13745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-decapitation","tag-sam-peckinpah","tag-warren-oates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13764,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13745\/revisions\/13764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}