Contrast Angel's story in The Wild Bunch with Chico's in The Magnificent Seven. Similar characters but their fates are very, very different and are as good an example as any in delineating between the Hollywood and the Revisionist Western. Just in the casting of these two characters Chico is played by Horst Buchholz, a German, while Angel is played by Jaime Sánchez, a Puerto Rican. Both characters act impetuously but Angel's is a tragic tale and can be seen as a metaphor for what revolutions or any conflicts do to young, idealistic men while Chico's journey is a straight fantasy where he gets the girl and finds a home.
That is the kind of demythologizing Peckinpah was doing that critics and those of us who love it respond to so strongly and that the John Waynes of the world find troubling.
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