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William Hugh Tunstall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> Don't forget Sam Peckinpah's movie, "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo
>
> Garcia" starring Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Kris Kristofferson,
> Gig Young.
>
> The daughter of a Mexican drug baron offers a reward for the head
> of a man who has seduced his daughter. A down and out American
> piano player (Oates) attempts to retrieve the head while fending off a
> group of American hired thugs (led by Gig Young) who want to claim the
> reward for themselves. Oates's girlfriend (Vega) gets raped by a biker
> (Kristofferson) while chasing across northern Mexico in pursuit of the
> head. Some of the best scenes in the picture show Oates sitting in his
> car, talking to the severed head about the injustice of the social order.
> (a strange allusion to Hamlet? Baphomet? Alas, poor Alfredo...)
>
> Definitely a grisly macho movie.
> Sam Peckinpah was a Mason. Another coincidence?
>
> "them bones, them bones...." :)
>
> On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Das GOAT wrote:
>
> > -Caveat Lector-
> >
> > In a message dated 99-07-30 19:30:07 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >
> > > There's more to the cult of heads than you
> > >suggest, William. For example, the Britons (the Celtic inhabitants of
Britain
> > >who eventually retreated to Wales, Cornwall, and Brittany) buried the
heads
> > >of heroes at strategic spots like crossroads to protect their cities.
The
> > heads
> > >were also believed to have oracular powers, a trait which was common to
the
> > >heroes of virtually all Indo-European-speaking peoples and many of their
> > >neighbors.
> >
> > As the Spanish Templars would say, "Bring me the head of San Juan
Bautista!"
> >
I guess what we're really talking about is How to Get A Head in the Year
2000... :^)
Bob
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