Editing The Wild Bunch (section)

===Writing===
By the fall of 1967, Peckinpah was rewriting the screenplay and preparing for production. The principal photography was shot entirely on location in Mexico, most notably at the Hacienda Ciénega del Carmen (deep in the desert between [[Torreón]] and [[Saltillo]], [[Coahuila]]) and on the [[Nazas River]].<ref>{{cite book |first=David |last=Weddle|author-link= David Weddle| title=If They Move...Kill 'Em!| publisher=Grove Press |year = 1994|page=323 | isbn= 0-8021-3776-8 }}</ref> Peckinpah's epic work was inspired by his hunger to return to films, the violence seen in [[Arthur Penn]]'s ''[[Bonnie and Clyde (film)|Bonnie and Clyde]]'' (1967), America's growing frustration with the [[Vietnam War]], and what he perceived to be the utter lack of reality seen in Westerns up to that time.<ref name="Weddle 1994 310–331">{{cite book |first=David |last=Weddle|author-link= David Weddle| title=If They Move...Kill 'Em!| publisher=Grove Press |year = 1994|pages=310–331 | isbn= 0-8021-3776-8 }}</ref><ref name="Hoberman">{{cite news|last=Hoberman|first=J.|title=The Charge of the Peckinpah Brigade|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/movies/03hobe.html|access-date=May 21, 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 3, 2005|quote=To see the extended "Major Dundee" is to see the smoking ruin from which Peckinpah's masterpiece arose.}}</ref>

He set out to make a film which portrayed not only the vicious violence of the period, but also the crude men attempting to survive the era. Multiple scenes attempted in ''Major Dundee'', including slow motion action sequences (inspired by [[Akira Kurosawa]]'s work in ''[[Seven Samurai]]'' (1954), characters leaving a village as if in a funeral procession, and the use of inexperienced locals as extras, would become fully realized in ''The Wild Bunch''.<ref name="Weddle 1994 310–331"/><ref name="Hoberman"/>