Re: Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
What Eastwood & Leone did for "Joe, Manco & Blondie" in the "Dollars trilogy"... an unshaven face, a squint, a cigar, and a poncho. Peckinpah & Oates do for a hard drinking "Bennie", a bell-bottomed leisure suited mustachioed, small time club owner wearing a ridiculously large pair of shades, that manage too look very cool. Think of a cross of between a lounge lizard and a used car salesman. A Tom Waits who's also surprisingly, very good with a pistol, on a bargain basement quest for a bit of immortality. Benny can be elevated to the Pantheon of Anti-Heroes.
Peckinpah's twisted take on Rick's Place in "Casablanca" is Bennie's Tlaquepaque a tourist bar in Mexico. For some reason it rings truer that probably the majority any expats living in exotic places are going to running dive bars like this and not any opulent huge soundstage sized nightclub.
Warren Oates (Bennie) sings Guantanamera
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