Thread by @ClaraJeffery

Why was Steve McQueen so suited to the “let’s get a bunch of guys together and take on a crazy suicidal quest” movie?

So... do you just leave your knife in the chest of the man you just beat to a draw? Seems like that’s expensive for men willing to be hired to kill for $20 a job

The kid really chews the scenery

Yule Brenner ->> Vin Diesel, discuss

I legit don’t remember, is James Garner going to show up in this one too because, goddamn he is good in his range

As someone who came of age when all those terrible Charles Bronson movies rolled out, surprise to remember he was hot and didn’t come off as a miserable actor and person in every role.

(Does he end up being miserable person in this movie, I don’t recall)

Cue Diane telling Sam that The Magnifent Seven was an inferior remake of Seven Samurai...

Wow that dates me

Yeah

The fact that I can’t tell if they’re trying to telegraph that the fastidious guy is gay or a psychopath is this era of Hollywood in a nutshell

Is this a real place? Want to go of so

Lotta sorta strip teases in this movie

That kid playing Chico is hot, and chews scenery like...so much... and his name is Horst Werner Buchholz “During his youth he was sometimes called "the German James Dean." 👌⚰️

Lol he does play this super pouty a la James Dean in his most sell-by roles

Steve McQueen manages to show this medallion in almost every role he plays no matter the historical accuracy of such accoutrements—does anybody know its significance? @Nicole_Cliffe is my best bet maybe

Everybody keep unsnapping something on their gun holster and I have design questions

“We deal in lead, friend”

Good line

“If God didn’t want them sheared he wouldn’t have made them sheep.”

What the term—if there is a term—for when they clearly shoot in broad daylight and tint things to look as if it is night?

There’s a total fleeting non sequitur of a Joshua Tree in this movie placed 1,000 miles away on Texas/Mexico border