(gunfire) (john sturges) and in that case, i was dead wrong.ting to audiences, possibly because reality violated rules of the legend. billy the kid is probably the most abused of them all. he wasn't really any kind of a character, but it was a name. it conjured up an image. had to be exciting. most outlaws, especially in the west, were psychotic and pathological and very bad guys. but the myth of the outlaw, is really the myth of freedom we're talking about. and in the sense of the west, outlaws represented that myth. (narrator) in 1973, rudy wurlitzer and sam peckinpah, using the myth of freedom to justify a reversal of roles, created a world where only outlaws could be heroes. sheriff pat garrett sold out to the santa fe ring. how does it feel? it feels like times have changed. times maybe, not me. sam is an attacker of the establishment. sam and i were going to do a television series on "the magnificent seven." kind of sorry we didn't. and it did come to pass, but when sam and i met about it he said, "this is a great opportunity to rip up th