mr. bonnet, you gave me a start. i suppose you know your name is prominent in the paper.rticles. here, i think this one might interest you. (narrator) the film portrays another side of william bonnet, better known as billy the kid. your death notice. let me see, william bonnet, outlaw, you're dead. well now, how you like that? "billy bonnet burned to death, with no surviving relatives." (laughter) that's not necessary, mr. bonnet. (arthur penn) there's a major character who idealizes billy. i knew you weren't dead. then as that figure of billy deviates from his expectation he eventually ends up betraying him. the situation got to be one of the earliest forms of it, of the media dictating the events. you're not like the books. you don't wear silver stuff. you don't stand up to glory. you're not him. (crying) you're not him. (john sturges) the appeal i think has to be answered with the word legend. they were legends of the west who did these outlandish things which if presented straight out of nowhere, it would not be accepted. but because this theoretically happened in the