When those two biker guys showed up at their campsite, and the one pulled her off to the bushes, why did she all of a sudden have the hots for this would be rapist? They never really explained that part in the movie.
shareAs she approaches him she says "Please, do not." She doesn't have the hots for him. Based on what we know about the character, she's presumably been through all sorts of abusive treatment. She was placating him in order to avoid any further violence.
shareShe's a prostitute, so having sex with men she isn't attracted to is a part of her life. The only difference is that instead of doing it for money, she's doing it to avoid being brutalized or maybe killed, along with the guy she now ostensibly loves.
Though there also must have been some weird stuff going on with Peckinpah in regards to women and sex, given that the weird gray area rape thing is also in Straw Dogs. I've only seen those two and Wild Bunch, so can't really say whether there's any more evidence of some weird hang-up on his part.
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Live and learn. At least we lived.
She wanted to make out of it alive and intact so she "submitted" herself to the rape.
"Sorry. If I've not responded to you either it wasn't necessary or I've set you to Ignore."
From British Film Institute site: http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/features/behind-scenes-peckinpah-s-bring-me-head-alfredo-garcia
Very intresting read overall and about that scene:
Playing against all of our preconceived notions, Peckinpah has turned a predictable rape scene as originally written in the screenplay completely upside-down. Instead of a helpless woman being violated who must be rescued by the man who loves her, it is the woman who rescues herself. Bennie’s subsequent actions – killing the bikers – have nothing to do with saving her, but everything to do with salving his own male ego. By portraying it this way, Peckinpah exposes rape as a crime of violence, not sexual gratification. From the moment rape seems inevitable, it is Elita who is in charge. For her, sex is not love. It is simply an act to be endured as a means of protecting the man she loves.share