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A'''''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid''''' is a 1969 [[Western]] written by [[William Goldman]], starring [[Paul Newman]] (as Butch) and [[Robert Redford]] (as Sundance.)
 
Loosely based on the [[Real Life]] story of two outlaws who fled to Bolivia in an attempt to outrun their pursuers. Full of snarking, daring escapes, and a real tearjerking ending. The movie follows the Hole In The Wall gang, led by Butch Cassidy, making their living robbing banks and trains. When they are ambushed, and most of the gang scattered or killed, Butch and Sundance, along with Sundance's girlfriend Etta, make their way to Bolivia where 'banks are easy.' Although in the end, things don't turn out quite as they planned.
 
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Not to be confused with the completely unrelated cartoon ''[[Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids]]''.
 
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* [[Bolivian Army Ending]]: The [[Trope Namer]].▼
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* [[Badass]]: Sundance, while Butch is the brains.
* [[Badass Mustache]]: Sundance sports one.
* [[Bandito]]
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: Some scenes in Bolivia are funnier if you speak Spanish.▼
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Butch is an incredibly pleasant guy. Doesn't mean he won't take certain measures if you get in the way of his robbery.
* [[Big Bulky Bomb]]: In an attempt to blow open a safe on a railroad car, they wind up blowing up the whole car.
▲* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: Some scenes in Bolivia are funnier if you speak Spanish.
▲* [[Bolivian Army Ending]]: The [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Woodcock.
* [[Carnival of Killers]]: The Super Posse.
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* [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check]]: Butch wonders why E.H. Harriman doesn't just pay him off with the money he's spending to track them.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Sundance.
* [[Deliberately Monochrome]],: inIn some scenes.
* [[Didn't Want an Adventure]] / [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]
{{quote| '''Butch:''' Kid, the next time I say, "Let's go someplace like Bolivia," let's GO someplace like Bolivia.}}
* [[Funny Background Event]]: Butch and Sundance relax on the balcony of a whorehouse, unbeknownst to the Marshal ''across the street'' who is failing to form a posse to get them.
* [[Gallows Humour]]: Numerous examples, considering that they're both bank robbers wanted dead or alive (preferably dead).
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* [[Impressive Pyrotechnics]]: "You think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?"
* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: The Kid tries to shoot a coin to impress the mine owner, but can't do it standing still. He has to quick draw and shoot in rapid succession, and only then does he blast the coin all over the place.
* [[Intermission]]: The film includes a five-minute [[Good Times Montage]] of still photos which served very little expository purpose. It is not an official intermission, but it is a great time to go to the bathroom. It was originally planned to be a live action sequence of Butch, Sundance and Etta in New York, on their way to Bolivia, using the New York sets built for ''[[Hello, Dolly!]]'', but production delays for ''Hello Dolly'' meant that ''Butch Cassidy'' would be released first, and the ''Hello Dolly'' producers didn't want people thinking that they had reused sets built for ''Butch Cassidy''.
* [[Jump Off a Bridge]]: Or in this case, a cliff.
* [[Latin Land]]: Bolivia? More like [[South of the Border|Mexico]] [[Everything's Better Withwith Llamas|with llamas]].
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Newman and Redford were 1969's equivalent of today's [[George Clooney]] and [[Brad Pitt]].
* [["Not Making This Up" Disclaimer]]: "Most of what follows is true."
* [[Outlaw]]: Butch, Sundance and the rest of the Hole-in-the-Wall gang.
* [[Prequel]]: ''Butch and Sundance: The Early Days'' (1979), starring William Katt as Butch and Tom Berenger as Sundance and depicting how the outlaws met. It was written by the same screenwriter of the original, William Goldman. He later admitted he only did the prequel [[Money, Dear Boy|for the money]].
* [[Put Onon a Bus]]: Etta, who was a rather important character in the movie, who had been following them throughout the whole story, suddenly says she wants to go home. This is prefaced when she states as a condition for her participation that she won't watch them die. She is never seen or mentioned again. The real-life woman vanished from history, though Katherine Ross later reprisedreprized the role in the 1976 TV movie ''Wanted: The Sundance Woman'', in which she gets involved with Pancho Villa and the Mexican Revolution.
* [[Retired Outlaw]]: Well, temporarily.
* [[Rousing Speech]]: Subverted. The Marshal tries to deliver one to round up a posse, resulting in only one person joining him on stage -- who promptly launches into a sales pitch for bicycles.
* [[Scarily Competent Tracker]]: Lord Baltimore.
* [[Shout-Out]]: The kid noticing the brand on the burro references ''[[The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Film)|The Treasure of the Sierra Madre]]''.▼
* [[Show Within a Show]]: The silent film version of the Hole in the Wall's exploits during the opening credits.
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: A western scored by Burt Bacharach. ▼
▲* [[Shout-Out]]: The kid noticing the brand on the burro references ''[[The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Film)|The Treasure of the Sierra Madre]]''.
▲* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: A western scored by Burt Bacharach.
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: ''[[The Sting]]'' reunited director George Roy Hill with Newman and Redford for another seriocomic period piece about a couple of guys operating outside the law.
* [[Star-Making Role]]: For Robert Redford.
* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: After Butch blows up an entire train car along with all their loot, Sundance deadpans, "Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?"
* [[Ten -Minute Retirement]]: Butch and Sundance have a short-lived job as bodyguards for a mine worker.
* [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]]: A cruel subversion as we discover that Butch Cassidy had never killed anyone. That is, until he went straight and served as a bodyguard. This is actually true, as Butch Cassidy was a lapsed Mormon and had strong feelings against killing. He figured God would probably forgive him for everything else as long as he avoided killing.
* [[Train Job]]
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** The Sundance Kid didn't grow up in Atlantic City.
** Although the Sundance Kid had a ''reputation'' as an excellent gunfighter, he is not known to have actually killed anyone prior to his final stand in Bolivia (though he is known to have wounded a few). The real killer of the gang was a man called Kid Curry. It's possible that people mixed them up, since they both had "Kid" in their names.
** {{spoiler|The deaths of Butch and the Kid are historically foggy. There was a shootout involving the Bolivian army vs. two foreign bandits, but the bandits shot themselves and were buried in unmarked graves before they could be positively identified. (There is some inconclusive evidence that Butch remained alive several years beyond that incident, living a quiet life. But there is no particular evidence for the Kid remaining alive.}}
* [[Worrying for Thethe Wrong Reason]]: In the film's most famousefamous scene, the characters are debating whether or not to escape their pursuers by jumping from a high cliff into a river. Butch insists that they should, but Sundance is dead set against it. Eventually he reveals the reason for his reluctance: he can't swim. At which point Butch starts laughing at him and cries:▼
* [[What Could Have Been]]: Newman was originally cast to play Sundance, with [[Steve McQueen]], Jack Lemmon, [[Warren Beatty]], and [[Marlon Brando]] each considered for the role of Butch.
{{quote| [[Hypocritical Humour|Are you crazy?! The]] ''[[Hypocritical Humour|fall]]'' [[Hypocritical Humour|will probably kill you!]]}}▼
▲* [[Worrying for The Wrong Reason]]: In the film's most famouse scene, the characters are debating whether or not to escape their pursuers by jumping from a high cliff into a river. Butch insists that they should, but Sundance is dead set against it. Eventually he reveals the reason for his reluctance: he can't swim. At which point Butch starts laughing at him and cries:
* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: {{spoiler|E.H. Harriman baits the Hole in the Wall gang with another train, then sends the Posse after them.}}▼
▲{{quote| [[Hypocritical Humour|Are you crazy?! The]] ''[[Hypocritical Humour|fall]]'' [[Hypocritical Humour|will probably kill you!]]}}
▲* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: {{spoiler|E.H. Harriman baits the Hole in the Wall gang with another train, then sends the Posse after them.}}
 
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