Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Difference between revisions

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.

 

* [[Badass]]: Sundance, while Butch is the brains.

* [[Badass Mustache]]: Sundance sports one.

* [[Hidden in Plain Sight]]: Butch and Sundance sit on the balcony of a whore house literally across the street from an unobservant Marshal trying plaintively to rally a posse to catch them.

* [[I Am Not Leonard Nimoy]]: To some extent, Robert Redford has been cultivating this. He named his ski resort and his annual film festival "Sundance" after his role here.

* [[Implacable Man|Implacable Posse]]: [[Running Gag|"Who are those guys?"]]

* [[Impressive Pyrotechnics]]: "You think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?"

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[Put On 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 reprised 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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[The Trope Kid]]

* [[Twilight of the Old West]]: Takes place between 1898 and 1908.

** The "hole-in-the-wall gang" was more commonly known as the "Wild Bunch". "Hole-in-the-wall" was the name of one of their hideouts.

** The Sundance Kid didn't grow up in Atlantic City.