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a kennedy

(34,171 posts)
Sat May 24, 2025, 06:56 PM May 2025

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid......

89% Tomatoes, 92% popcornmeter. Really enjoyed this movie. Ah, not the Katherine Ross part of it tho. Not sure why I didn’t care for her. This movie was based on true events.

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PJMcK

(24,140 posts)
1. Great film with a terrific Burt Bacharach score!
Sat May 24, 2025, 07:05 PM
May 2025

Somewhere, I have the published screenplay that I bought when the film was released. On the frontispiece, the writer, William Goldman wrote, "Not that it matters but most of what follows is true." What an awesome statement!

I love the scene in South America when they decide to "go straight" and work for the payroll for a mine. Butch and Sundance are all nervous about where the bandits may be lying in wait until their boss reminds them that they haven't got the payroll money yet! Hilarious.

The chemistry between Redford and Newman is spectacular and when they worked together on "The Sting" I hoped they would make another film together. It was only a few years after the first film. Unfortunately, it's another of my many hopes that have been dashed!

Enjoy your holiday weekend, a kennedy!

a kennedy

(34,171 posts)
2. I know about their chemistry......was the best. Real in real life I'm sure.
Sat May 24, 2025, 07:34 PM
May 2025

and thanks for the hoping I have a great holiday weekend. You do as well.

Xavier Breath

(6,033 posts)
3. C'mon, the scene where she undresses at Sundance's insistence, and let's her hair down?
Sat May 24, 2025, 07:43 PM
May 2025

It made quite the impression on me, anyway

Sex aside, one of the all-time greats. Saw it on the big screen about 15 years ago as part of an old movie series at a grand old theater in downtown Dayton. They stopped the shows when covid appeared and never went back to doing it

Tadams01KC

(42 posts)
4. Favorite scene
Sat May 24, 2025, 07:56 PM
May 2025

Sundance: I don’t know how to swim.
Butch: (laughing) Hell, the fall will probably kill ya!

GreatGazoo

(4,173 posts)
5. A classic film, classic pair
Sat May 24, 2025, 09:32 PM
May 2025

Of all the films that tried to reinvent and reinvigorate the Western, this one is the most charming.

The elevated train and facades used as Boliva in the film's montage of stills (originally built for 'Hello Dolly') were still there 16 years later when I worked at 20th Century Fox.

https://www.slashfilm.com/1046163/how-hello-dolly-solved-a-script-problem-for-butch-cassidy-and-the-sundance-kid/

A uniquely satisfying film.

Dem2theMax

(10,901 posts)
7. I'm so old, I saw that in the theater when it originally came out.
Sat May 24, 2025, 10:58 PM
May 2025

I liked it so much, I went back three more times and saw it again and again and again.
Tickets were probably $3.00, if that.

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