Paul Newman is a one of a kind actor. He was really good in The Verdict. Other good ones,..The Hustler. It's sequel years later is The Color of Money directed by Martin Scorsese. He teams up again with Robert Redford in The Sting, which co-stars Robert Shaw. Not just a good movie, but a classic.
I think Sepia was used as an homage to early films. My favorite scene was actually cut from the final film. It can be seen in the "making" of documentary. In it...Butch, Sundance and Etta visit a small Bolivian cinema. The silent film from the credits is playing. Butch and Sundance are at first flattered, then shocked and confused as the audience "hiss" and "boo" when the cinema version of Butch & Sundance are on screen. I guess they finally clued in that they are the "bad guys". Great documentary....it may still be on UA-cam. Thank you for reviewing....very much enjoyed it!
Yes, the general time period in which the story of “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” takes place is the end of the 19th century and the dawn of the 20th. The Spanish-American War took place in 1898, by the way. The historical moment that the film explores is the end of the “Wild West” era of American history and the closing of the frontier, the transition that is taking place to a more recognizably modern world. And the question the film asks is what happens to these “Wild West” characters after the “Wild West” era ends and is replaced by a world in which they no longer really belong? A number of other movies made at about the same time also explore this historical period and ask the same question: Sam Peckinpah’s “The Wild Bunch” (1969) with William Holden and Ernest Borgnine; and John Wayne’s last film, “The Shootist” (Don Siegel, 1976) with Lauren Bacall.
Very under-reacted '60s classic, thanks! Not a parody, but a highly fictionalized version of the factually unknown demise of two actual famous outlaws. I like Newman and Redford even better in The Sting. And geezers like me can never forget Katherine Ross in The Graduate.
Hi Shanelle. As much as you appreciate well written dialog, I have no doubt you'd love Casablanca. It's pretty amazing. If you haven't seen it, you really should.
"The Hustler" (1961) - starring Paul Newman, Piper Laurie, George C. Scott, and Jackie Gleason - "Fast Eddie" Felson gets humbled - razor sharp screenplay and acting - in glorious widescreen black and white.
The events in this film take place in 1900. In 1901, Butch bought property in Argentina. There is speculation they actually survived the attack in Bolivia. People recall seeing Burch in 1910. Others say they died in Bolivia. On a side note, I had to opportunity to spend a day with Paul Newsman ad his w2ife, Joanne Woodward during qualifications at the Indianapolis 500. I had released a song about his racing partner< Mario Andretti and Paul invited me to spend qualifications outside their RV inside the track. Nice people, Every time Paul saw I was without a beer he would offer another.
I first saw this movie in 1969 at a local movie theater in Suffern, NY where it played most of the summer. The theater, the Lafayette Theater, was and still is a single screen movie palace with 924 seats and a Wurlitzer organ and will be 100 years old next year.
I loved this movie as a kid when it came out, and it's aged really well. You probably already know this, but Redford was a founder of the Sundance Film Festival, which is named after his character in this film. You're right; definitely not classic western. It was one of many late sixties / early 70's films that elevated anti-heroes and anti-establishment themes, which wasn't very common during the decade or two before that.
"The average shot is 2.5 seconds." In 1962, the Oscar for Cinematography went to The Longest Day for a two minute, continuous shot (the attack on Ouistreham) involving over 200 extras, explosions and gunfire.
They were the Leo and Brad of their day. Actually Redford kind of passed his role/scepter to Pitt for real. He was Brads old Star new upcoming Star counterpart in a film called Spygame and apparently had a genuine friendship that developed through that role.
I think Newman kind of tried the same passing of the baton to Tom Cruise with the remake of "The Hustler". For sometime I fancied a remake of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" with Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt.
Ah, you missed the best part of that line, "I can't swim!" "The fall will probably kill you!" is one of the all-time great lines. Goldman loved that line in particular, 'cause he loved writing the script, knowing a secret, 'cause he knew Sundance couldn't swim, an he just loved writing the script, just getting him to there. Also, did you notice who played the blonde hooker was in that scene with Butch? That's CLORIS LEACHMAN!!!!!! Go rewatch it and check.
So much of this soundtrack cuts me to the quick today. I feel wave after wave of bittersweet nostalgia _for_ these characters, because they can't feel it for themselves. That instrumental tune "Not Goin' Home Anymore" hits me hardest.
There was epic rain in Southern California during the 1968-69 rain season, with a lot of flood damage. So it makes sense that there would be that much water in a Malibu creek.
The great Conrad Hill shot this -- won that Oscar. Hill is a legend. Kind of the cinematographer's cinematographer. Have you seen the Tom Hanks gangster pic Road to Perdition? Some of Hill's best work -- simply stunning.
I watched this in the theatre in 1969. I was nine years old and we went as a group for a birthday party. We all thought is was great. I remains one of my favourite films. My Dad was two years younger than Paul Newman and bore a striking resemblance to him. Many people commented on it.
Remember watching the 1971 TV series "Alias Smith and Jones" which was a kind of spin off. With a similar pair of outlaws who had to "stay out of trouble" for a year to receive "amnesty", but nobody "except you, me and the governor" will know about it.
I walked into a bar in Orlando back in the 80s and BJ Thomas was literally 6ft away on stage singing raindrops, such a random moment but unforgettable, thanks Shanelle!
For another film with beautiful cinematography, you should check out 1983’s “High Road to China”. I think you would love it and it is an overlooked movie that I think many would enjoy.
BC & tSK is fun and crafty. I love the sepia tone because the movie does 2 things simultaneously - it's recreating a past fully aware that a modern audience is interpreting its recreation in the modernist late '60s hence the pop score being a commentator rather than.sonething more traditionally narrative and atmospheric and it starts in sepia tone, has a sepia tone intermission of snapshots, and ends in sepia tone once again making its audience aware of wanting to be involved in its present (the overall color of the movie) while looking into a past that is gone..
"Do you think you used enough dynamite there Butch" (such a great line! A scene echoed in The Italian Job With Michael Caine "your only supposed to blow the bloody doors off"
I was 13 when this great movie was released and my parents wouldn't let see it because it had too much swearing in it. The sad reality for Butch and the Kid was that they were born 20 years too late to survive as bandits in the west. Sam Elliot met Katherine Ross, the teacher, on set and they later married and have been together ever since. Redford, who was a serious skier married a Utah girl and invested in Sundance initially as a ski resort. It became a haven for film study and later a festival. Mad Magazine parodied this as "Butch Casually and the Somedunce Kid. It has a great frame of Harvey's eyes-crossed expression after Butch kicks him in the groin. It still makes me smile thinking about it.
This is my favorite movie of all time. Paul Newman and Robert Redford are great, but we should never forget the writer William Goldman, who also wrote The Princess Bride.
The Sundance Institute was founded by Redford and named for the Sundance Kid. Katherine Ross was in "The Graduate", her costar Anne Bancroft married Mel Brooks. (One of them got ripped off). I recommend "Fort Apache" for your next Western.
Who else remembers the series "The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr." where Brisco has a sometimes friend, sometimes competitor, sometimes enemy foil named "Lord Bowler" based on a character in this film?
Someone has probably said it already, but Newman, Redford and the director collaborated again a few years later on The Sting, which was a Best Picture winner.
Don't like to order people about, but in this case, you HAVE to watch The Sting, which was a direct result of the chemistry on the screen between Newman and Redford. And trust me, you will be stung by the plot twists. And somewhere down the line, I hope you watch and react to the recent movie, Red, White, & Royal Blue.
Thank you for the reaction! I think that the sepia at the start was a nod to the past, as it moved to the future with color. When they went to NYC, it zoomed into the street scene onto a "horseless carriage" - back to sepia, "old timers" visiting the future, then back to the past in Bolivia, which is where their end came.
Yeah when I was in my twenties, my best friend's girlfriend, I became really good friends with her. We would go to the movies together and out to eat and everything else. It was purely platonic. My best friend was the only one who actually realize that. It's one of the best friendships I've ever had. She would always try to set me up with her friends.
Shanelle, thank you for visiting the Western...in the 60s the Western Genre changed, from the cowboy rides away, to the anti hero. Sooo I'm suggesting a few of greatestest Westerns of the late 60s late 70s... THE SEARCHERS, THE WILD BUNCH, THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES, ....
The people chasing them were from the Pinkerton Detective Agency. They were well known for never giving up and always getting their man. Steve McQueen was originally cast as Sundance but quit over a dispute about top billing. Other well known actors were considered for the role before Paul Newman's wife, actress Joanne Woodward suggested a up-and-coming young actor named Robert Redford, but the studio said no. Newman was already an established name at the time and the studio wanted an equally well-known costar. Eventually, Newman, Woodward, and director George Roy Hill managed to convince the studio to give Redford a shot.
There is an old idea in filmmaking... "Never show your heros die". This is a perfect example of it, as is The Alamo. There's a very good reference to this movie in "Beverly Hills Cop" staring Eddie Murphy, if you want a great comedy to watch.
Westerns have certainly run the gamut from white hat good guys to slo-mo spattery shoot-outs. Butch and Sundance is one of my favorites. You may also want to check out Silverado for another ‘modern’ take on the genre. Loved your reaction, as always. Peace …
What made the Great Train Robbery innovative was not that it was the first to use any single innovation. It's that it used all of the innovation of the time, in one film.
They would have survived if there was an agreement for a sequel. BTW, Newman's charity for disabled kids (largely funded by Newman's Own brand) is named the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp.
We saw this at the Drive in when it came out. The Old man liked it so much. We went back the next week. To see it again. My Old man never did that before.... or since.
Butch Cassidy's gang was actually called The Wild Bunch but the filmmakers opted not to use that name lest the audience confuse this movie with the movie entitled THE WILD BUNCH, which came out a couple of years earlier.
Fingers crossed that your next reaction is "The Sting" (1973) Redford and Newman team up again. The movie won like seven Academy awards. Was voted a top 25 (?) screenplay ever written. (You love a good screenplay !) 💚💚
I love that you theorize about the camera movements, budget, stunts etc etc it really makes you unique to other youtubers and honestly your commentary is very insightful and intelligent. love this channel ❤❤
Goldman also worked on All The President's Men (relevant nowadays), The Hot Rock, Absolute Power, the original Stepford Wives, Memoirs Of An Invisible Man, Dreamcatcher and The Great Waldo Pepper. He had a good working relationship with Robert Redford (like Tom Cruise and Chris McQuarrie) after winning the Best Original Screenplay for Butch & Sundance (though I felt The Wild Bunch was robbed in that category) and mentored Aaron Sorkin. What a screenwriter.
If you want to see one of not only the best made westerns of all time, but one of the best made films of all time, you need to watch the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. There is nothing like it's vibe. So many artistic choices in the film-making.
The man thought to be the Sundance Kid was slumped against a wall with bullet wounds to his body and a gunshot to his forehead. The man believed to be Cassidy was next to him on the floor with a bullet hole to his temple. Contrary to the 1969 film “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” in which the outlaws go down in a blaze of glory amid a hail of bullets, it appeared that Cassidy had shot his wounded partner between the eyes before turning the gun on himself. At an inquest, Pero identified the corpses as those of the thieves who had ambushed him-although all he had ever seen of the masked men were their eyes. But neither Pero nor anyone else ever positively identified the two dead men as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid before their reported burial in an unmarked grave in a San Vicente cemetery. Although descriptions of the deceased bandits bore some resemblance to the legendary robbers, no photographs of the bodies were ever taken to provide proof. With no conclusive evidence to confirm the deaths of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, rumours took root that the pair had once again eluded the long arm of the law, and sightings of the duo in South America, Mexico and the United States continued for decades to come.
We live about 5 miles from the site where they jump into the river. It's called Bakers Bridge and it's on the Animas River. Also our local, Durango, Colorado,world famous train ride, the Durango Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, was used in the movie for the robbery scenes.
6:56 Yeah, Ted Cassidy was "Lurch" in the classic 60s show "The Adams Family." Big dude. Sam Elliot was one of the card players in the beginning. He had no speaking part.
The Sting is another great duo film of theirs . Bit of trivia for you , the famous hole in the wall gang photo that became their wanted poster was shot in Fort Worth Texas .
this is the reason "the sundance film festival" has that name , and this is the film where sam elliott and katherine ross met , they were married soon after
3:58 - I see what you mean. The way things are framed give it a tinge of claustrophobia to accentuate the tension. But I'd hold back from zooming out. Unsettling the audience is something I consider sacred in the art of filmmaking. 😊
“The Sting”~ is still my favorite Redford/Newman film…an absolute must-watch, if you’ve never seen it!
Best Bro mance movie ever.
If you loved it, you MUST watch The Sting... Director George Roy Hill, Newman, and Reford all back together. MUST WATCH!
Can’t like this comment enough. Absolute must-see cinema.
Absolutely, she will love The Sting!!!!!
Yes! The Sting!!! I know I'll love her reaction. Shanelle is so great!
LaFours was the mall security in MALLRATS. He wore a white hat same as LaFours in BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID
Also Vince Vaughn's character in Dodgeball.
Paul Newman is a one of a kind actor. He was really good in The Verdict. Other good ones,..The Hustler. It's sequel years later is The Color of Money directed by Martin Scorsese. He teams up again with Robert Redford in The Sting, which co-stars Robert Shaw. Not just a good movie, but a classic.
Cool Hand Luke
The Hustler is so freaking good
All great choices. I'd add Hud and Cool Hand Luke to the list too
Paul Newman is the ONE actor whom I would watch in ANY role. Highest compliment I can pay an actor.
@@jrobwoo688just rewatched The Verdict the other day, one of my favorite.
George Roy Hill was such a great talent. Slap Shot is an all-timer for me (also starring Paul Newman in one of my absolute favorite roles of his).
An underrated director
"They brought their f*****g toys!!!"
Shanelle should watch that. It's insanely more rauncher than "Animal House".
Slap Shot is like a snapshot of blue collar North America in the 70s. A hall-of-fame movie contender.
And also featuring Strother Martin.
"I won't watch you die. I'll miss that scene if you don't mind."
And sure enough, Etta leaves before the final act.
I think Sepia was used as an homage to early films. My favorite scene was actually cut from the final film. It can be seen in the "making" of documentary. In it...Butch, Sundance and Etta visit a small Bolivian cinema. The silent film from the credits is playing. Butch and Sundance are at first flattered, then shocked and confused as the audience "hiss" and "boo" when the cinema version of Butch & Sundance are on screen. I guess they finally clued in that they are the "bad guys". Great documentary....it may still be on UA-cam. Thank you for reviewing....very much enjoyed it!
Yes, the general time period in which the story of “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” takes place is the end of the 19th century and the dawn of the 20th. The Spanish-American War took place in 1898, by the way. The historical moment that the film explores is the end of the “Wild West” era of American history and the closing of the frontier, the transition that is taking place to a more recognizably modern world. And the question the film asks is what happens to these “Wild West” characters after the “Wild West” era ends and is replaced by a world in which they no longer really belong? A number of other movies made at about the same time also explore this historical period and ask the same question: Sam Peckinpah’s “The Wild Bunch” (1969) with William Holden and Ernest Borgnine; and John Wayne’s last film, “The Shootist” (Don Siegel, 1976) with Lauren Bacall.
" I hope to make this my shortest intro ever"... and keeps talking 😂😂😂... I love you Shanelle
The intro with Butch casing the bank and Sundance playing cards could have been the movie and I would have been satisfied.
Very under-reacted '60s classic, thanks! Not a parody, but a highly fictionalized version of the factually unknown demise of two actual famous outlaws. I like Newman and Redford even better in The Sting. And geezers like me can never forget Katherine Ross in The Graduate.
George Roy Hill is one of the best directors from the New Hollywood era, imo
The theme song "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" performed by B. J. Thomas won an Oscar for best original song
Hi Shanelle. As much as you appreciate well written dialog, I have no doubt you'd love Casablanca. It's pretty amazing. If you haven't seen it, you really should.
For sure. A must watch
CASABLANCA - PHENOMENAL! Absolutely MUST-SEE entertainment.
And if you think dramatic lighting is a recent thing, you will be blown away by Casablanca's creative use of lighting!
"The Hustler" (1961) - starring Paul Newman, Piper Laurie, George C. Scott, and Jackie Gleason - "Fast Eddie" Felson gets humbled - razor sharp screenplay and acting - in glorious widescreen black and white.
The events in this film take place in 1900. In 1901, Butch bought property in Argentina. There is speculation they actually survived the attack in Bolivia. People recall seeing Burch in 1910. Others say they died in Bolivia.
On a side note, I had to opportunity to spend a day with Paul Newsman ad his w2ife, Joanne Woodward during qualifications at the Indianapolis 500. I had released a song about his racing partner< Mario Andretti and Paul invited me to spend qualifications outside their RV inside the track. Nice people, Every time Paul saw I was without a beer he would offer another.
Wow,that must have been quite an experience.
Between “The Graduate” and “Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid”, Katharine Ross has an incredible movie résumé!
The New Hollywood era was rife with talent, behind and in front of the camera, that we really don't see anymore.
She's fantastic in the original Stepford Wives as well!
Donnie Darko. I think she and her husband Sam Elliot have the honor of being in a lot of cult favorite films.
@@Madbandit77 And they met on the set of this film.
The remake stunk.@@wonderfulwookiee6443
I first saw this movie in 1969 at a local movie theater in Suffern, NY where it played most of the summer. The theater, the Lafayette Theater, was and still is a single screen movie palace with 924 seats and a Wurlitzer organ and will be 100 years old next year.
I loved this movie as a kid when it came out, and it's aged really well. You probably already know this, but Redford was a founder of the Sundance Film Festival, which is named after his character in this film. You're right; definitely not classic western. It was one of many late sixties / early 70's films that elevated anti-heroes and anti-establishment themes, which wasn't very common during the decade or two before that.
Another movie that came out 2 years earlier was "bonnie and clyde" that had the same elevated anti-hero's themes,
"Little Big Man" in 1970 was another one in this anti-western fashion.
La Fours was referred in Mall Rats. He even had the white skimmer hat.
William Goldwyn wrote a book on how to write a screenplay that is probably the best book ever written on the subject.
2 books, actually: ADVENTURES IN THE SCREEN TRADE and WHICH LIE DID I TELL?
"The average shot is 2.5 seconds." In 1962, the Oscar for Cinematography went to The Longest Day for a two minute, continuous shot (the attack on Ouistreham) involving over 200 extras, explosions and gunfire.
They were the Leo and Brad of their day. Actually Redford kind of passed his role/scepter to Pitt for real. He was Brads old Star new upcoming Star counterpart in a film called Spygame and apparently had a genuine friendship that developed through that role.
And Redford directed Brad Pitt in the amazing movie A River Run Through It. I really love Spygame, as well, great movie.
I think Newman kind of tried the same passing of the baton to Tom Cruise with the remake of "The Hustler". For sometime I fancied a remake of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" with Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt.
Ah, you missed the best part of that line, "I can't swim!" "The fall will probably kill you!" is one of the all-time great lines. Goldman loved that line in particular, 'cause he loved writing the script, knowing a secret, 'cause he knew Sundance couldn't swim, an he just loved writing the script, just getting him to there.
Also, did you notice who played the blonde hooker was in that scene with Butch? That's CLORIS LEACHMAN!!!!!! Go rewatch it and check.
I'm partial to another section of the dialog:
Butch: You wouldn't do it if you didn't have to.
Sundance: I have to and I'm not gonna.
So much of this soundtrack cuts me to the quick today. I feel wave after wave of bittersweet nostalgia _for_ these characters, because they can't feel it for themselves. That instrumental tune "Not Goin' Home Anymore" hits me hardest.
The guy who hired them as payroll guards was played by Strother Martin, who was also in Cool Hand Luke with Paul Newman.
There was epic rain in Southern California during the 1968-69 rain season, with a lot of flood damage. So it makes sense that there would be that much water in a Malibu creek.
The great Conrad Hill shot this -- won that Oscar. Hill is a legend. Kind of the cinematographer's cinematographer. Have you seen the Tom Hanks gangster pic Road to Perdition? Some of Hill's best work -- simply stunning.
I watched this in the theatre in 1969. I was nine years old and we went as a group for a birthday party. We all thought is was great. I remains one of my favourite films.
My Dad was two years younger than Paul Newman and bore a striking resemblance to him. Many people commented on it.
Paul Newman is so awesome... absolute loved him in "the hustler" and "cool hand luke"... idk if you've ever covered those yet (or seen them before)
The Spanish-American War started in 1898 with the sinking of the American battleship Maine in Havana Harbor. Both of these were referenced.
Cool Hand Luke, my favorite Paul Newman movie.
Now you got to do The Sting with Newman and Redford. Also great music, set design and cinematography.
Cinematographer was Conrad Hall
The Sundance Channel/Sundance Film Festival is named after Robert Redford’s character in this movie.
I used to watch westerns with my Grandpa every Sunday afternoon. I saw this one several times with him. I miss him.
The big guy Butch fights(Ted Cassidy) was a great character actor and did voices for cartoons and was Lurch in the Addams family tv show
"Do you think you used enough dynamite, Butch?" was referenced in Terry Moore's "Strangers in Paradise" and instantly made the line 10x funnier to me.
Remember watching the 1971 TV series "Alias Smith and Jones" which was a kind of spin off. With a similar pair of outlaws who had to "stay out of trouble" for a year to receive "amnesty", but nobody "except you, me and the governor" will know about it.
I walked into a bar in Orlando back in the 80s and BJ Thomas was literally 6ft away on stage singing raindrops, such a random moment but unforgettable, thanks Shanelle!
For another film with beautiful cinematography, you should check out 1983’s “High Road to China”.
I think you would love it and it is an overlooked movie that I think many would enjoy.
BC & tSK is fun and crafty. I love the sepia tone because the movie does 2 things simultaneously - it's recreating a past fully aware that a modern audience is interpreting its recreation in the modernist late '60s hence the pop score being a commentator rather than.sonething more traditionally narrative and atmospheric and it starts in sepia tone, has a sepia tone intermission of snapshots, and ends in sepia tone once again making its audience aware of wanting to be involved in its present (the overall color of the movie) while looking into a past that is gone..
My parents love this film, and definitely primed them for the more quippy TV and movies I got into starting in the 90s. 😊
Bit of trivia, a young actor named Sam Elliott is the other guy sitting at the card table with Robert Redford at the beginning of the film.
Also, this is when Sam met Katherine Ross, who he married. And is still married to.
@@alankoemel3168 Katharine Ross married cinematographer Conrad Hall in 1969. Third marriage before she was 30. Married Elliott in 1984.
"Do you think you used enough dynamite there Butch" (such a great line!
A scene echoed in The Italian Job With Michael Caine "your only supposed to blow the bloody doors off"
Newman and Redford in The Sting is even more iconic.
These guys are good in "the sting "
I was 13 when this great movie was released and my parents wouldn't let see it because it had too much swearing in it. The sad reality for Butch and the Kid was that they were born 20 years too late to survive as bandits in the west. Sam Elliot met Katherine Ross, the teacher, on set and they later married and have been together ever since. Redford, who was a serious skier married a Utah girl and invested in Sundance initially as a ski resort. It became a haven for film study and later a festival. Mad Magazine parodied this as "Butch Casually and the Somedunce Kid. It has a great frame of Harvey's eyes-crossed expression after Butch kicks him in the groin. It still makes me smile thinking about it.
The white hat and LaForge, that you said you recognized, was the name and look of the mall guard in Mallrats 😁
This is my favorite movie of all time. Paul Newman and Robert Redford are great, but we should never forget the writer William Goldman, who also wrote The Princess Bride.
Also Misery, Marathon Man, The Stepford Wives and All The President's Men, among others.
The Sundance Institute was founded by Redford and named for the Sundance Kid.
Katherine Ross was in "The Graduate", her costar Anne Bancroft married Mel Brooks. (One of them got ripped off).
I recommend "Fort Apache" for your next Western.
Great movie. Now try these two in " The Sting"
YES, yes, yes.
Who else remembers the series "The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr." where Brisco has a sometimes friend, sometimes competitor, sometimes enemy foil named "Lord Bowler" based on a character in this film?
Someone has probably said it already, but Newman, Redford and the director collaborated again a few years later on The Sting, which was a Best Picture winner.
Don't like to order people about, but in this case, you HAVE to watch The Sting, which was a direct result of the chemistry on the screen between Newman and Redford. And trust me, you will be stung by the plot twists.
And somewhere down the line, I hope you watch and react to the recent movie, Red, White, & Royal Blue.
OMG I laughed so hard when Shan asks, "who are these guys?"
Thank you for the reaction! I think that the sepia at the start was a nod to the past, as it moved to the future with color. When they went to NYC, it zoomed into the street scene onto a "horseless carriage" - back to sepia, "old timers" visiting the future, then back to the past in Bolivia, which is where their end came.
Yeah when I was in my twenties, my best friend's girlfriend, I became really good friends with her. We would go to the movies together and out to eat and everything else. It was purely platonic. My best friend was the only one who actually realize that. It's one of the best friendships I've ever had. She would always try to set me up with her friends.
Shanelle, thank you for visiting the Western...in the 60s the Western Genre changed, from the cowboy rides away, to the anti hero. Sooo I'm suggesting a few of greatestest Westerns of the late 60s late 70s...
THE SEARCHERS,
THE WILD BUNCH,
THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES,
....
The people chasing them were from the Pinkerton Detective Agency. They were well known for never giving up and always getting their man.
Steve McQueen was originally cast as Sundance but quit over a dispute about top billing. Other well known actors were considered for the role before Paul Newman's wife, actress Joanne Woodward suggested a up-and-coming young actor named Robert Redford, but the studio said no. Newman was already an established name at the time and the studio wanted an equally well-known costar. Eventually, Newman, Woodward, and director George Roy Hill managed to convince the studio to give Redford a shot.
There is an old idea in filmmaking... "Never show your heros die". This is a perfect example of it, as is The Alamo.
There's a very good reference to this movie in "Beverly Hills Cop" staring Eddie Murphy, if you want a great comedy to watch.
This film came right at the end of the classic Western period and was seen as groundbreaking
You edited out the best line. "It's the fall that's gonna kill ya."
20:16 - Yeah, those 2 REALLY didn't think things through! 🤣
60's & 70's Woody Allen in the Rizzio is needed
"Bananas"(71)
These are so fun to watch and I enjoy hearing your take on these films. Thanks for sharing! 🙏🏻🍄
Westerns have certainly run the gamut from white hat good guys to slo-mo spattery shoot-outs. Butch and Sundance is one of my favorites. You may also want to check out Silverado for another ‘modern’ take on the genre. Loved your reaction, as always. Peace …
What made the Great Train Robbery innovative was not that it was the first to use any single innovation. It's that it used all of the innovation of the time, in one film.
George Roy Hill also directed The Sting. Paul Newman and Robert Redford also Stared in. Highly recommended!
They would have survived if there was an agreement for a sequel. BTW, Newman's charity for disabled kids (largely funded by Newman's Own brand) is named the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp.
On of my favorite movies. Lost count of how many times I've seen it.
We saw this at the Drive in when it came out. The Old man liked it so much. We went back the next week. To see it again. My Old man never did that before.... or since.
Classic western? Stagecoach 1939, Destry Rides Again 1939, Rio Bravo 1959 and The Magnificent Seven 1960 are my favorites.
Paul Newman was originally supposed to play Sundance but Robert Redford convinced the director to switch their roles at the last minute.
actually it was Paul who insisted switching roles.
@@snowbirdlady7221 The story I heard was that Redford went out with the director for drinks and convinced him to cast him as Sundance.
Butch Cassidy's gang was actually called The Wild Bunch but the filmmakers opted not to use that name lest the audience confuse this movie with the movie entitled THE WILD BUNCH, which came out a couple of years earlier.
Actually both films came out the same year and were Oscar nominated for Best Original Screenplay. Butch won.
Fingers crossed that your next reaction is "The Sting" (1973)
Redford and Newman team up again.
The movie won like seven Academy awards.
Was voted a top 25 (?) screenplay ever written. (You love a good screenplay !)
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A very rewatchable movie.
My husband and I are constantly quoting this movie. When we're running low on funds we say we're "going DOWN the mountain."
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William Goldman also wrote the screenplay for Misery. You can't make assumptions - the guy was a genius.
He also wrote the screenplay for Princess Bride
Goldman also worked on All The President's Men (relevant nowadays), The Hot Rock, Absolute Power, the original Stepford Wives, Memoirs Of An Invisible Man, Dreamcatcher and The Great Waldo Pepper. He had a good working relationship with Robert Redford (like Tom Cruise and Chris McQuarrie) after winning the Best Original Screenplay for Butch & Sundance (though I felt The Wild Bunch was robbed in that category) and mentored Aaron Sorkin. What a screenwriter.
@@paulpeacock1181 And _Marathon Man_ ..?
If you want to see one of not only the best made westerns of all time, but one of the best made films of all time, you need to watch the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. There is nothing like it's vibe. So many artistic choices in the film-making.
Yay, I love this movie. I hope she loves it too.
Kevin Smith pays homage to this film. La Fours is the head security guard with the white skimmer in Mallrats
You will 100% LOVE, The Sting. It's a great misdirection heist/Con-job movie and is the only other movie Robert and Paul did together.
I was 12 when this came out--of course I loved it. I had a paperback of the screenplay---it really was that good.
Lafluer is Vince Vaughn's name in "Dodgeball: An Underdog Story".
A blueprint for the buddy comedy
Conrad Hall was a master cinematographer.
You gotta check out The Sting with these two - amazingly good!!!
When I was 15, I had that final shot as a poster on my wall.
The man thought to be the Sundance Kid was slumped against a wall with bullet wounds to his body and a gunshot to his forehead. The man believed to be Cassidy was next to him on the floor with a bullet hole to his temple. Contrary to the 1969 film “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” in which the outlaws go down in a blaze of glory amid a hail of bullets, it appeared that Cassidy had shot his wounded partner between the eyes before turning the gun on himself.
At an inquest, Pero identified the corpses as those of the thieves who had ambushed him-although all he had ever seen of the masked men were their eyes. But neither Pero nor anyone else ever positively identified the two dead men as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid before their reported burial in an unmarked grave in a San Vicente cemetery. Although descriptions of the deceased bandits bore some resemblance to the legendary robbers, no photographs of the bodies were ever taken to provide proof.
With no conclusive evidence to confirm the deaths of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, rumours took root that the pair had once again eluded the long arm of the law, and sightings of the duo in South America, Mexico and the United States continued for decades to come.
19:30 - "Comedy!" 😁
Newman and Redford made two perfect movies. Make sure to catch The Sting as well.
We live about 5 miles from the site where they jump into the river. It's called Bakers Bridge and it's on the Animas River. Also our local, Durango, Colorado,world famous train ride, the Durango Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, was used in the movie for the robbery scenes.
6:56 Yeah, Ted Cassidy was "Lurch" in the classic 60s show "The Adams Family." Big dude. Sam Elliot was one of the card players in the beginning. He had no speaking part.
‘Who are those guys?!’ Words to live by lol
The Sting is another great duo film of theirs . Bit of trivia for you , the famous hole in the wall gang photo that became their wanted poster was shot in Fort Worth Texas .
this is the reason "the sundance film festival" has that name , and this is the film where sam elliott and katherine ross met , they were married soon after
3:58 - I see what you mean. The way things are framed give it a tinge of claustrophobia to accentuate the tension. But I'd hold back from zooming out. Unsettling the audience is something I consider sacred in the art of filmmaking. 😊
I. Never knew rain drops keep falling on my head was original for this movie!