Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was released in New York on September 24, 1969. The film received mostly negative reviews but became a success throughout the public. Eventually the National Film Preservation Board deemed the film culturally and artistically significant and it’s central themes and heros resonated with the youth movement of the time. The importance of the movie is what it came to represent to the people who saw it. While the director, George Roy Hill used the chase of the main characters

reminds the United States of its shame during the time of the film. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a revisionist western that pays homage to old western movies. Since Westerns were outdated in the late 60’s, this revised western film is created with New Hollywood elements including an unhappy ending and film using rock/pop soundtracks to attract the youth. Theme Both Django Unchained and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid share a common theme of freedom. In Django Unchained, there are multiple

Butch Cassidy is the talkative and visionary leader of his Wild Bunch, an infamous group of bank robbers from the American Old West. He thinks his way out his problems, mostly through deception, and he always has new ideas in regards to heists and his own future. His partner, the Sundance Kid, is an expert gunslinger with an intimidating presence. He’s calm, stern, and willing to kill when backed into a corner, but he leaves the planning and thinking to Butch. After robbing a Union Pacific train

At a very young age of eight, David Fincher’s passion for cinema grew when he was inspired by the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). Born in 1962 Denver, Colorado, David Fincher moved to Ashland, Oregon in his teens, where he graduated from Ashland High School. During high school, he directed plays, designed sets, and managed lighting after school. One summer, he and a friend attended the Berkley Film Institute’s summer program, where he hoped to learn film as a true art form but instead

At a young age of eight, David Fincher’s passion for cinema grew when he saw the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). Born in 1962 Denver, Colorado, David Fincher moved to Ashland, Oregon in his teens, where he graduated from Ashland High School. Much of his time here, he directed plays, designed sets, and managed lighting after school. Until one summer, he and a friend attended the Berkley Film Institute’s summer program, where he hoped to learn film as a true art form but instead learned

Mainly we see this combination through the lens of Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid. Being obsessed with the film, the boys base themselves on the two characters. Intertextuality is the concept of texts borrowing from each other. In terms of film, this could be the borrowing of a line of dialogue, the composition of

Butch Cassidy and his members of the Wild Bunch left a remarkable chapter in the history of old American West. Interestingly, Butch was no mean robber, but someone full of charm. The story of the group was made more interesting with the addition of Butch’s constant partner-in-crime, Sundance Kid. Originally named Robert LeRoy, Butch changed his name after working with Mike Cassidy, an infamous cattle and horse rustler. The name “Butch” was taken from Robert’s brief stint as a butcher in town. He

WANTED: Harry Longabaugh AKA The Sundance Kid “And you, your job is to shut up!” - Sundance Kid in the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Harry Longabaugh AKA, the Sundance Kid was an old western outlaw. He was born in 1867 in Mont Clare, Pennsylvania. He moved out west when he was 15. Harry was a horse thief. He mainly lived in Pennsylvania. But his first crime was stealing a horse in Sundance, Wyoming. But throughout his “career” he was only arrested once and that was only for 18 months

Butch Cassidy Butch Cassidy born as Robert Leroy Parker, was born on April 13, 1866 in Beaver Utah. He was the oldest of 13 kids, and left home in his teen years, in search of making a better life for himself, than what his parents were able to provide. Parker worked on several ranches and befriended a rancher named Mike Cassidy. Mike Cassidy had a reputation for stealing cattle and horses, which had inspired Parker, so he changed his name to Butch Cassidy to imitate his friend. Cassidy was

Butch Cassidy was a well-known American outlaw participating in many robberies with his gang, the Wild Bunch. His real name actually was not Butch Cassidy; he was born under the name Robert Leroy Parker on April 13, 1866. He moved away from his home and soon would meet a rancher by the name of Mike Cassidy which was also an alias for another name. He formed a close bond with the man. Robert Parker worked as a butcher at the time which is where he got his nickname Butch. He would come to change his