Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

In 1969, US citizens were strongly opposed to the Vietnam war, we just landed on the moon, and the biggest music icon of all time took place--Woodstock. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid became a hit because the were rebels against authority and what was going on in the world at the time. Similarly, the hippie generation had emerged by this time and were also going against authority in their own way through protests of peace.

Implicitly, the film seemed to imply that evil, no matter how promising and attractive it may appear, can never succeed. Someone will always show up to stop evil from spreading.

Through montage, the film was capable of showing the passage of time, whilst still moving the story along in a way that did not make the film feel as though pieces were cut and pasted onto the screen. Instead, the montage used background music and as time passed, the music changed to stay up to date with what was going on in the montage.

To be honest, I am not sure why the film won Oscars for Music and Writing, because I did not enjoy the film. I felt as though the writing left a gap about what happened to Etta. After she decided on leaving, she disappeared from the film altogether, despite having been a fairly main character up until that point. The music was not great, however I will admit that during the montage, the music changed in time with the actions on the film, which was a good move. The still shot with gunshots at the end of the film was also enjoyable, however those are the only two reasons why I can imagine that the film won two Oscars.

Anti-Heros are used in almost every bad guy movie because the definition of an anti hero is when the protagonist of the film is the bad guy. Save the cat moments help to make the audience fall for and accept the protagonist as the main character and to root for them to win, despite the knowledge that the character is evil. The fact that the bad guy is the protagonist also forces the audience to automatically like the bad guy, because we have been trained to always root for the main character.

I am not a great film critic, specifically when discussing films that I did not enjoy. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid tells me that the bad guys can never win, and that once you turn evil, you can never go back to being one of the good guys, even if you want to.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is most definitely a Western. The film featured both outlaws on the run, and amazing mountain desert scenery.

If released today, the film would not have done quite as well. Western films aren't popular right now, and the film does not move fast enough. Audiences in 2015 seem to get bored faster than those of previous decades. At this point in time, movies need to have more gunshots, more action, and more romance. There should not be room to think about what is going on in the film and to plan what will happen next. Movies coming out today are created to make audiences live in the moment the characters are in by making everything happen faster than years before.

The friendship between Sundance and Butch stuck out to me because when the gang was forced to split up, Sundance and Butch would always stick together, leaving the other men behind. Throughout the whole movie, they would always stick together, not matter what was happening to them. I believe that was one of the main reasons the audience was able to root for the anti heros. Butch and Sundance were able to still be seen as humane due to their close friendship.