Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

In the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid directed by George Roy Hill uses many different examples of symbolism that connects to the American Progressive Era and life in America. The true story is about the two leaders of Wyoming’s Hole-in-the-Wall Gang, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, looting trains and banks which is starting to get harder because of how the times are changing which ultimately in the end leads to their downfall. With that being said this movie could be considered multiple different types of genres. I, personally, would consider this movie as a biographical film because this gave a good interpretation and story of the real Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid and what it was like living as them. However, you could also consider this as a crime drama because throughout the movie they are on their outlaw ways and rob trains and banks but has a little bit of a love story to add some drama to it. This movie can draw some comparisons to the film, The Magnificent Seven because of they both use a group of people to cause…

Butch Cassidy was born on April 13, 1866, in Beaver, Utah, with the name Robert LeRoy Parker. His parents were Maximillian Parker and Ann Campbell Gillies. Butch Cassidy had 12 siblings and was the oldest out of 13. Cassidy’s family was a poor Mormon family. When Butch was a teenager he left home in hopes for a better, more successful life, than his parents were able to provide. Butch Cassidy worked on many ranches and eventually befriended a rancher named Mike Cassidy. Mike Cassidy…

If I told you that there could be as gripping of a western film as ‘Hell or High Water,’ in today’s pop culture, you would tell me that I was crazy. The stellar performances of two unstoppable bank robbers, Chris Pine and Ben Foster, and a Texas ranger out on his last case before retirement, Jeff Bridges, make this dream a reality. Jeff Bridges, Ben Foster, and Chris Pine star in a revolutionary movie that was created to bring back a culture of western films. It is bound to be a classic western…

many more movies in Western genre, I believe this they made in farewell for John Wayne, possibly expanding the genre to fit in a way to show a cowboy that had been thru it all die with dignity. “Another contemporary departure from convention was the African-American Western. Buck and the Preacher (1972), starring Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte, and Take A Hard Ride (1975), starring Jim Brown, Lee Van Cleef, and Fred Williamson, were Western movies hitched to black celebrity status rather…

Woodard. They had three beautiful daughters together. “But their partnership became such an institution that few people realized Newman had been married before – and that he had broken up the marriage in circumstances that did him little credit and about which he was ashamed for the rest of his life.” (Levy, 2009) The start of Paul’s professional acting career was on Broadway with the production of the “Picnic” which was a big hit. After the Broadway success he left for Hollywood where he…

married Joanne Woodard. He had three beautiful daughters with Joanne. “But their partnership became such an institution that few people realized Newman had been married before – and that he had broken up the marriage in circumstances that did him little credit and about which he was ashamed for the rest of his life.” (Levy 2009) The start of Paul’s professional acting career was on Broadway with the production of the Picnic which was a big hit. Paul left for Hollywood where he…

robberies. They also expanded to riding shotgun with the stagecoaches in the West. The agents were expected to keep law and order while protecting the assets and personnel of their clients. Nearly two-dozen offices were spread throughout the United States by the end of the 1880’s (Dempsey, 2011, p.9). Various railroad companies, stagecoach companies, land surveyors, wealthy bankers, and the federal government were all clients of the Pinkerton Agency at the time. After the death of Allan…