The movie would claim four Oscars for cinematography, original score, song (“Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head”) and original screenplay. But audiences ate up the anti-hero wisecracks (“Who are those guys?”) and the handsome though less-than-perfect examples of male machismo. Initially, critics didn’t quite get William Goldman‘s nominated script as a determined posse pursue the pair after they pull off a series of train robberies and run off to Bolivia. Meanwhile, a different kind of shoot-’em-up was also in the running in the form of a revisionist Western about two real-life outlaws, “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” a buddy pic starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |