Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid: My Favorite Western Movie of All Time

Western genre was very famous during the 60s. With movies like The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, A Few Dollar More, A Fistful Of Dollar, they had shaped the genre and brought it closer to the audience where they could enjoy and know about the lives of cowboys and outlaw people. But unlike those movie with all the bloody scene and revenge, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid had a different motif where both characters were being acted funny which there were a little bit of comedy and jokes in the movie as well as the music, and where the friendship was on top of everything.

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Butch and Sundance Kid always had each other’s back on every circumstances. That was the reason why the audience would have loved and cheered this movie so much. Beside this also based on the real people but being told in a different way. The movie with many great shots, two amazing performances of Paul Newman and Robert Redford, and the action scenes were so intense. Luckily that the movie was released during the time where the Western genre was in the golden age. I think that the audience at that time really loved Western genre and each time there was a movie about a cowboy, it would be a big hit.

In every movie, finding a leading man for the role is very difficult. Playing two outlaw men was not so easy. Paul Newman and Robert Redford were like icons back then. They were both handsome, attractive and charming. The audience would love to see two outlaw men with the appearance like that, not like any other outlaw men who looked like a crook, a scary man. Handsome leading men also was the reason to pull the audiences to come and see the movie.

The time this movie was released, the U.S was in war with Vietnam and there were many protests around the U.S opposing the Vietnam war. Also there was one more issue in the late 1960s which had happened a long time ago was Civil Right act. African Americans had stood up to fight for their rights and their freedom. The anti hero in this movie did not fight for the country but they had fought for the rights, for the freedom and for the truth. Not like the real hero who only fought the enemies. The reality in the 60s was that many soldiers had sacrificed themselves in the bloody battles, many African Americans had lied down for justice. Like Butch and Sundance Kid in the movie, they were not hero but anti hero and they had fought together for the right things and no matter what happened, they would stay together.

In our own time, we are still facing racism among the minority ethnics. Nothing had changed through years. Also, facing many gun violence cases. But nothing had been done so far. Protesting everywhere and everyone is asking for change. It was the same problem but different times. Even though there were anti hero like Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid in this time, how could they help to change the system where are so amny problems that can not be solved?