Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katherine Ross.
IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064115/
People who follow classics will either a) have seen this movie several times and came to like it a lot or b) Have heard much talk about it and want to watch it at the first opportunity they can grab the dvd!
I was in the b) category till a week back. Wanted to watch this oscar winning movie and a hollywood urban legend badly. Also being a new fan of Paul Newman after watching his Hustler I was at a new eagerness.
Then I saw this ad saying they will air 'The Sting' on AMC on 15th and had to run!! That's because Butch cassidy was followed by an equally popular and acclaimed sequel called the Sting 4 years later (1973) and won multiple oscars too (A feat only paralleled by the Godfather series) Newman and Redford have since gone on to become one of the most talked about male co-star pairs in Hollywood. In fact Redford says this movie 'made' his life and career.
A movie about two train robbers who have become a legend. The blue-eye guy does all the thinking and the blondie just eats-shoots-leaves! :-) So much so that the train pilot lets go saying 'Who else would I allow robbing my train than you Mr. Cassidy?!' So they go around robbing trains and banks and the story goes so on and on. Whats so phenomenal about it, you might ask. So did I, to myself. Soon I had realised the director's motive. The dialogue and the story telling makes this movie one of the lightest westerns ever. There hardly is a serious moment in the movie; not even when you would think 'oh shoot now what do they do!?'. So relax, sit back and enjoy as the confident Butch kindles the silent 'kid' to keep going.
When there is actually a serious moment, LOOK it crept on you and you dint notice!
I'll never forget the effect the ending had on me - no fun in telling you though. So go watch it.
Some of the most hilarious moments in the movie according to me were:
- The intro scene of sundance kid in the bar where butch and the kid take 'panga' with some jerk of a guy
- The scene where butch and sundance 'dive' :=D
- Definitely, the scenes in Bolivia. Specially the bank robbing scenes.
Several other cheeky dialogues and scenes make it an exaggeratedly stylish western 'flick', a flick in the real sense.
Come back and tell me where else in Bollywood you felt strong influences from this movie. Easy guess - and you are right!
What's that song you hear, when you call Hutch for some pain they have caused you, and they put you on hold for many minutes?
Ah, I'm gonna leave this blog with just that song in my mind. If you din't know, BJ Thomas composed this very popular soundtrack for 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'. Apparently sold a million copies! The movie's an ultra-light experience, as light as this song.
Raindrops keep fallin' on my head
And just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed,
Nothin' seems to fit
Those raindrops are fallin' on my head, they keep fallin'
La lla la laa...la laa
2 comments:
hey nice work! Good start! The challenge will be to keep it going. but the thats what freinds are for - to help! :)
Narayan - Thanks!
But hey - not with movies..wont let the steam go off...
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