Discuss Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
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About this legendary film
posted by Benton12STAFFMOD on September 5, 2020 at 5:11 AM
- Much of the first few scenes are not that memorable. Film starts getting memorable when Butch and Etta take the bike ride.
- Etta Place is a school teacher in the film but the real EP was most likely a prostitute. Nothing is known about her before she met the Wild Bunch. Her name was really likely Ethel Place but, in South America where she and Butch and Sundance all fled to they had never heard of that name so, she called herself Etta.
- This film was set in Bolivia but actually filmed in Mexico.
- 'The Great Train Robbery' (1903) is the silent film you see in this film's own opening credits but I think they shortened it as the full silent flick is around 12 minutes in length. (TGTR is right available in full length on this website!)
Reply by tmdb53400018
on September 6, 2020 at 12:50 PM
That's some pretty good film trivia knowledge, Benton12. I have only seen the film once, but I respect it as some say that every single line of dialogue in it is relevant. I'll see it again soon.
Reply by Benton12
on September 6, 2020 at 1:16 PM
Somewhat more than trivia. I read Etta Place was like the first lady to ever purchase land in a certain South American country.
Reply by tmdb53400018
on September 6, 2020 at 6:27 PM
Did you know that the blood in the notorious shower scene in Psycho was really chocolate syrup? Sounds like film trivia to me.
Reply by Benton12
on September 6, 2020 at 6:31 PM
But Butch and Sundance and Etta were real people. Norman Bates fictional character. There was no murderer at a motel in California named Norman Bates. But the Wild Bunch was real.
Reply by Benton12
on September 6, 2020 at 6:57 PM
Cell, Butch and Sundance were pretty big, real life outlaws to get US authorities to go all the way to South America to get them. And the Bolivian Army really did go after almost just like they do in this film climax. Cell, want a fun a task. Imagine the disappointment Butch and Sundance and Etta would all have had if they found out somehow that actually America had sent anybody to go looking for them down in SA.
Reply by tmdb53400018
on September 6, 2020 at 9:57 PM
You got me good on that one. Thanks for the heads up 'cause I forgot.
Reply by Benton12
on January 11, 2022 at 7:32 AM
Portions of this movie were used for the 'In search of' segment for Butch Cassidy. The climatic scene was partially shown on ISO with Newman and Redford being (in stock footage) in the TV ep. Nobody gives the actors' names on the ep.
Reply by Benton12
on January 11, 2022 at 7:35 AM
Speaking of the 1970's ISO segment it is weird. Half the ep is just about Butch's alleged 1924 visit back to his family and old friends and lady lover. There is no proof that that man really was Butch and that there was no big fatal gunfight in Bolivia. Host Leonard Nimoy (Spock) claims they could not find proof of the Bolivian shootout but does not get verbally anymore more into that.
Reply by tmdb53400018
on January 12, 2022 at 10:07 PM
Cool.
Reply by Benton12
on January 14, 2022 at 4:16 AM
Would have been better and more interesting if Nimoy had talked of the search in Bolivia into old Bolivian Army records to see what they had to say about the fatal Cassidy gunfight.
Reply by Benton12
on January 19, 2022 at 12:07 AM
Old newspapers sometimes referred to Butch as having the real identity of "George Parker". False! His real name was Robert Leroy Parker.
Reply by Benton12
on January 19, 2022 at 12:12 AM
A video at Youtube called 'Wanted -Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' shows them taking the bones out of the ground in San Vincente, Bolivia for examination back in the early 1990's.