Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid Essay

Although Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid displays some of the typical aspects of the Western genre, such as having action and adventure and taking place in an untamed frontier, it mostly depicts aspects that are not typical of the Western genre. Unlike many Westerns, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is not overly violent. There are some shooting scenes, but the movie is mostly focused on the debacles that Butch Cassidy and Sundance get themselves into. In the beginning of the film Butch and Sundance encounter many situations that could have turned into a big shooting scene but they don’t. An example of this is when they were being chased down, and instead of confronting them and having it turn into a big fight, they instead flea to Bolivia where they won’t be tracked. The film has

He is charismatic, talkative, and witty. Butch Cassidy uses his charm to try and talk his way out of difficult situations, and tends to come up with impulsive decisions to the problems that they face. The main way that this film differs from the classical Western film is that is has us cheering for the outlaws. Most Westerns follow the heroic cowboys in their pursuit to stop the outlaws, but in this film the tables turn. Butch Cassidy and Sundance’s personalities held us captive as we watched their pursuits. Through them we see that not all outlaws are evil, violent, and unforgiving people that go around creating trouble wherever they go. In these characters we see a sense of humanity. They don’t turn to violence as their first choice. Even when they robbed the train, they didn’t go in guns blazing. Butch Cassidy first tried to use his wit and charisma to talk the man into just leaving the train so that they could take the money and go. When that didn’t work and they exploded the door off, they went over to make sure he was okay and tell him that he really deserved a raise due to his loyalty to his