"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" brought Paul Newman and Robert Redford together

Points that attracted Goldman

Meanwhile, around the same time, Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, also known as Sundance, who was famous as a handsome and fast-shooting expert, began to call himself the Sundance Kid because he was gaining notoriety at Sundance in Wyoming. . It is unclear how the two met and ended up forming a lifelong partnership. After all, compared to Butch, there is far less information about Sundance.

Goldman was fascinated by the two, who abandoned the West where times were changing and there was nothing left to steal, and sought a new home in Patagonia, South America, where they once again enjoyed a free-spirited life while robbing banks. He also moved to Chile and was earning a fair amount of money. It's been 8 years in between. Historically, Butch and Sundance are remembered more as legendary villains in South America than in the West. In other words, until they reach Bolivia, which is the setting of the climax in the movie, they are, to some extent, enjoying their "second life" to their heart's content.

Goldman was shocked by this. This is because the two outlaws have the persuasive power to overturn the absolute lesson once written by Scott Fitzgerald, the author he respects as a mentor: ``There is no such thing as a second life for Americans.'' So there it was. In addition, although Butch and Sundance are supposed to have met their end in Bolivia in the movie, the theory that the bodies left behind were not theirs could no longer be proven due to the disappearance of the graves. It certainly piqued Mann's interest even more.

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