Sadness lies in the shadow of laughter. Burt Bacharach's melody trick for "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"

“Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” Synopsis

In the late 19th century in the West, two robbers, Butch and Sundance, live a free-spirited life, robbing banks over and over again. However, in the era of modernization, their way of life was too old-fashioned. In search of a new dream, he heads to Bolivia in South America, but...

``Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'' is an epoch-making work that brings postmodernism to the dying Western genre. Postmodernism, or in other words post-modernism, is a term used mainly in the fields of architecture and design, but this expression also applies to this film, which breaks down established concepts in a completely new way in the world of film. I think it's reasonable.

Index

• The main driving force behind this was director George Roy Hill.
• The second leading actor, cinematographer Conrad Hall
• The third leading figure, music Burt Bacharach
• What is the true nature of the sad waltz that permeates the entire film?

The main driving force behind this was director George Roy Hill.

The main driving force behind this was, of course, director George Roy Hill. The 20th Century Fox producer duo Richard Zanuck and David Brown were skeptical about Hill's casting, but Paul Newman and screenwriter William Goldman strongly recommended him, so the production team gave in and the director was selected. This was the beginning of the reform.

After reading Goldman's script, Roy Hill decided to make the film a comedy-drama with both laughter and sadness, set against the backdrop of the majestic scenery of the West. Thus, the story of the strange love triangle between two men who are still unable to stop stealing even after passing the middle of their lives, and a woman who is close to them, is written in the beautiful West and South America.

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Roy Hill's sense of color is also groundbreaking. In the opening credits, an old film showing the misdeeds of Butch (Paul Newman) and Sundance (Robert Redford) is painted in sepia tones as the sound of tapping spins. As the film begins and Butch and Sundance begin to get active, the sepia tone gradually changes to color. Furthermore, as the morning mist clears and the sun shines, the color variations gradually become clearer. The way the audience's eyes are awakened by the colors is an idea unique to Roy Hill.

The colors then change again from color to sepia to color as Butch, Sundance, and Etta (Katharine Ross) leave the West and arrive in Bolivia via New York.

The second leading actor, cinematographer Conrad Hall