Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Besides the fact that Paul Newman and Robert Redford add to the movie's appeal for being ridiculously good looking, I really enjoyed the movie for what it offered. After watching High Noon for my movie critique, it was entertaining watching a Western narrated from the "bad guys" point of view. In High Noon, the marshal is the character of interest, and the villains are represented as crude, dirty creatures. In Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the two robbers personify these sexy, intelligent, talented men, highly skilled in their trade. The scene dealing with the marshal asking his citizens to join his forces against Butch and Kid reminded me of scenes in High Noon when Kane seeks his citizen's help against Miller. It's interesting how two scenes, portraying the same thing, can be so vastly different. In Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the marshal is this bumbling idiot, receiving no compassion when he's left standing alone. Whereas in High Noon, one immediately pities Kane and has negative feelings toward the cowardly towns people. A line in the film that I found foreshadowed the ending was when the sheriff says, "Your times is over and all you can do is die bloody! Your times is over!" From that phrase on, I knew the film wouldn't end in Butch and Kid's favor.