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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

George Roy Hill · 1969 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

Two Wyoming robbers blow the safe on the Union Pacific once too often and find a hired posse tracking them across the territory without ever closing or giving up. They run out of country, take a schoolteacher along and start over robbing banks in Bolivia with a phrasebook. Goldman's script sold for a record sum and set the tone for the buddy pictures of the following decade.

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Attributes

Genre
WesternAdventureComedy
Theme
FellowshipFreedom vs FateLoyalty
Archetype (Jung / Campbell)
Rebel / OutlawAlly / CompanionTrickster
Plot structure
The ChaseEpisodic
Symbol / motif
The TrainThe HorizonGold / Treasure
Conflict
vs Societyvs Person
Mode / tone
ComicElegiac
Culture / tradition
Modern / American

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