Hmm. Not seeing the connection, personally. Can you expand on this?
Plus, nobody ever catches the way Ross just drops her petticoat(?) camisole(?) on the floor; she doesn’t put it on the bed or a chair, just I need both my hands to fiddle with my hair, so bye-bye underclothes.
This poster?
His off-hand weapon is off-line, but that’s more a result of him having just fired that pistol and bringing his strong-side weapon to bear.
ETA: Just checked the scene. Yep.
Jesus Christ, the fucking tagline on that poster…
Stealing this!
… to use during one of life’s satisfying most satisfying sounds: 80+ pounds of granite crashing together, often in a room with the acoustics of a tin can.
That’s terrible…unless it’s a reference to her acting ability.
The Mad satire had Newman saying to her during the bicycle scene, “Gee, they said I’d have to carry you through this picture”. (She replied, “Be glad I’m not Kate Smith”.)
You’re trying to kidnap what I’ve rightfully stolen; but, go ahead.
If you do, let me know if anyone ever recognizes the line.
That’s what happens when you live ten years alone in Bolivia. You get colorful.
>spit< Bingo!
Can I move? I’m better when I move.
I liked the bicycle scene. There, I said it. I can see why some people don’t, though. Get back to the action! What does BJ Thomas crooning about a guy whose feet are too big for his bed have to do with anything? Why is there a bike ride in the middle of a Western? But the scene is a lighthearted interlude, though I think the producers thought the scene would make the movie more appealing to women. Hah. Like most women, I’d have spent $1.50 to watch Paul Newman trim his toenails.
Also, I love the lines Cassidy sings as they start off:
Don’t ever hit your mother with a shovel.
It’ll leave a dull impression on her mind.
And they really needed to work a bicycle into the movie.
Well, there was a bicycle salesman operating near where they holed up on their way to Etta’s place so I can totally see Butch deciding to try one out. And the bicycle scene showed they were all three friends, not just a third wheel with a couple (in any direction!) which sets up the whole travel montage that ends them up in Bolivia. The particular choice of Raindrops is somewhat regrettable but I assume somebody had the rights to the song and wanted to use it even if it didn’t really fit in with the rest of the movie.
This is still one of my all time favorite movies with a goodly number of quotable lines. I still intone “Can’t help ya, Sundance” whenever a dog is giving me one of those “you seeing this shit?” looks.
Actually, Burt Bacharach wrote the song for the movie:
Inspiration struck the composer while watching the scene of Newman’s charming outlaw Butch Cassidy showing off his new bicycle to Sundance’s girlfriend Etta Place (Katharine Ross) during a low-key moment in their outlaw existence.
“As Butch was riding, it was the way he looked. I kept hearing melodically what it sounded like with the ukulele and the bicycle, and it was all very simple,” says Bacharach. “I put in these dummy lyrics into the melody I was writing, I knew it made no sense.”
Even after the song was written, the songwriters tried to Western it up. But “nothing beat” the dummy lyrics which became the song title.
Redford originally thought the song was “dumb”. He’s since changed his tune.
So, what do we all think of the Scat-singing montage of the Bolivian crime spree? I love it! But I also like the bike scene.
The most obvious is the convoy chase with Han Indy on the white horse galloping across the scenery.
Indy being dragged under the vehicle is from “Stagecoach” with the same stuntman.
The initial barroom brawl is straight out of the western style. Broken chairs/tables, shot up whiskey bottles, Marian drinking out of a bullet punctured whiskey keg, Indy escaping the clutches of the bad guy by breaking the whiskey bottle over his head.
The “showdown” with Arab sword wielder. Hero and adversary at twenty paces. Blade against whip - whoops - now pistol.
Also, much of Star Wars is rooted in westerns.
That one I agree with.
I like 'em both, plus the Going to Bolivia sequence. The only problem I have with the movie are technical ones: there is a scene where B&S are on horseback and I guess the horse is going too slow because they sped up the film slightly – you can tell by the sagebrush swaying a little too fast. For years, when it was on TV, the chase sequence ending at the river jump had this annoying “flanger” sound for the water noise, drove me nuts.
You now have one more reason to re-watch this film, the scat-singing montage has the one and only Thurl “Tony, The Tiger” Ravenscroft singing bass in the chorus. He’s grrrrrrrrrrrreat!
>spit< Dammit!
Next time I say “let’s watch a movie about Bolivia”, let’s watch a movie about Bolivia!
“This might be The Garden Spot of all Bolivia. People might travel for miles just to stand on this spot we’re standing.”