Awards:
Academy Awards: (4) Best Cinematography, Best Score, Best
Original Song, Best Story & Screenplay
Golden Globes: (4) Best Picture-Drama, Best Screenplay, Best
Original Score, Best Original Song
Grammy Awards: Best Original Score
Writers Guild of America: Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
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A Common Error:
Q: Hey Mark! In the final gunfight, how did Sundance fire 10 shots without reloading when all he had was a
six-shooter? What's the deal?
-"Tiny" Tim O'Conner
A: Well Tiny, Butch gave him his gun, so now he has two guns. That's how. Next time pay more attention to the film and less to your popcorn!
Just kidding, I like popcorn too. Especially the kind with white cheddar cheese...mmmm, cheese!
Uh...anyway, don't feel too bad about that oversight, many of the film's fans have made it. It has been regarded as a goof for years, but it is not.
F.Y.I.- "Amongst the names originally thought about for the roles of Butch Cassidy and Sundance were Jack Lemmon, Steve McQueen, Marlon
Brando, Warren Beatty, and Paul Newman. Ultimately, director George Roy Hill cast Robert Redford as Butch Cassidy and Paul Newman as Sundance. It was Redford's suggestion that they switch roles."
- 20th Century Fox
(printed on the back of the videocassette)
Here's a great example of backstage Hollywood garbage:
Steve McQueen accepted the role of Sundance. It would have been his first time working with Paul Newman.
Both stars were HUGE at the time, so whose name would go first on the billing?
The studio decided that both names would appear together above the title, with the left name appearing lower, and the name on the right higher, giving them a semblance of equality.
Newman didn't mind and said he'd take either one. At this, McQueen suspected some kind of a trick and pulled out of the film.
Do you believe this? Well, here's the best part:
In 1974, McQueen and Newman did make a film together: The Towering
Inferno. They were billed the exact same way that McQueen was leery
of in 1969, and there were no problems. McQueen's misplaced fears lost him a starring role in a modern classic.
At least McQueen learned his lesson the second time around.
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