Compare And Contrast Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid

In the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid directed by George Roy Hill uses many different examples of symbolism that connects to the American Progressive Era and life in America. The true story is about the two leaders of Wyoming’s Hole-in-the-Wall Gang, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, looting trains and banks which is starting to get harder because of how the times are changing which ultimately in the end leads to their downfall. With that being said this movie could be considered multiple different types of genres. I, personally, would consider this movie as a biographical film because this gave a good interpretation and story of the real Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid and what it was like living as them. However, you could also consider this as a crime drama because throughout the movie they are on their outlaw ways and rob trains and banks but has a little bit of a love story to add some drama to it. This movie can draw some comparisons to the film, The Magnificent Seven because of they both use a group of people to cause …show more content…
In the movie the Sundance Kid’s girlfriend is a school teacher just like many women because they were raised to become some sort of teacher. Throughout the movie, just like in real life at the time you saw women doing what they usually did which was be a stay-at-home mother to do the laundry, cook and several other things while the man of the house worked. However there were some unorthodox women who decided to instead of work at a school or stay at home they worked and stayed at a brothel. This was a lot more common when the movie takes place. That being said, this could all be connected to the Progressive Era women because they did the same things as they did back then because they were all so limited to what they could