George Roy Hill’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, a film that felt awfully new in its time and now feels as musty as mothballs, ended on an iconic freeze-frame of the titular bandits plunging into a hail of gunfire and their certain deaths: the outlaw criminals as tragic fatalists. This retelling of the real-life Cassidy story climaxed on the conventional wisdom of the … [Read more...]