Parallels
I’ve never watched The Wild Bunch and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid back-to-back, but I just finished The Wild Bunch, and Butch and Sundance are coming up now.
For those who aren’t aware, these two movies came out the same year, and they tell essentially the same story: outlaws at the end of their rope being chased by a posse in the final days of the Old West. Both movies even have their protagonists meeting their makers at the hands of a foreign army under similar circumstances. The only difference is that one is mostly fact-based and the other is complete fiction. Oh, and: one movie is charming and popular; the other is greasy, mean, and still controversial to this day. Guess which one is my favorite?
