Butch_and_Sundance

Butch and Sundance As the titles roll we see a road stretching to faraway blue mountains, the background music is a kind of rock'n'roll country sound, Tex-Mex, so the audience have the expectation that what they are about to see will involve a journey in the western states of America. As the film has a 15 certificate the audience expectation is that it will handle adult issues and it may include some scenes of violence, some scenes of a sexual nature and bad language may be used. However, being a Ridley Scott film, (Blade Runner , 1492 ) the imagery of the landscape has a deeper meaning, it appears vast and deep, with forced perspective and the intensity of the light and colour lend a super- realistic look to it. So much so, that the background almost looks like a painted one, a matte, and has a surrealistic, dreamlike quality so we feel we can expect a complex and emotional experience rather than simply the telling of a story describing a journey. As the journey is an important element of the film I suppose you might describe it as a "road movie", but not in the Hope, Crosby, Lamour tradition, more the Bonnie louise, thelma, women, film, out, western, scene, road, men, know, car, american, way, two, police, one, life, thelma's, male, journey, go, feel, excitement, character, between, back, audience, after, young, very, table, should, says, rather, often, looking, husband, cowboy, come, been, about, trip, silence, sheriff, she's, scenes, relationship, rapist, over, mirror