The two films that are analyzed for similarities and differences to convey significant ideas for the integrity of their own story line: they are Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, directed by George Roy Hill and released in 1969, and Thelma & Louise, directed by Ridley Scott and released in 1991. In these two films, we watch them search for freedom within ourselves and freedom from societal norms. Along the way this creates entanglement with the law and causing a constant chase throughout both films. What keeps these characters from backing down is their free-spirited, brave, and most important a firm grip on their own fate. This mentality keeps the characters on their toes from what’s holding them back, however their own actions, history …show more content…
and desire to be more, haunts their ambition to find the freedom they are looking for. The ending scene to the gun blazing, cowboy action, adventure, film, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid has a close up on the wounded bandits, Butch and Sundance crouched on the ground while breathing heavily with perspiration dripping from their foreheads hiding in an abandoned building. Even though they realize they are surrounded and need to fight their way out and realize their fate in the upcoming scene, they converse optimistically about their next adventure, visiting Australia. Butch persuades Sundance that they should try their luck in Australia, enticing him by adding beautiful women and more money for the two of them. Once they both agree to this next adventure from America they steady themselves onto their aching feet, using the stone wall as a crutch. After one last hopeful breath, they share in a moment of silence, both Butch and Sundance burst out of the building using every last bullet, energy and freedom. The film captures the last moment Butch and Sundance stand together in the gun fight against the Bolivian army. Instead of showing a gun battle scene director George Roy Hill captures a still shot of them standing together ready to take on the Bolivian Army. It’s their last strike to symbolize that they have control of their own fate and by choosing freedom through death over surrender. The ending scene of Thelma & Louise is similar to the ending of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in the sense that Thelma and Louise are also being cornered by the law and they choose to take their fate into their own hands.
The setting is filmed in the desert near Mexico, Thelma and Louise have been running from their secret and finally have been cornered at the edge of the cliff looking over the wide open Canyon. A loud hum interrupts their gaze into the distance as a police helicopter appears in front of their car. Instantly frighten, they throw the car into reverse franticly driving away from the cliff and helicopter. Unfortunately for Thelma and Louise a line of police cars arrive behind them armed and ready to fire. Switching camera angles to the police and back to Thelma and Louise you listen to dialogue of the cops asking the women to surrender and come forward. When the camera frame returns to a close up on Thelma she expresses that she doesn't want to give up or fight but just drive off the edge of the cliff. Louise is surprised however agrees to this decision and throws the shifter into drive and goes off the edge. Similar to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the last moment is a still shot of the car in the air, the director of this movie also decides to keep the actual death out of the movie and let the viewer draw their own conclusion to the …show more content…
ending. To begin, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid uses numerous filmmaking techniques for its final scene. The main part of the scene begins with the protagonists Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid lying on the ground in a crane shot, gradually coming close to the two lying in the corner of the empty room. The room feels cold and empty, with varying shades of gray and a pale tan, and the blood on Butch and the Kid being the only vibrant color in the scene. Afterwards, the scene cuts to them talking in a two-shot close up as the camera stays put. The Kid is bouncing around the scene while talking, while Butch is staying stationary at the left third of the screen. Afterwards, the scene moves to them with the camera some distance back, with Butch and the Kid taking up the left and middle thirds of the screen. As they stand up to face their demise, they each take up one side of the screen, and the camera tilts upwards as they rise. They then run outside in what appears to be a medium shot: however, the camera pulls back to reveal this is actually an extreme long shot, as they are mere specks in the shot after it is done zooming out. The final scene of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a lasting one: two “heroes”, frozen in time before their deaths.
They did not go quietly: throughout the whole movie, these two protagonists did not abide by any rules, but lived their lives as freely and bravely as they desired. Though they avoided their inevitable fates for as long as they could, they jumped into every situation head-first: act first, think later. No matter what, they stood their ground and braved the situation at hand. In this final scene, they both know how this is going to end: whether they leave the room or not, they are going to be shot to death. That moment is not any time to change their thought process, though: they are going to charge out there, guns blazing, going out in a blaze of glory. The whole movie of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid only seems to be about holding your own and standing tall in the face of adversity, not changing yourself by any means: but in the final scene, that meaning is confirmed. The scene never shows them die: it freezes on them going out, guns in hands, moments before their demise. Imagine the meaning of this scene, but with the added scene of them dying. The message of the movie by this point would be lost: by showing Butch and the Kid acting the same way they always have in the movie and freezing on them doing so, the meaning is
preserved. Following Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Thelma & Louise also utilizes quite a few filmmaking techniques to make its final scene noteworthy. In the scene, there are close-ups on both Thelma and Louise’s faces when they decide they are not going to get caught. Their faces are obscured by shadows. Thelma tells Louise the idea to drive off the cliff, and the sun illuminates the hair around her head, giving her an almost hopeful feel. As Thelma and Louise agree on this plan, more light begins to shine on Louise’s face, and the scene gets brighter. The scene cuts to a two-shot of the two police officers in charge of Thelma and Louise’s case: Detective Slocumb and Max, with the latter being set further back than Slocumb, indicating Slocumb’s superiority compared to Max’s. The scene then cuts to the ladies’ car in the middle of the frame: as it begins to drive away, Slocumb chases after them. There is a close-up on an officer’s face as he aims to take a shot at the ladies, showing the danger that they just put themselves in, but Slocumb is in the way as the car becomes more distant in the frame. There is a brief pan of the car going across the desert before cutting to Thelma and Louise holding hands, with a close-up on their hands as the car goes off the cliff and into a freeze-frame of the car in mid-air. In the final scene of Thelma & Louise, one cannot help but feel a reference to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: both went out the way they wanted to, choosing their fate, and in a freeze-frame, preserving their final moments forever in time. However, whereas Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was a film about standing firm for yourself, Thelma & Louise is a movie about freedom from yourself, instead of accepting who you are. The film starts off this way by showing Thelma leave her husband for the trip of her life, but reinforces it as they drive off the cliff: essentially, they have become free of their responsibilities and of the consequences of their actions. The scene can also be interpreted to show a divide between men and women, something Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid did not have. All the problems in Thelma & Louise are consequences of many different males, such as the attempted rapist that Louise shot dead, or JD stealing the last of Thelma and Louise’s money. In the end, the two girls are surrounded by men, and they drive off from the authorities to avoid any more problems: this ultimately leads to their doom. Overall, the general meaning of Thelma & Louise is placed right in this scene here: they have been striving for freedom from their lovers and their actions, and they finally find it by going off a cliff.
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...ner, more respected person on the streets. All it did was make him an uncaring, ruthless killer in the end. The sentences that I have set forth for these two men are just. Butch was showing he could make something of himself. Willie would never be the man his father was.
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and the film Life is Beautiful. These stories have somethings alike but many striking differences
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