The Cynical Historian

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Based on a True Story (2019x26)

Air date: Jul 01, 2019

Thanks to Skillshare for sponsoring this episode. Goto https://skl.sh/thecynicalhistorian4 to get a 2-month free trial George Roy Hill and William Goldman, the director and writer, were more concerned with what they could do within the stories of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and managed to make a pretty good movie despite the inaccuracies ------------------------------------------------------------ I made that documentary about the death of the Western genre: https://youtu.be/x6zD1sjnClM ------------------------------------------------------------ references: Jeremy Agnew, The Old West in Fact and Film: History Versus Hollywood (Jefferson, N.Car.: McFarland and Company, 2012), 119-121. https://amzn.to/2CdEPo2 Thom Hatch, The Last Outlaws: The Lives and Legends of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (New York: New American Library, 2013), audiobook. https://amzn.to/2XOnGdO Frank Richard Prassel, The Great American Outlaw: A Legacy of Fact and Fiction (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993), 312-315. https://amzn.to/2ET2Xge Richard Slotkin, Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America (New York: Atheneum Books, 1992), 591-592. https://amzn.to/2KX0jI2 http://historyonfilm.com/butch-cassidy-sundance-kid/ https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2013/jul/11/butch-cassidy-sundance-kid-reel-history ------------------------------------------------------------ SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VIDEOS: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=CynicalCypher88 Support the channel through PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/CynicalHistorian LET'S CONNECT: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cynicalcypher88 Discord: https://discord.gg/Ukthk4U Twitter: https://twitter.com/Cynical_History ------------------------------------------------------------ Wiki: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western film directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman (who won the Aca