Wednesday 21 October 2009

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

If you're looking for creative music use in movies then dig out George Roy Hill's 1969 Western Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman and Robert Redford) from the library. Three prime music cues:

1. Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head (Bacharach) plays while Paul Newman rides around on a bike with menage a trois Katherine Ross on the handlebars (just find me something in those lyrics that matches that scene)

2. South American Getaway (wordless rising and falling vocals over footage of Bolivian adventures)

3. Stunning title tune which has haunted me since I first saw this movie in the 1970s sometime as a spotty urchin and reappears throughout in different styles and moods.

Go Burt, go.

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