Picking Nits
Etta's endgame is unexplored; act two is a long, slow chase; there is no love scene with Catherine Ross
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- The only nitpick for one host is not understanding Etta's endgame, whether she loved Sundance and was the third wheel or had a thing for Butch; it feels slightly unexplored and perhaps ages poorly, though in 1969 it needed no explanation why a woman would follow powerful men around.
- Act two feels weird and long, basically one chase with very little dialogue and almost nothing else happening, which Goldman wrote about; older movies are paced differently so younger audiences struggle, and a rewatch the night before was surprisingly slow despite how important the events are; the other host had the same note.
- The retort is to go to hell: he could take the two of them into an editing room, put the reels up and tell them to knock themselves out and take three minutes. — Aaron Sorkin
- Made today, the studio would want a rattlesnake fight for juice, a superpower for Butch or a spaceship; the mock rape notwithstanding, there is no love scene with Catherine Ross, which a studio would have a problem with.