Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay.

Today we are talking about Witch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the 1969 film directed by George Roy Hill, written by William Goldman.

I'm joined by the Lessons from Screenplay team, Trisha Arand. Hello, everyone. Brian Bittner.

Hello, hello. And Alex Cayeros. Hi. So we're doing something a little different with this episode.

So what we're going to be trying is occasionally we're going to have one of the team members choose a film that we think everybody on the team should watch.

And then we'll watch it and discuss.

And so, Trisha, you chose Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid for everyone to talk about.

Why did you choose this film?

Well, of course, this film is notorious for a number of reasons, but especially for its screenplay.

Like, it often pops up in screenwriting books and in conversations about, like, the greatest

screenplay is ever written.

And, of course, at the time, too, it was, like, the biggest spec, like, spec sale ever.

Of a, like, Bill Goldman wrote this movie and he sold like as an original screenplay and he like

sold it for i think it was four hundred thousand dollars at the time which is like it you know it's

kind of the myth of a like million dollar spec and and then of course it won a bunch of

Oscars too so it's just a landmark in cinema history and of course it won a bunch of Oscars too. So it's just a landmark in cinema history.

And of course, is still so enjoyable to watch today and just, I think, holds up really well.

But I also picked it because I figured we would have a variety of takes.

Because you knew I'd never seen it.

Well, yeah, there's also that.

So you too, Michael, you also hadn't seen it?

Yeah.

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