Butch and Sundance

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the male characters are seen to be brutish and violent, others sexist and manipulative, this is not a anti- male film there is humour, understanding and tenderness too between the men and women. The representation of the Western scene and society conforms to the ideas we have formed about the American west. The men wear western style suits, jeans, boots and cowboy hats, and treat their womenfolk with old fashioned courtesy (as long as the women conform to a feminine stereotype), there is lots of hat raising and "ma'aming" and you feel they would all rather be off on the trail with the boys than anything else.

There is a marvellous scene where the sheriff and F.B.I. men are advising Darryl, Thelma's husband, how he should keep her talking on the phone so that they can trace the call. Darryl up till now has always spoken to Thelma as though she were a stupid child who has to be told loudly and often what to do. The F.B.I. man says he, Darryl, should "be gentle with her, women love that kind of *censored*" and at this the camera pans around a...