Q 01/05

Who directed Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?

A) George Roy Hill

B) John Sturges

C) Sam Peckinpah

D) Arthur Penn

Answer · why

A) George Roy Hill

George Roy Hill directed Paul Newman as Butch, though Newman had first expected to play Sundance; the script's title was flipped to match the casting.

Q 02/05

William Goldman, who wrote Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, later turned which of his own novels into a fantasy film?

A) The NeverEnding Story

B) The Princess Bride

C) Stardust

D) The Last Unicorn

Answer · why

B) The Princess Bride

The Princess Bride began as his 1973 novel, which pretends to be an abridgement of a fairy tale by an author he invented, 'S. Morgenstern'; he adapted...

Q 03/05

What did one studio head tell William Goldman when rejecting the Butch Cassidy script?

A) 'Cowboys don't talk that much'

B) 'A Western needs a wedding'

C) 'John Wayne don't run away'

D) 'Nobody wants a sad ending'

Answer · why

C) 'John Wayne don't run away'

'John Wayne don't run away' was his objection to heroes who flee to South America; by Goldman's telling, a few changed pages later every studio wanted...

Q 04/05

Goldman said the outlaws' escape abroad disproved which F. Scott Fitzgerald claim about American lives?

A) They all end in tragedy

B) They never outrun the past

C) They have no second acts

D) They are ruined by money

Answer · why

C) They have no second acts

They have no second acts, Fitzgerald wrote; Butch and Sundance ran to South America and, Goldman said, became bigger legends there than they had ever ...

Q 05/05

Which actor turned down the role of Sundance because he disliked riding horses?

A) Jack Lemmon

B) Warren Beatty

C) Marlon Brando

D) Steve McQueen

Answer · why

A) Jack Lemmon

McQueen backed out after disagreements with Newman, and Beatty passed because it felt too much like Bonnie and Clyde. Redford simply liked the script.