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To: colorado tanker
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Butch and Sundance are trapped and cornered by the posse on a ledge at the edge of a steep rock canyon with nowhere else to go. Their frequent comic, self-deprecating bantering is a highlight of the film, especially illustrated when they overlook raging rapids fifty feet below and are faced with a choice between a hopeless shoot-out and a near-suicidal leap:

Butch: DAMMIT! Well, the way I figure it, we can either fight or give. If we give, we go to jail.

Sundance: I been there already.

Butch: But if we fight, they can stay right where they are and starve us out or go for position - shoot us; might even get a rockslide started and get us that way. What else could they do?

Sundance: They could surrender to us, but I wouldn't count on that. (He watches the posse maneuver.) They're goin' for position, all right. Better get ready. (He loads his gun.)

Butch: Kid - the next time I say, 'Let's go someplace like Bolivia,' let's go someplace like Bolivia.

Sundance: Next time. Ready?

Butch: (looking into the deep canyon and the river far below) No, we'll jump.

Sundance (after looking down): Like hell we will.

Butch: No, it'll be OK - if the water's deep enough, we don't get squished to death. They'll never follow us.

Sundance: How do you know?

Butch: Would you make a jump like that you didn't have to?

Sundance: I have to and I'm not gonna.

Butch: Well, we got to, otherwise we're dead. They're just gonna have to go back down the same way they come. Come on.

Sundance: Just one clear shot, that's all I want.

Butch: Come on.

Sundance: Uh-uh.

Butch: We got to.

Sundance: Nope! Get away from me!

Butch: Why?

Sundance: I wanna fight 'em!

Butch: They'll kill us!

Sundance: Maybe.

Butch: You wanna die?!

Sundance: (waving his pistol at the river far below) Do you?!

Butch: All right. I'll jump first.

Sundance: Nope.

Butch: Then you jump first.

Sundance: No, I said!

Butch: What's the matter with you?!

Sundance: (wildly embarrassed) I can't swim!

Butch: (guffawing at his partner) Why, you crazy - the fall'll probably kill ya!

LOL

224 posted on 07/19/2006 3:25:20 PM PDT by beyond the sea (The truth exists even when it is ignored.)
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To: beyond the sea
Great movie!

Here's another: "You just keep thinkin' Butch. That's what you're good at."

244 posted on 07/19/2006 3:33:06 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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