I’ve been reading William Goldman’s Adventures in the Screen Trade, his autobiography/expose of his screenwriting career. It’s really a good book — a bit dated as far as names go, but still an entertaining description of how Hollywood works.
So over the last few days I’ve been reading the section of the book on Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, a movie I’ve never seen.
And this morning, on the History Channel — an examination of the movie from an historical perspective.
That goes right along with my earlier this week having read his section on the making of A Bridge Too Far and then running across, also on the History Channel, a “History’s Blunders” on Operation Market-Garden.
Weird.
(Actually, what’s weird was that I read the screenplay, knowing Robert Redford and Paul Newman starred, but not knowing who played which role. I got it the wrong way around, which made seeing some film clips of the actual movie — a bit surreal.)