It’s time yet again to Social Distance the heck out of this epidemic and watch a movie together while still staying in three different states: North Carolina, Florida, and California. Next up this week, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Netflix Watch Party app ended up being a little complicated, so we just set a time to hit “play” and then chatted through instant messenger. Click the jump to read some highlights from the conversation.
The Players: Elizabeth, Hannah, Kathryn, Nathan, and the parents (Parents represented here by Marian, because Dad would chisel a message in a stone tablet before typing anything on a phone.)
Kathryn
So which one did everyone want to watch tonight? It sounds like our choices are Paddington, Lars and the Real Girl, or Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Hannah
How about Butch? Needs to be below 80 degrees before we dive into the festive stuff, I think
Kathryn
Works for me! 8:30?
Hannah
Sure!
Nathan
Next time I say let’s go someplace like Bolivia, let’s go someplace like Bolivia!!
(That will make sense shortly.)
Kathryn
Everyone almost ready?
Elizabeth
Ready here!
Kathryn
Howsabout in Florida?
Hannah
Got it. 111 minutes?
Elizabeth
Mine says 1 hour 50 on Prime?
Hannah
(There were several options)
Kathryn
Sounds right to me
Hannah
Ok hang on
Kathryn
One is a documentary, but it’s way shorter
Hannah
One is 4kuhd the other is not
Both 111 minutes tho
Nathan
1 hr 50 minutes is the runtime according to IMDB.
Elizabeth
I didn’t go for the 4Kuhd version
Since I do not know what that means
Nathan
It’s the video quality.
Kathryn
Pretty picture much detail good
Nathan
4K is higher than HD.
Elizabeth
heh
Hannah
Ok so I’ve rented
Kathryn
Ready to hit play
Hannah
Ready
Elizabeth
Ready!
Kathryn
Playing
Elizabeth
Playing!
Hannah
Violence, sexuality and drug use get PG?
Kathryn
It’s super mild stuff
Hannah
YES MASKS ON, BOYS
Edith Head gives good costume
Elizabeth
I’ve never seen this and I don’t know why
Kathryn
Most of What Follows Is True
Nathan
This is one of my favorite films.
Lots of fun!
Hannah
… sounds like a Fargo intro
Nathan
This was the movie that made Robert Redford a star.
Kathryn
I heard that the director kept the camera on Redford so long here because he thought he wouldn’t be successful and it would be the only screentime he’d get.
Elizabeth
heh
Hannah
Paul Newman could get it. Even in sepia those eyes are impossibly blue
Elizabeth
Niiice
shooting I mean
Nathan
Pretty damn good, I’d say!
Bolivia!
Elizabeth
Boy I got vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals
Nathan
That’s Lurch from The Addams Family.
Elizabeth
I KNEW he sounded familiar!
Hannah
YOU RANG
Nathan Adams
Hannah
That little dude is an amalgamation of most of Monty Python
Nathan
Kathryn Wallace Adams
“One two three go!”
Elizabeth
Hee
Nathan
“I represent Mr. E.H. Harriman!”
Elizabeth
KABLAM
Kathryn
Aw, glad he survived.
Hee, I love this next bit.
“Boy I just eat this up with a spoon.”
Elizabeth
“Boy I just eat this up with a spoon.” Hee
Jinx!
Kathryn
Every one of Redford’s lines is a gem.
Elizabeth
Bucket o beer, bartender
Hannah
That… that looks like a really nice bike actually
Ew
Elizabeth
Right? “I’m gonna find me a nice girl. And turn a gun on her.”
Yay!!
Kathryn
Eeeee!
Nathan
MIIIINNNNEEEEE!!
Elizabeth
hahahah, the muaa ha ha as he goes past the window
Kathryn
“Don’t ever hit your mother with a shovel…”
Elizabeth
This movie is not anything like what I expected.
Kathryn
Right?
Hannah
I mean, not really with the 1920s vibes with this song
Elizabeth
That’s what I was thinking!
Nathan
It does feel a bit anachronistic.
Kathryn
Pretty much the only time they do this
Nathan
They wanted Bob Dylan to sing it, but he declined.
Hannah
So many historical movies can’t escape the decade they were made in
Elizabeth
So Sundance Kid hooked up with her but she seems like Butch’s girl?
Nathan
No, she’s Sundance’s wife, I believe.
At least she was in real life.
Elizabeth
“Do you think if I’d met you first..” AH. Question answered.
Nathan
Kathryn
“Hey Woodcock!”
Elizabeth
Hee, nice fakeout
Kathryn
God that shit-eating grin.
BLAMMO
Elizabeth
KABLAAMMO!!
Hannah
Heh, well that was funny
Nathan
That did it, all right,
Kathryn
Some of yer paper money’s coming unstole
Elizabeth
Ut oh.
Kathryn
Surprisingly menacing.
Hannah
I love an outlaw who has to circle around to the “proper” side to mount a horse
Elizabeth
“WHAT’S A MATTER WITH THOSE GUYS”
Kathryn
To be honest he’d probably be insulted if they chased anyone other than him.
Hannah
These two need a romantic evening together sans sex workers…
Elizabeth
Right?
UT OH
Kathryn
Whoops
Elizabeth
“Now turn around and OOF”
Kathryn
Horses be like naw.
Elizabeth
Breakneck speed on horses through the woods in the dark NOPE
Kathryn
Like I said, a gem.
Hannah
(Unrelated, but Zoe Crick is here for any and all cat content)
Elizabeth
Yay!
Nathan
“Who are those guys?”
Kathryn
Breaking into the Sheriff’s house, of course.
This guy knows what’s up.
No music in all of this, very effective
Elizabeth
Time stamp? My broadband did a thing
Kathryn
50:38
Elizabeth
Thankee 
Hannah
This cinematographer influenced every TV show of the 70s
Elizabeth
I was just thinking some of the long shots reminded me of Kurosawa
Hannah
VOLDEMORT?
Elizabeth
THAT’S WHAT I HEARD TOO
Kathryn
Boldemort?
Hannah
Hannah Wallace
It’s the medium shots with the zoom, I think
Nathan
“Who are those guys?” is the “I have a bad feeling about this” of this movie.
Elizabeth
Agreed
Pattie would say this movie has the formula: good lookin men and good lookin horses.
Hannah
[Pan back]: IT’S MOUNT RUSHMORE
Elizabeth
North by northwest!
Hannah
The horses were the cropdusters we made along the way
Elizabeth
heh
Kathryn
Hee
Elizabeth
There’s the Bolivia line 
Hannah
“Squished to death”
And there’s the West Wing title
Kathryn
I KNEW you’d spot that.
Elizabeth
Hahaha arguing all the way down
Hannah
(Tbh I thought that was the end of the movie, just because of Sorkin)
Kathryn
Aw, group hug.
Nathan
I made the guys I used to play D&D with watch this film, because it’s exactly like they’d have gotten into,
Hannah
POLYAMORY FTW
(EXCEPT not really, seems like a terrible idea)
Elizabeth
“..no make a big thing out of it.” awww
Ohhh E.H. Harriman..
Kathryn
“No, just till they kill you.”
Hannah
She was the daughter in the Graduate?
Nathan
Yep!
Hannah
(Sorry if I missed that earlier)
Nathan
Also in The Stepford Wives.
Kathryn
Damn I love a strong female character in this genre.
Elizabeth
“I’ll miss that scene if you don’t mind.” I like her.
Hannah
So basically any other movie with these two was based off this movie
Nathan
Pretty much.
Hannah
I’m looking at you, THE STING
Nathan
Those were the only two movies Redford & Newman were in together, believe it or not.
Hannah
Heh I believe it, but they made such a cultural impression, the two of them
Kathryn
I like the transition from sepia to color here.
Nathan
Oh, definitely!
Hannah
I used to adore the Maverick movie. I know it was based on the TV show but obviously this was the ultimate source
Kathryn
“What would they have here that you could possibly want to buy?”
Elizabeth
Heh
I like the can kick
Kathryn
Crabby Redford
Hannah
“The total tonnage of what you don’t know…” is also a line Sorkin stole for Hoynes
Kathryn
Okay I got NONE of that.
Damn you Duolingo.
Nathan
Neither did they.
Elizabeth
I’m gettin one word out of five
Hannah
Same, Elizabeth
Elizabeth
deposito, tambien, senor…
Hannah
Also Mom says this is the same director as The Sting
Kathryn
I thought “arriba” meant “upstairs”
Hannah
SIENTETE, TODOS
Elizabeth
cheating cheating
Kathryn
Pared, piso, techo, wall floor, ceiling.
Hannah
DYCH CHI’N GWISGO ESGIDIAU
(Are you wearing shoes?)
Kathryn
WELSH IS NOT HELPING
Elizabeth
todo dinero, got that
Hannah
SETTLE DOWN BURT
Kathryn
Oh I forgot about this bit of anachronism
Elizabeth
I hear this music and I see beehives
Hannah
Mom says this is the Swingle Singers, so obviously Sorkin is a massive fan of this movie
(My Welsh earlier may have asked if you’re eating shoes )
Elizabeth
hee
So was the plan just “prove to us how safe your bank is?”
Kathryn
Yep
Eda looks so delighted.
Hannah
Burt be like, “NOTHING SAYS 1920S LIKE LOUNGE SKAT”
Elizabeth
Right?
Hannah
This as a double bill with Fight Club, though…
Elizabeth
Ut oh
“I’m better when I move.” “Yeeeah.”
Kathryn
“Will you two beginners cut it out?”
Hannah
Heh
Elizabeth
“We hit this place in June didn’t we?”
Hannah
Damn, I wanna watch Buster Scruggs again
Kathryn
That was fast!
Elizabeth
Oops
Kathryn
Yeah, I wanna see that again too.
Hannah
Where was this filmed? (Dad wants to know)
Nathan
Mexico, according to IMDB.
Kathryn
I believe at this point I’d ask the miners to meet me at the bank and just pay them there.
Elizabeth
ahora es nosotros!
Hannah
Those miners speaking better Spanish than at least 50 percent of the cast of Breaking Bad
Normalize straight cis men in eyeliner
Kathryn
She really wants them to ask her to stay, but she knows they won’t.
Hannah
Y’ALL ARE A THROUPLE, TALK ABOUT IT
LOOKOUT THERE’S A MOUTH MINNOW WITH COWBOYS
Kathryn
Hee
Hannah
(*translation approximation)
Kathryn
“Don’t you get sick of being right all the time?”
Elizabeth
I was JUST typing that
Hannah
“Don’t you get sick of being right all the time?”
Elizabeth
Jinx!
Hannah
I’ve definitely heard that elsewhere
Elizabeth
“I’ll go.” “This is no time for bravery. I’ll let ya.”
Man he really is a good shot
Hannah
He’s popping that hammer like it’s the trigger
Kathryn
NOT THE MULES!
Hannah
waow
Elizabeth
ow ow ow
Hannah
Heh
Elizabeth
“Jefe.” Got that one.
Kathryn
Dos
Hannah
Bolivian seamstress slander already
Those buttons working harder than the extras
Elizabeth
There is a gawdawful episode of House where everybody’s having all these dreams, now I know where the one of Cuddy and House in a final standoff came from..
Hannah
Ooooh
Mel Gibson is SO MAD he wasn’t in this movie. It’s his whole career
Kathryn
“NO SWIMMING.”
Elizabeth
“For a moment there I thought we were in trouble.”
Kathryn
Fade to sepia.
Hannah
Oh Burt and your delicate-ass fingers
And your…harpsichord
Elizabeth
Hahah
I really have no idea why it took me so long to watch that.
Kathryn
So cool, I love that movie.
Oh, and the actress who played Etta was in Donnie Darko, so we need to add that to the list.
Elizabeth
Oh definitely, I’ve been wanting to rewatch that one for.a while now.
Hannah
Ooooh I have the DVD and still haven’t watched it in 20 years…
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