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Flim: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Song #1: Ennio Morricone - The Good the Bad and the Ugly
I included this song because it fits so well in this movie. This song is legendary. You could probably hear this song in every cowboy theme movie ever. This song connects to events in the film because it is a classic western song that you would usually hear when two cowboys are having a staredown before a duel. I would have put this song right before the scene where Harvey said “Guns or Knives” challenging Butch to either a knife or gun fight for his leadership in the Hole-in-the-Wall gang and ended after Butch said “Well, thank you, Flatnose. That’s what sustained me in my time of trouble.”​​​​ after kicking Harvey in the groin and punching him in the face winning the duel. Overall this song could easily be put into anywhere in this movie at any given part without it feeling out of place.

Song #2: Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around I include this song because it is a great song. This song would have fit perfectly to open the movie where they show the credits and scenes from the movie. I get western vibes from listening to this song with the guitar and lyrics. When I hear this song it makes me think of a rebel, a guy who runs the place, a guy who doesn’t care and it’s certain someone who is like that in the movie and that someone is Butch. This song connects to the event in the flim because in my opinion this song fits Butch character and personalliy really well. Butch is the guy. Everyone knows Butch. When he comes around just know it’s about to go down. He is a natural born leader. Women love him and it’s men that want to be him. He is an outlaw. He robs trains and runs from posses. He enjoys the fame and excitement.

Song #3: Johnny Cash - Hurt This chose this song because it would end the movie perfectly. Every great movie needs a good song to finish it and this song would do. It’s a nice catchy song. I would have put this song at the ending when Butch and Sundance Kid run out the building with guns in they hands getting ready to fight the posses and then have it transition over into the end credits. This song connects to events of the film because the song is called “Hurt.’’ Sundance Kid and Butch are clearly hurt. They are drawing blood, they have scars across their faces and they are tired but they are going to keep fighting until they can’t do it any more which means they are dead. Overall playing this song at the end of the movie would really show us how powerful Butch and Sundance Kid are.

Song #4: The Handsome Family- Far From Any Road I chose this song because it’s a very calming song that you can use for a lot of scenes in a lot of different movies. I would have use this song with the scene of Butch and Sundacnce Kid are being chased by the posses after they robbed the train. The chasing scene was great but my one problem was it didn’t have any music. This song connects the events to the film because this song is called “Far From Any Road” and Butch and the Sundace Kid were being chased by the posses for a long time. This total scene was 27 minutes long. I pretty sure Butch and Sundance Kid didn’t even know where they was going. They were just going straight trying to avoid themselves from getting caught by the posse.

Song #5: Short Change Hero - The Heavy I chose this song because it would go great with an action scene. I would have used this song for scene with the shootout with the Sundace Kid shooting back at the posses trying to save Butch. Playing this song with this scene would just mesh together so well. Just watching the Sundance kid using his phenomenal gun skills to take out the posse one by one was just very amusing to watch. This song connects to the events of the film even though it might not feel like it, the Sundace Kid is a hero. Out of everyone in the “Hole in the Wall Gang” he’s the most valuable. He has to do the dirty work in the gang. His challenge is to keep him and Butch from getting killed.

Alana Finney Reel reading Mrs.Giknis 4/26/2022 Blade runners Real world relations.

In Blade Runner, the concept of being human or humain has been pushed to say, only humans can be and define what is human and what is humain. Understanding the separation of humans and all other species, including the man made ones, is easy in a biblical sense. Humans have made the belief that we are the highest power on earth and, for some, god gave us that power. Even if blade runner has no godly entity besides devine wealth, we know humans have some sort of biblical ideal in the humanitarian society. God made humans separate and better from animals, and they see all other life forms as some form of animal, including the replicants, which gives humans the right to treat them as such. Society deemed some things safe to do to species not human, such as killing, breeding, enslavement and entertainment. In Blade Runner they enslave their own creation for their own benefits. Even if they look, act, and feel like humans, they, to society, are stil man made objects. This also raises concern about morals and what makes a human, human. From the Encyclopedia Britannica “a more highly developed brain and a resultant capacity for articulate speech and abstract reasoning.” is the most eligible definition of a human. Most would argue that the replicants have all of that since they are made to be exactly like a human, except stronger,.They have a psychological pattern exactly like ours. They have real emotions and were intended to be real human servants. They are also born of man, man made them, the thing that is keeping them from being defined as human is the societal construct that if it is artificial, it holds no real value. Similar to our world they have artificial and genetically modified foods and meat. Their world is around 85% artificial with humans being the only real things left. With our world today we have GMOs in order to maximize food production for the lively benefit of human consumption. GMOs are widely overtaking natural food for how easy it is to grow and maintain, and less expensive to produce and purchase. Though organic agriculture won’t disappear, it’s on a drastic decline. We also share similarities within our animals. We have, and are continuing to make genetically modified animals for human entertainment and benefit. We have created hypoallergenic animals so people allergic to their pets could have them. Now we are using CRISPR, a gene modifier, that will help breed better animals suitable for production. It will help increase meat production. It has not yet been proven to affect an animal’s way of life nor have any health risks. In similar ways we are affecting the animal kingdom which I find morally wrong especially since you have to breed this gene into existence. Society said that this is ok because these are just animals and it is benefiting us. In relation to the unicorn that has multiple meanings two of them being freedom and eternal life. In Their society and ours, humans have one thing in common: the search for freedom and longer life. The replicants want to live longer, as their makers gave them very short life spans, but seeing as they have the wants as a normal human, they both wanted to have time to experience life. They want to live as long as possible and they found it unfair, they got abandoned without any consideration. They were seen as disposable so they weren’t seen as something that needed to live long. Everyone in this world lives in a hierarchy like we have. Everyone wants to be freed from the confinements of living in a hierarchy.

SOUNDTRACK // Redo (or make in the first place) the soundtrack for the film. Choose at least five songs that you would include. Write an explanation for each song: why would you include it, and how does the song connect to events in the film? (750 words)

Blade Runner

Something In The Way (Nirvana) - I would include this song in the soundtrack because it has a very noir feeling to it and fits the theme of Deckard fighting the replicants because they are in the way of him enjoying his life. Which also resonates with the time when his boss wanted him back but he was tired about that type of stuff and wanted to be left alone. However he didn’t really have a choice in the end. I really think this song fits a lot of the themes in Blade Runner. Personally I think it’s because a lot of the parts in this movie really are in the way of his goals and way of life.

Armed and Dangerous (Juice WORLD) - This song really belongs in the movies when the action starts turning up because all sorts of weapons are used in Blade Runner and you could really connect it to the theme of him fighting the replicants towards the end or even maybe the beginning depending on where it was placed. I think it belongs in the soundtrack because it resembles the actions of the replicants in a really unique way; they are all armed and dangerous.

In the End (Linkin Park) Ok for starters this might be one of the most inspiring songs of all time and I think for an ending song especially for Blade Runner this one fits perfectly because everything he did in the end people will just pass it by only he will really remember how important that was. Overall his story will be forgotten. This is a perfect song for the soundtrack because of how you can use it for the ending and some other sections dealing with an end of sorts’ it also kinda fits that sci-fi element a tiny bit.

Psycho (Post Malone - feat. Ty Dolla $ign) This song especially fits for Roy because the guy is a psycho living his last few weeks on Earth even though this song is kinda more upbeat there’s a certain message that personally I think fits in this movie’s soundtrack if it’s only a tiny bit however the message could be really powerful. There’s a certain feeling I get from this song. It’s one of depression and happiness, kind of a mix of the two and it works. If this was used for a tiny section with Roy at the perfect moment I feel like this would be something truly special.

Superhero (Simon Curtis) There’s alot to this song for one it is probably one of my favorite and most unheard of songs in the industry and period. It feels like something that would perfectly fit in any action scene involving good or bad. I believe it would fit perfectly with Deckard’s struggle to fight the replicants, maybe not for multiple scenes but just one or two would work perfectly if done right. Mainly because well this isn’t really an action movie but more of a psychological sci fi action drama film which however that is a mouthful it gets the point across. I really love how this song fits into the theme of action in basically every genre involving some sort of hero; it’s just something so unique.

It Wasn’t Me (Shaggy) This would be insanely funny if It wasn’t me played in the background of that strip club scene I personally feel like that fits perfectly and would be hilarious which I think to an extent Ridley Scott was going for a somewhat comedic scene because I could tell he was trying to make us laugh with the character in that scene until it switched to a action scene. I know it sounds weird me suggesting this song for a noir sci fi film but ever since I watched Blade Runner back in 2017 I could never get over the fact of how hilarious it would have been to have that song in the background not necessarily in the scene where that girl gets undressed but just the strip club when he enters it. To this day I still believe it would be insanely funny.