Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head

Rating: Null/10 (13 May 2011)

Having never watched "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969) before, I must admit that a lot more references in other works that I never used to quite get, make sense now. More specifically, I can now say that after many years of watching "Spy Hard" (1996), I finally understand the significance of the bicycle scene over which "Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head" plays.
"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969), besides being loosely based on actual events (which I found interesting), brought a new aspect to filming. This aspect was the way it used the glorifying of violence to portray the violence in a thought provoking manner. I feel previous films neglected to use strong and very visible violence because it was inappropriate to do so, but for this film it worked, and we have witnessed violence grow more persistent in films ever since.