One of my all-time favorites, "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", was on AMC recently and I watched the Bolivian scene in which the Bandidos Yanquees, with Etta Place in tow, are being chased through the countryside by mounted police. One of the few things I dislike about this film is the vocalizing that accompanies this scene. Entitled "South American Getaway" and written by Burt Bacharach, it is too
light-hearted for the fate that awaits. It is also annoying. Truly disturbing, however, is the scene in "Face/Off" (1997), in which the drug lord's home is being shot to pieces. A toddler is present (presumably the bad guy's nephew) and the best his mother can do is to give him his portable headphones and let him listen to music. Eerily, we see the wide-eyed child witnessing death amid the shooting rampage while we hear "Over the Rainbow," which is what he is hearing from the headphones. If ever, oh ever, he was, the toddler is not in Kansas anymore.
light-hearted for the fate that awaits. It is also annoying. Truly disturbing, however, is the scene in "Face/Off" (1997), in which the drug lord's home is being shot to pieces. A toddler is present (presumably the bad guy's nephew) and the best his mother can do is to give him his portable headphones and let him listen to music. Eerily, we see the wide-eyed child witnessing death amid the shooting rampage while we hear "Over the Rainbow," which is what he is hearing from the headphones. If ever, oh ever, he was, the toddler is not in Kansas anymore.
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