1960s Movies

The movies we watched in class all represent the 1960s well. The emergence of the buddy movie with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid became extremely popular, and this type of movie is still popular today. People of the 1960s wanted to see a friendship like Butch and Sundance played out on the screen. The humor in The Pink Panther also represents the 1960s. The comedy was mostly slapstick, which seemed to be popular during this decade, but is less popular today. The audiences also seemed to like characters that were a little bad. Butch Cassidy and Sundance rob trains and banks, and Inspector Clouseau is convicted of a crime at the end of The Pink Panther. The audience did not necessarily want to see a happy ending to a movie and also seemed to enjoy bad things happening to the main characters.