Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western film directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman (who won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film). Based loosely on fact, the film tells the story of Wild West outlaws Robert LeRoy Parker, known as Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman), and his partner Harry Longabaugh, the "Sundance Kid" (Robert Redford), who are on the run from a crack US posse after a string of train robberies. The pair and Sundance's lover, Etta Place (Katharine Ross), flee to Bolivia
Butch and femme is taken from the French word for woman. The word "butch", meaning "masculine", may have been coined by abbreviating the word "butcher", as first noted in George Cassidy's nickname, "Butch Cassidy". However, the exact origin of the word is still unknown. The butch web designer Daddy Rhon created a symbol of a black triangle intersecting a red circle to represent butch/femme sexuality, which was first used at the beginning of the 21st century on the website "butch-femme.com" and has started to be used elsewhere. There is debate about to whom the terms butch and femme can apply, and particularly whether