Warning! This article contains major spoilers for Wolf (2024)!Reuniting Brad Pitt and George Clooney after 2008’s Burn after reading, Wolf Pairs the movie stars as two unnamed “fixers” hired to clean up the same job. The Jon Watts-directed action movie uses the chemistry between the actors notably shown in Steven Soderbergh Ocean’s Trilogy To create a hilarious buddy comedy, paying homage to many crime films, buddy movies and action thrillers that came before. Perhaps unexpectedly, the Dynamic and journey of Brad Pitt and George Clooney’s fixing in Wolf are most reminiscent of a 1969 western classic which starred Paul Newman and Robert Redford.
Although Wolf Operating on the surface as a dark buddy action comedy, many of its story beats and tropes also reflect those of classic movies in the western genre. From the aging protagonists of the “Lone Wolf” to the shootouts, warring gangs and road trips premise, Wolf Could very well be considered a neo-western. What seals Wolf‘ Western categorization is its many similarities to the 1969 classic Butch Cassidy and the Sundance KidWith the 2024 crime comedy borrowing the West’s famous final scene, casting star power with the lead duo, dynamic between protagonists and conflicts with other gangs and criminals.
Wolff is very similar to Robert Redford & Paul Newman’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Clooney & Pitt’s Fixers are comparable to Butch & Sundance
The last moments of Wolf Recreate the famous shootout ending of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance KidWhich has since been immortalized by numerous remakes, spoofs and homages in other forms of media. As Clooney and Pitt’s name fixes exit the diner with guns blazing against gangs sent after them, Wolf Ends on a freeze frame of the two shooting their guns, leaving it ambiguous whether they die or survive the conflict. While Wolf‘ Recreation of this scene has a lot of meaning for the fixing journey, this is not the only similarity to the 1969 movie.
Clooney and Pitt’s fixation are too Wolf‘ respective versions of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. While they begin the film as strangers bickering over their strategies and skills as fixers, Wolf Gradually the two become Western-style gangster “partners”, which is reinforced by the Kid (Austin Abrams) often referring to them as such. Like Butch and Sundance, George Clooney and Brad Pitt’s movie characters have to go on the road as they avoid being caught for their crime, with Wolf“Child” is joined by the “Child” and the 1969 movie characters are joined by Sundance’s lover, Etta Place.
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Moreover, while Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids iconic outlaws battle against Old West gangs and Bolivian bandits in South America, WolfFixers find themselves up against both Croatian and Albanian gangs after a set-up lands them with five bricks of drugs. Before their shootout in the 2024 action movie, Clooney and Pitt safely drop off the kid back home, similar to location returning to the US. it. finally, Wolf Gives a modern city look at Butch and Sundance if they first met in the 60s rather than the 40s and 30s.
Wolf Marks Brad Pitt and George Clooney’s seventh movie together yet Ocean’s Eleven (2001), Confessions of a dangerous mind (2002), Ocean’s Twelve (2004), Ocean’s Thirteen (2007), Burn after reading (2008), and If (2024).
The Real Meaning of Wolf Reiterating Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’s Iconic Shootout Ending
Wolfs uses Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to emphasize his themes
to seal Wolf‘ Comparisons between George Clooney and Brad Pitt’s duo and Paul Newman and Robert Redford’s Western duo, the 2024 movie mimics their shootout scene. Clooney and Pitt’s fixers look at each other, tell them that they will reveal their names if they stay alive, prepare their weapons, and get out of the diner by shooting at the criminals who shot them back. . Remaking this scene is Watts’ way of telling viewers that The Fixers have now achieved Batch and Sundance status, abandoning their “lone wolf” ways to go out guns-a-blazing with their partner.
Wolf This sentiment echoes with Clooney and Pitt’s characters, as the Wolves accept their fates and roles in the criminal world, but, at least this time, they don’t do it alone.
Paul Newman and Robert Redford’s characters come into The Shootout acknowledging that after years of going against the law and rebelling against society, they can’t leave that part of themselves and “Go straight.” So, in what was likely their final moments, Butch and Sundance go out in true gangster fashion with their closest confidant and the only person who can truly understand them. Wolf This sentiment echoes with Clooney and Pitt’s characters, as the Wolves accept their fates and roles in the criminal world, but, at least this time, they don’t do it alone.
Wolf proves George Clooney and Brad Pitt need to make a real Western movie together
Clooney and Pitt could translate their action chops into an old western story
yet WolfIt is the Perfect time for George Clooney and Brad Pitt to reunite in a more traditional western genre movie. The duo has now collaborated on various crime and action comedies, and those skills would translate easily into a western. Clooney has previously starred in Western genre-blended movies like Oh brother where are you? And From dusk till dawnWith Pete leading Legends of the Fall And The assassination of Jesse James. with Wolf Depicting them as a modern Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid-style duo, Clooney and Pitt prove themselves fit for an old western collaboration.