shelf of open cans of peas.” I am not suggesting that you have to go like a streak when you’re running for curtain. In Butch Cassidy, for instance, after they are shot and the Bolivian cavalry arrives, getting the cavalry into position takes sixty seconds. It could have been done in one: You could have seen the officer giving instructions (as you do) and then, instead of shot after shot of armed soldiers running up stairs, you could have just gone to the final shot when they’re all in position; the same information would have been given. But not the emotion.
