Also, I found the iconic freeze-frame ending of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid too obscure. “What happened?” I remember asking. “They died,” my mom informed me. “They died?” I yelped. “Yes, Quentin, they died,” my mother assured me. “How do you know?” I shrewdly asked. “Because when it froze, that was what that was meant to imply,” she patiently replied. Again I asked, “How do you know?” “I just know,” was her unsatisfying answer. “Why didn’t they show it?” I asked, almost indignant. Then, clearly losing her patience, she snapped, “Because they didn’t want to!” Then I grumbled under my
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