This film marked the new shift not only into the new Hollywood, but also a shift in the traditional Western, giving us two heroes that certainly do not match the typical Western hero. And it also changed the Western in that the good guys don't always win, as in this classic ending sequence from the film. Butch and Sundance, now in Bolivia, are finally cornered into a building by a small group of law enforcement officials. Butch and Sundance regroup while hiding in this building talking about where they should go next and still arguing with each other, as they did throughout the entire film. It's a sad moment though because unbeknownest to Butch and Sundance by viewed by the audience, entire armies of troops arrive and position themselves from every possible angle to shoot Butch and Sundance when they finally come out. Butch and Sundance still figure it's the small group of officials who chased them down, so they figure they can take them with no problem. They burst out of the door into a hail of bullets, but the most brilliant choice director George Roy Hill made was to freeze the image of Butch and Sundance just at the point they realize they are doomed to die, and we only hear the hundreds of rounds of bullets being fired at them. The image is frozen, and slowly fades into sepia tones, the same tones in which the film had opened. In this way, the last image we have of Butch and Sundance is an image of them coming out fighting, and we don't have to endure seeing their death. It gives their death a more mythic status, and makes for a whole new image of the Old West.