The film abandoned the ""put-on-a-show"" mentality of so many other backstage song/dance films.Its songs and wonderful performances are carefully and naturally integrated into the story of the close-knit family""s day-to-day life, and serve o advance the action and plot from one season to the next.They moved in together (in the ranch-house midway between civilization and the wide-open spaces), but both realized from their past experiences that it was very difficult to "belong" o someone else:"Look, why don""t you try it out here for a while, see what happens? You know, sometimes when a person don""t know what to do, the best thing is to just stand still." He found a concealed, secret passageway and escaped, vengefully leaving behind a bear trap (with the word "SING" written in the dirt) for the youth commander.Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech, that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible.Guard: People kept robbing it.Butch: That""s a small price to pay for beauty.Butch""s partner is introduced in a similar, sepia-toned sequence filmed in close-up.During a blackjack card game in Macon""s Saloon - a typically cliched Western scene, Butch""s partner, a dead-panning, silent, dim-witted, mustached, dark-hatted cardsharp ""The Sundance Kid"" [(30 year old Robert Redford in a breakout role) not identified by name until later] deals cards to other players at a gaming table.