Bonnie and Clyde
1967 Directed by Arthur Penn
Synopsis
They’re young...they’re in love...and they kill people.
Bonnie and Clyde is based on the true stories of the gangster pair Bonnie Parker and Clyde Parker who in the 1930’s began robbing banks in all the main US cities until they were eventually killed. The film takes on the aesthetical movement of New Hollywood.
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Important AND great! That doesn't happen all too often.
This was a long overdue rewatch, and it's actually better than I remembered. The effects might look a bit dated now, but the violence was defining back when.
As for everything else, it's wonderfully casted and every actor is on form, surrounded by great cinematography. What really stuck out for me is the wonderful writing, adding in nostalgia, warmth and humour amidst the action, suspense and bleakness without ever creating a feeling of excess.
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Man, this was one incredibly dull film.
If Warren Beaty would have taken his top off and done Patrick Bateman poses in the mirror whilst squeezing his cock in Faye Dunaway's arse or receiving fellatio, whilst Terence Stamp a la Superman 2 shouted instructions. "TAKE HIM! TAKE ... HIIIIIIMMMM!" It still would have been shit!
It would have been more interesting watching a bunch of primary school kids running round the yard with invisible tommy guns giving it "trptrptrp. You're dead I got you!" Than this shite.
The only amusing bit was Gene Hackman SCREAMING EVERY FUCKING LINE!
This Twan guy is a son of a bitch, tricking me in to watching old films.
:'(
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Aside from saying how much of a landmark film this was for the New Hollywood Movement, I have no idea what to add that hasn't already been said so I'll just randomly say that Jay-Z and Beyonce made a pretty dope song called Bonnie and Clyde 10 years ago and it's crazy that they're still together, riding til the very end crazy in love, much like the real Bonnie and Clyde were before, you know, KA-KA-KABLEWY!
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Instrumental in the emergence of the New Hollywood era of American cinema, Arthur Penn’s revisionist gangster classic recreates the infamous crimes of the Barrow gang in the 1930s, bringing to the story a heretofore almost unseen level of violence and sexuality that would push the boundaries of film censorship and prove the final nail in the coffin of the outdated Hays’ Code. Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway take the title roles as criminal lovers obsessed with their own media celebrity who together lead a motley band of social misfits. Counterculturalism abounds in Penn’s romanticisation of their Depression-era crimes, yet the sense that no wrong deed goes unpunished slowly builds to an iconic climax in one of the most famous scenes of film history. Additionally notable as the first film role for an expectedly hilarious Gene Wilder, Bonnie and Clyde is a landmark cinematic work, as provocative and impactful today as it was almost fifty years ago.
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Hasn't aged a day. Inhabits a flawless period setting while remaining relevant to the 60s and all the way up to today. Faye and Warren are unforgettable. The entire cast, cinematography, editing, writing, sets, costumes, sound design and ending are iconic. The influence is indelible and pervasive, but is still deserving of this gross aggrandizement.
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“Bonnie and Clyde” is a movie I appreciate both for the movie itself, as well as how it ushered in the “New Hollywood” era of filmmaking, a time of more realism and different stylistic devices. This movie’s straightforward take on sex and the graphic, bloody scene at the end were unfamiliar to the audiences of the time but eventually achieved commercial success. I am a huge fan of movies from the era and “Bonnie and Clyde” is one of the best.
The cast is stellar. Warren Beatty, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, Faye Dunaway and Academy Award winner Estelle Parsons each give amazing performances. Parsons hysterical antics are quite impressive! This is probably my favorite Dunaway performance and she has…
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A seminal work of the 60s. This is my first viewing of the true life story of Bonnie and Clyde, and the gang who robbed their way around 1930s America. It's good but not great. It's one of those 'classic' movies that i guess you need to have seen when it came out.
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While its impact on violence in film is undeniable, the claim that "Bonnie and Clyde" redefined the role of the anti-hero might be a bit of an understatement. The level of respect and sympathy given toward a pair of bank robbers and murderers exceeds unnecessary, and the portrayal of the infamous duo as rebels who understood the plight of the common man only serves to perpetuate the notion that the "end justifies the means"
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Lo más divertido de todo es que Warren Beatty y Faye Dunaway no se soportaban, y en la película no se nota :)
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Desde su arranque sin rodeos, Bonnie and Clyde es una locura tremendamente divertida que va reuniendo a ese improbable pero a la vez perfecto grupo de desastrosos maleantes. Se alarga y reitera bastante hacia el final y algunos personajes quedan desaprovechados pero Faye Dunaway está espléndida (y guapísima) entre un reparto cuya química es parte esencial junto con el dinamismo de su acción y esa violencia que primero se disfraza de comedia y se va desatando hasta el final. Vería su primera mitad una y otra vez.
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Man, this was one incredibly dull film.
If Warren Beaty would have taken his top off and done Patrick Bateman poses in the mirror whilst squeezing his cock in Faye Dunaway's arse or receiving fellatio, whilst Terence Stamp a la Superman 2 shouted instructions. "TAKE HIM! TAKE ... HIIIIIIMMMM!" It still would have been shit!
It would have been more interesting watching a bunch of primary school kids running round the yard with invisible tommy guns giving it "trptrptrp. You're dead I got you!" Than this shite.
The only amusing bit was Gene Hackman SCREAMING EVERY FUCKING LINE!
This Twan guy is a son of a bitch, tricking me in to watching old films.
:'(
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"This here's Miss Bonnie Parker. I'm Clyde Barrow. We rob banks."
The film that opened the curtain, for the now known as New Hollywood era. Bonnie and Clyde is a great movie deserving it's high praise and influential reputation.
The film follows Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow from their first meeting to their rise to nationally known folk hero bank robbers. The folk hero status stemming from the period, and the depression era. the two's celebrity seemed to out match, their actual criminal exploits and talents. Which for me helps portray the characters with a child like innocence about them. As it seems on occasion they don't fully understand what their actions mean, and how they affect others.
The acting…
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Important AND great! That doesn't happen all too often.
This was a long overdue rewatch, and it's actually better than I remembered. The effects might look a bit dated now, but the violence was defining back when.
As for everything else, it's wonderfully casted and every actor is on form, surrounded by great cinematography. What really stuck out for me is the wonderful writing, adding in nostalgia, warmth and humour amidst the action, suspense and bleakness without ever creating a feeling of excess.
And then as your focal point you have the ludicrously beautiful couple with tons of chemistry. -
Iconic late-1960s American cinematic masterpiece that adopted the French New Wave aesthetic and set the emotional tone for Hollywood's ambivalent golden age of the 1970s. A wonderful character study; a sly, allusive film text; an interrogation of American values (why, for instance, do American criminals crave fame so much?); and a wonderfully memorable violent ending. Why did it take me so long to see this?
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A deeply moving and shockingly violent tale of love and crime in the west. Impressive on all fronts, especially the directing and acting.