1967 Directed by Arthur Penn
Bonnie and Clyde is based on the true stories of the gangster pair Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow who in the 1930s began robbing banks in U.S. cities until they were eventually killed. The film is a major landmark in the aesthetic movement known as the New Hollywood.
i want a remake of this starring rosamund pike and the leading actor of her choice. i trust her judgement more than my own
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Based loosely on the real life gangsters Bonnie and Clyde!
Sultry Faye Dunaway lights up the screen with her larger than life rendition of the character Bonnie Parker! Her animal magnetism cannot be contained within the big screen any more than you can keep the dough inside the Pillsbury container once you cracked it and the dough burst through the seam! The intimate close up shots of this vivacious beauty were pure eye candy!
Warren Beatty effervescent rendition of Clyde Barrow was equally amazing! Together they were hands down one of the most charismatic and tragedy bound anti hero couples ever to grace the big screen!
Stellar performances by fellow co-stars Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman,…
We rob banks.
A glorious deluge of ultraviolence, Bonnie and Clyde was uproariously controversial at the time of its release for its undaunted depiction of savagery and depravity. The true story of one of the most notorious criminal duos in history is brought larger than life through two exquisite performances from Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway. Their whirlwind relationship, sparked in an instant and never once slowing down, tore all across the central United States as they found themselves on a constant quest for untold riches. Together with Clyde's brother Buck (played by a brilliant Gene Hackman in an early career role) and his wife, along with a hapless tagalong who barely receives any depth or development, they formed the…
They say pictures don't lie, but the truth is they can lie as bad as anybody, including Clyde Barrow, who seduces Bonnie Parker with the promise of an exciting life full of sex, wealth, and danger (I guess 1 out of 3 ain't bad). That theme of unfulfilled promise runs deep - take a look at the hilarious sequence with Gene Wilder's Eugene and his girlfriend temporarily taking up with the gang, and the way it ends on a grim anti-punchline that only Bonnie, cursed by foresight, really understands.
The movie's commercial and generic promises ultimately DO get filled, though, with plenty of violent shootouts and chases, including the final one that gives the audience more than they could ever…
My favourite gag in any old cartoon, is whenever a character got repeatedly shot, appeared unhurt, then proceed to drink from a beverage and have all the liquid leak out from the multitude of holes.
Priceless. Had me in stitches every time.
So really, I see nothing here but a wasted opportunity.
Enjoyable, if maybe a bit over-acted. Found the robbery scenes quite exciting, and can see how the violence and pace of this movie would have been a game-changer back in the day. Found Michael J. Pollard considerably effective as Moss. As a big Estelle Parsons fan (from Roseanne), was hoping for more proof that this was an Oscar-worthy performance.
There’s a scene where Warren Beatty eats an ice cream sandwich in the middle of the desert during the Great Depression and it’s like no one questioned it. Great movie.
What I like about the film: How toxic Bonnie and Clyde's relationship was, Faye Dunaway as Bonnie and Warren Beatty as Clyde, and their death scene.
What I didn't like about the film: Why was there no blood during the death scene despite multiple gunshots were fired.
I can’t even fathom what it must have been like to see this in theaters when it first debuted. Kinetic, loose, gleeful, physical, explosive, everything American movies weren’t in 1965. That this is still shockingly dynamic in 2018 says a lot.
The French New Wave influence is all over this, but unlike the New Wave, Bonnie and Clyde doesn’t offer commentary on the films that came before. It’s not an intellectual response in the same way Breathless is. Like it’s young protagonists, Bonnie and Clyde is wild because it wants to be.
New Hollywood is my current fascination, might mess around and write a little about it at some point. But as for this film, I just
think it is incredibly life-affirming. I think it is characteristic of the aforementioned movement because it captures the confusion in the face of endless opportunity. The inertia, the individual, and their mutual conclusion is displayed. Also the character that America plays in New Hollywoody, I've found to be a very interesting common trait. It seems to be a commentary on the paradox of the U.S. seen as the land of opportunity, with capitalism as the mechanism to attain it. The tendency, is nevertheless to romanticize the american fate, and I think that the impact the movement overall had on establishing much of American mythology cannot be over-emphasized.
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