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Bonnie and Clyde
Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway pepper the American Midwest with bullets in this intelligent, amoral, genre-busting bank-robber movie
One of the most influential American movies of the last four decades in its amoral attitude to the 'outlaw' seen from a modern psychological and social viewpoint. Released two months before the anti-war march on the Pentagon, the protesters identified with Clyde Barrow (Beatty, who also produced) and Bonnie Parker (Dunaway) because they, too, were outside the law (the draft and drug laws).
Today, the tale of the bank-robbing couple still makes an impact and the recreation of the Depression era - sepia photographs, carefully selected music, dusty landscape and derelict towns - can be recognised as a breakthrough. The script, th...
Bonnie and Clyde
With all the hit n' miss films we have to endure at the cinema these days, isn't it great when you watch an old movie that features classic performers at their finest? Here we have Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway in their most famous roles as notorious bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde, who along with the infamous Barrow gang (excellently portrayed by Gene Hackman, Michael J. Pollard and Estelle Parsons) travel through 1920's USA robbing banks and leaving chaos in their wake. Although by todays standards it's not that shocking, at the time this was one of the most violent and controversial films ever made.
However, just as at the time Bonnie and Clyde were glamourised by the papers and in the eyes of much of the general public, this film does exactly the same thing. It ta...
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