a5c7b9f00b Bonnie Parker, a bored waitress falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks. Adrift in the Depression-era Southwest, <a href=">Clyde Barrow and <a href=">Bonnie Parker embark on a life of crime. They mean no harm. They crave adventure -- and each other. Soon we start to love them too. But nothing in film history has prepared us for the cascading violence to follow. Bonnie and Clyde turns brutal. We learn they can be hurt -- and dread they can be killed. Generally, ''lovers on the run movies'' are also road movies and Bonnie and Clyde is one of them too. I love road movies and find ''lovers on the run'' movies interesting personally, but unfortunately there are not a lot of real good examples that I would highly recommend to you. As for Bonnie and Clyde, it is a mild and rather romantic adventure of the famous couple or let's say killer lovers. The problem of Bonnie and Clyde like Terence Malick's Badlands is that there is nothing impressive or stunning throughout, but both movies are seen as masterpiece by many audiences and also critics and I have never known why? There are great actors, Warren Betty, Gene Hackman and Faye Dunaway (despite personally I find her a bit dull) The cinematography is OK, but the movie is not well executed or has something impressive, the script has some problems, not a great look into their life and the movie is pretty uninteresting at times. Bonnie and Clyde makes me remember also Natural Born Killers which was very, very intense, but almost awful, because it has another kind of problem, it supposes itself as a criticism of some values, but it tends to be at the side of the killers, it shows the killers as a sort of anti hero which is wrong. In other words, may be it does not glorify the killers exactly, but Stone does not approach the story like an (objective) observer. Additionally, Bonnie and Clyde does not focus on the robberies that the couple did. Thus, what we encounter is not an exciting, thrilling and stunning crime movie. The gunfight part was memorable and only the final was effective, the concept has been imitated by other movies based on such a concept several times. BONNIE AND CLYDE is an action crime drama film about a pair of notorious robbers who have robbed banks during the Great Depression. It's a ruthless and cruel story that looks nice, touchy and fresh in small sequences. This movie is not a faithful representation of the desperado careers of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, a notorious team of bank robbers and killers who roamed Texas and Oklahoma in the post-Depression years. I think that is the best, otherwise, in some more realistic view, all the charm and humor of this movie would be lost.<br/><br/>In the middle of the Great Depression, Clyde and Bonnie meet when Clyde tries to steal Bonnie's mother's car. Bonnie is excited by Clyde's outlaw demeanor, and he further stimulates her by robbing a store in her presence. Clyde steals a car, with Bonnie in tow, and their legendary crime spree begins. The duo's crime spree shifts into high gear once they hook up with a dim-witted gas station attendant, C.W. Moss, then with Clyde's older brother Buck and his wife, Blanche, a preacher's daughter...<br/><br/>The biggest controversy of this film is through the fact that the young audience likes classic anti-heroic characters. However, those characters are people who love, suffer, and have quite ordinary life problems and dilemmas. They simply run away from themselves. Ultimately, they die in one of the most spectacular and the most horrible scenes in cinematic history. This movie has hit a taste of a subculture just like "The Graduate". I think this story does not bring a nostalgic charm, but it fits in a rebellious nature of the 1960s.<br/><br/>The characterization could be better, however a scenery and atmosphere are great.<br/><br/>Warren Beatty as Clyde Barrow is sympathetically unhappy and stubborn. He is trying to be faced with life problems in an inherent way. Mr. Beatty has offered a solid performance. Faye Dunaway as Bonnie Parker is a young woman who wants a kind of change and excitement in her life. It may be just a flight from ordinary suffering or love for rebellion. Regardless of all a beautiful Miss Dunaway has stolen this show.<br/><br/>Their support are Gene Hackman(Buck Barrow) with his bad jokes, Estelle Parsons (Blanche Barrow) as an irritating wife and Michael J. Pollard (C.W. Moss) as a faithful companion and seems, the greatest fan.<br/><br/>These bullets kill actually. Penn's film oozes an intellectual's fashionable contempt for the characters. Small-time bank robber Clyde Barrow (<a href="/name/nm0000886/">Warren Beatty</a>), recently out of prison, meets bored West Dallas waitress Bonnie Parker (<a href="/name/nm0001159/">Faye Dunaway</a>), and the two of them, along with Clyde's brother Buck (<a href="/name/nm0000432/">Gene Hackman</a>), Buck's wife Blanche (<a href="/name/nm0663820/">Estelle Parsons</a>), and not-so-bright gas station attendant Clarence "CW" Moss (<a href="/name/nm0689488/">Michael J. Pollard</a>), embark on a legendary crime spree, robbing banks all over the Midwest during the Depression era (early 1930s), all the while pursued by Texas Ranger Frank Hamer (<a href="/name/nm0701500/">Denver Pyle</a>). Bonnie and Clyde was based on a screenplay co-written primarily by American screenwriters-directors David Newman and Robert Benton, with script doctor Robert Towne and principal actor Warren Beatty receiving uncredited contributions. Eugene (<a href="/name/nm0000698/">Gene Wilder</a>) had just let it slip that he was an undertaker. Apparently, Bonnie didn't want to be reminded of her own mortality and the fact that an undertaker's office is where she and Clyde were eventually, maybe soon, going to end up, so she had Clyde kick Eugene and his girlfriend Velma (<a href="/name/nm0262748/">Evans Evans</a>) out of the car. Another possibility, as evidenced by the next scene in which Bonnie is emphatic about seeing her mother again, is that she realizes that her mother is getting older and, like her, is headed for the undertaker. It's also been suggested that this scene introduces the notion that Bonnie isn't entirely happy with her life as a bank robber, which explains why she began writing poetry and why she wanted to have a picnic with her family. Yes, but not immediately. This was confirmed by his sister Marie in an A&E interview that originally aired in 1994. She claimed that Buck was shot through the head—in one temple and out the other—during the shootout at the tourist cabins in Platte City, Missouri. He was further wounded in the back during another shootout four days later in a field near Dexter, Iowa. He died of his injuries at Kings Daughters Hospital in Perry, Iowa five days after his capture on 29 July, 1933. After recuperating from their gunshot wounds at the home of C.W. Moss' father Malcolm (<a href="/name/nm0852305/">Dub Taylor</a>) (Note: in the credits, he is referred to as Ivan), Bonnie, Clyde, and CW go into town. When Bonnie and Clyde are ready to drive home, CW is nowhere to be found, having been warned by his father that he made a deal with Hamer. Clyde notices a police car pulling up beside his car and signals to "Gladys Jean" that it's time to go home. They drive off together, while CW watches, believing that they have outwitted the police yet again. As Clyde and Bonnie head back to Malcolm's house, they encounter him on the side of the road changing the tire on his truck. They stop to help, but Malcolm suddenly dives under his truck and Clyde notices a bunch of birds scattering from a tree. Clyde realizes it's an ambush, but it's too late. He and Bonnie are mercilessly machine-gunned down. In the final scene, Hamer and his deputies come out from the bushes and view their handiwork. They were shot down on 23 May, 1934. Bonnie is buried at the new Crown Hill Cemetery in Dallas. Clyde is buried in Western Heights Cemetery in Dallas.
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