Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

Boring

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

This movie when it first came to theaters in 1967 must have broken so much new ground I could only imagine. It showed more violence and lyrical intensity then so many movies especially other gangster movies and opened the doors for many other films to come. The first time this basic concept of a boy and a girl running away together from the cops was seen in the movies and it has been used countless times and again opened up so many doors for the crime genre that would produce so many more great and action backed films. This film has been one of the more influential films I've seen on its genre and the movie industry as a whole. Such as in the movie "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" "Bonnie and Clyde" showed viewers just how much more could be shown in Hollywood films.

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.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...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.The characterization could be better, however a scenery and atmosphere are great.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.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.These bullets kill actually.

RELEASED IN 1967 and directed by Arthur Penn, "Bonnie and Clyde " stars Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway in the titular roles chronicling the criminal exploits of the pair and their associates from 1932-1934, ending with duo's sudden execution. Michael J. Pollard plays Clyde's main accomplice C.W. Moss while Gene Hackman and Estelle Parsons play Buck & Blanche, Clyde's brother and sister-in-law. Denver Pyle appears as the Texas Ranger who tracks 'em down.The movie sticks pretty close to the facts and is generally serious, yet with an occasionally fun, bumbling tone offset by flashes of fatal violence. Some changes from the real story include… W. D. Jones and Henry Methvin are combined into the character played by Pollard obviously to limit the size of the gang to five for dramatic purposes. The two main actors are way too tall for the parts. Bonnie was barely 5' feet tall and Clyde was only 5'6". In the movie Bonnie (Faye) is 5'7" and Clyde (Beatty) is 6'2". To the film's credit, it shows Clyde walking with a limp and explains why: He needlessly cut off his big toe in prison and seriously injured the other one in order to get out of hard labor. I say needless because he was released early a mere week later. The fact that Barrow was willing to mutilate his body to avoid labor (or to be transferred to another facility, whatever the case) shows how desperate, impulsive and dimwitted he was as a person.Unfortunately, the movie fails to show the stoo-pid accident where Bonnie suffered severe leg wounds after being trapped in a burning vehicle. She never fully recovered and either had to be carried or walked with a limp until her death at the age of 23 (Clyde was 25 when they were executed). Another key crime not shown was the brutal (and unnecessary) shooting of two law enforcement officers by Clyde and W.D. at a dance in Oklahoma, yet the movie shows the gang killing several officers when threatened, so this can be overlooked. I think the reason they omitted this particular early crime was because Penn & gang didn't want to portray Clyde as a vicious murderer so early in the story, which would strip sympathy from viewers.Modern audiences don't realize how shocking "Bonnie and Clyde" was when it was released. Even by 1980 it was still pretty shocking. The script and the actors bring you into the world of the simpleton characters that are initially giddy about their wild times and fame, but over the course of the two years acquire an understandable sense of certain doom. The film starts out slow to establish the main players and the bloody realities of their misguided lifestyle are mainly saved for the last act. Although Dunaway and Beatty are way too tall for the roles, they deliver the goods. Not to mention, Pollard's notable performance as C.W. (W.D. was merely 16 during the crime spree).To balance out the story, I encourage you to see 1992's "Bonnie & Clyde: The True Story," which is another quality version of the real-life crime spree.THE MOVIE RUNS 111 minutes and was shot mostly in east Texas, but also S. California. WRITERS: David Newman & Robert Benton.GRADE: A

"Bonnie and Clyde" is a film that dared to be different. It's violence, direction and acting were the blueprint for the kind of Hollywood movies that came onto the scene in the early 1970s. Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway compliment each other to perfection as the bank robbers in question. Gene Hackman made a huge impact in his first major movie and his performance doesn't disappoint at all. Arthur Penn's direction is smooth and assured. I remember feeling quite shocked by the excessive violence when I saw "Bonnie and Clyde" at the age of 3. I never would have guessed that this film was made in 1967, it is years ahead of its time. There is some good humour and Gene Wilder is a riot as one of the hostages! As much as the gang of outlaws are criminals, they aren't totally unlikeable as people. With regards to everyone day folk, Bonnie and Company are quite reasonable toward them. This is where tough, gritty Hollywood movie- making begins.