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. <a href=">Clyde Barrow, recently out of prison, has turned to bank robbery. He meets <a href=">Bonnie Parker and together the two form the nucleus of a gang of bank robbers who terrorize the southwest in the 1920s. Based on the true story of a pair of notorious bank robbers, the film personalizes them while still showing the violence that went along with them. Bonnie and Clyde is an important and engaging film marking the lives of a criminal couple. Historically, it was a controversial film for its portrayal of criminals as the hero and for the portrayal of violence. It has all of the elements of a great film, and it is certainly engaging.<br/><br/>It's been a few years since I have seen this, but we watched it in a film history class, where we discussed life in the Great Depression, and Bonnie and Clyde apparently portrayed that well...as well as producing a controversial film. Unfortunately, this film seems to be a little bit overlooked now. Bonnie and Clyde is 1967 film. I was excited to see this film because who hasn't ever of the legendary Bonnie and Clyde. Bonnie and Clyde existed in society so the film is appealing because you know that is true. I enjoyed this film. The acting is phenomenal. Clyde (Warren Beatty) and Bonnie (Faye Dunaway ) have great on screen chemistry. They are both believable and natural and appear to be very realistic. The film came out right at the end of the Hays code. And it shows how different films have become because of the hays code destruction. The film is rate R due to the violence in the film. The film makes you fall in love with criminals. They are bank robberies and murders but still you like them. You are rooting for their escape. The film reminds me of an old time gangster film with the guns and crime. I would recommend this film to anyone. Bonnie and Clyde is a milestone in the history of American movies, a work of truth and brilliance. It is also pitilessly cruel, filled with sympathy, nauseating, funny, heartbreaking, and astonishingly beautiful. 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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