Monday, April 9, 2018

"Bonnie and Clyde" By: Anthony Ruggiero

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Bonnie and Clyde is a 1967 drama/crime film starring Faye Dunaway (Bonnie Parker), Warren Beatty (Clyde Barrow), Gene Hackman (Buck Barrow), Gene Wilder (Eugene Grizzard) and Michael J. Pollard (C.W. Moss) [what about Evans Evans as Velma Davis]

Bonnie and Clyde is about a series of robberies that take place starring the main characters who are also the title names [isn't it more about the realtionship between the titualr characters and others including the media and law enforcement than the robberies themselves?]. The movie takes place during the Great Depression. 

Bonnie and Clyde meet when she [Bonnie] finds [catches] Clyde trying to steal her mother's car. She decides that she is done being a waitress and goes on a crime spree with Clyde because she likes his wild behavior. They start off with small jobs that earn them a small payday -  convenience and grocery store type jobs - before they find their getaway driver in C.W. Moss who is a garbage truck driver [I thought he was an attendant at a filling station]. They are soon joined by Buck; Clyde's older brother recently released from the penitentiary and his wife Blanche (here portrayed by Academy Award-winner Estelle Parsons after he is released from prison

Collectively known as "The Barrow Gang," they soon become part of interstatewide "manhunts" because of their bank robberies and murders. When they find out that they are being searched for they exploit their famous platform to take pictures, brag about their crimes and take a picture with a Texas Ranger Frank Hamer (Denver Pyle)  [good]

After they visit with Bonnie's mother they get surrounded by cops and Buck gets half his face shot off in the process leaving him dead. Bucks wife Blanche gets captured by the cops. A love relationship develops between Bonnie and Clyde as they run from state to state causing chaos. The crew finds shelter at CW's dad's house where his father decides to cooperate with the cops but doesn't tell the crew that. Soon the cops show up and a shootout [is this really a shootout or is it more accurate to discribe it as an ambush in which the unarmed pair of star-crossed lovers are cut down in a hail of bullets  -  foreshadowed by Bonnie's poem "The Story of Bonnie and Clyde" especially in her use of onamatopoeia  -  "the Tommy gun's RAT-A-TAT-TAT!] begins leaving Bonnie and Clyde dead. 

I think the This movie was is good and told tells a fantastic story for its audience. I liked it even though I am not really into old movies because they just aren't my style [expand your conclusion;  additionally your post as it stands is over-reliant on recall/retell and your analysis is scant].  

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