Bonnie & Clyde is a film that attempts to bring America’s favorite crime committing duo to the big screen, and perhaps cast the legendary couple in a different light than ever before. Everyone has heard of the name, but few in today’s times really have a concept of the mayhem and violence that followed Bonnie & Clyde wherever the two and their gang went. At some moments this film watches like a romantic comedy, but it becomes clear very quickly that they are not a couple of typical lovebirds. There are some significant differences in the real-life narrative of Bonnie & Clyde and the one that the filmmakers developed, and I think these discrepancies were done with specific intent. Not only does this film serve as a secondary source of the actual …show more content…
The cast has great chemistry and the screenplay seems like a natural progression of events. However, it is worth noting the things that were off in the film based on what history tells us. For starters, Frank Hamer was portrayed much differently from we know about the actual Frank Hamer. In fact, the real Frank Hamer’s widow and son actually sued Warner Brothers in 1968 for defamation because she did not approve of his character in the film. They pressed the issue so much that they were eventually awarded an out-of-court settlement in 1971 from the movie producers so that they both would stop pursuing the …show more content…
In the film, it seems like the couple gets the best of Hamer and outwit him until they meet their demise, but given the real story, the producers likely made these adaptations for added dramatic effect. Bonnie & Clyde are the anti-heroes that the audience cannot help but admire at least somewhat. Every hero needs a villain in cinema, even though Hamer’s character was a Texas Ranger trying bring criminals to justice, he is still the film’s antagonist. By changing the story so that Hamer was kidnapped, they made the narrative more personal and set up his character to have a real vendetta against the couple. One thing that the film tries to hint at is Clyde’s known problems dealing with intimacy. While he was first imprisoned, Clyde was raped on multiple occasions. He ultimately murdered his rapist, this was his first in a long line of murders. Many people who were close to Clyde said that he was never the same even after his release. These intimacy problems are exhibited throughout the film whenever Bonnie tries to get close to Clyde or touch him, he immediately becomes distant and tries to get away from her despite being in love with
One of the main products of this movie that popped out to me was the stars. They all seemed to be great actors even though I only knew one of them. For example, I thought that Ian Michael Smith did a great job portraying Simon Birch. He made the movie cute and funny all at once. I also thought that Joseph Mazello did a great job portraying relatable feelings in the movie. You could tell by his facial expressions what his mood was. All the actors did a great job and I can’t pinpoint one of them who did worse than the
Bonnie and Clyde were now the cool heroes of the sixties-running against oppressive law. The reward of Bonnie and Clyde was wanted for 1,000.00 in cash that was a but load of money back then. Barrow was suspected of many killings and was wanted for murder,robbery,and charges of kidnapping. The Bureau investigation was started,they were interested in Barrow they had evidence. A Ford automobile, had been stolen in Pawhuska,Oklahoma and in Illinois.
By the end of the movie, Bonnie Grape was no longer alive, but she had just begun her path to the positive spectrum of her psychological crisis: generativity. As Newman & Newman (2012) proclaims ‘this motive is aroused as one recognizes they won’t be around forever (p.512). If she was alive to make it to the next developmental stage, she would be on the right track to beginning her journey of integrity in later
Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker burst upon the American Southwest in the Great Depression year of 1932. At the time of Clyde’s first involvement with a murder, people paid little attention to the event. He was just another violent hoodlum in a nation with a growing list of brutal criminals, which included Al Capone, John Dillenger, Pretty Boy Floyd, and the Barker Gang. Not until Bonnie and Clyde joined forces did the public become intrigued. The phrase “Bonnie and Clyde'; took on an electrifying and exotic meaning that has abated little in the past sixty years.
The 1960s till 1980s was the period of the Hollywood New Wave, where American cinema reflected the politically and socially driven films of the time. The Hollywood New Wave overlapped with the Second Wave Feminism. Bonnie and Clyde (1967) reflects those movements of the time with its unique editing and shooting techniques. Geoff King describes the camera movements as (Smith, 2010). When Bonnie and Clyde premiered in 1967, America was in the height of a sexual revolution, which reflected these themes in the film. In the film, Bonnie is a sexually frustrate woman, because the man she loves is initially impotent in their sexual encounters. She gets sexually attracted by violence and crime, which is a concept that was rarely explored on screen.
It is hard to say that the couple were not kind because of all the things they contributed to society. Once, Bonnie and Clyde offered a 15-year old boy for a lift to drop him off the airport, which he desperately needed to go. They asked the boy, whose name was James, “how people in this area felt about the gangster, Bonnie and Clyde.”(A Ride with Bonnie and Clyde) The boy answered by saying that everyone liked them, and when the couple asked “Why?,” the boy told them things they only wanted to hear, saying “because Bonnie and Clyde were always bringing food and money and helping those that helped them.”(A Ride with Bonnie and Clyde) Although they only heard what they wanted to hear, it was true that Bonnie and Clyde helped out society, proving the fact that they were good, caring
...ning of the 1930’s Depression era was depicted, which was outside the norm of typical gangster films. The setting also showed the action and traits of the characters; Bonnie and Clyde robbing banks in the Great Depression to simply make ends meet, not wanting to harm innocent citizens of society for power or control. Lastly, the specific character types presented in Bonnie and Clyde fulfilled the various roles of a couple, family, outlaws, and antiheros, the most significant character type of the typical gangster film genre. However, these antiheros showed sympathy for their fellow man and thus provided the audience with character roles that were relatable, and overall made the audience empathetic towards them. Therefore, the film Bonnie and Clyde demonstrates a genre-bending gangster film with distinct genre conventions and elements of film noir blended within it.
With the end of prohibition, crime had become socially acceptable, and although Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were part of one of the most infamous crime groups in American history, there is an undeniable element of romanticization in their story. As a society, our fascination with this duo stems from the mystery of their lives, the time period they came out of, and the rationale behind the crimes they committed.
In both films, the main characters are all rebelling against common things that audiences can relate to. In Rebel Without a Cause, Jim Stark is rebelling against his parents because he is upset with the fact that his father will not stand up to his mother. His girlfriend, Judy, is also rebelling against her parents, but for a different reason. Her father refuses to give her any affection because she is too “grown up.” Jim’s friend, Plato, is rebelling against his parents because they have abandoned him. These three characters rebel in many ways. Jim and Judy both smoke because they were told not to. Plato shot and killed puppies to get attention. Jim and Judy are both involved in a gang because it is “wrong.” Jim and Judy both pay a visit to jail: Jim because he is drunk and Judy because she ran away from home. In Bonnie and Clyde, Clyde Barrow is rebelling against the law and the common way of making a living. He rebels by robbing banks. Bonnie also rebels against the law and her old life working as a poor waitress in a small town. She rebels by helping Clyde rob banks. C. W. Moss rebels against his overbearing father. Buck Barrow rebels against the law, but his wife is never too keen on the whole rebellion thing. Clyde, Bonnie, C. W., and Buck all rebel by robbing banks and stores, stealing cars, and killing. C. W. also rebels by getting a tattoo on his chest because he knows that his father will not approve of it. The theme of rebellion can be seen in both films by showing what the characters rebel against and how they rebel.
Bonnie soon learns of Clyde's criminal endeavors as the law comes looking for him and he is sent him to Denton, Texas for charges of stolen merchandise. They law didn't have enough proof and transferred him to Waco Texas where he confessed to several car thefts. He was sentenced two years on each count, but then he was allowed to serve them concurrently.
Bang! Pow! Bullets are raining down on the infamous Bonnie and Clyde. It is a standoff with the local police department. Bonnie and Clyde are in trouble again; robbing a liquor store of their cigarettes and their liquor. It seems as if Bonnie and Clyde were the greatest pair of criminals in history.
Bonnie Parker grew up with a normal childhood went to school every day was an above average student. She was born in Rowena Texas on October 10, 1910. Her father Charles Parker was a brick layer, but he died when bonnie was only four. After her father’s death the family moved in with her grandparents by Dallas Texas. She met Roy Thornton and soon after they got married, but Thornton got in trouble with the law and sentenced to five years in prison leaving bonnie on her own. She had a waitress job but was unhappy after Roy left. Until went to visit a friend in West Dallas where she then met Clyde Barrow. Clyde was born March 24, 1909 in Telico Texas. Clyde Barrow’s father was Henry Barrow who was a share cropper. He was one of eight children in the family. Clyde’s academics was anything but consistent. When his father quit farming the family moved to West Dallas which was were his dad opened a service shop. Clyde started high school but that was short lived he dropped out of school. Bonnie and Clyde met in West Dallas at a mutual friend’s house .Bonnie’s life prior to their crime spree was completely normal for a teenage high school student job at a café, showing no signs of becoming a notorious robber. Clyde on the other hand was the complete opposite. After dropping out of high school he went out with his brother selling stole...
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The films protagonists Kit Caruthers (Martin Sheen) and Holly (Sissy Spacek) are loosely based on the real life adolescent criminals Charles Starkweather and his girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate. Starkweather and Fugate become infamous after their murder spree through Nebraska and Wyoming in the 1950’s, however the story of two young fugitives in love is not one that is unfamiliar with audiences; the most notable is Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde (1967). The character of Kit also bears a resemblance to Jim Stark, James Dean’s character i...
While he is in jail he makes a deal to get a T-bone Steak for the location of the Clarence’s attorney And he gets his steak but not in enough time and then the Attorney runs out of oxygen and suffocates to death. While they are gone investigating Clyde retrieves the bone out of the steak and stabs his cellmate in the neck with said bone and gets transferred to solitary confinement. He then kills the judge through her phone, and sets off car bombs killing several more people. He then kills another lawyer using a modified EOD bot. He then attempts to kill the mayor of the town and he was outsmarted by Nick Rice because they found the bomb and planted it into his cell and when Clyde called the phone bomb he called it under his bed and the bomb exploded killing him and ending his reign of terror. Now my essay is about how they could have stopped his entire plan if they had not have given Clyde his Steak he would not have even began his reign of