.........So Goes the Legend Of Bonnie And Clyde! ~~"Bonnie & Clyde (Spanish) (Sub)"

Bonnie & Clyde (Spanish) (Sub)

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 .........So Goes the Legend Of Bonnie And Clyde!, 2003-07-21

Bonnie was a waitress in a small café; Clyde Barrow was a robber who took her away. Now they robbed and killed until both of them died; so goes the legend of Bonnie and Clyde. What does it say that those song lyrics still spontaneously crash through my skull some thirty-five years or so after the movie's theatrical release? This was one of the first intensely graphic violent recreations of historical figures, provocatively visual and intensely accurate in terms of portraying much more realistically what happens to people when shot, knifed, kicked in the head, etc. It was, however, also a pure Hollywood confection in terms of the flattering way it portrayed Clyde as being a handsome love-them-and-leave-them rogue, and Bonnie as a fetching, sexy bimbo with blonde ambitions. It was a terrific film, which provides a star showcase for Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the central characters in this wonderful and historically accurate tale of two self-styled mavericks acting out their bad boy and girl fantasies against the backdrop of the dustbowl conditions of the 1930s Depression.

Bonnie and Clyde cut a bloody swath of continuing bank robberies and often-senseless violence in an ego-driven effort to see their names in the regional papers and their reputation as fearsome criminals. As entertainment the film works well, with both spectacular gunplay sequences and a credible recreation of the topography of the Midwest and Suthwest areas of the country, its local scenery, and the buildings and interior decorations of the times. The film also won an Oscar for its faithful and groundbreaking cinematography, which for the first time used such devices as slow motion filming of action scenes to portray the murder and mayhem in an almost choreographed fashion. The film's director, Arthur Penn, was among the best at his craft at the time, and he lovingly recreates the mood, excitement, and atmosphere of the gritty Depression years as he explores the development of two psychopathic personalities encouraging each other into increasingly debased and depraved actions of senseless murder and mayhem.

The film I supported by a terrific cast, including a young Gene Hackman, Michael J. Pollard, Estelle Parsons (who won an Oscar for her best supporting actress performance here), Denver Pyle (later to win fame as a TV actor on the silly Duke Of Hazard" series), and a young Gene Wilder in a straight role as Eugene Grizzard. It is more great entertainment than it is a faithful historical recreation, as most Hollywood productions are, but it is a fine period piece of the sense of doom and desperation that provided an unfortunate impetus to such wild and self-destructive behavior as that exhibited by both Bonnie and Clyde. Enjoy!

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