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Release Year: 1967
Director: Arthur Penn
Cast: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway
Plot: In America's Great Depression, a gang of young offenders led by Bonnie and Clyde, travels through the country assaulting banks and ridiculing authorities in their rise to fame.
Review: We owe 'Bonnie and Clyde' many things. Talking more freely about sex and violence, it initiated the 'New Hollywood' short-lived era. And even if I think that Bonnie and Clyde weren't the most prepared criminals, the movie itself stands out as an innovative change for film industry.
Led by a strong cast and with the spirit of criminal support that drowned society in the 30s ('if banks are going to rob me anyway...'), 'Bonnie and Clyde' has the perfect combination to explode its more controversial themes. Of course they were minor offenders and they ended dead because the government had to calm society more than for being a real danger, but as wild spirits, they brought 'controversial topics' to the screen with a naturalness never seen before.
With their rebel ideas, their lifestyle is appealing even for nowaday audiences and inspires a certain desire for rebellion. Some aspects of the movie are controversial (why do you create a sexually arousing couple if he's important most of the time?), but as Bonnie read her famous poem recounting her adventures with Clyde, they reached a new milestone in film history.
To end with, the final scene is remembered as one of the biggest bloodsheds ever seen (inspiring later films like 'The Godfather') and actually, as the reader of this may not know, I love people dying bloodily in movies so the film couldn't have had a better ending.
Who doesn't love the protagonists of a movie being brutally murdered? Moreover, a second before their execution, there's nothing like watching their faces
Led by a strong cast and with the spirit of criminal support that drowned society in the 30s ('if banks are going to rob me anyway...'), 'Bonnie and Clyde' has the perfect combination to explode its more controversial themes. Of course they were minor offenders and they ended dead because the government had to calm society more than for being a real danger, but as wild spirits, they brought 'controversial topics' to the screen with a naturalness never seen before.
Free spirits: 'Bonnie and Clyde' lived little but fast
With their rebel ideas, their lifestyle is appealing even for nowaday audiences and inspires a certain desire for rebellion. Some aspects of the movie are controversial (why do you create a sexually arousing couple if he's important most of the time?), but as Bonnie read her famous poem recounting her adventures with Clyde, they reached a new milestone in film history.
To end with, the final scene is remembered as one of the biggest bloodsheds ever seen (inspiring later films like 'The Godfather') and actually, as the reader of this may not know, I love people dying bloodily in movies so the film couldn't have had a better ending.
Who doesn't love the protagonists of a movie being brutally murdered? Moreover, a second before their execution, there's nothing like watching their faces
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