The scripted description of Bonny and Clyde as “God damned animals” was appropriate. Excellent film, which we watched just a couple days ago. Dismisses the who “anti-hero” mythos.
Heard a rebroadcast of a Jean Shepherd show from when "Bonnie and Clyde" was released in 1967.
Shep thought it was a horrendous romanticizing of pretty amoral gangsters.
He said he grew up in/near a town that some of Dillinger's gang bankrobbed.
They shot and killed the old unarmed bank guard, and for fun on the way out of town, called over a cop that was doing crossing guard duty for the local school, and shot and killed him.
They killed fourteen; nine of those were police officers. By the time they were gunned down by Ranger Frank Hamer’s posse, public opinion had turned against them.
Faye Dunaway & Warren Beatty they were not.
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