Hollywood would never, ever cast evil characters at good guys!
Cops and robbers. The rest is too deep.
Good observation...the whole culture has been reconfigured to suit this and other lies.
Whatever you do - don’t sell that cow!
Have read several who opined that Butch and Sundance were in the “movie that changed the movies”. Six of one, half a dozen of the other, hayna?
Hollywood would never, ever cast evil characters at good guys!
Think Robin Hood, Jesse James and Billy the Kid.
Today we've got people looking up to the the thugs of the rap industry and the narcotraficantes.
Someday they'll go down together
They'll bury them side by side
To few it'll be grief,
To the law, a relief.
But it's death for Bonnie and Clyde.
It was a good movie, but I liked “Cool Hand Luke” better. “What we have here is a failure to communicate.”
***...psychopathic killers––Clyde had jug-ears and a weak chin, Bonnie the mean mouth and ferret eyes of a white-trash skank.***
Great article.
Outstanding article. Thanks for posting.
Anti-truth, fictional representations corrode the rational faculties of the casual observer.
Run Hillary run!
The true story was much more interesting, more action filled, and more unbelievable. Both Clyde and Bonnie did have a certain mix of natures manifesting normal human emotions and friendliness but also ruthlessness and self-justifying adolescent false-morality.
Texas Ranger Frank Hamer’s life could be fodder for several movies. He shot three times as many men that Clyde did and was a top pistolero. The movie was indeed a defamation of his character. He was a giant among other great lawmen of the time.
Most writers seem to go on about Bonnie and Clyde being of an inbred appearance or otherwise unattractive. But I think photos reveal them to be more attractive than their average peers. If one looks over 15 or 20 Bonnie and Clyde photographs one will see that they were not Hollywood star material but were reasonably attractive.
I saw the movie Bonnie and Clyde. I didn’t view them as any kind of ‘Robinhoods’. The movie showed them shooting people in cold blood. Anyone who ‘romanticized’ that wasn’t paying attention.
Bonnie and Clyde were a pair of psychos... I enjoyed the part at the end where they were machine-gunned.
Bonnie and Clyde killed innocent people. Those deaths get minimized and devalued in the glamorization of evil. I thought Jesse James was a folk hero until I read about his cold blooded execution during a bank robbery of a man James thought was a Union adversary in the war. The problem was Jesse had the wrong man. At least Bob Ford knew who he was murdering.
***As New York Times critic A.O. Scott wrote recently, forty years ago this summer the movie that changed the movies premiered.***
Actually there were several films that caused quite a stir at that time.
Bonnie and Clyde.
Villa Rides! (Before Bobby Kennedy’s murder critics said it was good western. After the murder, a movie that glorifed violence.)
A Fist full of Dollars.
For a Few dollars More.
Good the Bad and the Ugly.
The Wild Bunch (My favorite)
And who can remember the uproar over those “sadistic” JAMES BOND films.
Must not forget ROSMARY’S BABY.
You don’t have to go to the movies to see historical inaccuracies and leftist propaganda. I was watching the History Channel a few months ago, and they had a program about the most notorious outlaws of the Great Depression like Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd. The program actually depicted the hoodlums as being victims of society and portrayed Hoover and the F.B.I as monstrous villains who mercilessly gunned down those heroic outlaws. I couldn’t believe what I was viewing. So the propaganda and indoctrination proceeds on other media venues. You don’t have to go to the flicks to get your anti-American dose.
That movie and Sam Peckinpah brought graphic violence to mainstream movies. Not something to celebrate.
This is a very true analysis about what Bonnie & Clyde did to transform the movie culture. I would state, however, that if it hadn’t been this one, someone else would have done it.