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Actors: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman, Gene Wilder
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Bonnie and Clyde |
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An ex con (Clyde) meets a woman (Bonnie) with whom he falls in love with. Together they rob banks and go on the run. Eventually they team up with Clyde's brother, his brother's wife, and another ordinary civilian to go on a crime spree. As they continue to rob banks they find it increasingly difficult, because the police are continually on their tails.
--Jack Bauer, Resident Scholar
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Clyde Barrow (Warren Beatty) is a small time criminal who is looking to make big money and doesm't mind doing it with a gun. Bonnie Parker(Faye Dunaway) is an aggressive southern lass who has a burning ambition to break away from her soporific lifestyle. When they meet, sparks fly and they embark on a life of love - and crime - which starts with inocuous bank robberies but gradually assumes violent proportions. Together with Clyde's brother Buck(Gene Hackman), his wife Blanche(Estelle Parsons) - an unwilling accomplice - and a precocious youth named CW Moss(Pollard) they have shake up the country with a trail of cold blooded crimes.
--Biswa, Resident Scholar
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This is a story of criminals on the run in the 1930's. There is romance as Bonnie falls in love and chooses a life of crime with robber Clyde.
A sad ending as the 'laws' catch up with them, but all in all a brilliant film.
--Megan Westley, Resident Scholar
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This controversial film follows the crime spree of Bonnie and Clyde during the Depression-era West and Dustbowl. Violence never before seen on such a scale was one of its main components, not to mention subject matter and intermixing humor and graphic violence. A good date movie, except for the end.
--Dave, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Bonnie and Clyde |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 33.3%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 46.7%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
If this is a criminal POV story...
- bad criminals on the run
Romance
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- criminal
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavy
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Texas
- West
- Midwest
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
- all mixed up
How many deaths in film?
- 8 or more
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
Kind of violence:
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
Any profanity?
- None
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