In the film, “Bonnie and Clyde” it evinces “equal doses of hopelessness and romanticism.” This paper will tell you how it does with evidence to support it. This movie takes place during the Great Depression; which is around 1929 to 1939. Bonnie and Clyde was seen as a movie that sent tremors through the industry in 1967. (pg 15). Bonnie Parker (Faye Dunaway) meets Clyde Barrow (Warren Beatty) as he is about to steal her mother’s car. This happened after Clyde was released from prison for armed robbery. Bonnie ends up going with Clyde; after he holds up a store at gunpoint. Which was to impress her. After several funny, and random hold-ups, Bonnie and Clyde meet C.W. Moss (Michael J. Pollard), a car gas station attendant, and let him into their …show more content…
little criminal group. They become known as the Barrow Gang. The sequence I chose was the ending where they end up dead. The romanticism that I noticed the most was actually about them being in love.
Bonnie seemed to already be in love with him during the diner scene in the film. Bonnie also wrote poetry that you hear or see during the movie. She writes about their story; her’s and Clyde’s. In her poem she writes that “they will go down together”, which does in fact happen. It’s like she foreshadow what would happen to them. It might be because she didn’t have any hope that they would get out alive or be able to live in peace without the cops trying to find and kill them. The cops killed them in the end. They didn’t get away with breaking the law. However on page 27, they said “in our view, what kills Bonnie and Clyde is not that they broke the law, because nobody liked the fucking banks--but that they put a tattoo on C.W. Moss.” I thought it was interesting that they thought they got killed and didn’t get away with it because of a tattoo. It’s like how we still have that stigma on tattoos today. It’s hard to tell when Clyde actually falls in love with Bonnie. They have that one night in the house/cabin where they might have had sex but we don’t know because they don’t tell you or show you anything. This has a lot of romanticism tones throughout the …show more content…
movie. The sequence starts with Clyde driving with Bonnie on a sunny day.
Of course it seems to be a ford, because Clyde seems to like them. They both are happy and Clyde is eating an apple while driving. Bonnie is clinging to Clyde. Clyde is wearing sunglasses with only one lens. This could be seen as he is going to get shot in that eye. In fact Clyde’s head explodes in real life. Bonnie is also the one who notices Malcolm. They’re wearing regular clothes or what would be called regular clothes back then. Dress, shirt, and pants. The camera is on them and then switches to focusing on the road. It’s blurry when it’s focused on the road; kind of like when you can’t see something far away. It’s only on the road for a little bit then goes back onto Bonnie and Clyde. Malcolm gets there attention by waving his arm; he needs help with his vehicle. Clyde pulls over to help him with his truck. However, he would have never guessed that the father of one of the gang members would rat them out and get them killed. Whenever the camera switches to look at Malcolm it gets unfocused this might be because they don’t know his true intentions. But then again it might be because this was 1967. Clyde gets out of the car and his shirt is untucked on the same side as the missing sunglasses lens. The car is tan and the doors open up the opposite as today; they open up and swing backwards. The license plate says 3.6126. The rims on the car are a bright yellow and stick out. The windshield is small; I
don’t know how they could really see out of them back in those days. Clyde walks towards Malcolm still eating his apple. He seems happy to see Malcolm. The camera then goes to Bonnie’s perspective and what she sees when he’s out of the car. Malcolm tells Clyde that “he has a flat tire with no spare.” It's eerily quiet when he’s out of the car. Bonnie looks suspicious of Malcolm while she's in the car. Malcolm sees another vehicle coming while he ducks to look. He jumps under his truck for protection after that. However what I noticed was the crows or birds that came out. In movies they usually mean something bad is going to happen; which is what you could get from the tone during this scene. It’s eerie and something seems off. Also Malcolm is tense and doesn’t act like he normally would. Bonnie is surprised about the birds but delighted to see them. After he jumps under the truck both Bonnie and Clyde look at him in wonder. Clyde laughs at first but Bonnie notices that something isn’t right and then Clyde notices. They both duck down thinking that's going to help them. They look in each other's eyes and that's when I noticed a sense of hopelessness and excitement, well in Bonnie’s eyes, in their eyes. Clyde actually looks a little sad too. I think they both know they won’t make it out alive. That means they won’t see each other again and can’t continue their love story. Clyde tries to make it over to Bonnie but that's when the police start shooting. This scene is very violent on the police's side. You actually sympathize with Bonnie and Clyde during this point because they over did the shooting. To me this scene is over dramatized even though this is sort of what happened to the real Bonnie and Clyde. It was about 150 bullets they shot if I remember correctly. The reason it's over dramatized to me is Bonnie’s body movements. I read this in the book on page 35, “in hail of bullets in slow motion like grotesquely tumbling marionettes” then watched the ending again and it made a difference. Interesting that they would describe it as “tumbling marionettes” because a marionette is a puppet being controlled by strings. What threw me off at the end was Bonnie’s hand moving at the end; kind of like she didn’t know whether to let it drop or just pause right there. It was a good and interesting movie. I think why this film could have some hopelessness is that it was set during the Great Depression where everyone was hopeless. This movie though has a more romanticism because of their love and Bonnie’s poetry. In Biskind’s book he wrote, “the doomed hero meets a dire end, expires in a flash of violence” (124). However, I wouldn’t call Bonnie or Clyde hero’s because they killed innocent people. Some people would say they’re heroes so this statement would be true because they did in fact “expire in a flash of violence.” That was when the police shot all those bullets. Guffey’s cinematography was great in this film. I like this movie and I noticed somethings I normally wouldn’t notice like the birds coming out right before the police started shooting. I watched this film in my senior year of high school and I still didn’t notice Bonnie and Clyde’s eyes right before they died. The fact that I noticed her arm at the end still bugs me. I would recommend this film to others; definitely if they’re looking for a tone like this. The ending tone is sad for me because of their deaths but the police were probably happy and relieved. You could feel the tension coming off Malcom in the end. This film definitely set high standards for other films.
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