Bonnie And Clyde Vs. The Great Train Robbery

C.W., the getaway driver, botches a bank robbery by parallel parking the car, Clyde shoots the bank manager in the face after he jumps onto the slow-moving car's running board. The gang is pursued by law enforcement, including Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, who is captured and humiliated by the outlaws, then set free. They all were lucky enough to escape from the police. The movie Bonnie and Clyde is different than The Great Train Robbery, because the cameras were in a dolly, meaning that the camera was not stable in one shot. Also because color was added to the film as well as sound. In The Great Train Robbery, there was no dolly, no sound, and there was the production code in place which limited them to do certain scenes. Another element to this

film was that is was based on a true story from a Royal Mail train from Glasgow to London. When a gang of robbers attacked the train.

Not to mention, in 1954,Lew Wasserman, convinced Steward (rear window producer) to try something to make more money. He also instructed not to take up front money, instead he suggested that if the movie turns into a hit they will receive more money from the profit of people watching the movie. As a result, Actors gained power and popularity and also the directors. In this movie, Arthur Penn ( the producer) brought comic moments as well as shocking brutality. He was interested in mythmaking; which is a way to explain events that happen in the world. Bonnie and Clyde did not acted their crimes as in the Movie The Great Train Robbery., where the ‘Hold Ups' made famous by various outlaw bands in the far West. The robbers would wait for the train to hit and wrap people in order to take the money, in a way it was planned, but with less

violence. A great example is when the bandits forced the conductor to uncouple the passenger cars from the rest of the train and then blew up the safe in the mail car to escape with about $5,000 in cash. As per A Short History of the Movies, “Movies like this one lasted between 15 to 90 seconds. The camera was stationed in a single spot, turned on to record the action, and turned off when the action had finished (Mast 35).”The film used a number of innovative techniques, many of them for the first time, including parallel editing, minor camera movement, location shooting and less stage-bound camera placement. Jump-cuts or cross-cuts were a new, sophisticated editing technique, showing two separate lines of action or events happening continuously at identical times but in different places. Tension and excitement is achieved by moving the players, rather than moving the camera angles.
In contrast, Bonnie and Clyde, for instance, possessed of different personalities and goals.

robbed when it was necessary, they both became famous in the newspapers because no police or authorities could capture them, their trick was to move from one place to the other, staying at different hotels or abandoned houses. As per the movie lines, “They were the strangest damned gang you ever heard of. They’re young, they‘re in love, they rob banks”. They were forced to scape from one state to the other in order to evade charges and persecution. During the 1930’s people hated banks and businesses because of their economic loss due to the great depression. This movie allowed people to make imaginary fantasies in order to fulfill their life desires that were banned. Bonnie and Clyde is one of few films that came out during this New Hollywood era which had started to incorporate violence, promiscuity, disillusionment, and ideas of going against social norms. Technological advances during the time also exposed filmmakers to use new cameras such as the hand held cameras and zoom lenses. Some prints were also hand colored in certain scenes to bring the characters seen as alive and in motion to the viewer. Many studios also faced financial troubles during this time due to high production costs. The idea of filming people in their natural settings without having to be staged and the loose style of editing were on the rise. Both of the movies captured the attention of the American

public. The Great Train Robbery, was a type of innocent kind of type of movie were the innocent subjects would hold up their hands to give in; in this movie more men were involved than woman. On the other hand, Bonnie and Clyde, Bonnie is one of the first woman’s who fires with a gun as well as being part of a gang. This was opposite during those time, because woman should behave according to society norms. Both movies added a new techniques in making films as well as implementing an illusionary point of view that in cases is reality. These first films understandably exploited their visual wonder. Movies today are part of a global culture.
(2) Alfred Hitchcock, immigrated from London to Hollywood in 1939, his first film job was with Paramount (British). He directed his first film in 1925 (The Pleasure Garden), at this point he was not a big figure until sound came along, which helped him achieve his visuals with talks. Movies such as Rope (1948) and Psycho implicates the movie viewer’s voyeurism a major theme. His films seem to convince the audience that normal American life is shockingly abnormal. The Code prohibited the depiction of explicit sexual and unnatural acts in this films. The movie Psycho, is rich and bold nightmare. Hitchcock films were rich in subtle psychology, ironic humor, and gripping suspense. He delights in showing the most horrible crimes taking place in the most public places such as halls and trains and even a hotel shower. An example of it is when the girl is in the shower and the reaction you are in by seeing her getting stabbed(suspense and fear), the music played during the scene is called ‘The Murder’, which made your brain to think of something like, the protagonist should not die and on the other hand, your eyes are seen her getting killed.
Indeed, Hitchcock theory was to have the viewer be ahead of the character when watching the film. His technique was to give the viewer clues or hints to figure out what was going to happen without seen blood or the actual killing. His clues was adding shadows to add a frightening image, for example the famous shower scene in Psycho, it is a form of implied violence. We don’t see the knife piering her flesh, but, we can almost feel the sensation. Many of the people who saw this movie when it was released, could not shower in the tub for a few days. This particular scene required 78 shot set-up, which took 7 days to complete. Hitchcock believed that the characters in the story should break the cliche, this a way to do the opposite of what the audience expects in a movie. Like the bad ones be the rich, and the police be the poor and the ones to blame. Or maybe the main protagonist die and the bad ones would to survive. This was a implication to wait for a surprise at every step of the plot. He also used humor to add tension, he believed that it is essential to play practical jokes to the characters and see how they react or handle them. Building tension into an scene while using contrasting situations unrelated two things that are happening at the same time. What is more interesting “Hitchcock had a long interest in Freudian psychology (about which one can never tell whether he is serious or has his tongue wedge in his neck (Mast 344).” He argued that innocent and unnoticed can turn deadly. He liked the idea of doubles, always focused on how each scene was going to affect the viewer that reels them in. he knew that people are drawn to suspense as if you were taking a ride in a rollercoaster. The point of view character, the main person in the movie Psycho, Janet Leigh screw up the viewer's mind because the star dies, then who do we follow? It tricks the viewer's mind; the viewers automatically adapts to another character they see to replace the other one. A good Mise-en-scene, is when Janet Leigh decides what to do with the money, when she has it