In the 1960s, the immense popularity that Hollywood had generated for almost half a century was plummeting. The younger generation had lost interest in the movies Hollywood was producing because they were too safe and predictable. However, any attempt to try anything new was met with backlash from the Hays Code, which strived to keep things conservative on screen. Hollywood was releasing one flop after another, until the movie Bonnie and Clyde came out in 1967, and changed everything. The film "Bonnie and Clyde" was directed by Arthur Penn and starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, and showed the audience a depiction of violence and sexual content that they had not been exposed to before. These changes were celebrated by the youth of the …show more content…
At no point in the scene does Bonnie do anything that reads as sexual. In fact, the only reason she is naked during this scene is to foreshadow her own sexual frustration later in the movie. At one point during the scene, she throws herself on the bed and begins to bang on the bars of the bed frame in anger. Her banging on the bars is her way of venting her frustration with her life. Jana Kay Lunstad, the Assistant Director of Writing and a Lecturer at Utah State University, has a similar take on this scene in her journal titled "But You Wouldn't Have the Gumption to Use It":Bonnie and Clyde and the Sexual Revolution. She states, I would argue that her sexuality also establishes a woman's need to satisfy herself, despite Clyde's fears and society's disapproval. The image of her on the screen does not play into male fantasies regarding the female body, but rather her presence as a fully sexual woman, within the context of the women's movement, affirms women's rights to exert sexual desire (Lunstad 11). Bonnie is not naked, to be an object for the audience to gawk at or to fill in some trope. Instead, the choice to make her nude was a way to humanize
Bang! Pow! Bullets are raining down on the infamous Bonnie and Clyde. It is a standoff with the local police department. Bonnie and Clyde are in trouble again; robbing a liquor store of their cigarettes and their liquor. It seems as if Bonnie and Clyde were the greatest pair of criminals in history.
Bonnie and Clyde Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker burst upon the American Southwest in the Great Depression year of 1932. At the time of Clyde’s first involvement in a murder, people paid little attention to the event. He was just another violent hoodlum in a nation with a growing list of brutal criminals, which included Al Capone, John Dillenger, Pretty Boy Floyd, and the Barker Gang. Not until Bonnie and Clyde joined forces did the public become intrigued. The phrase “Bonnie and Clyde'; took on an electrifying and exotic meaning that has abated little in the past sixty years.
The 1960s till 1980s was the period of the Hollywood New Wave, where American cinema reflected the politically and socially driven films of the time. The Hollywood New Wave overlapped with the Second Wave Feminism. Bonnie and Clyde (1967) reflects those movements of the time with its unique editing and shooting techniques. Geoff King describes the camera movements as (Smith, 2010). When Bonnie and Clyde premiered in 1967, America was in the height of a sexual revolution, which reflected these themes in the film. In the film, Bonnie is a sexually frustrate woman, because the man she loves is initially impotent in their sexual encounters. She gets sexually attracted by violence and crime, which is a concept that was rarely explored on screen.
In Gun Crazy and Bonnie and Clyde these two movies have displayed conflict between order and chaos through the narrative, characters, mise-en scene. Firstly, Gun Crazy demonstrates chaos before order, where beginning of the movie chaos is already presented when a Bart robs a gun, from a hardware store. In Bonnie and Clyde this movie demonstrates order before chaos, where Bonnie is looking through her window and finds Clyde trying to steal her mother’s car. Thirdly these events overlap in both Gun Crazy and Bonnie and Clyde, where order and chaos are both displayed in the movies at the same time. Therefore, conflict between order and chaos can only be demonstrated if all three elements which are narrative, mise-en scene and characters are displayed in the movie.
...s, the directors of both films were able to use characters to express social issues and the political lunacy of 20th century America. Whether it was Bonnie and Clyde or Annie and Bart, these couples mirrored the resistance against order otherwise known as the government. The socialist overtones are died down by the thrills and action in the films yet, retaining the original message: Be aware of what is happening in our society and the government's involvement in socio-cultural spaces. Joseph H. Lewis's characters and the use of noir to break from order into the element of chaos; moving from ignorance and mindless obeisance to awareness and individualism. Arthur Penn uses of depression era gangsters reflect the grim events of the 60's. In conclusion, the couples of both films are similar through social-historical contexts as well as film elements of order and chaos.
Clyde was born in Ellis County, Texas, on March 24, 1909, where he was the fifth child out seven or eight children; no one can be for sure on the correct amount of children (“Bonnie and Clyde.” New par 7). On the other hand, Bonnie Parker born on October 1, 1910, in Rowena, Texas; Bonnie was the second out of three children (“Bonnie and Clyde.” New par 3). Bonnie and Clyde were lovers who met in Texas in 1930 and started a life of crime together (“Bonnie and Clyde.” Famous Cases par 4).
Bonnie Parker was born on the first day of October in 1910, in Rowena, Texas. Bonnie was an excellent student and the second of three children. An avid fan of Romance and Confession magazines, she wasn't the typical stereotype of a killer, much less a serial murderer. Standing at four foot ten inches, she married Roy Thornton. She got a tattoo on the inside of her thigh of two hearts with their names intertwined. But a year later they split up. She then went to visit a friend in West Dallas, were she came to meet Clyde Barrow.
Film genre is a distinctive collection of comparisons in the narrative aspects from which the films are produced. Genre denotes the characterization of narrative films, through the stories the literature tells and the way it presents these stories (Barsam and Monahan, 2013.) Film genres are often described by a set of conventions of storytelling such as themes, conflicts, situations, setting, character types, story formula, presentation, visual style, and even movie stars associated with particular genres (Barsam and Monahan, 2013). These conventions are not always enforced as filmmakers incorporate only some of these elements within any particular film. A few commonly recognized film genres include the Western, musical, horror, science fiction, and etc. A genre-bender film steps outside some of the defining features of its genre in terms of its conventions but is easily identified when it has been blended with another genre. The gangster film genre concentrates on stories whose principal struggle is between criminals and the society they live in. This genre typically emphasizes a cautionary tale that is demonstrated by the main character who commits crimes (Barsam and Monahan, 2013.) Also, this genre is often blended with film noir, a distinct genre made discernible by its mood of pessimism, and fatalism. The film, Bonnie and Clyde directed by Arthur Penn in 1967, is an example of a genre-bending gangster film due to its distinct genre conventions of story formula, setting, and character types that step outside of the typical gangster film genre conventions.
During the mid and late 1970’s, the mood of American films shifted sharply. People needed to get away from such negative memories as the Vietnam War, long gas lines, the resignation of President Nixon, and ...
The change in the U.S. can be said to be a social revolution. People were growing sick of the same old movies, they wanted a change and Hollywood needed to deliver or else they would lose their audience to the TV. In the early 60's, the studios were still afraid of the blacklisting so the films were still very safe. An example of this is the film Sound of Music (1965). This was a film about a musical family that needed to escape the Nazi presence. Although the movie is based on a true story, they still follow the same old idea of a nice family, who must escape from the clutches of evil. Basically, the movie is saying good guys win and bad guys always lose. Sure this how most films are made but there is no sense of change, no differences in the style or way it was made. Since there was no change, the public was not interested. The TV was much more convenient and kept the publics interested.
On the run leaving stores and banks empty and the police right on their tail. This is how possibly the most well known crime duo lived in the 1930’s. Going town to town and business to business looking to find their next big score. All with the cops always being one step behind and struggling to figure out the duo’s next move. This is the rough and interesting life of Bonnie and Clyde and the barrow gang.
In recent times, such stereotyped categorizations of films are becoming inapplicable. ‘Blockbusters’ with celebrity-studded casts may have plots in which characters explore the depths of the human psyche, or avant-garde film techniques. Titles like ‘American Beauty’ (1999), ‘Fight Club’ (1999) and ‘Kill Bill 2’ (2004) come readily into mind. Hollywood perhaps could be gradually losing its stigma as a money-hungry machine churning out predictable, unintelligent flicks for mass consumption. While whether this image of Hollywood is justified remains open to debate, earlier films in the 60’s and 70’s like ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ (1967) and ‘Taxi Driver’ (1976) already revealed signs of depth and avant-garde film techniques. These films were successful as not only did they appeal to the mass audience, but they managed to communicate alternate messages to select groups who understood subtleties within them.
Largely influenced by the French New Wave and other international film movements, many American filmmakers in the late 1960s to 1970s sought to revolutionize Hollywood cinema in a similar way. The New Hollywood movement, also referred to as the “American New Wave” and the “Hollywood Renaissance,” defied traditional Hollywood standards and practices in countless ways, creating a more innovative and artistic style of filmmaking. Due to the advent and popularity of television, significant decrease in movie theater attendance, rising production costs, and changing tastes of American audiences, particularly in the younger generation, Hollywood studios were in a state of financial disaster. Many studios thus hired a host of young filmmakers to revitalize the business, and let them experiment and have almost complete creative control over their films. In addition, the abandonment of the restrictive Motion Picture Production Code in 1967 and the subsequent adoption of the MPAA’s rating system in 1968 opened the door to an era of increased artistic freedom and expression.
Whether low, middle, or high class, there or always mental and physical instabilities that affect Willy’s life. In the Play “Death of a Salesman” Willy Loman struggles to meet the needs of his family due to his unique characteristics. Throughout the novel death of a salesman, we see the main character Willy, waiting for his big break to achieve the American dream. When this does not present itself Willy tends to go into Denial that his life is perfect.
In the film V for Vendetta directed James McTeigue and written by the The Wachowski Brothers, is an action packed drama film with a little bit of romance throughout. V for Vendetta is set in an alternate future. Where Following a devastating world war, London is taken under a fascist government and a vigilante known as V who uses violence and bombs to fight the oppressors of the world that he lives in.one night during a threatning run n with the police Evey is rescued by V, a man in a mask with both articulateskills and combat. V wears a mask of vilified Guy Fawkes a almost terrorism in british history. V leads a revolution driven by vengeance, using assassination and destruction to mark the 5th of november in the history books forever.