Friday, 26 April 2013

Guns and fiction


Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

Directed by Arthur Penn this film stars Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman and Estelle Parsons. During the Great Depression in the United States two lovers and their gang go on a violent rampage of crime.

For breaking the production code this film opened up new levels of violence and more mature representations of sex in cinema as part of the New Hollywood movement. Unfortunately while the execution of the film was something new the plot is fiction masquerading as history which is always disappointing. This film may have been influential in it's day but for modern viewers this does not necessarily help the film stand out against the many films that have been made since.

3/5

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