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The Movie That Changed The Movies [ExileStreet]
ExileStreet ^ | 8/13/07 | Bruce Thornton

Posted on 08/13/2007 6:31:22 AM PDT by ParsifalCA

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To: BenLurkin

Agreed. Bonnie appears to have had quite the rack.


21 posted on 08/13/2007 8:20:57 AM PDT by Oratam
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To: pugdog
I saw their car as well in the late 60's.

B & C were so glorified even before the movie came out to the point that my mom thought they hadn't killed anybody. I, as a kid, had to educate her about that.

22 posted on 08/13/2007 8:29:58 AM PDT by Tolkien (There are things more important than Peace. Freedom being one of those.)
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To: ParsifalCA

Bonnie and Clyde were a pair of psychos... I enjoyed the part at the end where they were machine-gunned.


23 posted on 08/13/2007 8:37:17 AM PDT by Little Ray (Rudy Guiliani: If his wives can't trust him, why should we?)
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To: Tolkien

My wife and I went to the Texas Rangers Museum in Waco a few years ago. Frank Hammer’s guns that he used against Bonnie & Clyde are on display.

A great museum to visit.

Also, when LBJ stole his first Senate election near Kingsville, Tx in 1948, Hammer was sent alone to break up a riot . He must have been one tough son-of-a-gun.


24 posted on 08/13/2007 8:38:45 AM PDT by pugdog
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To: ParsifalCA

Bonnie and Clyde killed innocent people. Those deaths get minimized and devalued in the glamorization of evil. I thought Jesse James was a folk hero until I read about his cold blooded execution during a bank robbery of a man James thought was a Union adversary in the war. The problem was Jesse had the wrong man. At least Bob Ford knew who he was murdering.


25 posted on 08/13/2007 8:55:33 AM PDT by Spok
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To: pugdog
Also, when LBJ stole his first Senate election near Kingsville,
Tx in 1948, Hammer was sent alone to break up a riot .
He must have been one tough son-of-a-gun.


Hence the term...
One Riot, One Ranger
26 posted on 08/13/2007 9:00:23 AM PDT by VOA
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To: karnage
The Barrow Gang's fate was sealed when they shot the first bank security guard, which they knew was a mistake from the get-go. Their every attempt to run away from what they had done was completely unrealistic: their initial attempt to escape in the movie theater ("We're in the money"); Blanche's wistful self-identity as a preacher's daughter; Buck's reliving a youthful experience as he's in his death throes; Bonnie's slow motion, vaseline-on-the-lens visit with her mother; C.W.'s ill-fated visit to his father ...

To me, the movie really isn't about the the historical Bonnie and Clyde at all -- it's about how people create their own inexorable destinies.

Bonnie: What would you do if some miracle happened and we could walk out of here tomorrow morning and start all over again clean? No record and nobody after us, huh?

Clyde: Well, uh, I guess I'd do it all different. First off, I wouldn't live in the same state where we pull our jobs. We'd live in another state. We'd stay clean there and then when we'd take a bank, we'd go into the other state ...


27 posted on 08/13/2007 9:00:57 AM PDT by eastsider
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To: pugdog

I love Hamer’s words after he dealth with Bonnie and Clyde. He stated “I hate to bust a cap on a woman especially when she was sitting down but if it hadn’t of been them it would have been us”.

He was real old style lawman.


28 posted on 08/13/2007 9:15:54 AM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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To: VOA

Hammer ambushed B & C near Vidalia, Louisiana. The father who supposedly told Hammer where B & C would be, was played by one of the best character actors ever: Dub Taylor. His boy, Buck Taylor was a regular on “Gunsmoke”.


29 posted on 08/13/2007 9:20:53 AM PDT by pugdog
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To: ParsifalCA
The real hero! FRANK HAMER! (One "M" in the name)
30 posted on 08/13/2007 9:24:02 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Ever see WILLIS SHAW backwards in your rear view mirror? I have!)
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To: ParsifalCA

***As New York Times critic A.O. Scott wrote recently, forty years ago this summer the movie that changed the movies premiered.***

Actually there were several films that caused quite a stir at that time.

Bonnie and Clyde.

Villa Rides! (Before Bobby Kennedy’s murder critics said it was good western. After the murder, a movie that glorifed violence.)

A Fist full of Dollars.
For a Few dollars More.
Good the Bad and the Ugly.

The Wild Bunch (My favorite)

And who can remember the uproar over those “sadistic” JAMES BOND films.

Must not forget ROSMARY’S BABY.


31 posted on 08/13/2007 9:36:05 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Ever see WILLIS SHAW backwards in your rear view mirror? I have!)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)


32 posted on 08/13/2007 9:38:28 AM PDT by eastsider
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To: ParsifalCA
A few more photos for the ghouls. http://texashideout.tripod.com/bc.htm
33 posted on 08/13/2007 10:06:47 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Ever see WILLIS SHAW backwards in your rear view mirror? I have!)
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To: ParsifalCA

You don’t have to go to the movies to see historical inaccuracies and leftist propaganda. I was watching the History Channel a few months ago, and they had a program about the most notorious outlaws of the Great Depression like Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd. The program actually depicted the hoodlums as being victims of society and portrayed Hoover and the F.B.I as monstrous villains who mercilessly gunned down those heroic outlaws. I couldn’t believe what I was viewing. So the propaganda and indoctrination proceeds on other media venues. You don’t have to go to the flicks to get your anti-American dose.


34 posted on 08/13/2007 12:13:19 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: ParsifalCA

That movie and Sam Peckinpah brought graphic violence to mainstream movies. Not something to celebrate.


35 posted on 08/13/2007 12:16:38 PM PDT by AU72
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To: ParsifalCA

This is a very true analysis about what Bonnie & Clyde did to transform the movie culture. I would state, however, that if it hadn’t been this one, someone else would have done it.


36 posted on 08/13/2007 12:25:25 PM PDT by Amalie (FREEDOM had NEVER been another word for nothing left to lose...)
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To: eastsider

The scene you quoted is one of the best in the movie; it shows the fundamental difference between the romance Bonnie imagines, and the reality of the man she has fallen in love with.


37 posted on 08/13/2007 1:35:50 PM PDT by karnage
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To: Little Ray

I had the same reaction.

“Dead Man Walking” with Sean Penn getting the needle was also an enjoyable ending.


38 posted on 08/13/2007 3:41:05 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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