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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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1 posted on 08/13/2007 6:31:26 AM PDT by ParsifalCA
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To: ParsifalCA

Cops and robbers. The rest is too deep.


2 posted on 08/13/2007 6:38:29 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory (ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government)
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To: ParsifalCA

Good observation...the whole culture has been reconfigured to suit this and other lies.


3 posted on 08/13/2007 6:41:55 AM PDT by Dudoight
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To: ParsifalCA

Whatever you do - don’t sell that cow!


4 posted on 08/13/2007 6:42:17 AM PDT by joebuck
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To: ParsifalCA

Have read several who opined that Butch and Sundance were in the “movie that changed the movies”. Six of one, half a dozen of the other, hayna?


5 posted on 08/13/2007 6:44:02 AM PDT by flowerplough ("Call Mr. Plow, that's my name. That name again is Mr. Plow!" -Homer, in a TV commercial.)
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To: ParsifalCA
Oh come on!

Hollywood would never, ever cast evil characters at good guys!


6 posted on 08/13/2007 6:45:41 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: ParsifalCA
The glorification of the bandit goes a LOT farther back than Bonny and Clyde.

Think Robin Hood, Jesse James and Billy the Kid.

Today we've got people looking up to the the thugs of the rap industry and the narcotraficantes.

7 posted on 08/13/2007 6:50:24 AM PDT by Sherman Logan (It's not the heat, it's the stupidity.)
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To: ParsifalCA
One of my favorite movies. Should have won best picture of the year. As Warren Beatty said after the awards, "We was robbed."
Someday they'll go down together
They'll bury them side by side
To few it'll be grief,
To the law, a relief.
But it's death for Bonnie and Clyde.

8 posted on 08/13/2007 7:05:26 AM PDT by eastsider
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To: ParsifalCA

It was a good movie, but I liked “Cool Hand Luke” better. “What we have here is a failure to communicate.”


9 posted on 08/13/2007 7:07:12 AM PDT by GeorgefromGeorgia
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To: flowerplough

Hollywood has been in bed with the Reds for a long time. The historical Spartacus was a brutal — possibly psychotic — criminal... but Hollywood cast him as hero decades ago.


10 posted on 08/13/2007 7:15:26 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

BOY, do I remember Bonnie and Clyde. I was twelve, I was crazy about it (would sneak off to see it while my mother was at work...must have seen it a dozen or more times). When my mother found out who I was idolizing (I thought Bonnie Parker was just too cool), she was horrified and I got a good lecture on bad guys being bad guys.


11 posted on 08/13/2007 7:21:52 AM PDT by freepertoo
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To: ParsifalCA

***...psychopathic killers––Clyde had jug-ears and a weak chin, Bonnie the mean mouth and ferret eyes of a white-trash skank.***

Great article.


12 posted on 08/13/2007 7:24:25 AM PDT by kitkat (I refuse to let the DUers chase me off FR.)
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To: ParsifalCA

Outstanding article. Thanks for posting.

Anti-truth, fictional representations corrode the rational faculties of the casual observer.

Run Hillary run!


13 posted on 08/13/2007 7:28:43 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: ParsifalCA
At the time the movie came out, some of the real life characters were still alive including Blanche Barrow and some of the posse that killed Bonnie and Clyde. The silly portrayals of Blanche, Frank Hamer, and even Clyde reduced the movie to a comic book level. Blanche hated her movie likeness as played by Estelle Parsons.

The true story was much more interesting, more action filled, and more unbelievable. Both Clyde and Bonnie did have a certain mix of natures manifesting normal human emotions and friendliness but also ruthlessness and self-justifying adolescent false-morality.

Texas Ranger Frank Hamer’s life could be fodder for several movies. He shot three times as many men that Clyde did and was a top pistolero. The movie was indeed a defamation of his character. He was a giant among other great lawmen of the time.

Most writers seem to go on about Bonnie and Clyde being of an inbred appearance or otherwise unattractive. But I think photos reveal them to be more attractive than their average peers. If one looks over 15 or 20 Bonnie and Clyde photographs one will see that they were not Hollywood star material but were reasonably attractive.

14 posted on 08/13/2007 7:32:46 AM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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To: kitkat
A short fiery tempered redhead...


15 posted on 08/13/2007 7:34:20 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: showme_the_Glory

Hi, showme_the_Glory:

Never thought much of “Bonnie & Clyde”. Depression-era lead slinging desprados meets French New Wave was a curiosity, Though I did like Gene Hackman’s supporting role as Clyde’s brother Buck and the massive ambush at the film’s end.

What’s interesting, is that French New Wave films were highly influenced by thousands of American B-Movies that were sent across the pond to Europe. Thus creating recycled garbage.

The only film I can think of that could have been influenced by “Bonnie & Clyde” would be Robert Altman’s “McCabe & Mrs. Miller”. Which isn’t saying all that much.

Jack.


16 posted on 08/13/2007 7:44:51 AM PDT by Jack Deth (Knight Errant and Resident FReeper Kitty Poem /Haiku Guy)
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To: Sherman Logan
Robin Hood is slightly different. Liberals like to adapt the Robin Hood tale to modern day capitalist democracies in order to justify their tax & social program policies, i.e. their “fight against greedy robber barons”. However medieval England and 21st century U.S. are different.

Here everyone has the opportunity to rise up from their station through hard work and determination.

Back then you were locked into your class. Hard work amounted to little. Hmmmm, that sounds an awful lot like communism.

17 posted on 08/13/2007 7:45:15 AM PDT by NYCynic
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To: ParsifalCA

I saw the movie Bonnie and Clyde. I didn’t view them as any kind of ‘Robinhoods’. The movie showed them shooting people in cold blood. Anyone who ‘romanticized’ that wasn’t paying attention.


18 posted on 08/13/2007 7:54:07 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: eastsider

A great, great movie. Those who cannot distinguish between Hollywood history and actual history need some schooling.

“... about the third night
They’ll be invited to fight
By a sub-gun’s rat-a-tat-tat...”


19 posted on 08/13/2007 8:04:01 AM PDT by karnage
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When I was a kid, back in the early 50’s., I went to the Alabama State Fair. There was an exhibit there that had a host of historical things of horror. There were lamp shades of human skin made by Nazi’s among other things. Also, the car that Bonnie and Clyde were killed in was there as well pictures of that event. Bonnie was sitting in the driver’s seat with the door open. She was riddled with bullets. The bridge of her nose was shot away and her nose was hanging over her lips.


20 posted on 08/13/2007 8:13:29 AM PDT by pugdog
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