Bonnie and Clyde
Adrift in the Depression-era Southwest, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker embark on a life of crime. They mean no harm. They crave adventure - and each other. Soon we start to love them too. But nothing in film history has prepared us for the cascading violence to follow. Bonnie and Clyde turns brutal. We learn they can be hurt-and dread they can be killed.
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"We Rob Banks" - filmcmnt
Still stylish, shocking, funny, bold every time I see it. Dunaway is breathtaking and Beatty is good in a way he hadn't been before this film - he seems to have cast aside the methody angst from his other '60s films and is looser, funnier, and tougher. The supporting parts are brilliantly handled, especially Hackman, whose death scene is shot through with pathos. Doomed outlaw love had never before and has never since been so poignant. It always gives me chills when Dunaway learns that the Gene Wilder character they have been driving around is an undertaker. She looks like someone has just walked on her grave. It's that turning on a dime between levity and tragedy that was so daring a move when this was made. Beatty made enough money on this to never have to work again and he deserved every penny of it.Still great after all these years - Canada123
Watch this and see Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway years years ago at their physical peak. They get into the space of being Bonnie and Clyde without going over the top. Great supporting actors too - there is some real substance in the cast
These people were hoods who were glamorized by the press into heros because a Depression weary US population loved banks being robbed (having been really screwed over by said banks themselves)
It would have been easy for them to play comic book like characters - like Beatty did in Dick Tracy - but together with a terrific ensemble cast weave a great story to the inevitable conclusion
Great work and an enjoyable watchClassic - FilmJunkie
The story of those famous titular bank robbers, but with so much underneath.
Beatty plays Clyde as an impotent overconfident wannabe lothario, while Dunaway plays the lovesick Bonnie as a child too easily swept up into a life of crime.
Why is this one of the best movies ever made? The sound editing is revolutionary, the direction, cinematography, fabulous. But these are some of the most screwed up characters ever put on screen, yet you can't help loving them.
Estelle Parsons (famous as Roseanne's mom on the TV show) and Gene Hackman as the tag-along gangsters are brilliant. But the big pulsating heart of this film is the chemistry between Beatty and Dunaway. The unquenchable sexual thirst between these two is enough to power the whole of Los Angeles. The performances of their careers, in one of the best films of all time.
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"We Rob Banks" - filmcmnt
Still stylish, shocking, funny, bold every time I see it. Dunaway is breathtaking and Beatty is good in a way he hadn't been before this film - he seems to have cast aside the methody angst from his other '60s films and is looser, funnier, and tougher. The ...Still great after all these years - Canada123
Watch this and see Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway years years ago at their physical peak. They get into the space of being Bonnie and Clyde without going over the top. Great supporting actors too - there is some real substance in the cast
These people ...Classic - FilmJunkie
The story of those famous titular bank robbers, but with so much underneath.
Beatty plays Clyde as an impotent overconfident wannabe lothario, while Dunaway plays the lovesick Bonnie as a child too easily swept up into a life of crime.
Why is this one ...