Bonnie and Clyde (1967) | |
| Director(s) | Arthur Penn |
| Producer(s) | Warren Beatty |
| Top Genres | Biographical, Crime, Drama |
| Top Topics | Outlaws, Great Depression |
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Bonnie and Clyde Overview:
Bonnie and Clyde (1967) was a Biographical - Crime Film directed by Arthur Penn and produced by Warren Beatty.
SYNOPSIS
The nuanced, ultimately bleak tale of Depression-era bank robbers Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. Essentially a road film, it juxtaposes easygoing humor with stylish scenes of graphic violence. Controversial when released, it heralded the coming increase in cinematic violence, naturalistic performances, and daring film style.
(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).
.Bonnie and Clyde was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1992.
Academy Awards 1967 --- Ceremony Number 40 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Actor | Warren Beatty | Nominated |
| Best Supporting Actor | Gene Hackman | Nominated |
| Best Supporting Actor | Michael J. Pollard | Nominated |
| Best Actress | Faye Dunaway | Nominated |
| Best Supporting Actress | Estelle Parsons | Won |
| Best Cinematography | Burnett Guffey | Won |
| Best Costume Design | Theadora Van Runkle | Nominated |
| Best Director | Arthur Penn | Nominated |
| Best Picture | Warren Beatty, Producer | Nominated |
| Best Writing | David Newman, Robert Benton | Nominated |
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Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
By Beatrice on Jul 24, 2019 From Flickers in TimeBonnie and Clyde Directed by Arthur Penn Written by David Newman and Robert Benton 1967/US Warner Brothers/Seven Arts; Tatira-Hiller Productions Repeat viewing/Netflix rental One of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die Did this change Hollywood films forever or just for the next ten years? ?Was i... Read full article
Review: Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
By 4 Star Film Fan on Jun 24, 2019 From 4 Star FilmsFifty years on and Bonnie and Clyde remains a cultural landmark as the harbinger proclaiming a new American movie had arrived on the scene. As a cinematic artifact, it is indebted as much to the 60s themselves as it is the Depression Era where its mythical crime story finds its roots. The spark of a... Read full article
Win Tickets to see ?TCM Big Screen Classics: Bonnie and Clyde (50th Anniversary)? (Giveaway runs July 14 – July 29)
By Annmarie Gatti on Jul 14, 2017 From Classic Movie Hub BlogWin Tickets to see ?Bonnie and Clyde? on the Big Screen! In Select Cinemas Nationwide Sunday, August 13 & Wednesday, August 16! “This here’s Miss Bonnie Parker. I’m Clyde Barrow. We rob banks.” CMH is thrilled to announce the 10th of our 14 movie ticket giveaways this yea... Read full article
Bonnie and Clyde (1967, Arthur Penn)
By Andrew Wickliffe on Aug 14, 2015 From The Stop ButtonBonnie and Clyde opens with two immediate introductions. First, in the opening titles, photographs from the 1930s set the scene. Second, in the first scene, with Faye Dunaway (as Bonnie) and Warren Beatty (as Clyde) meet one another and flirt their way into armed robbery. Okay, maybe in the latter, ... Read full article
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
on Aug 15, 2014 From Journeys in Classic FilmThe tale of the rascally outlaws ushered in the 1960s as a time of violence fastened together by sympathetic revolutionaries.? This revisionist legend romanticized the gangster genre, and heavily inspired director Terence Malick’s debut, Badlands.? With a fantastic cast, and a bevy of differen... Read full article
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Quotes from Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie Parker: [after a shootout with the cops] *Damn it*, you almost got us killed!
Blanche Barrow: What did I do wrong? I thought you'd be happy if I got shot!
Bonnie Parker: Yeah! Yeah, it would of saved us all a lot of trouble!
Bonnie Parker: [to Clyde] You're just like your brother. Ignorant, uneducated hillbilly, except the only special thing about you is your peculiar ideas about love-making, which is no love-making at all.
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Facts about Bonnie and Clyde
In a TV interview director Arthur Penn pointed out that this film shows for the first time the firing of a gun and the consequences in one single frame. Before that you would see a gun being fired, then cut and the next scene shows the bleeding body. In Bonnie and Clyde you see a gun being fired into the face of a person without inter cut. This was incredible at the time and would have been censored in the past. (Such a shot had, however, had already been used in all three of the films Sergio Leone's "Dollars" trilogy.)
Originally writers Robert Benton and David Newman wrote Clyde Barrow as a bisexual, a point which they felt was non-negotiable. Warren Beatty had no objections but Arthur Penn did. He felt that to have Clyde be part gay on top of all the other social dysfunctions featured in the film would just make the audience think they were watching a bunch of freaks. Benton and Newman couldn't help but agree.
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