BONNIE
AND CLYDE
Released:
1967
Writer(s):
David Newman
Jack
N. Reddish
Director:
Arthur Penn
Major
Actors: Warren Beatty (Clyde Barrow)
Faye
Dunaway (Bonnie Parker)
Michael
J. Pollard (C.W. Moss)
Gene
Hackman (Buck Barrow)
Estelle
Parsons (Blanche [Barrow])
Story:
Bonnie Parker a 20 some year old
bored waitress meets a 20 some year old thief named Clyde Barrow when he is attempting
to steal her mother’s car. Bonnie is intrigued by the handsome thief. Bonnie joins
Clyde and becomes his partner in crime. The two have an exciting time but net
very little in way of profit from their crimes. That is until Clyde’s brother
Buck is released from prison and they team up with Buck and his wife Blanche. Then
they go on a wild crime spree where they add murder and bank robbery to their
growing list of crimes. The outlaws become the most hunted gang in American
history. Bonnie and Clyde were killed in a police ambush in 1934 after a 156
rounds of ammunition was sprayed into their car.
Plot:
Bonnie and Clyde were two 20 some
year olds that were just petty thief’s until Clyde’s brother Buck was released
from prison. They team up with Buck and his wife and go on a crime spree. When they
add bank robbery and murder to their list of crimes they become the most hunted
criminals in American history. Bonnie and Clyde die in 1934 when they are gun
down in a road block by a police ambush.
Was the film presented chronologically or non-linearly?
This film was done and presented
in chronologically order this can be seen as to how the events took place. The two
meet up and become partners in crime pulling petty crimes, then team up with
Clyde’s brother, major crime spree, and then killed.
How are elements like character
development or foreshadowing impacted by the choice of storytelling methods?
The character development
impacted the storytelling because you see Bonnie who is a bored waitress become
a player in a major crime gang. This was something that women just did not do
in the 1930s. “Americans were
fascinated by the shattering of conventional gender rules personified by
Bonnie—a petite, attractive, fashionable blonde who robbed banks, was
photographed smoking cigars, and had a man’s name tattooed on her thigh”.
If the film had followed a different presentation style, how would the
general effect on the audience have been different?
If this film had been done in non-linearly order this film would have been
very hard to follow. The order of events would have taken place differently and
as a viewer it would have made no sense. The film would have too hard to follow
because you would not have known what was happening or when it happened.
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