When they ambushed Bonnie & Clyde, and killed them! :( They are for sure my favorite couple in movie history hands down!
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You're sad because you saw actors in a movie being killed. The real-life Bonnie and Clyde killed innocent people for their own personal gain. You might have felt differently had you lived then (1930s) and saw how they destroyed lives and families.
Even I SAID myself.
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I felt so sad too. Ambushing them like that was NOT the right thing to do! Yes they were cold blooded killers/bank robbers but they didn't deserve that!They should have just been arrested.
Every attempt to arrest or even question Bonnie and Clyde had resulted in a gun fight started by Clyde. They killed several law enforcement officers in those gun battles. Their car was a rolling arsenal of pistols, rifles, and automatic weapons. I think that Texas Ranger Frank Hamer's posse did exactly the right thing. Any attempt to confront the vicious, blood thirsty pair of ruthless outlaws would have resulted in a gun fight and quite probably one that was fought out while flying down that dirt road at forty miles per hour or more. There is no telling how many bystanders may have been risked. The only thing I might have done differently given the right weapons would be to start by destroying the vehicle with a high explosive device.
The best diplomat I know is a fully charged phaser bank.
I didn't feel sad at all for Bonnie and Clyde. They had it coming from the start.
shareThey brought their violent demise upon themselves by their brutal criminal behavior. The police had no choice. In the real ambush, they used Browning Automatic Rifles, not Thompsons, because they could not rely upon the bullets from Thompsons to penetrate the heavy gauge steel that was used in automobile bodies of that time.
shareYep, you're right. No Thompsons were used and bet Clyde wished they had used them because those BARs are more deadly.
I saw this movie at the theater (I was 11 or 12) when it came out, and that ambush was mind-blowing.
shareIt's certainly not the sort of ending you expect from a movie that's been so much fun! It must have been even more devastating when the film was new, because a downer ending like that would never have been allowed during the days of the Studio Era. That era was newly over when "B&C" was made, and filmmakers were celebrating their freedom to break all the old rules.
And to show what happened in real life. And yeah, if previous attempts to arrest those career criminals had ended in the deaths of police, then I'm okay with the use of overwhelming force.
My dad took me to see this movie, The Dirty Dozens, The Guns of Navarone, and Where Eagles Dare - Those four I remember and the B&C movie. I remember at the end, my dad just sat in his seat and didn't move; as did others in the audience; stunned at what they just witnessed.
share"Bonnie and Clyde" had a lot in common with "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", both films about career-criminal antiheroes, from the era of the anti-authoritarian anti-hero.
Both seemed to be about what fun it was to break all the rules and defy The Man and do what you wanted to do instead of what was expected, and in the end... the message was that The Man always wins, that you just can't get away with that shit.