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Bonnie + Clyde: Inaccurate, Immoral, Inane

posted 11 years ago by iamdamnedbroke
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Inaccurate: Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway were made up to look like 60s fashion icons. They looked nothing like the real Bonnie and Clyde, who were both ugly little weasels. This was done purposely to glamorize their psychopathy and violence.

Immoral: See above - to glamorize psychopaths is by definition immoral.

Inane: I just put that in to be alliterative, but I think it's apt. This was really a dumb movie. Pretty but dumb. It showed no insight into the character's psyches.

[–] SocallyKid 10 years ago

Had to wade through a lot to find a review I agreed with. When Orson Welles was given the keys to RKO he made Citizen Kane. When it landed in Beatty's lap he beautiful agitprop.

[–] wylierichardson-966-922691 9 years ago

If this movie is meant to 'glamorize' B and C, how do you account for the ending? Not too many 'fashion icons' end up dying in hailstorms of gunfire, do they? And if you are suggesting that the leads should have been homely-looking actors, that might have hurt the box office. Also, Beatty himself produced the movie, it was just a matter of giving himself the coveted leading role. It doesn't seem to have hurt his career too much!

[–] HijodelCid 9 years ago

Speaking of fashion icons, 'tis positively ludicrous how movies set in the early 30s try to glamorize the dowdy drab fashions of that period. Watch movies from the early 30s on TCM, and you will see that even beauties like Crawford and Harlow look like frumps in the duds of those years.

God is subtle, but He is not malicious. (Albert Einstein)

[–] Stratego (30503) a year ago

Yep. Disgusting.