Ok I purchased the Blu Ray of Bonnie and Clyde and the quality is great considering that its made in 1967 but I want to know that when Bonnie goes to meet her Mother with Clyde and others, the scene was very blurry and dull. I know that they showed the wind blowing with dust but what I need to know that is that a technical issue of restoration process of the film for Blu ray or was it intentional by the director to shot the scene dull and blurry?
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That scene was shot through a window, I think to give it a dreamy, disconnected feel, as it was depicting the last time they saw their families (Clyde and Bonnie always stayed close to their families and visited them a lot, putting themselves at risk of capture).
Bonnie's mother was played by a local woman, a non-actor. I thought her acting was lousy!
Thats what I read last night on the trivia page also. Thanks for the reply. This film is a masterpiece.
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Cannot agree at all about your verdict on the acting by the local woman.
sharewell considering she wasnt an actress i thought she did a wonderful job at playing bonnies mother. she looked very realistic and acted like a real mother would knowing ur child will be shot and killed eventually.
shareI didn't form an opinion on the acting talent of the local woman who played Mrs Parker. Her appearance in the film was far too brief to be judged. I did think she looked too old for the part. She looked old enough to be Bonnie's grandmother.
shareThanks for asking this, thekashif. I've just seen the Blu-ray version of this film for the first time, and came here to ask the same question, because I found it so puzzling. I was even wondering if I maybe had a faulty disc, it looked so bad and so much out of keeping with the rest of the film.
I guess I understand now what they were trying for, but I don't think they managed the kind of impact they envisioned. It looks strange and distracting.
Sadly, I agree with others on this thread who have said they could have done better in casting the mother. She stole the scene in all the wrong ways.
You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.
Yeah, I thought the scene was just poorly preserved or something...definitely didn't achieve any artistic impact on me.
shareThis is where digital and film part ways. Digital cannot accurately handle smoke in the air or haze or soft focus or gauze covered lenses. The artifacts are glaring and obvious. The scene in question is supposed to play in a dreamy haze, a life that is disappearing from Bonnie, receeding into her past, only to be a memory. The soundtrack is also supposed to be muted-but today's technicians amp up the sound on ALL older movies, not understanding why sound levels are different, changing the equalization to mimic modern day films etc. They must think those big time Hollywood techs had no idea what they were doing.
"Digital cannot accurately handle smoke in the air or haze or soft focus or gauze covered lenses."
Yes, it can. You just need a high enough bitrate.
"The artifacts are glaring and obvious."
Lossy compression causes artifacts. There are no compression artifacts in digital video if it isn't compressed (or if lossless compression is used), obviously. The Blu-ray video specifications allow for a high enough bitrate so that there never needs to be visible compression artifacts, not even with the lossy compression that the specifications mandate, but the people who produce Blu-ray transfers don't always do their job properly.