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Post by Vits on Jun 1, 2017 12:03:46 GMT
Since the term “blockbuster” was invented in the late ‘70s, most people think that they didn’t exist before, but they did. Because of this, most blockbusters from before that period aren’t considered classics but cult movies at best. That’s why at first I didn’t understand why BONNIE AND CLYDE is considered a classic, since it’s not deep. About halfway through I realized all of what I said before and I was able to appreciate it for being entertaining. Even with that in mind, I don't think it's great. It doesn’t really get into who these people were, which was very necessary for the story. Also, the performances are nothing out of this world and the music score kills the mood in some scenes. 6/10 ------------------------------------- You can read comments of other movies in my blog (in English, in Spanish or in Italian).
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Post by tresix on Jun 10, 2017 17:37:05 GMT
Did you see the 2013 version with Emile Hirsch and Holliday Granger?
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Post by pop_actor on Jun 11, 2017 2:04:27 GMT
Did you see the 2013 version with Emile Hirsch and Holliday Granger? I own both version...The 2013 is more accurate...
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Post by Vits on Jun 13, 2017 10:22:51 GMT
Did you see the 2013 version with Emile Hirsch and Holliday Granger? No, why?
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Post by tresix on Jun 13, 2017 23:15:48 GMT
Did you see the 2013 version with Emile Hirsch and Holliday Granger? No, why? Just for comparison. The '13 version is closer to the truth.
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Post by mikef6 on Jul 19, 2017 17:41:48 GMT
The 1967 "Bonnie And Clyde" seems to me to be more amazing today than when I first saw it 50 years ago. It still seems new and fresh. Many have tried the trick of having a light or comic moment be interrupted by shocking violence, but rarely (if ever) has it been as effective as in 1967. B&C also practically invented the "blackout" ending where the screen goes suddenly blank, ending the movie, without all the expected wrap-up. The blackout ending didn't really catch on, though, until the new century when the Dogme group in Europe began to use it. Just goes to show how far ahead of its time B&C was and how up-to-date it still is.
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Post by telegonus on Jul 23, 2017 6:53:10 GMT
The 1967 "Bonnie And Clyde" seems to me to be more amazing today than when I first saw it 50 years ago. It still seems new and fresh. Many have tried the trick of having a light or comic moment be interrupted by shocking violence, but rarely (if ever) has it been as effective as in 1967. B&C also practically invented the "blackout" ending where the screen goes suddenly blank, ending the movie, without all the expected wrap-up. The blackout ending didn't really catch on, though, until the new century when the Dogme group in Europe began to use it. Just goes to show how far ahead of its time B&C was and how up-to-date it still is. I loved Bonnie And Clyde when I first saw it,--late summer of '67, on a double bill with William Castle's The Spirit Is Willing, no jive (would I lie about a thing like that?)--and I was blown away. Everyone was. It was The New Yorker's Pauline Kael who got the ball rolling for that one, and it made her reputation as a major critic and ultimately destroyed Bosley Crowther's. I read the Kael review in its original form. Sheesh, what a precocious fifteen year old I was! . It was probably the first critic made hit in a dog's age, by which I mean just one critic selling it. Then they all followed, some less than enamored of the film than others; and everyone acknowledged the movie's importance. The movie doesn't play as well on television as it did in the theater. It was from that era when movies were made to be seen in theaters,--and I don't mean drive-ins--and even on a big home screen, without an audience, it's not the same. In its day it was a sensation, at least at the level of the 1932 Scarface, or, to switch genres, King Kong, and switch again, It Happened One Night, then Mr. Deeds Goes To Town and so many others, right through Casablanca, The Best Years Of Our Lives and On The Waterfront. Bonnie And Clyde is a movie that defined its era. Nothing can tarnish its place in the history books even as the careers and reputations of many involved in the film did not in many cases pan out as they ought to have done. Bonnie And Clyde is one of the seminal films of the Sixties, and a case can be made that where American films were concerned the entire decade was working up to the climax that was Bonnie And Clyde. I'm not claiming it's the best film of the decade,--that's another topic--but it may well be the most important.
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