In the 1960s and 1970s, with the disintegration of classic Hollywood power structures in the United States and the impact of new ideologies, the world factory of industrial film production on the West Side of Los Angeles, California, blew the wind of innovation, "Bonnie and Clyde". is one of the unveiling works of this new Hollywood movement.
Under the multiple shadows of political terror, economic depression and war public opinion, the young Americans of that era presented a general emptiness, degeneration and despair in the spiritual realm. In addition to carrying the functions of entertainment and recreation, the films of this period also showed an indispensable realistic concern for contemporary youth, while the robber films were prominently displayed as a warm bond connecting the cold objective world and the poetic subjective world. In New Hollywood In the history of film, he wrote a heroic and tearful image splendor.
The story background of "Bonnie and Clyde" is based on the Great Depression period in the 1930s in the United States. The encounter between the two is a bit like Pan Jinlian and Ximen Qing's provocation. Clyde was attracted by the uninhibited nature of Bonnie's birth. Bonnie is very interested in Clyde's crime of "robbing the bank when it's all right", haha, it's vulgar love at first sight. The two, along with Clyde's brother-in-law and a coachman, formed the so-called "Barrow Boys" gang of robbers, which quickly became public enemy number one in the police world. According to the narrative logic of robber films as always, the pair of robbers eventually died in an accident and could not escape the law.
Highlights of this video that delight me:
1️⃣Character of characters
Everyone is a "round figure" in the writer Foster's pen, focusing on the heroine Bonnie.
In the first set of accumulated montages she appeared, she created a very "sensual" image of a royal sister, which perfectly fits my wretched imagination. She clearly loves and hates her. She can love her husband so much that despite her sexual impediment, she can still act for him without hesitation, and she can express her dissatisfaction and disgust with her teammates without thinking. What's even more amazing is that Bonnie is also a poet, a Interesting soul! She turned her husband and her legendary life into poems, sent them to the newspaper on tm, and published them on tm. It really has a romantic and chivalrous flavor of "My old grandson is here" - but Movies are deceptive, how can there be such a perfect woman in the world, living like a flame and suffocating like a blue orchid.
2️⃣Absurd banter created by sound and picture counterpoint
The contrast between the picture information field and the sound information field caused by the use of sound and picture counterpoint is a skill that many directors love. From Coppola's "The Godfather" to my country's Zhou Xingchi, who created a nonsensical comedy of small characters, and even Chen Sicheng, who has a worrying personality, it is not uncommon. have.
In the film itself, director Arthur Payne often used comical cowboy performance music and desolate escaping and hunting bridges to form a contrasting sound and picture relationship, conveying a kind of entry into the WTO for this pair of mandarin duck thieves to play and indulge in life. Attitude.
This time, the viewing experience is struggling between the movie situation and the real situation. It is too torturous to appreciate the aesthetics from the perspective of knowing the fate of the protagonist. I can't bear the sadness, my eyes are bitter, whether to maintain a "distancing effect" to analyze the film soberly, or to enjoy the "Aristotelian drama"-like devotion, this kind of wandering is also what the film gives me. The special power of existence.
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