The historical background of the film:
American society in the 1960s was noisy and uneasy, the Vietnam War was in a quagmire, and domestic anti-war sentiment was high, minorities began to rise in the United States as important political and social forces, and the postwar baby boom generation They just grew up but are about to "break down" (the material conditions of this generation have been significantly improved, but the spirit has fallen into depression and emptiness). In the internal and external troubles, radical young people have developed a feeling of confrontation with tradition and reality, doubts about the existing system and living conditions, and resisting mainstream myths have become the targets of their various campaigns. Hippie evolved from the Beat generation, rock music evolved from jazz, and correspondingly, when the golden age of Hollywood had become a thing of the past, a group of young directors began some new attempts to reflect the younger generation’s feelings through films. Ideology and lifestyle, discussing social and political issues, and showing a strong "anti-establishment" color in ideology and artistic creation. They partly inherited Hollywood's traditional star system and industrialized production methods, and made bold and novel attempts within the system to give movies more realistic content and enrich the expression methods of various movie types. This historic moment is called the "new Hollywood movie", which drags the already dead Hollywood out of the mud and makes it glow with new and cutting-edge light.
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They represent Sexually constitutes the "new Hollywood movie."
A film revolution triggered by the French "New Wave" spread to the United States.
The impact of television on movies has also forced Hollywood to start new attempts.
Director: Arthur Penn was
born in 1922 and died in 2010. A director across TV, film, and drama. In 2007, he won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Berlin Film Festival. His most important work is "The Male and Female Thief", the film opened a new dimension in Hollywood movies.
Directing background: The producer once asked Truffaut to direct, but he eventually directed "Fahrenheit 451" (1966). It is said that Truffaut recommends not to include the fact that Clyde in real life is bisexual in the movie. This suggestion was finally adopted. It is also said that the producer had considered asking Godard to direct the film, but because of Godard’s prejudice against Hollywood and the producer’s concerns, Godard did not direct the film in the end. The producer approached Arthur Penn for the first time, but he refused. After going to more than a dozen directors, they all refused. Finally, he approached Arthur Penn before he agreed.
Screenwriter Robert Benton (director of "The Cramers" and "Stain of Human Nature") and David Newman made great contributions to the film.
Explanation of pull film time mark:
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Historical photos of Bonnie and Clyde. The last two photos introducing the two are photos of the actors themselves, which have been processed to look like old photos. This shows that the film is adapted from real people and things. But the stylization of the film and the connotation of "drunkard's intention is not to drink" make it deviate from the biopic track.
The image in Clyde's film is quite different from the real person: the real person is short and thin.
Opening:
1. Bonnie appearance: 000218-000310
Starting from Bonnie's red lips, through a series of movements of Bonnie, portray a young woman who is restless, anxious and depressed.
2. Clyde's appearance and his encounter with Bonnie: 000310-000624
The bored Bonnie meets Clyde who is planning to steal the car. She knows that he wants to steal the car, but she can't help but strike up a conversation with him, and she is finally attracted by him.
Comparison of historical facts: In real life, before Bonnie and Clyde combined the male and female robbers, they had known each other for a long time. Unlike in the movie, they met and randomly became a male and female robber. They met through a sick friend. After Clyde went to jail, Bonnie never left him, and the two grew stronger in the correspondence. Later, Clyde was released on bail because he cut off his two toes. After reuniting with Bonnie, there was a sensational male and female robber. The plot of cutting off his toe and being released on bail is preserved in the film.
This shows that the screenwriter did not intend to write a biopic at the beginning, but intended to write a stylized film on the basis of facts.
Such an opening may seem absurd, but in the cultural trend of the 1960s, such behavior does not seem to be an exaggeration. This is not a film faithful to history, but it is a work faithful to the times.
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The first robbery: Clyde succeeded and won Bonnie's favor in
Roosevelt's presidential campaign advertisement, explaining the background of the times: During the Great Depression of 1929-1933, the unemployment rate was once as high as one-quarter and crime was rampant.
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Cheerful music on the road, comedy effects, different from traditional bandit movies.
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"Let me explain first that I am not a good lover (a suggestion of impotence)." Clyde said.
This subverts the image of bandit in traditional bandit movies. The word "subversion", I will often mention in the following content, because "The Male and Female Thief" has become a classic because of its subversive nature. In traditional bandit films, bandits are powerful characters with excess hormone secretion, but Clyde in the film is a sexually impotent image.
This also weakens the robber's "bad guy" image and increases the cuteness of the robber.
Of course, we can also understand it as a metaphor: a metaphor of social incompetence...
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Two restless people, two people eager for self-realization, they will walk together and do some earth-shattering things.
[Restaurant chat]
[Bonnie learns to
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If the first robbery was accidental and random, then, from now on, Bonnie and Clyde will treat the bank robbery as a business... …
This is not just their means of earning a living, it’s also their way of expressing dissatisfaction with society and venting for the general public…
[Talk in the car: Clyde’s anxiety and panic]
[The first robbing of a bankrupted bank, comedy Effect]
[Robbery of the store, an accident occurred, he did not shoot, not a cruel character...Clyde's panic]
[Repair the car, Moss joins]
[The store staff recognizes the person, the police start to chase]
[Bonnie thought For sex, Clyde snores like thunder]
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Moss entered the group, the first robbery, because of Moss mistake, Clyde killed the bank staff in panic, and they became murderers.
Clyde's performance afterwards showed that he was not a cruel robber. He didn't want to kill any innocent people, let alone drag down his lover.
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A scene that positively shows Clyde's impotence. Although Bonnie is very depressed, she loves Clyde and chooses to tolerate and stay with him.
Here is a reference to "Natural Murderer"...Different from the traditional robber image...
Metaphor...Hollywood's sexual incompetence, social incompetence...
[Meet the Bucks]
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Photograph: Bonnie has fully integrated into the role of male and female thieves...
Berets, after the movie was released, were all the rage.
[On the way to vacation, Buck’s joke]
[At the holiday house]
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Bonnie’s character and the life she pursues: personalization, can’t understand Blanche who has no insight, emphasizes private living space, just want to With Clyde.
[Takeaway found suspicious points, police round up, fierce gun battle]
[Buck and his wife were forced to join]
[Bonnie and Clyde's quarrel: Bonnie complained about Clyde's incompetence]
[Buck: Newspapers began to report a lot of Clyde and Bonnie's crimes]
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Frank The
male and female robbers used the media to propagate themselves through the media to create the image of goodwill robbers... In fact, they are not heinous robbers...
Background: In fact, Clyde has worked many times, but because of police harassment, he has repeatedly lost his job...Bonnie also I had hoped to get a job after Clyde was released from prison, along with over-the halcyon days ......
comedy movie ......
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robbery comedy, not to harm innocent principles (Clyde only destroyed the police hand gun without injured Or kill them)...
cheerful music...
Even the police are proud of being involved with them. The farmers said they would send flowers to their funerals...They became popular idols...
[Pen money: Blanche wants a share , Bonnie is very dissatisfied]
[Stealing the car, forcing the embarrassing men and women to get in the car, joking in the car, enjoyable, and the comedy style is very prominent]
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Eugene said that he opened the funeral home, which touched the fear in Bonnie's heart. She seemed to see her own destiny. The long escape life made her want to find a sense of belonging.
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Bonnie, Clyde and others get together with Bonnie's family. This beautiful and short moment is still in a dream. This is the last calm for Bonnie and Clyde, after which they will gradually come to a tragic ending.
The special photography and special filters used make the image look not very clear, dim, as if it is far away, like a mirage.
[Dispute in the hotel (Bonnie and Blanche contradictions), Moss and Blanche went out to buy food]
【Bonnie and Clyde talked, Bonnie desperate for the future, but their relationship deepened】
【In the car, Blanche Chatting with Moss, Blanche felt pain and fear for getting deeper and deeper]
[The restaurant, Moss' pistol exposed their whereabouts]
[The hotel was rounded up by the police, Buck was shot in the head, and Blanche's eyes were damaged. , The boundless escape]
[We were rounded up by the police again, Bonnie, Clyde, and Moss abandoned their car and fled, Buck and Blanche were arrested, and Buck was seriously injured]
[Fleeing in the river, Bonnie was shot]
[The three continued to flee, in a village With the help of the villagers, and these villagers recognize them]
[Moss took Bonnie and Clyde home to recuperate]
[Frank was determined to hunt down the Barlow Gang, and the newspapers reported on Bonnie and Clyde indiscriminately, imposing many cases that were not done by them. They even strangled them in public opinion]
[Moss’ father welcomed Bonnie and Clyde on the surface, but secretly calculated them, he just wanted to reduce the sentence for his son]
[Frank learned the name of Moss from Blanche , Find the clue]
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The story about Bonnie and Clyde written by Bonnie, the police oppression of them, and also their true temperament and character.
Bonnie was a well-educated girl in that era. She graduated from high school and likes to read. If there are other ways, she might become an excellent woman.
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Roosevelt’s campaign advertisement appears again, suggesting that a new era is coming...
But Moss’ father informs the police, Frank starts planning the murder of Bonnie and Clyde...
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Clyde finally got rid of his impotence, he became A perfect man... The
short and peaceful life makes them yearn for a better future...
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A murder, two living lives fell...
The baptism of blood... It
was praised by countless film critics. A scene...
Various subversions of the film:
Subversion of traditional bandit films-bandit films, as an earlier film genre in American film history, tend to decline with the fortune of one or a group of bandits, the course of crime, and the final decline And the history of failure constitutes a middle mood festival, and through the stories of these robbers, it provides the audience with a lot of action scenes and suspense. Arthur Payne adopts a comedic style and satirizes the myth of traditional Hollywood bandit films.
Subverted the image of robbers-no longer a cruel and heinous image, no longer a powerful and overly energetic image, Bonnie and Clyde and their accomplices are all reduced to being ordinary people who have committed crimes. Can be very kind, can be cute, can be helpless, can be cowardly... the male protagonist can even be impotent...
Subverted mainstream values-the film focused on showing the affinity of this group of bandits, they even became popular idols, rather than being cast aside or being attacked. The characterization of the film deliberately de-moralizes the positioning, and is no longer limited to themes of justice and crime... The film implies that the government, courts, and police slaughtered two living lives and put them on this path of life. It is attributed to the cruelty of society and family to young people...
Other: the description of daily life, the psychological details of the characters...
The classic narrative of the "new Hollywood movie": new wine in old bottles is still a structure of rise, inheritance, transfer, and integration.
Beginning: Bonnie and Clyde meet.
Inheritance:
Meeting farmers who lost their homes due to the Great Depression, shooting bank seals to vent : The Barlow Gang and Bonnie’s family met, heralding the beginning of tragedy. The first two-thirds of the film is basically a comedy.
He: The plot descends sharply. First, Buck was shot and Blanche was injured and arrested, and then Bonnie and Clyde were murdered... The film was sublimated in the tragedy of bullet baptism...
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