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...story chronicles a battle of wits between Clyde Shelton (Butler) and Philadelphia lawyer Nick Rice (Foxx). A decade prior to the film’s setting, two thugs murdered Clyde??s wife and young daughter during a home invasion. In the ensuing trial, Nick cut a deal with one of the murderers in order to secure testimony against the other. Clyde was understandably opposed to Nick’s plan, so he spent the next 10 years plotting his revenge on not just the two men who murdered his family, but also on members of the justice system...
...film’s most egregious problems is that it puts no emphasis whatsoever on establishing any semblance of Clyde??s backstory, nor can it decide which of the two main characters it wants to agree with. As hard as it tries to legitimize Clyde??s motivation by constantly referencing his family, their brief appearance on screen does not do enough to explain any of his actions. Other details of the movie are similarly disconnected. Why doesn’t anyone notice the military-grade rocket launcher Clyde has erected in the middle of a cemetery...
...whole constellation of stars to his name, but he left them all behind for his talk with New York Times book critic Janet Maslin at Kirkland House on Monday. Benton is wise in the ways of Hollywood as the martyred-then-hallowed screenwriter of “Bonnie and Clyde?? and the beatified and Academy Award-winning writer-director of “Kramer vs. Kramer.” But rather than rehash his many successes, he and Maslin spent their 90 minutes together discussing the “grammar for films” he learned from...
...character’s move to violence. “Violence is one part of human nature. Violence is a part of us all—except Bosley Crowther,” he said, referring to the New York Times critic who denounced “Bonnie and Clyde?? as a “cheap piece of bald-faced slapstick comedy” remarkable only for its pointless violence and lack of taste. Penn reacted against critics such as Crowther who, during America’s military engagement in Vietnam, deemed the brutal undertones of his films irrelevant...
...these interpretations places the emphasis on her eerie masterful banshee’s voice. The song that may well get the most attention, and with good reason, is her cover of Eminem’s “’97 Bonnie and Clyde??—a song that...
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