Word: clydes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...life" films as Room at the Top and The Misfits grew in popularity. In these movies there was no real development either of story or character, only static episodes describing the nature of characters' lives. In the late '60s, when the gangster film returned, heralded by Bonnie and Clyde, it was afflicted with this same absence of drama (and therefore, lack of audience involvement). Instead of stories of gangsters' lives, the films continued in the vein of the slice-of-life drama. They became superficial chronicles illustrating episodes in a criminal's career, with little explanation...
...priceless experience. "You can tell your children you saw the great John Dillinger," he says. We don't see that greatness; the actor develops no aura. The action of the film never creates a legend. We don't find out why everyone loved Dillinger and loathed Bonnie and Clyde, as Pretty Bou Floyd mentions to Dillinger in the film. Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway were certainly as attractive as Warren Oates' portrayal of Dillinger. What made Dillinger so great...
Dillinger clings to the coat-tails of Bonnie and Clyde (and no doubt hopes to be as big a financial success). Unfortunately Bonnie and Clyde is based on a lie, and Dillinger, as a remake of the original phony, is worse. The real Bonnie and Clyde were not beautiful, like Beatty and Dunaway. On the contrary, they were hideous, violent hoods, who, as Dillinger says, "gave gangsters a bad name." Several gimmicks in Dillinger were lifted straight out of Bonnie and Clyde, beginning with the use of the song "We're in the Money" sung over the credits. Dillinger tries...
Bonnie and Clyde. It made a bloody splash when it came out, but all its blood must be old hat by now. Faye Dunaway talks tough, Warren Beatty thinks with a soft brain, C.W. Moss steals the show. Orson Welles...
...Clyde acknowledges that the change in lifestyle is his most difficult adjustment, and he still has not learned to chew tobacco. In the off-season he will attend Texas A. & M. and major in journalism and television sportscasting. He explains, "If I don't make it on this side...