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...blood lust and the masculine honor of big money. Affectation like this makes good copy and, judging from Dillinger, bad movies. Instead of the brash and abrasive effort that might have been expected, Dillinger is slack and derivative. Its main inspiration is Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde, both in its ideas (outlaws as folk heroes, mythic celebrity as the ultimate reward of the criminal life) and its images (bloody faces pressed against car wind shields, lovers in a field shaded by a cloud passing briefly across the sun). But Bonnie and Clyde's humor, excitement and sense...
...violence is for the most part held tightly beneath the surface, used only when tough talk and threats don't do the job. Bonnie and Clyde wouldn't last long in such a world. Coyle explains to a wide-eyed Jackie Brown how he came to be nicknamed "Fingers...
When Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty thrashed to death as the gunfire of Texas Rangers sheriffs' deputies hit their car in the climactic scene of Bonnie and Clyde, audiences too were riveted to their seats in horror. Now Peter Simon II, 22, a casino owner from Jean, Nev., who saw the movie three times, has become the proud owner of the actual death car, a Ford V-8 sedan that Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow stole in 1934 from a farm in Topeka. (Barrow wrote Henry Ford I: "I drove Fords exclusively when I could get away with...
...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...