Critical Notes on Bonnie and Clyde
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- Created on: 11-05-21 17:36
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- Critical Notes on Bonnie and Clyde
- French New Wave to Hollywood
- the doomed protagonist reflected in Truffaut's Breathless
- Truffaut himself declined to create film
- French screenplay which needed an American director
- original script had them in bisexual ********
- Michel's persona is modelled on Bogart
- French New Wave Influence
- involved young filmmakers with gritty stories, cool characters who were narcissistic and oblivious
- rise of anti-hero and sexuality was direct defiance to establishment of authority
- B&C portrayed rebellious, sexually liberated and detachment from authority
- Birth of Graphic Violence
- viewers like B&C become more accustomed to violence
- reference to soldiers dying in Vietnam on unsupported to war through B&C deaths
- assassinations of Malcolm X and JFK posed political ideological danger
- 48% of box office sales were to 16-24 year old age group
- French New Wave to Hollywood
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