the music in Bonnie and Clyde, most of the movie did not have any music in it, when they would be in a police chase there would be upbeat music and it was very fast pace, to bring up the tension in the atmosphere.
the dialogue in Bonnie and Clyde was very traditional American accents, they would never really whisper, it would always be clear talking. when they were normally talking the volume would be normal but when they were yelling at each other the overall volume of the dialogue would be a lot louder. especially when Blanche was upset the volume of the dialogue would be a lot louder.
location: bonnie and Clyde is set rural 1930s America as they travel through towns in Texas, Louisiana, Ohio and Oklahoma. they travel though the south west of America robbing towns and shops. this is set during 1930s so it would be the middle of the great depression.
interior sets: All of the houses in bonnie and Clyde are very nice and aesthetic upon arrival. however when the gang leave the house there are always broken windows and gunshots in the walls and doors. This shows how wanted they are across America.
costumes: Clyde and henry are seen to be wearing suits and waistcoats. this is because this was the suitable clothes for men to wear in America at this time. they also (being bank robbers) would be able to pay for smarter clothes. bonnie is seen in multiple different outfits through the film and these were not as how women would have dressed at the time the film was set but it changed the way women dressed in America
props: most of the props in the film are different handguns that they steal from officers and rangers
I enjoyed this films narrative and plot and thought it was a very well written script that showed good character development in the characters.
My memorable scene would be the ending where Bonnie and Clyde were both shot to death. It was a very quick, sudden and unexpected finish but ended the storyline well.
Gene Hackman who played Cylde’s brother in the film was already a star at the time and stared in movies such as the downhill racer, superman and no way out.
Warren Beatty who played main character Clyde was chosen for the role Due to his past movies like Bugsy.
Faye Dunnaway who played Bonnie stared in movies such as the happening and Hurry sundown and was most likely chosen for the role due to her natural beauty.
The scene was shaped by editor Dede Allen of whom Penn said, “she wasn’t an editor, she was a constructionist.” Jump cuts used inspired by French New Wave directors like Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut show Penn’s Film School background.
He used tempo, timing, along with joining shots to enhance the film. The most renowned scene in the film is the final scene of the film where Pen used various shots to capture several emotions and actions within seconds of film time. He also utilizes narrative sequencing to tell the infamous tale of Bonnie and Clyde.
an example of an editing style is when Bonnie ran out the car and had an argument with Clyde, this editing style is a reverse shot, where you can see their conversation from their point of view, and it jumps to their view point then it jumps to both of them on the screen no longer in their point of view.
The town locations in the films are seen to have open, barren spaces between buildings to give the rural feeling to the area portraying the poverty people faced.
The country side within the movie also was empty, flat, wide open spaces giving an adventurous feeling to the movie as the characters travel through unknown spaces to escape the law.
Set:
The house in this scene is broken down and rural accurately displaying the great depression era as many at the time could not afford expensive house leaving many abandoned as scene in this part of the film.
The banks in this movie are seen to be more expensive looking showing the power difference between the government and the people and how unfair it is.
Costumes:
Bonnie and Clyde wear more expensive, fashionable clothing in the movie not being realistic to the real characters the film is based on. This was done to make the characters more appealing to the audience with many people copying Bonnie’s style after the films release.
These characters in the American countryside more accurately reflect the real people of this time period wear more scruffy and dirty clothing making their struggles and world feel more relatable to the audience.
Props:
Guns are seen a lot in this movie breaking the norm for movies in regards to violence at this time. This was done as the French wave film movement allowed for more creative freedom for directors allowing them to break the rules with this film inspiring many other productions to be more violent.
warren Beatty was a star before bonnie and Clyde, he was in several films some being: Lilith (1964), mickey one (1965)
he was cast because he was a star at the time
faye dunaway – bonnie
Faye wasn’t a star before bonnie and Clyde, as she was mostly in Broadway and small films before bonnie and clyde
Norman Jewison hired Dunaway after he saw scenes from Bonnie and Clyde before its release. As Arthur Penn had needed to persuade Warren Beatty to cast Dunaway, Jewison had to convince McQueen that she was right for the part.
gene hackman
gene hackman wasnt a star before bonnie and clyde, and the movie allowed him to become more famous and get more roles
Hackman made his first credited film appearance opposite Beatty in the 1964 film “Lilith”, where Beatty realized Hackman was one great actor. So when casting “Bonnie and Clyde”, he immediately wanted Hackman to play “Buck”. Hackman was appearing on Broadway at the time, so Penn went to see him
micheal J pollard
micheal wasnt a star prior to bonnie and clyde but the role as c.w moss allowed him to get more roles and become a bigger actor
Cinematic term- a French art film movement that emerged in the late 1950s. The movement was characterized by its rejection of traditional filmmaking conventions in favour of experimentation and a spirit of iconoclasm.
Filming techniques included fragmented, discontinuous editing, and long takes. The combination of realism, subjectivity, and commentary allowed these movies to have ambiguous characters, motives, and even endings that were not so clear-cut.
Arthur Penn, working on Bonny and Clyde was influenced —one might almost say inspired—by Truffaut’s (see below) “Shoot the Piano Player,”
films that influenced the ground-breaking Hollywood classic:
Scarface (1932)
Gun Crazy (1950)
Seven Samurai (1954) Toho Co., Ltd.
Breathless (1960)
Shoot the Pianist (1960)
In a way Bonnie and Clyde were pioneers, consolidating the vein of violence in American history and exploiting it, for the first time in the mass media. Under Arthur Penn’s direction, this is a film aimed squarely and unforgivingly at the time we are living in.
Faye Dunaway’s career began in the early 1960s on Broadway. She made her screen debut in the 1967 film The Happening, the same year she made Hurry Sundown with an all-star cast, and rose to fame with her portrayal of outlaw Bonnie Parker in Arthur Penn‘s Bonnie and Clyde, for which she received her first Academy Award nomination.
Norman Jewison hired Dunaway after he saw scenes from Bonnie and Clyde before its release. As Arthur Penn had needed to persuade Warren Beatty to cast Dunaway, Jewison had to convince McQueen that she was right for the part.
After studying law, Estelle Parsons became a singer before deciding to pursue a career in acting. She worked for the television program Today and made her stage debut in 1961. During the 1960s, Parsons established her career on Broadway before progressing to film. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Blanche Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Bonnie and Clyde was shot in Lavon, Texas. but they travelled all around America by stealing cars, and mainly in fields and small outback roads a lot of the time they were still in Texas but they went around most of the close states.
the set in Bonnie and Clyde was very 1930s, it was filmed in 1960s but they did the set of 1930s type. the banks and shops were all very old fashioned. they were all run down, outback small shops. the cars were old fashioned and posh, there was always small markets close by.
the costumes in bonnie and Clyde were 1930s themes. the girls were always in very modest dresses and skirts, although Bonnie sometimes wore her clothes a little bit more revealing, the women would also wear ballet flat shoes or small healed shoes, nothing too high but always very feminine. sometimes they would wear berates. the men always would wear full suits, with button up shirts, ties and a waste coat under their blazers, with dress shoes. they also frequently wore hats.
the props they used in the movies was, a lot of small guns, and the ones they stole off the police officer they used them a lot of times during the movie, they were a big part of the movie. they sometimes had bags/ small suitcases. blankets and pillows, that they used during the time they were on the run, so that they can sleep in different places.
