Location:

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 – Clyde Barrow

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

1. 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.
2. 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. 
3. 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.

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Warren Beatty made his acting debut in Splendor in the Grass (1961) followed by Bonnie and Clyde (1967), McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), and Shampoo (1975). He also directed and starred in Heaven Can Wait (1978), Reds (1981), Dick Tracy (1990), Bugsy (1991), Bulworth (1998), and Rules Don’t Apply (2016), all of which he also produced. 

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.

Michael J. Pollard was an American actor. He is best known for his role as C.W. Moss in the film Bonnie and Clyde (1967), which earned him critical acclaim along with nominations for an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and two Golden Globe Awards.

After The French Connection, Gene Hackman starred in ten films (not including his cameo in Young Frankenstein) over the next three years, making him the most prolific actor in Hollywood during that time frame. Buck Barrow in 1967‘s Bonnie and Clyde,^[12] earned him an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor.

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.

Warren Beatty began his acting career on television in the late 50s, before performing in the Broadway play ‘A Loss of Roses’, which got him two award nominations. In 1961 he made his film debut in Splendor in the Grass, directed by Elia Kazan. His films in the early 60s primarily were in the drama genre. In 1965, he starred in Mickey One, a neo noir crime film directed by Arthur Penn. Two years later, Beatty collaborated with Penn again two years later for Bonnie and Clyde.

Faye Dunaway, similar to Beatty, began as an actress on Broadway prior to making her film debut in a 1967 comedy film titled The Happening, directed by Elliot Silverstein. Shortly after, she starred alongside Michael Caine and Jane Fonda in Hurry Sundown, a drama film by director Otto Preminger. That same year, she starred in Bonnie and Clyde, after Arthur Penn had scene her performance in The Happening and decided to let her audition for the role.

Michael J Pollard was a relatively unknown actor prior to Bonnie and Clyde, mainly having small roles in films such as Enter Laughing and Caprice, as well as episodes of television series such as Star Trek and Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

Gene Hackman, known for his performances in The French Connection and the Superman films (both of which released after Bonnie and Clyde), only had small roles in films like A Covenant with Death and First to Fight before Bonnie and Clyde.

Estelle Parsons also began her acting career on Broadway and with small television roles, having only appeared in the film Ladybug Ladybug in 1963 before being cast in Bonnie and Clyde.

Denver Pyle was another actor who primarily appeared in TV Shows, such as Perry Mason and The Twilight Zone. However, he had also appeared in Western films such as The Horse Soldiers, directed by John Ford, and John Wayne’s The Alamo.

Dub Taylor was an established Western film actor throughout the 40s, having significant roles in films such as The Last Horseman and Brand Of Fear. In addition to his western roles, he also had minor parts in films like Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939) and A Star is Born (1954).

Gene Wilder, most well known as the star of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory 4 years after Bonnie and Clyde was released, made his feature film debut in Bonnie and Clyde. He had a few small roles in television beforehand, but none as significant as his still minor role in Bonnie and Clyde.

I am giving Bonnie and Clyde a 8/10. It was a very fun and fast paced movie with a lot of action and great acting. An iconic scene for me is when the main cast of the movie pose with the police officer who tries to capture them as it shows the personality of the characters in a great way.

Warren Beatty was already a star, he’s been in- Shampoo, Bugsy and Reds.

Warren was casted for this role because he saw the script as a producer and gave himself the role because he knew he would be good at the role.

Faye Dunaway was also a star, she’s been in- Network, Super girl and Gia.

i think Faye was casted as Bonnie because of not just because of her natural beauty but because she has this sense of not wanting to follow rules and because she has a sense of badness.

Gene Hackman was in a few movies during this time too- Unforgiven, Superman and No Way Out.

Estelle Parsons had been in a lot of movies too- Watermelon Man, Diane and Two People.

8/10

memorable scene: the shot out at the house after the shopping is delivered. This scene foreshadows how the rest of their life is going to be with shooting and deaths following them. The scene is well shot as you can understand what is happening yet still incorporating the chaos that would come with a shoot out.

i would give the film a SOLID 6.5 out of ten. the most memorable scene would be the one where they bully the sheriff. i was very surprised at how abrupt the ending was and it was very unexpected. very good film but Casablanca was better