Bonnie And Clyde Taboos

Bonnie and Clyde was a Film made in 1967 as biographical crime film, based off the real life robbers Bonnie and Clyde. Arthur Penn directed what was consider a land mark film since it broke so many film taboos, starring Warren Beatty, as Clyde Barrow, and Faye Dunaway, as Bonnie Parker. The Film also won a bunch of awards such as the Academy Award for Best Picture and Actor(Wikipedia). Clyde Barrow, recently out of prison, has turned to bank robbery. He meets Bonnie Parker and together the two form the nucleus of a gang of bank robbers who terrorize the southwest in the 1920s. Based on the true story of a pair of notorious bank robbers. Arthur Penn won the Academy Award for Best director was Bonnie and Clyde. It was proven by how he broke film taboos. Penn was of the first to depict the violence and aftermath, like how …show more content…
The aspiring actress, singer and poet wants something more than her mundane life. So when mysterious ex-con Clyde Barrow, she signs her life away crime. Throughout the movie you see this tragic love story unfold amongst the bank robbing and see that this couple craves more than just money, they crave attention given to them by their crimes. Clyde give the group glamour, with his “we’re the barrow gang” at every robbery. While Bonnie is the publicity, she writes "The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde" and other poems, sending them off to the newspapers to get more “fame”. In conclusion, Bonnie and Clyde turned out to be a great movie. It genus, by the way it has comedy and violence all wrapped in one. I also liked how in the opening credits there were real pictures of the real Bonnie and Clyde. It also ends on a great note for society, that crime never wins, but Bonnie and Clyde love each other so much at the end that they try to go to each other while being gunned down. Bonnie and Clyde is an American classic and turned out to be one of my favorite