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I just opened up this week's EW to find a feature on the Special Edition release of 'Bonnie and Clyde' available tomorrow. Surprise!
My favorite movie of all time on 2 discs with extras and an "A" from EW!!
I saw this movie for the first time in 1990 and probably 50+ times since. Here's my favorite quote (which I try to deliver but simply can not match the tone and quality of Faye Dunaway): "The only special thing about you, Clyde Barrow, are your peculiar ideas about lovemaking which is no love making at all!" It's said with the intention of hurting Clyde but Bonnie is hurt, too. They're running scared and trying to make sense of something that's bigger than both of them when, really, a boy just wanted to impress a girl and the girl just wanted out, out, out of her boring, dead end life.
In addition to Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway you have Gene Hackman as Clyde's brother and Estelle Parsons (who won an Oscar for her role) as Buck's wife. "My eye! My eye!"
The violence in the movie isn't shocking by today's standards but it was back in 1967 and still gets to me every time I watch particularly the ending which left me dumbstruck the first time I saw the film. I also have to mention the soundtrack which set the tone for the story perfectly.
An A from EW and an anticipatory A+ from me.
My favorite movie of all time on 2 discs with extras and an "A" from EW!!
I saw this movie for the first time in 1990 and probably 50+ times since. Here's my favorite quote (which I try to deliver but simply can not match the tone and quality of Faye Dunaway): "The only special thing about you, Clyde Barrow, are your peculiar ideas about lovemaking which is no love making at all!" It's said with the intention of hurting Clyde but Bonnie is hurt, too. They're running scared and trying to make sense of something that's bigger than both of them when, really, a boy just wanted to impress a girl and the girl just wanted out, out, out of her boring, dead end life.
In addition to Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway you have Gene Hackman as Clyde's brother and Estelle Parsons (who won an Oscar for her role) as Buck's wife. "My eye! My eye!"
The violence in the movie isn't shocking by today's standards but it was back in 1967 and still gets to me every time I watch particularly the ending which left me dumbstruck the first time I saw the film. I also have to mention the soundtrack which set the tone for the story perfectly.
An A from EW and an anticipatory A+ from me.
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