The opening of Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein is a dark and stormy night with sudden flashes of lightning and scary music playing in the background. This is an appropriate setting in a typical horror movie. However, everything that comes after is less like a horror movie and more like a roller coaster of laughs and giggles….
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Quintet-a Futuristic Movie
Quintet Quintet-a Futuristic Movie The movie Quintet unfolds its story with a wide splash of white snows and the camera shot is blurred at the edge to present a frostbitten, chilling world. In the beginning, the plot progression is very slow with two men trekking through a wide spread of snow with few words….
Is The Shining a Real Horror Film?
The Shining was an adaption from the Stephen King novel to film by Stanley Kubrick in 1980. The film redesigned the Horror genre and delved into the themes of violence, repetition, and reincarnation. Jack Torrance accepts a job to be a caretaker in the Overlook Hotel for the winter with nobody but his family around…
Bonnie & Clyde
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are an infamous couple, known for their heist of banks and murders in the 1930’s. Clyde is an ex-convict who is out on parole, when he meets Bonnie and two automatically click and run away together to fall in love. During their adventures they commit a number of bank heists…
Bonnie and Clyde – 1967
Bonnie and Clyde is a conventional American crime movie about the famous criminal duo, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. My introduction to this movie started as most do, with the trailer to the film. It was a fun trailer but made me wonder if I take these sorts of exciting trailers for granted. For instance,…
Bonnie and Clyde: 1960’s spirit captured through the lens of the 1930’s
Bonnie and Clyde: 1960’s spirit captured through the lens of the 1930’s The 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde by Arthur Penn heeds no cautionary whistles. It follows the story of the naïve and charming gangsters Bonnie and Clyde. The couple were radicals who went around robbing banks yet at the same time capturing the hearts…
Bonnie And Clyde: A False Idol
In the movie, Bonnie and Clyde, we are given an in-depth narrative of one of the most notorious criminal couples to ever live in America. We get to experience the ups and downs of their criminal career from the moment they meet to the moment that they die. Bonnie and Clyde connects the audience to…
Bonnie and Clyde: Milestone or Tasteless?
Tone I will be completely honest when I say that Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde surprised me from beginning to end. At the beginning of the film, Bonnie shows off a lot of skin that I believe would have been quite scandalous in the 1960s. Still nude, Bonnie goes to her window and sees Clyde who…
The Conversation and it’s Historical Relevance to Watergate
The film by Francis Ford Coppola titled, The Conversation, was a film produced in 1974 starring Gene Hackman and Harrison Ford. This film follows Harry Caul, played by Gene Hackman, who is hired to bug a conversation between two young individuals at the beginning of the film. Harry is called the “best bugger on the…
Wildness, Vagrancy and Collapse
“We have no tomorrow” is another Chinese translation of the “Bonnie and Clyde”. If the film begins with a subtitle like this, the tragic tone of the film and the ultimate fate of the characters are obvious. To be honest, it was a bit of a surprise to see Bonnie and Clyde killed in the…
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