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….
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: 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…
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…
Review of Bonnie and Clyde
The film Bonnie and Clyde have caught my eyes immediately when I scroll down the dossiers. I believe the last movie I chose influences me. It seems that I like watching road movies. This movie happened to be another excellent road movie and was more excited than the last one that I watched. Adopted from the real events about Bonnie and Clyde, the movie…
Unorthodox
Unorthodox Journey to Italy was directed by Roberto Rossellini and released in 1954. The film was shot in black and white and follows a crumbling relationship between an english couple who are traveling to sell an inherited home in Italy. The 1950’s were a time of conformity for the general American public, it was the…
Gray
In the 1950s, after the victory over fascism, people all over the world were in a state of reflection. In the east, the movement represented by China was initiated by the government. In order to allow the people to eat the same food at the same table, they were allowed to eat the same amount….
A Hard Day’s Night – 1964
A Hard Day’s Night is a movie starring the rising pop sensations of England called The Beatles. Though the movie itself was groundbreaking, the most interesting part of this movie is it began. The project seems to have been the result of calculated risk and ended up spreading Beatlemania throughout the world. Early into research,…
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