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…
Social Influences
A Woman Under the Influence premiered in 1974, and is a strong telling of the way that women were treating in that day and age. this movie tells us a detailed story of a wife and mother that is seemingly crazy. Mabel spends her days taking care of her 3 children, trying equally to be their…
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…
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