It is currently experiencing a so-called summer of hell, in front of a background of widespread paranoia, with speculation that the kind of disruption that hit the music and publishing industries may cause the end of Hollywood as we know it.
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The film’s anniversary arrives at a sensitive time for the American movie industry. It is no exaggeration to say that Bonnie and Clyde played a part in changing the face of cinema. It ushered in some of the finest and most influential contemporary filmmakers including Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, Francis Ford Coppola and Steven Spielberg. The year after the film’s release the Motion Picture Association of America introduced its classification system, which is still in effect today.īut more than that, Bonnie and Clyde was the first film in what became known as New Hollywood, a movement that wrested control of the studio system out of the ageing hands of tinsel town’s founding fathers. The classic 1967 on-the-run crime drama is best known for its notorious finale, during which the titular characters (played by Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty) are pummeled with gunfire, their beautiful, bullet-sprayed bodies tossed and turned like a salad.Ĭombining a noir-esque, crime-doesn’t-pay premise with European sensibilities, Bonnie and Clyde was something nobody had seen before: lyrical, shocking, and with a deep, era-defining scepticism towards timeworn institutions, such as the banks. Fifty years ago this week, Bonnie and Clyde charged into American cinemas and rewrote the rules on screen violence.
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