Bonnie and Clyde are Romeo and Juliet in the gangster world. They go further and further on the road of no return... The
difference is that they can stay together. They both care about the future. Unannounced.
In the "New Hollywood" period,
"Bonnie and Clyde" (Bonnie and Clyde), Taiwanese fatefully translated "We Have No Tomorrow", and the Hong Kong translation is the popular "Male and Female Thief". If you just rely on the latter title, people will mistakenly think that the whole film is about how a pair of desperate mandarin ducks run wild and how clever the crime is. The content is not the case. The main part of the story is that Bonnie and Clyde, Clyde’s brother and sister, and a car repair boy Moss fled together; and this group of Jiang Yang thieves (also a temporary family) was portrayed as low-level and naive ,Innocent.
Although this movie filmed in 1967 is based on real people and the background is the Great Depression in the 1930s, the sense of resistance, depression, and despair in the bones were the anti-war and anti-government sentiments in American society at that time (1960s). At this time, the golden age of Hollywood has gone. Young directors in the United States are all following the example of the French New Wave, trying to make movies that are full of vitality and youth without regrets. Most people believe that "Bonnie and Clyde", which is full of car motors, ushered in the "new Hollywood" period, and its director Arthur Payne is called "post-classical Hollywood director".
Tribute to the new wave
The taste of the new wave has existed since the creation of the "Bonnie and Clyde" script. The screenwriter partners David Newman and Robert Benton said that when they wrote about these two characters, they felt that Bonnie and Clyde were a bit like Godard's film " Belmondo in "Exhausted". Of course, the ones that inspired them the most were Truffaut’s "Juul and Jim" and "Shooting the Pianist", especially the former. Robert Benton once said that he watched it 12 times in two months and imitated the main characters. A triangle relationship, because Clydeboro in real life is bisexual. Although Truffaut, the first candidate for the director, liked the script very much, he gave up because of the filming of his "Fahrenheit 451". Godard is also interested in the script. It is said that he wants to change the background to Japan and make Bonnie and Clyde teenagers, which undoubtedly scares the filmmakers away. After star Warren Beatty bought the script, he found the director Arthur Payne who had worked with him. It is said that this book has been transferred to 20 directors at this time.
The beginning of the film has a strong trace of the new wave: three or four shots in more than 50 seconds, starting from Bonnie's lips played by Fei Tangnawei, her face and figure occupy the entire screen. In these few shots, the space is almost isolated from the body, showing feelings of boredom, depression, and mania (this emotion also accompanies Bonnie all the way). After that, the film has a trivial sense of comedy and a lively taste of life in the soundtrack based on plucking strings. According to the analysis of the film historian Gregor, the great charm of this film comes from: it not only has the tendency to be isolated from the real social environment, but also realistically reflects the small towns and villages. This is largely due to the film's "Scriptdoctor" (Scriptdoctor) Robert Towne, the screen playwright who later became famous as "Chinatown", who did not sign the screenwriter as usual. According to a blog post of "Bonnie and Clyde, the Beginning of New Hollywood", Tang En consciously changed four things in mainstream movies in the past: characters always find a place to park; they never find change when buying things; Couples never sleep in the same bed; women never remove makeup when they sleep. In order to subvert these four points, the film made many memorable moments.
Metaphor and technological innovation
Because the producer and star Warren Beatty opposed writing Clyde as a bisexual, the screenwriter changed the actor to impotence. This rewriting gives the film a little psychological and social metaphor. Clyde suddenly became a victim of state oppression; and his criminal behavior became a substitute for sex. When Clyde drew the gun for the first time, the scene of Bonnie stroking the barrel of the gun was quite sexual. Because of Clyde's physical defect, he degenerates into a child; the love between him and Bonnie is platonic for most of the time, sincere and pure. When Clyde and Bonnie proclaimed "We are robbing the bank" in front of the down-and-out peasant whose property was confiscated by the bank, the look of pride and shyness was really pitiful. They robbed awkwardly, they fled in a hurry, they fell in love for no reason, just like Romeo and Juliet. It is precisely because of the fairy tale nature of "Bonnie and Clyde" that even the refreshing film technique at the time has long been commonplace for movie fans today, but it can still completely move us.
Arthur Payne did use a lot of new techniques in this film, such as the shots Bonnie took when she went downstairs to see Clyde for the first time, such as when Clyde and her family met with Bonnie’s family. Defocused and hazy scene. And the most famous and influential paragraph is of course the shocking shooting scene at the end: the wind blows, the birds flies, and then the machine guns are shot, and the gunpowder is filled with smoke. Bonnie and Clyde are trembling in the bullet rain like "string puppets". "The body is like a honeycomb, and the poignant slow motion is like a ballet dance, after which everything is calm. Needless to say, you can immediately think of Wu Yusen’s classic shootout scenes; in fact, the image of Warren Beatty wearing a bowler hat, holding a match, and drinking soda before this time does not remind you of the era of "Heroes" Chow Yun Fat?
Before death, the two eyes met, and in a short span of time, the victory was a thousand words. It's sighing.
Under the unique aesthetics of director Arthur Penn, the whole film exudes a strong nostalgia. The slow motion shot at the end is more like a poignant death ceremony. While making people nervous, I don't know whether I hate or love the protagonist.
When it premiered that year, it was scolded by defenders and critics, but not only did it fail to fall in the attack, it became a popular movie, making a lot of money, and making young people’s clothing and thoughts tend to imitate 30 The style of the era. For example, Donna Wei's beret was sold out of stock in the United States.
The film also has a special style, that is, it combines a sense of comedy and horror. The romantic and banal crime process is very funny, but it gradually introduces into the shadow of horror and bloody death, Oliver Stone’s "The Shining Killer" was affected by it.
She won two awards for Best Supporting Actress and Photography at the 40th Oscar in 1967.
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