Western sentimental films under the limitation of technology

Zechariah 2022-04-19 09:01:55

Filmed in 1967 based on true events in the 1930s.

Because I watched old dramas such as "Citizen Kane" and "Twelve Angry Men", I forgot that they were technical conditions decades ago. Except for dramas with relatively low technical requirements, audiovisual The progress of technologies such as obedience and Taoism in the past few decades can be described as earth-shaking, so that it is inevitable to feel embarrassed to see the rough action special effects like this film.

Action scenes such as driving scenes and gunfights are very disappointing to modern people, and the blurred and noisy color film photography is also difficult to get used to; and the movement of mirrors, editing, music, etc., can not be seen too prominently.

In terms of plot, the translated title of this film is exaggerated, male and female are male and female, but it is just the mischief of a group of little thieves. There is no plan for committing the crime, and what they rob is only small money. Although it is advertised that it is not aimed at innocent people, it does harm innocent people. People, their death is a matter of course. The desire for freedom, the obsession with love, the hatred of the government and capital during the Great Depression... These things are not reasons to hurt innocent people, and reasonable people should not advocate this.

In the West where liberalism prevails, this kind of romantic Robin Hood may be very popular, but in today's pragmatic world, I am afraid not many people will appreciate it, and even ridicule it: stupid.

Easy car theft, shooting scenes like water pistols, blunt driving scenes and action scenes; the romanticism of gangsters, and the grand robbery of both good and evil...

Looking at it now, I don't think this movie from 60 years ago is very good.

But aside from the technical limitations, the anti-authority and anti-capital ideas revealed in this film, as well as the romantic imagination of freedom and freedom, and the ignorance and fearlessness, are daring, and at the same time, they easily hurt innocent people unintentionally. No matter what age young people are, they all have this kind of emotion more or less, and because of this, young people are always full of vigor;

For Clyde and Bonnie, at least, they lived like summer flowers, but they also died.

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Bonnie and Clyde quotes

  • [about Bonnie's poem]

    Clyde Barrow: You know what you done there? You told my story, you told my whole story right there, right there. One time, I told you I was gonna make you somebody. That's what you done for me. You made me somebody they're gonna remember.

  • Clyde Barrow: Alright. Alright. If all you want's a stud service, you get on back to West Dallas and you stay there the rest of your life. You're worth more than that. A lot more than that. You know it and that's why you come along with me. You could find a lover boy on every damn corner in town. It don't make a damn to them whether you're waitin' on tables or pickin' cotton, but it does make a damn to me.

    Bonnie Parker: Why?

    Clyde Barrow: Why? What's you mean, "Why?" Because you're different, that's why. You know, you're like me. You want different things. You got somethin' better than bein' a waitress. You and me travelin' together, we could cut a path clean across this state and Kansas and Missouri and Oklahoma and everybody'd know about it. You listen to me, Miss Bonnie Parker. You listen to me.