Juliet with Guns is a well-known perfume brand. Let's not talk about the perfume first, but the name is really spicy, with a bit of undoubted provocation, which makes people want to add Shakespeare's classic tragic story again. A few strokes, even if it becomes a modern Shuangwen or a popcorn theater line film, it doesn't matter. With a gun Juliet, at least there must be a gun, and Juliet. After thinking about it, there is really a ready-made template, which happens to be the bloody romantic love in the hail of bullets. Romeo and Juliet reinvent themselves in another time, another era, and become a pair of famous outlaws, Bonnie and Clyde.
The movie "Hands and Hers" tells the story of the outlaws. This anti-traditional gangster road movie is not entirely fictional. Bonnie and Clyde are also real figures in American history. In the 1930s of the Great Depression in the United States, bandits were rampant everywhere. Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, a pair of male and female robbers from Texas, were born and killed all the way. In January 1934, the two escaped from the Texas prison. Killed two prison guards; three months later, they murdered two police officers and a sheriff, kidnapped a police chief; in 1934, Bonnie and Clyde were ambushed by the police and killed. A bloody end to the 21-month robbery spree. In the old black and white photos, Bonnie smiles brightly, and Clyde is high-spirited.
Carnival, crime, escape, love... The movie "The Male and Female Thief" brought their stories to the screen, and immediately received a good response, setting off a wave of new Hollywood films. In this movie, the story of the desperadoes is a little less cruel and a little more gentle. The cold-hearted gangsters were also ordinary people at first, and everything started with a casual conversation from Bonnie. A few boring conversations seem to be normal, but they don't know that the bowstring of fate has been plucked. Bonnie is eager to break out of the shackles of mediocre life and live the wonderful life of her dreams, while Claude is eager to prove that she is not a bragging coward, so the two hit it off and embark on the road of no return to robbing a bank.
The film was shot in the 1960s. At that time, American society was full of signs of turmoil. Anti-war sentiments continued to accumulate with the broadcast of war news, and the sense of rebellion continued to impact traditional values and lifestyles, burying in people's hearts. The seeds of anxiety were planted, the hippie spirit was born from the beat generation, the monotonous cotton and linen workwear was replaced by exaggerated printing and dyeing T-shirts, the rise of San Francisco psychedelic rock and the "Summer of Love" rally were all held. It expresses the same appeal: to break with everything in the past, to defect from the traditional framework. The golden age of Hollywood has become history. The new generation of directors pays more attention to contemporary social issues and is better at observing the changes in the spiritual attitude of modern people. Therefore, they inherit the industrialization process of traditional Hollywood movies, and on this basis, they are determined to innovate and use the past. Generation backgrounds to explore new ways to solve real-world problems in reverse. The same is true for "The Male and Female Thief". Under the routine of putting new wine in old bottles, the director's portrayal of the background of the Great Depression in the 1930s is actually a rebuke of the chaotic world in the 1960s, which arouses people's deeper thinking.
The story is not very thrilling at the beginning, and it can even be said to be full of the cheerful humor necessary for comedy. Clyde's jerky robbery has been frequent all the way, making people laugh and laugh, and finally robbed a bank, but the bank was already a few weeks ago. Bankrupt; they recruited a timid boy at the gas station to join the robbers as a pick-up driver, but the clumsy guy parked the wrong car and nearly got Bonnie and Clyde caught by the police Live... "They can't catch us." They're more like naughty children who don't know the world than terrifying robbers. The tense moments of life and death are in stark contrast with the absurd and funny unexpected situations. As the plot progresses, violence and helplessness, urgency and ease, warmth and crisis continue to impact the established moral model in the deliberate blurring of good and evil, making Bang Bang. The images of Ni and Clyde become three-dimensional and vivid.
The Bonnie and Clyde in the film are a departure from the fixed setting of traditional robber films and become closer to ordinary people in real life, and thus become charming. Clyde is suave and doesn't look brutal and tyrannical, and Bonnie is empathetic and not bloodthirsty. Not only do they not need to cover their faces and show their eyes like the robbers of traditional robbery films, but they can show their true faces. Bonnie in an elegant dress and high heels wears a fashionable beret and carries a small leather bag. This pretty and bright screen The image even became a fashion demonstration at that time.
And in their heist-and-flight journey, the criminal pattern is also far removed from intentional murder and malicious harm. They caught the sheriff but didn't kill him, they let him back after a bit of trickery; Clyde pointed a gun at the bank guard while robbing the bank while telling farmers who came to withdraw money not to be afraid Keep your own money... This kind of anti-traditional image of robbery and righteousness once again contrasts sharply with the image of a capitalist banker who arrogantly takes away farmers' houses to pay off their debts, making people unable to sympathize with their doomed fate. And when they were chased and seriously injured by the police, and the young driver had to get out of the car to ask for a bowl of water on the way to escape, the local people even took the initiative to surround them when they heard that they were the famous Bonnie and Clyde. He stepped forward and murmured, "If you want me to say that they did nothing wrong, I will send flowers at their funeral." At the same time, I paid a silent and tragic tribute to them like a hero at the end.
The final tragic ending is as inevitable as fate. Like another famous bank gangster in the 1930s, John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde are betrayed, unaware of the ambush set by the police. . In the brief moment before the police shooting began, Bonnie only had time to take one last look at Clyde. The two silently looked at each other and said a thousand words, and a quick glance made a bloody romance, which became a classic scene in film history.
Director Arthur Payne has the following interpretation of the final ending of the movie. He said that he hopes that the ending can go beyond the gangster movie genre and elevate it to a new height. At the same time, the director also said, "We don't sympathize with killing, but we sympathize with crime. But even so, crime always has to pay a corresponding price." Finally, the deafening gunshots rang, Bonnie and Clyde fell in a pool of blood, The movie came to an abrupt stop and quickly went black, leaving the heartbeat and lamentation to the audience who had not yet reacted.
In addition to the iconoclastic characterization and moral dislocation, Bonnie and Clyde in the film are also painted with romanticist art. On the tense escape route, Bonnie even wrote a small poem shrouded in fateful tragedy and sent it to the newspaper:
Bonnie and Clyde form the Barrow Gang
You've all heard the stories of them stealing
The informers were killed or wounded
They call themselves cold blooded killers
They consider themselves ruthless
But I can proudly say that I know Clyde
He is honest and pure
But the police are messing with him
want to send him to jail
He said to me I won't be free and I'll see them in hell
If a cop is killed in Dallas with no clue
if they can't find the sinner
Blame Bonnie and Clyde directly
If they want to be good citizens, rent a nice apartment
In less than three days will be involved in the struggle again, with the thump of the machine gun
They will die one day
they will be buried
How many people will be sad
Police will be relieved
That was indeed the death of Bonnie and Clay
Bonnie and Clyde in history are indeed lovers of literature and poetry. The research of scholars also supports Clyde's love for the five-step iambic. Later, the auction house also paid attention to the notebooks of Bonnie and Clyde's poems. An auction was held, and it was obvious that the clips presented in the film were real.
Love that has been annotated by life and death always shines particularly brightly, and love in the crime story of Bonnie and Clyde is obviously an unavoidable and important clue. Just like when people mention Juliet, they think of Romeo. From the day that he accepted Clyde's invitation without hesitation, Bonnie has also firmly bound his name to Clyde. Perhaps as early as the moment the adventure began, she had insight into her tragic fate, so she said to her mother during a certain escape, "If one day... Bury me and Clyde together".
Among the rambling love words Bonnie told Clyde, I don't know why I was impressed by these two sentences. "Why do you want to marry me?" "So that you can be an honest person." Such a pair of desperate mandarin ducks, really donated their lives in the wind and moon.
"Everyone knows the life of Jesse James, how he lived and died. If you want to hear other people's legends, then listen to the story of Bonnie and Clyde."
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