Jan 20 2009
They died in a blast of gunfire
The New York Times (free registration required) has a piece on “The Story of Bonnie & Clyde.” That’s Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, who robbed and shot their way through Texas, Oklahoma and adjacent states in the bad old days of the Great Depression.
B & C was a landmark film in two ways: It reinvigorated the mostly dormant genre of American gangster films, and it depicted graphic violence more intensely than any other U.S. film of its day.
Above, see the real Bonnie in Clyde. Below, the Hollywood version, with, from left, Gene Hackman, Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway. As the Times article says, myth has obscured the true story of the legendary American outlaws.
