I love historically based movies. I also worked in the movie business and know they are incredibly difficult to make without people getting super critical. If you go and study the true story of Bonnie and Clyde, try to imagine making a movie out of it - it would be 12 hours long and pretty slow at times. I think this film did OK with focusing on the basic main events of the story but it left a lot out and fuzzied the truth here and there in order to do it.
It might have been interesting to see some of the details that were missed but when I started thinking about them, I thought - my gosh, the movie would have rambled forever.... the timeline was basically on target and it seems like the writers, director and producers must have made a true time line and then figured out what things to take out...
That is why they say it was BASED on a true story - people focus on the word TRUE and forget the word BASED.
Someone mentioned that the real characters were not attractive - though the actors are attractive - when I look at pictures of the actual people, they did a good job at resembling them. Remember, there was no photo-shop in those days and if anything, perhaps Parker was a little skinny. But in the pictures, she looks like she tried to dress up. And I think if they hadn't been so poor - in nicer clothes and nicer hair cuts etc - they might have been attractive to a degree in real life - I think its unfair to look at photos from the 1930s and make those claims.
Within the scope of the story and the writing, I thought the acting was very good. I felt like Clyde's character was not developed right in the writing. That is not the actor's fault. I felt like Bonnie's character was richly developed and the actress was very good.
Pretty much the rest of the cast could have been anyone but I am sure William Hurt and Holly Hunter came in to draw attention to the movie.
The drawbacks - since the story made a lot of guesswork as to what was really going on in their minds, I wished they had made Clyde's character more developed like Bonnies. I wish they had brought her poetry into it. I wish they had really explained how POOR Clyde had been - how his family had to live under a truck as kids. How he ended up in jail originally and that he killed someone in prison who raped him.
Having been raped in prison and then being in love with Bonnie - it makes sense how he would be especially attached to her and swayed by her to keep robbing people.
The movie takes snapshots from their story in order and fills in the gaps with hyphenated information so it ends up not being correct. But I think you get a good idea of BASICALLY what the story was and understand that at the core of the whole thing was a relationship between these two young people. I cant help but feel a lot of sadness for the victims because they had to deal with all the press - all the people who went to see the killers' dead bodies... I wish there would be some background shared on the people who were innocently killed.
It might have been interesting to see some of the details that were missed but when I started thinking about them, I thought - my gosh, the movie would have rambled forever.... the timeline was basically on target and it seems like the writers, director and producers must have made a true time line and then figured out what things to take out...
That is why they say it was BASED on a true story - people focus on the word TRUE and forget the word BASED.
Someone mentioned that the real characters were not attractive - though the actors are attractive - when I look at pictures of the actual people, they did a good job at resembling them. Remember, there was no photo-shop in those days and if anything, perhaps Parker was a little skinny. But in the pictures, she looks like she tried to dress up. And I think if they hadn't been so poor - in nicer clothes and nicer hair cuts etc - they might have been attractive to a degree in real life - I think its unfair to look at photos from the 1930s and make those claims.
Within the scope of the story and the writing, I thought the acting was very good. I felt like Clyde's character was not developed right in the writing. That is not the actor's fault. I felt like Bonnie's character was richly developed and the actress was very good.
Pretty much the rest of the cast could have been anyone but I am sure William Hurt and Holly Hunter came in to draw attention to the movie.
The drawbacks - since the story made a lot of guesswork as to what was really going on in their minds, I wished they had made Clyde's character more developed like Bonnies. I wish they had brought her poetry into it. I wish they had really explained how POOR Clyde had been - how his family had to live under a truck as kids. How he ended up in jail originally and that he killed someone in prison who raped him.
Having been raped in prison and then being in love with Bonnie - it makes sense how he would be especially attached to her and swayed by her to keep robbing people.
The movie takes snapshots from their story in order and fills in the gaps with hyphenated information so it ends up not being correct. But I think you get a good idea of BASICALLY what the story was and understand that at the core of the whole thing was a relationship between these two young people. I cant help but feel a lot of sadness for the victims because they had to deal with all the press - all the people who went to see the killers' dead bodies... I wish there would be some background shared on the people who were innocently killed.