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The Movie That Made Moral Idiocy Chic

How “Bonnie and Clyde” represents a milestone in the transformation of American culture.

January 17, 2018
 
Bruce Thornton
 

Fifty years ago, the movie that changed the movies premiered. Anybody old enough to remember films before “Bonnie and Clyde” can testify to the jolting power of Arthur Penn’s kinetic blend of bluegrass slapstick, Depression-era nostalgia, and gruesome, stylized violence. But something else was revealed then, something that I, just 14 at the time, was too callow and ignorant to notice behind the movie’s aesthetic sheen—the moral idiocy that has since come to define so much of contemporary American popular culture.

“Bonnie and Clyde” staked a claim to a moral seriousness that supposedly validated the stylistic innovations and elevated the film beyond mere flashy entertainment. Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, played with fashion-magazine glamour by Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, are “just folks,” as Dunaway says in the movie, salt-of-the-earth Americans driven to crime by the machinations of the evil banks they rob for some justified payback, Texan Robin Hoods admired by the common-man victims of American capitalism. Yet “the Man,” embodied in the sadistic Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, wouldn’t let them be, hunting them down and slaughtering them in the film’s famous bloody climax, just after Bonnie and Clyde had finally found the soft-focus sexual fulfillment long a cliché of Hollywood romantic sentiment.

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goatprairie:
There were a number of movies that came out during that time that tried to reverse what they thought was the prevailing pro American ethos in the movie industry.
The real Bonnie and Clyde while not exactly folk heroes were probably not totally evil either.  Somewhere in the middle. Maybe a couple of not too bright young people who went down the wrong path and paid for it with a very bad end.
"Little Big Man" was another one. The Indians were totally good, the white soldiers were totally evil. Custer was depicted as a grinning ninny/idiot.
No gray areas there. That's what happens when leftists get control of the movie industry. The facts were sometimes gov. soldiers did bad things, but the Indians certainly did their share as well.
I didn't bother to see "Dances With Wolves" not wanting to see another "whitewash" of history.
 There were evil people on both sides.

WingNot:
B & C was a badly acted pos movie only gay movie critics and Hollywierd elites could love.  In the big picture it couldn't carry Cool Hand Luke's jock strap. 

Frank Cannon:

--- Quote from: Wingnut on January 17, 2018, 08:16:49 pm ---B & C was a badly acted pos movie only gay movie critics and Hollywierd elites could love.  In the big picture it couldn't carry Cool Hand Luke's jock strap.

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I agree. You never see this on anyone's top 10 list of anything movie related. It was a bunch of schlock in Technicolor. All the actors in it made better films after this that they are remembered for. The French Connection, Reds, Young Frankenstein, Chinatown.

Whoever the hell Bruce Thornton is, he is first and foremost a jackass.

Cripplecreek:

--- Quote from: goatprairie on January 17, 2018, 05:54:23 pm ---There were a number of movies that came out during that time that tried to reverse what they thought was the prevailing pro American ethos in the movie industry.
The real Bonnie and Clyde while not exactly folk heroes were probably not totally evil either.  Somewhere in the middle. Maybe a couple of not too bright young people who went down the wrong path and paid for it with a very bad end.
"Little Big Man" was another one. The Indians were totally good, the white soldiers were totally evil. Custer was depicted as a grinning ninny/idiot.
No gray areas there. That's what happens when leftists get control of the movie industry. The facts were sometimes gov. soldiers did bad things, but the Indians certainly did their share as well.
I didn't bother to see "Dances With Wolves" not wanting to see another "whitewash" of history.
 There were evil people on both sides.

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Unfortunately the destruction of Custer began immediately. The army deferred to the widow about what info was released in those days and the army used it as an opportunity to absolve themselves of blame. After all, the army made the decision to send the 7th out without repeating arms against an enemy who had them. Custer's mistake was in leaving Gatling guns behind (understandable for a man leading cavalry which is supposed to be light and fast) His tactics were textbook but the Indians behaved differently than they always had before.

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