Bonnie and Clyde (Drama) ( 1967) © 2000 by Raymond Weschler Major Characters Clyde Barrow...................Warren Beatty A charming small-time professional criminal from Texas who decides to begin a new career as a bank robber after being released from prison. During the 1930s economic depression, he becomes famous as the leader of "The Barrows Gang." Bonnie Parker..................Faye Dunaway A young, beautiful and struggling waitress who decides to join Clyde in his life of crime, rather than continue working at her underpaid and boring job. C.W. Moss......................Michael J. Pollard A poor and uneducated mechanic, who is also both sweet and smart, who decides to join Bonnie and Clyde because of the excitement. Buck Barrow....................Gene Hackman Clyde’s brother, who had also served time in prison, who joins Bonnie and his brother in their new life of crime. Blanche........................Estelle Parsons Buck’s wife, the daughter of a preacher (church speaker), who is nervous and very uncomfortable taking part in criminal activity. Captain Frank Hammer............Denver Pyle A Texan police officer who is captured by Clyde and his gang. Ivan Moss.......................Dub Taylor CW’s boss, who is very suspicious of CW’s life with Bonnie and Clyde. Plot Summary This film is the story of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, a couple of petty criminals who became famous throughout the United States after successfully robbing a series of banks between 1931 and 1934. Although they could be violent and dangerous, and in fact did kill several people, it is clear that a large part of the American public sympathized with them. Perhaps this is because as the depression caused great economic hardship throughout the country, many people may have felt that robbing a bank was not such a bad thing to do. Regardless, this film did much to insure that the real Bonnie and Clyde would remain as two of the truly legendary figures of American cultural history. The story begins when Bonnie, a beautiful Dallas waitress, catches Clyde trying to steal her mother’s car. He is a small time Texas thief who had just been released from prison, but Bonnie sees in him a handsome and charming young man, and one who can take her away from her life of poverty and boredom. Soon, the two get to know each other and fall in love, and then decide to rob every bank they can from Texas to Missouri. Of course they don’t mean to cause any harm, but they do. Lots. After a while, they join forces with CW Moss, an uneducated but sweet and smart young mechanic. Soon after that, they are joined by Clyde’s brother Buck, a recently released criminal himself, and Buck’s wife Blanche, who is conservative, nervous and of little use to the others. Still, they are a team, and together they become known as "The责任编辑:yechenglu
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