i haven't seen the film (yet, i plan to buy it ASAP) but i read about it on wikipedia. anyways it said that the film was intended as a romantic and comic version of the gangster films in the 1930's. is this true? that would either be pretty cool, or unnecessary.
just wondering is all
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i thought so. i knew what Bonnie and Clyde was about but wasnt sure what genre. I knew that wiki probably wasn't right but i had to ask anyway. i need to know
well thanks!
Why is the earth not made of cheese?
I love the movie, own it on DVD
but I actually agree that it was more of a romantic comedy with violence and blood
and the movie itself hardly resembles the true story
I am reading "Go Down Together: The True Story of Bonnie and Clyde" and unfortunately this movie is more like a fictional movie based on a true story
too bad because all of the elements were in place to make a true story. but they went more with the folklore mythical version for the movie
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I think it has a very serious and sad side. It's a romance, for sure... and some of it is quite funny, but it's in no way a "comedy".
shareI don't see it as either a romance or a comedy. Just having a couple who say "I love you" doesn't make a movie a romance - this one is more about the failures of Bonnie and Clyde as individuals and their desperate clinging to each other to fulfill their own rebellion fantasies, rather than any kind of love story. And there's simply no way it's a comic version of anything.
I've come to the conclusion that whenever there's an entry in either Wikipedia or IMDB's Trivia section that says something like "this (book or film) was intended as ...", you can pretty much bet it isn't true, that the person writing it was simply stating his or her own assumptions and not basing it on any actual knowledge. There are a lot of people on the internet who can't seem to tell the difference between their own opinion and fact.
You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.
The quote from wikipedia: "The film was intended as a romantic and comic version of the violent gangster films of the 1930s"
The writer isn't using the word romantic to mean filled with love and kissing and the like. He means romantic in the sense that the filmmakers are romanticizing the era. Making the bleak dustbowl poverty of the depression and violent criminal mayhem into something scenic, engaging, exciting...in a word "romantic". In that sense B&C is definitely a romance.