The Story Archive

Bonnie and Clyde

Arthur Penn · 1967 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

A West Texas waitress catches a man trying to steal her mother's car, asks to come along, and the two work their way up from grocery stores to banks with a mechanic and a brother and his wife riding behind. Newspapers print the poems and photographs they send in, and a ranger they humiliate starts following. Its shifts from comedy to slow-motion gunfire split reviewers and are generally taken as the start of New Hollywood.

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Genre
Crime / NoirTragedyHistorical
Theme
Freedom vs FateFame & GloryWar & ViolenceLoveThe American Dream
Archetype (Jung / Campbell)
Rebel / OutlawDoomed LoversAnti-Hero
Plot structure
Rise and FallThe ChaseTragic Reversal
Symbol / motif
The JourneyBloodThe Portrait
Conflict
vs Societyvs Person
Mode / tone
IronicTragicRomantic
Culture / tradition
Modern / American

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