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CS Weekly Archive> DVD > 4/04/08
Romancing the Outlaws
by jason Davis
Bonnie and Clyde (Two-Disc Special Edition)
David Newman & Robert Benton
 
 
Writers David Newman and Robert Benton redefine the meet-cute when waitress Bonnie Parker (Faye Dunaway) catches ex-con Clyde Barrow (Warren Beatty) eyeing her mother's automobile with felonious intent. The ensuing romance/crime spree that finds Bonnie and Clyde robbing banks in five southern states during the early years of the Great Depression quickly takes on a Robin Hood quality, with the outlaw protagonists sticking it to the stinking money men who foreclose on poor farmers. The lawmen out to catch the Barrow gang become the bad guys as Bonnie and Clyde are feted as folk heroes and eventually legends before their inevitable betrayal and demise. DVD producer Laurent Bouzereau offers a complete overview of the film's development, production, and reception in a detailed documentary where Benton reveals that Clyde was originally scripted as bisexual and why director Arthur Penn suggested a change to the characterization. Analysis of the movie is complemented with a History Channel feature on the real Bonnie and Clyde that highlights the differences between the seedy fact and the romantic fiction.
 Bonnie and Clyde (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Not rated; 111 min.
$20.98
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Jason Davis has been the DVD Manager for CS Weekly, a contributing editor for Creative Screenwriting Magazine, and has written for Cinescape.com, MSN.com, and created the TV series Studio 13, which ran on Lorne Michaels' Burly TV network. He lives in the small space left over by his ever-expanding library of books, movies, and music.
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