Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* TheLoad: Her screaming confirms to the cops the gang is holed up and starts a shoot out, Buck trying to keep her safe keeps him running back and forth in danger, her being separated means they have to pick her up. Once on the run, she constantly complains, trying to get her husband out of the gang then demanding an equal share despite doing nothing to help the robberies.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He suddenly disappears from the story midway with no insight on what came of him, how he reacted to the titular duo's death, or whether or not he get arrested for his part on the robberies.
Added DiffLines:
%% WhatHappenedToTheMouse
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 18,19 (click to see context) from:
* VillainProtagonist: The title characters are robbers and killers. even so, [[HistoricalHeroUpgrade the film's portrayal of them is considerably softer than the real Bonnie and Clyde]].
to:
* VillainProtagonist: The title characters are robbers and killers. even Even so, [[HistoricalHeroUpgrade the film's portrayal of them is considerably softer than the real Bonnie and Clyde]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 3 (click to see context) from:
* AntiHero: Everybody in the gang (sans Blanche) is a partner in hijacking cars and robbing banks supposedly to rebel against UsefulNotes/TheGreatDepression, but they're more self-centered than that. Yet despite their aspects, they're still painted in a sympathetic light.
to:
* AntiHero: Everybody in the gang (sans Blanche) is a partner in hijacking cars and robbing banks supposedly to rebel against UsefulNotes/TheGreatDepression, TheGreatDepression, but they're more self-centered than that. Yet despite their aspects, they're still painted in a sympathetic light.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
* PluckyComicRelief: He's the life of the party in the Barrow Gang who's responsible for some of the movie's most uplifting and funny moments. When the Barrow Gang kidnaps Eugene and Velma, Buck keeps the mood jolly:
* ShooOutTheClowns: Even though there are plenty of grim moments throughout the movie, it's when Buck dies that things truly start to get serious. Buck's death (and Blanche's capture) signals the end of the liveliness of the Barrow Gang, and therefore the end of its life.
* ShooOutTheClowns: Even though there are plenty of grim moments throughout the movie, it's when Buck dies that things truly start to get serious. Buck's death (and Blanche's capture) signals the end of the liveliness of the Barrow Gang, and therefore the end of its life.
Changed line(s) 46 (click to see context) from:
* TokenGoodTeammate: Downplayed, considering she goes along with the gang despite their shady business, but she's the only member of the gang who doesn't willingly take part in the robberies or even had any say in joining the gang. She's just there because she's the wife of Buck Barrow, making her sort of a PunchClockVillain.
to:
* TokenGoodTeammate: Downplayed, considering she goes along with the gang despite their shady business, but she's the only member of the gang who doesn't willingly take part in the robberies or even had any say in joining the gang. She's just there because she's the wife of Buck Barrow, making her sort of a PunchClockVillain. Also, it was stated that she was a preacher's daughter, and married Buck when he was a reformed ex-con. She clearly wanted no part in his life of crime.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Eugene Grizzard and Velma Davis]]
[[folder:Eugene Grizzard and Velma Davis]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 54 (click to see context) from:
[[folder:Ivan Moss]]
to:
[[folder:Ivan Moss]]Moss]]
[[/folder]]
[[/folder]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* TokenGoodTeammate: Downplayed, considering she goes along with the gang despite their shady business, but she's the only member of the gang who doesn't willingly take part in the robberies or even had any say in joining the gang. She's just there because she's the wife of Buck Barrow, making her sort of a PunchClockVillain.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
!!Barrow Gang
[[folder:In General]]
* AntiHero: Everybody in the gang (sans Blanche) is a partner in hijacking cars and robbing banks supposedly to rebel against UsefulNotes/TheGreatDepression, but they're more self-centered than that. Yet despite their aspects, they're still painted in a sympathetic light.
* MoralMyopia: The gang don't think they're doing anything particularly wrong, but those ''jerks'' who try to stop them from robbing banks, they were totally asking to be shot. (Of course, some of their enemies ''are'' jerks, but it isn't trying to stop murderous robbers that makes them so.)
* TwoGirlsToATeam: Bonnie and Blanche are the token women within the Barrow Gang, compared to the Barrow brothers and C.W.
[[folder:The Titular Duo]]
* AffablyEvil: The two are about the nicest bank robbers you'd ever meet.
* AlasPoorVillain: Bonnie and Clyde are portrayed in a sympathetic light, and their deaths are meant to come off as tragic.
* ArchEnemy: They're this to Sheriff Frank Hamer since they humiliated him and he vows to capture or kill them.
* HistoricalBeautyUpdate: While Bonnie and Clyde weren't ugly, they didn't hold a candle to Dunaway and Beatty, two of Hollywood's most glamorous heartthrobs of the era.
* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: A big offender. The film's Bonnie and Clyde has more in common with bank robbers John Dillinger and "Pretty Boy" Floyd, who were also active at the time and held considerably more public sympathy, whereas the public eventually grew tired of Bonnie and Clyde's constant violence and called for their deaths.
* MultipleGunshotDeath: How Bonnie and Clyde get killed by the police. TruthInTelevision -- the police went for ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill because they were ''that'' much of TheDreaded.
* OutlawCouple: Take a wild guess.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Bonnie and Clyde behave as a couple even though Clyde cannot have sex. On the day before their deaths, however, Clyde finally manages to perform.
* StopOrIWillShoot: Bonnie and Clyde are gunned down without warning in a police ambush. This was TruthInTelevision. It should be noted that Barrow had shot his way out of several previous attempts to capture him, and his gang had killed nine lawmen and several civilians during their crime spree.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: [[spoiler:The final scene, where a posse guns down Bonnie and Clyde and fires many, many shots at them. TruthInTelevision, too- that was how their death was in real life.]]
* VillainProtagonist: The title characters are robbers and killers. even so, [[HistoricalHeroUpgrade the film's portrayal of them is considerably softer than the real Bonnie and Clyde]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Bonnie Parker]]
-> Portrayed by: Creator/FayeDunaway
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: After the first time he holds up a store with her, Bonnie immediately tries to jump Clyde's bones.
* HiddenDepths: Bonnie writes poetry about their misdeeds, which was TruthInTelevision.
* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: Bonnie takes an active role in the gang's robberies in the film. In real-life, there is no evidence she participated in any of the gang's robberies. While there are multiple eyewitness accounts of her participating in several of the gang's gunfights against the police, there is no known evidence anyone was hit or killed by her gunfire.
* SmallTownBoredom: Bonnie's introduction has her flopping around her bed in boredom. Clyde acknowledges that boredom was her primary reason to join him.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Clyde Barrow]]
-> Portrayed by: Creator/WarrenBeatty
* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: The real Clyde was a ControlFreak with a HairTriggerTemper that bordered on AxCrazy at worst. He often robbed and assaulted bystanders during bank robberies, killed both police and civilians at the slightest provocation, and left hostages tied to trees in the woods. His gang members noted this ruthlessness; In an interview with Magazine/{{Playboy}}, W.D. Jones described Clyde as willing to kill anyone "in a hot instant" and claimed Clyde had once threatened to kill him [[DisproportionateRetribution over not changing a tire quickly enough]]. One gang member not portrayed in the film, Raymond Hamilton, left the gang out of disputes over money and viewed Clyde as too violent to stay with.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:C.W. Moss]]
-> Portrayed by: Creator/MichaelJPollard
* CompositeCharacter: His character is basically a cross between W.D. Jones and the man who is believed to have betrayed Bonnie and Clyde, Henry Methvin. Other gang members are omitted.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Buck Barrow]]
-> Portrayed by: Creator/GeneHackman
* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: He was described as the most hot-tempered of the Barrows, often advocating [[LeaveNoWitnesses killing hostages]] and once tied two police officers they had captured to a tree with ''barbed wire'', something that [[EvenEvilHasStandards even Clyde found distasteful]]. Buck often got into heated arguments with Clyde, as he was uncomfortable taking orders from his younger brother. Nothing of the sort is portrayed in the film.
%%TheLancer:
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Blanche Barrow]]
-> Portrayed by: Creator/EstelleParsons
* EyeScream: Blanche gets shot in the eye and later ends up blind in a hospital. In real-life, she actually got it from shards of flying glass due to a shootout in Platte City in July 1933.
* RealWomenDontWearDresses: Blanche Barrow is portrayed as TheLoad in contrast to Bonnie Parker and, in the real Blanche's own words, [[HystericalWoman "a screaming horse's ass."]] Significant in that the two male leads, Clyde Barrow and Buck Barrow, aren't foiled against each other to the same extreme.
* ScreamingWoman: Blanche, much to the chagrin of the rest of the gang (especially [[ActionGirl Bonnie]]), as well as to the real-life Blanche. The film deliberately played this up in order to make Bonnie seem "cooler". It angered the real Blanche so much that she sued Warner Bros. over her portrayal.
[[/folder]]
!!Additional Historical Characters
[[folder:Frank Hamer]]
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: He's portrayed in the film as a bumbling, spiteful idiot who allows himself to be made into a jackass by the protagonists and their friends. In real life, he was a Texas Ranger hired out of retirement by prison system administrator Lee Simmons to hunt them down after the gang led a prison break, and never personally interacted with them before the shootout in May 23, 1934 where Bonnie and Clyde were killed. The film shows Hamer and his men gunning down Clyde when he is unarmed and outside his car, while in real life both Bonnie and Clyde were inside their car when they were shot, and the vehicle was filled with weapons.[[note]]In fact, the main reason Bonnie and Clyde were ambushed in such a manner was because they were considered ''far'' too dangerous to confront face-to-face - their past encounters with law enforcement had ended with them escaping, often killing several officers in the process.[[/note]] Hamer's surviving family was so outraged at the negative, buffoonish portrayal they filed a lawsuit against Warner Bros. for defamation; the movie studio settled out-of-court.
* SpitefulSpit: After Bonnie kisses Hamer for the posed photo, he spits in her face.
[[/folder]]
!!Fictional Characters
[[folder:Ivan Moss]]
[[folder:In General]]
* AntiHero: Everybody in the gang (sans Blanche) is a partner in hijacking cars and robbing banks supposedly to rebel against UsefulNotes/TheGreatDepression, but they're more self-centered than that. Yet despite their aspects, they're still painted in a sympathetic light.
* MoralMyopia: The gang don't think they're doing anything particularly wrong, but those ''jerks'' who try to stop them from robbing banks, they were totally asking to be shot. (Of course, some of their enemies ''are'' jerks, but it isn't trying to stop murderous robbers that makes them so.)
* TwoGirlsToATeam: Bonnie and Blanche are the token women within the Barrow Gang, compared to the Barrow brothers and C.W.
[[folder:The Titular Duo]]
* AffablyEvil: The two are about the nicest bank robbers you'd ever meet.
* AlasPoorVillain: Bonnie and Clyde are portrayed in a sympathetic light, and their deaths are meant to come off as tragic.
* ArchEnemy: They're this to Sheriff Frank Hamer since they humiliated him and he vows to capture or kill them.
* HistoricalBeautyUpdate: While Bonnie and Clyde weren't ugly, they didn't hold a candle to Dunaway and Beatty, two of Hollywood's most glamorous heartthrobs of the era.
* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: A big offender. The film's Bonnie and Clyde has more in common with bank robbers John Dillinger and "Pretty Boy" Floyd, who were also active at the time and held considerably more public sympathy, whereas the public eventually grew tired of Bonnie and Clyde's constant violence and called for their deaths.
* MultipleGunshotDeath: How Bonnie and Clyde get killed by the police. TruthInTelevision -- the police went for ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill because they were ''that'' much of TheDreaded.
* OutlawCouple: Take a wild guess.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Bonnie and Clyde behave as a couple even though Clyde cannot have sex. On the day before their deaths, however, Clyde finally manages to perform.
* StopOrIWillShoot: Bonnie and Clyde are gunned down without warning in a police ambush. This was TruthInTelevision. It should be noted that Barrow had shot his way out of several previous attempts to capture him, and his gang had killed nine lawmen and several civilians during their crime spree.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: [[spoiler:The final scene, where a posse guns down Bonnie and Clyde and fires many, many shots at them. TruthInTelevision, too- that was how their death was in real life.]]
* VillainProtagonist: The title characters are robbers and killers. even so, [[HistoricalHeroUpgrade the film's portrayal of them is considerably softer than the real Bonnie and Clyde]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Bonnie Parker]]
-> Portrayed by: Creator/FayeDunaway
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: After the first time he holds up a store with her, Bonnie immediately tries to jump Clyde's bones.
* HiddenDepths: Bonnie writes poetry about their misdeeds, which was TruthInTelevision.
* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: Bonnie takes an active role in the gang's robberies in the film. In real-life, there is no evidence she participated in any of the gang's robberies. While there are multiple eyewitness accounts of her participating in several of the gang's gunfights against the police, there is no known evidence anyone was hit or killed by her gunfire.
* SmallTownBoredom: Bonnie's introduction has her flopping around her bed in boredom. Clyde acknowledges that boredom was her primary reason to join him.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Clyde Barrow]]
-> Portrayed by: Creator/WarrenBeatty
* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: The real Clyde was a ControlFreak with a HairTriggerTemper that bordered on AxCrazy at worst. He often robbed and assaulted bystanders during bank robberies, killed both police and civilians at the slightest provocation, and left hostages tied to trees in the woods. His gang members noted this ruthlessness; In an interview with Magazine/{{Playboy}}, W.D. Jones described Clyde as willing to kill anyone "in a hot instant" and claimed Clyde had once threatened to kill him [[DisproportionateRetribution over not changing a tire quickly enough]]. One gang member not portrayed in the film, Raymond Hamilton, left the gang out of disputes over money and viewed Clyde as too violent to stay with.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:C.W. Moss]]
-> Portrayed by: Creator/MichaelJPollard
* CompositeCharacter: His character is basically a cross between W.D. Jones and the man who is believed to have betrayed Bonnie and Clyde, Henry Methvin. Other gang members are omitted.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Buck Barrow]]
-> Portrayed by: Creator/GeneHackman
* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: He was described as the most hot-tempered of the Barrows, often advocating [[LeaveNoWitnesses killing hostages]] and once tied two police officers they had captured to a tree with ''barbed wire'', something that [[EvenEvilHasStandards even Clyde found distasteful]]. Buck often got into heated arguments with Clyde, as he was uncomfortable taking orders from his younger brother. Nothing of the sort is portrayed in the film.
%%TheLancer:
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Blanche Barrow]]
-> Portrayed by: Creator/EstelleParsons
* EyeScream: Blanche gets shot in the eye and later ends up blind in a hospital. In real-life, she actually got it from shards of flying glass due to a shootout in Platte City in July 1933.
* RealWomenDontWearDresses: Blanche Barrow is portrayed as TheLoad in contrast to Bonnie Parker and, in the real Blanche's own words, [[HystericalWoman "a screaming horse's ass."]] Significant in that the two male leads, Clyde Barrow and Buck Barrow, aren't foiled against each other to the same extreme.
* ScreamingWoman: Blanche, much to the chagrin of the rest of the gang (especially [[ActionGirl Bonnie]]), as well as to the real-life Blanche. The film deliberately played this up in order to make Bonnie seem "cooler". It angered the real Blanche so much that she sued Warner Bros. over her portrayal.
[[/folder]]
!!Additional Historical Characters
[[folder:Frank Hamer]]
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: He's portrayed in the film as a bumbling, spiteful idiot who allows himself to be made into a jackass by the protagonists and their friends. In real life, he was a Texas Ranger hired out of retirement by prison system administrator Lee Simmons to hunt them down after the gang led a prison break, and never personally interacted with them before the shootout in May 23, 1934 where Bonnie and Clyde were killed. The film shows Hamer and his men gunning down Clyde when he is unarmed and outside his car, while in real life both Bonnie and Clyde were inside their car when they were shot, and the vehicle was filled with weapons.[[note]]In fact, the main reason Bonnie and Clyde were ambushed in such a manner was because they were considered ''far'' too dangerous to confront face-to-face - their past encounters with law enforcement had ended with them escaping, often killing several officers in the process.[[/note]] Hamer's surviving family was so outraged at the negative, buffoonish portrayal they filed a lawsuit against Warner Bros. for defamation; the movie studio settled out-of-court.
* SpitefulSpit: After Bonnie kisses Hamer for the posed photo, he spits in her face.
[[/folder]]
!!Fictional Characters
[[folder:Ivan Moss]]
