History Film / BonnieAndClyde

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The writers of this film originally hoped to they could get either of the great French new-wave directors to helm this film, FrancoisTruffaut or JeanLucGodard. Unfortunately, Truffaut ultimately decided to work on ''{{Fahrenheit 451}}'' instead and Godard turned to be an unreasonable jerk when the producers were courting him. So, ArthurPenn, whom Truffaut had recommended, did it instead.

-->''"This here's Miss Bonnie Parker. I'm Clyde Barrow. We rob banks."''

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The writers of this film originally hoped to they could get either of the great French new-wave directors to helm this film, FrancoisTruffaut or JeanLucGoddard. Unfortunately, Truffaut ultimately decided to work on ''Fahrenheit451'' instead and Goddard turned to be an unreasonable jerk when the producers were courting him. So, ArthurPenn, whom Truffaut had recommended, did it instead.

''Bonnie and Clyde'' is a 1967 biopic about the famous bank-robbing duo of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, played by Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty. Dunaway's Bonnie is a bored waitress who goes off with small-time crook Clyde on a lark. Bonnie and Clyde graduate to bank-robbing and murder after being joined by Clyde's brother Buck (Gene Hackman), Buck's wife Blanche, and gas-station attendant C.W. Moss. The Barrow Gang becomes infamous. They capture, humiliate, and release a Texas Ranger, Frank Hamer, who swears vengeance.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Hatchet-faced Bonnie Parker, played by foxy Faye Dunaway.
** Rougishly handsome Warren Beaty as Clyde is a lesser example.
** Bonnie Parker was not hatchet-faced. She certainly wasn't as gorgeous as Faye Dunaway, but she wasn't hatchet-faced.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The writers of this film originally hoped to they could get either of the great French new-wave directors to helm this film, FrancoisTruffaut or JeanLucGoddard. Unfortunately, Truffaut ultimately decided to work on ''Fahrenheit451'' instead and Goddard turned to be an unreasonable jerk when the producers were courting him. So, Penn, whom Truffaut had recommended, did it instead.

* CompositeCharacter

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The film was not only influenced by the French New Wave, but both François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard were approached to direct it.
** {{Shirley MacLaine}} was considered for Bonnie, but Warren Beatty decided to play Clyde and preferred not to have to kiss his sister on the mouth on-camera.
** JaneFonda turned down the role of Bonnie.
** Warren Beatty once considered BobDylan for the role of Clyde.

* DamselScrappy: the movie version of Blanche, at least in the estimation of her real-life counterpart--she was quoted as saying that "That movie made me look like a screaming horse's ass."

* RetroactiveRecognition: Gene Wilder in his film debut as the male half of the couple that B&C capture.

** JaneFonda turned down the role of Bonnie.

-> ''This here's Miss Bonnie Parker. I'm Clyde Barrow. We rob banks.''

!! [[Film/BonnieAndClyde Bonnie and Clyde]] contains examples of:

* MoralDissonance: The cops murder Bonnie and Clyde in cold blood.

** JaneFonda turned down the role of Bonnie.
* VillainProtagonist

** Originally Shirley [=McClaine=] was going to be Bonnie, but Warren Beatty decided to play Clyde and preferred not to have to kiss his sister on the mouth on-camera.

* BechdelTest: Bonnie and Blanche arguing, and Bonnie's last conversation with her mother.

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[[caption-width:242:The real ones, not Warren and Faye]]

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Hatched-faced Bonnie Parker, played by foxy Faye Dunaway.

* BechdelTest: Bonnie and Blanche arguing.