Bonnie And Clyde - CLOSING SEQUENCE Flashcards
They both eat a pear, what does this represent?
- equality - women still slightly of service - men end up with the fruit - predominant male cast
What focus is Clyde?
- in greater focus, standing - slow motion - more concern over male - more imagery of men dying in Vietnam
What does Clyde wear on his face and what does it symbolise?
- wears glasses with a frame missing
- short sightness of men
What does Bonnie being positioned to the left signify? - passenger seat
- highlights importance in female
What is the older generation?
- patriarchal
What is the younger generation?
- equality
- anti-establishment
Why was violence and blood allowed in this film?
- collapse of the Hays Code
Where was it filmed?
- on location
What kind of ending was it?
- abrupt
What kind of lighting?
- natural lighting - realist
Why the slow motion?
- influenced by Japanese cinema
- Seven Samurai - influenced by style of editing - natural sound and slow-mo
What kind of auteur contribution did Arthur Penn have in the closing sequence of B+C?
- watched ‘Seven Samurai’ and was strongly influenced by style of editing - natural sound (diegetic) and slow motion
- worked with Dede Allen to incorporate jump cuts in the end sequence
- on location shooting - natural lighting
- common man - excessive overkill of B+C by the police
- Clyde’s death - like a ballet
- Bonnie’s death - evoke psychical shock
What auteur contribution did Dede Allen contribute to the closing sequence?
- stylistically self-conscious
- violence - Hays Code redundant
- montage sequence - 51 shots - 1 shot per second
- final shot - framing through glass - distorted image
- FNW
How are the police villainised?
- dressed in black
Why the excessive violence?
- Vietnam War - collapse of the Hays Code - first televised war
Why does Clyde pull over to support Malcolm?
- to support the common man
- farmer - older generation against youth
Why are the jump cuts between Bonnie and Clyde heartbreaking?
- as a consequence align with B+C
- after the summer of love - descent into violence and paranoia - all that hope and beauty gone by the end of the film//60’s
- die as martyrs
What does the fast pacing and the police hidden in the bushes highlight?
- highlight corrupt nature of authority and older generation
Both of them wearing white symbolises?
- their innocence
What engulfs them in the car?
- darkness
The big close up shot of Bonnie - what does it show?
- she knew it was going to happen - accepted it - emotionally intelligent
Clyde died on the ground shows what?
- he was treated like dirt
