Bonnie & Clyde

Question 1

Bonnie & Clyde date etc

Answer 1

Bonnie & Clyde, 1967
Arthur Penn (1922-2010)
Studied with Mikhaïl Chekhov
(Chekhov taught Eastwood, Kazan, Monroe…)

Question 2

Landmarks (60’s)

Answer 2

J.F. Kennedy 35th President (elected 1960, democrat). Famous historic words (inaugural speech, 1961): “Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country”

Martin Luther King (1963, “I have a dream”)

Fulton Speech (or “Iron Curtain” speech, Winston Churchill)

Foreign policy: Embargo on Cuba.

At home: Port Huron Statement (student manifesto) for a more egalitarian society

Question 3

multicultural movements (60s)

Answer 3

Black Power
Black Panthers
American Indian Movement (AIM)
The Chicano movement
Not to mention other social movements:
The hippie movement
The student movement
Gay liberation / Gay rights
Women’s rights
Civil rights movement
Anti-Vietnam war movements
Just to mention a few…

Question 4

Civil Rights (timeline)

Answer 4

28 August 1963: About 200,000 people join theMarch on Washington => Martin Luther King delivers his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.

Feb 21 1964: Malcolm X, black nationalist and founder of the Organization of Afro-American Unity, is shot to death.

July 2 1964: President Johnsonsigns theCivil Rights Act of 1964.

Oct 1966: The militantBlack Panthersare founded byHuey NewtonandBobby Seale.

April 4 1968: Martin Luther King, at age 39, is shot as he stands on the balcony outside his hotel room.

11 April 1968: President Johnsonsigns theCivil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.

Question 5

True characters & what they did

Answer 5

Bonnie Elizabeth Parker (1910– 1934)

Clyde Chestnut Barrow (1909– 1934)

=> They travelled the US during the Great Depression

Question 6

Quotes

Answer 6

Clyde:
This here’s Miss Bonnie Parker. I’m Clyde Barrow. We rob banks.

Bonnie Parker: [reading her poem]
You’ve heard the story of Jesse James /
Of how he lived and died / If you’re still in need / Of something to read / Here’s the story of Bonnie and Clyde…

…Now Bonnie and Clyde are the Barrow gang / I’m sure you all have read / How they rob and steal / And those who squeal / Are usually found dyin’ or dead. / They call them cold-hearted killers / They say they are heartless and mean / But I say this with pride / That I once knew Clyde / When he was honest and upright and clean. / But the laws fooled around / Kept takin’ him down / And lockin’ him up in a cell / Till he said to me: “I’ll never be free / So I’ll meet a few of them in Hell.” / If a policeman is killed in Dallas / And they have no clue to guide / If they can’t find a fiend / They just wipe their slate clean / And hang it on Bonnie and Clyde / If they try to act like citizens / And rent them a nice little flat / About the third night / They’re invited to fight / By a sub-guns’ rat-a-tat-tat. / Some day, they’ll go down together / They’ll bury them side by side / To a few, it’ll be grief / To the law, a relief / But it’s death for Bonnie and Clyde.

You’ve heard the story of Jesse James
Of how he lived and died
If you’re still in need
Of something to read
Here’s the story of Bonnie and Clyde…