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Bonnie and Clyde

 

However, both the real life and the film, Bonnie is a waitress and dedicated to her mother (Milner 23).
             In one of the first scenes, when Bonnie and Clyde first meet, Clyde tries to impress Bonnie by pulling out a gun. This is inaccurate because Bonnie did not like guns; this may seem strange given her career choice, but it was true nonetheless. The real Bonnie Parker would not have been at all excited by the sight of a gun (Dirks). She was vehemently opposed to guns and violence of any sort really, but she loved Clyde and saw it as her only way out of the life she was living at the time she met him. In the movie, the gun in this scene is used to foreshadow the violence that is to come, but is also very artfully used to convey the mounting sexual tension between Bonnie and Clyde. Probably the biggest change made to the character of Bonnie is that the film omits a serious car accident that caused severe burns to Bonnie's leg which bothered her for the last year that she and Clyde were together. This change is important because the pain and complications she experienced were part of the reason she felt she could not get out of a life of crime "she could no longer waitress and really depended on Clyde very heavily (Nash 252).
             The second area that the most changes were made is in the overall storytelling; there are thing that make the film more streamlined. For example, the film left out several prison break-outs that Bonnie and Clyde took part in (Three Film Buffs). These were most likely left out because they would have interfered with the pace of the film, and also would have disrupted the overall flow, since the movie is supposed to feel fast paced, and moves pretty steadily along in only one direction without deviating from the basic storyline.
             This can be seen again in the aftermath of the deaths of Bonnie and Clyde. The FBI website tells that the car that they were shot to death in was towed back into town with the bodies inside and displayed publicly for several hours.


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