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'''''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. ▼
▲{{quote| ''"This here's Miss Bonnie Parker. I'm Clyde Barrow. [[It's What I Do|We rob banks]]."''}}
▲''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.
The Barrow Gang is caught in a shootout from which Bonnie and Clyde escape, but Buck is killed and Blanche is blinded and captured. Hamer tricks Blanche into revealing the location of Moss, who is hiding out with his father. Daddy Moss, who hates Bonnie and Clyde for luring his son into crime, makes a deal with Hamer to lay an ambush for Bonnie and Clyde. Hamer fakes a flat tire by the roadside, and when Bonnie and Clyde stop to help, they are killed in a fusillade of bullets.
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* [[Action Girl]]: Bonnie.
* [[Adaptational Attractiveness]]: Plain-faced Bonnie Parker and shrimpy little Clyde Barrow, played by foxy Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty.
** [[Inverted Trope]] with Blanche and Buck Barrow. The actors in the film are considerably dumper looking than
* [[Affably Evil]]: Don't you like Bonnie and Clyde?
* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: After the first time he holds up a store with her, Bonnie immediately tries to jump Clyde's bones.
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* [[Composite Character]]: C.W. Moss is a composite of two members of the Barrow Gang, W.D. Jones and Henry Methvin.
* [[Cool People Rebel Against Authority]]
* [[Damn, It Feels Good to Be
* [[Downer Ending]]: A [[Foregone Conclusion]].
* [[Eye Scream]]: Blanche gets shot in the eye and later ends up blind in a hospital.
* [[Follow the Leader]]: The film's success inspired a few [[Exploitation Film|exploitation films]] about '30s gangsters, such as ''[[A Bullet For Pretty Boy]]'' (former teen idol Fabian Forte as Pretty Boy Floyd) and ''[[Bloody Mama]]'' (Shelley Winters as Ma Barker, directed by [[Roger Corman]]).
* [[Gorn]]: For its time (right after the removal of the [[Hays Code]]), this was a very violent movie.
* [[The Great Depression]]: The backdrop for the film, and as Clyde believes, the main reason for the
* [[Gun in My Pocket]]
* [[Hobos]]: The gang meets up with a camp of them after a shoot out and ask for water, they get a lot of attention and are given soup as well as water.
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* [[The Lancer]]: Buck.
* [[The Loins Sleep Tonight]]: "I ain't much of a loverboy."
* [[Moral Myopia]]: The gang don't think they're doing
* [[More Dakka]]: How the title characters went down, in the movie and in
* [[Name and Name]]
* [[New Hollywood]]: One of the first movies of this era.
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* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: Wow. [[Truth in Television]], too.
* [[Villain Protagonist]]
* [[Working
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