Analysis of Bonnie & Clyde After watching the film of two well known characters in history, Bonnie and Clyde, produced by Warner Bros and directed by Arthur Pen, it would on be hard to just take the movie for its face value. It is very apparent that there is a lot of symbolism present in Bonnie and Clyde which was one of the most bloody movies of its time. In the movie we find a relationship between the very different main characters, Bonnie and Clyde, to be extremely interesting. Through their dysfunctional interactions Bonnie and Clyde learn to love eachother. One of the main things that drove the conflict of this story is Clydes need for attention and Bonnies attraction to danger and compulsive behavior which created a perfect formula …show more content…
She is making facial expressions that express dissatisfaction and unhappiness. A frame from the movie that accurately describes Bonnies current feel of life would be the following: She grabs her bed rails and presses her face up to them as if she were in a jail cell. The fact that she is not clothed represents the fact that she feels as if her life has no meaning, no color, no adventure. Her obvious unfulfillment in her life is portrayed through her almost angry facial expressions. She feels trapped in life hence the grabbing of the bed rails. She feels as if the lack of adventure in her life resembles that of being in jail. The elements in the frame are Bonnie, a bed and, the bed rails. There are no other characters in this frame to compare her distance to. This is a close up camera shot from a low angle with high key lighting. I do believe the form is closed for this frame as well. When Clyde comes along and gets her attention from the front yard she puts on a dress but not a colorful dress because she is not yet having adventure in her life as she is still skeptical hence the bland cream colored …show more content…
Clyde tries to show off his masculinity by chugging his Coca-Cola with a match in his mouth. Bonnie is still skeptical that Clyde is for real even after he showed her his gun. Although she was very attracted to the power of the gun she wanted proof. This is when Clyde walks into the grocery store and robs it to show Bonnie that he was a real man that could actually execute armed robbery. In my opinion this is the climax because this is when Bonnie is reeled in by Clydes manly adventurous spirit. To reel Bonnie in even further Clyde teaches her how to shoot a gun at a tire swing at a foreclosed farmhouse. As the previous owner shows up Clyde resists shooting the man just long enough for him to tell his story about how the bank shut him down and took his house. Clyde didn’t like that one bit so he shot the “Bank Foreclosed” sign as well as let the previous owner have a shot at it. It was at this moment that Clyde decided to take on some what of a Robin Hood persona and rob banks and at the same time be on the side of the people that were most affected by the “hard