JD'S Memes

After Bonnie and Clyde's demise, a roll of unprocessed film was found in their hideout. I think this is one shot of many publicized. The film was released in 1967 to small segments of the country b/c Jack Warner and others disliked it as well as Warren Beatty very much ... too many memories. His intent was to then bury it.



Fun Fact: Barb has a friend whose Grandma was in a nearby grade school when Bonne and Clyde were ambushed. All the kids were allowed to run down to the scene and take a look. Grandma took one of Bonnie's shoes back to the classroom but the teacher made her return it to the scene.



Unexpectedly, the film did very well in those small markets and in 1968 was released nationally and internationally, becoming Warner Brothers' 2d grossing picture at the time, just behind My Fair Lady. In a UW film class, we learned that Bonnie and Clyde appealed to the anti-authoritarian sentiment growing in the US because of the Vietnam War. Our class had 72 students including myself, the oldest, and I was the only person to have seen this movie in the theater in 1968 on its release. The Prof would single me out in class and ask me about those times in Madison and what I thought of the film, etc. It had been nearly 50 years since the film so many students probably thought "how did this old fart get in here?"
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Actually, it unlocked a whole stream of consciousness and I told them "lots" becoming the goto guy for "you were there" recollection of Bonnie and Clyde and later Psycho (nobody knew that Ed Gein lived just 60 miles up the road from Madison, nobody had really heard of Ed Gein, or that he had died at Mendota State Hospital in Madison, etc. And also The Birds (1963) which my friends and I thought was an allegory for the coming Nuclear Armageddon... fame and fortune and status or where and when would not save anyone from the birds, and we made the tiny jump that the birds were stand-ins for the Soviet Missiles.



Did you know most films today are directed at 26 year old males? that the scene length has dropped to 5 seconds or less? that Bonnie and Clyde and movies of that era had scene lengths of 15 seconds or more? how deep can a thought be if you have less than 5 seconds to express it?



I loved my Film Classes and Comm Arts at the UW. Sometimes a current Hollywood Director would come and talk about their recent film and take questions from the students. I was surprised how many students from the UW have found good jobs in Hollywood.



Bonnie and Clyde reinvigorated Blue Grass Music. "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" by Flatt and Scruggs, the instrumental banjo piece, was introduced to a worldwide audience as a result of its frequent use in the movie.



Remember this Pop Song?



Bonnie and Clyde advanced their reputation
And made the graduation into the banking bus'ness.
Reach for the sky!
Sweet-talking Clyde would holler
As Bonnie loaded dollars into the dewlap bag.
Now one brave man he tried to take them alone;
They left him lying in a pool of blood
And laughed about it all the way home.
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