Bonnie and Clyde (miniseries, 2013)

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    A me deprimono un po' le critiche brutte ma finché non si lamentano di Holly ed Emile mi sta bene via XD lei come dici tu ha un sacco di potenziale!
     
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    Review: 'Bonnie and Clyde' looks great, but its history is way off

    In terms of mythology, it was Bonnie Parker who turned a small band of murderous thugs led by Clyde Barrow into the stuff of legend.

    Even as the Depression-era gang went on its murderous two-year crime spree, the idea of a female outlaw titillated a nation already prone to romanticizing criminals amid a failing economic system. When she and her lover died in a hail of gunfire, and photos of her posing with firearms and a getaway car were discovered, Bonnie became the pin-up girl for the hyper-sexualized archetype of the gun moll.

    So it makes a certain amount of sense that the two-part miniseries "Bonnie and Clyde," which airs simultaneously Sunday and Monday on History, A&E and Lifetime, would frame Bonnie (Holliday Grainger) as a woman who, stymied by her lack of opportunities, sees small-time crook Clyde Barrow (Emile Hirsch) as a way to get out of her small-town life.

    What doesn't make sense is the creative decision to make her a thwarted actress who is not just muse and criminal mastermind but also the director of her own publicity campaign. But then a lot of what happens in "Bonnie and Clyde" doesn't sense, at least not historically. Best to consider it a work of complete fiction and enjoy the performances, which are universally fine, and the smooth, wood-barrel-aged way it goes down.

    The historic Bonnie Parker might not have ever shot a gun (accounts vary). This Bonnie, on the other hand, breaks Clyde out of jail, pushes him to take on bigger jobs and more firepower, mows coppers down with abandon and supplies a (completely fictitious) female journalist (played by Elizabeth Reaser) with the initial idea of Bonnie and Clyde. Complete with photos!

    Hirsch's Clyde, meanwhile, is an essentially sweet-natured fellow, easily led and completely smitten. In a voice-over caught between Southern Gothic and your seventh-grade history class, he informs us from the beginning that ever since he survived a "fever of mysterious origins," he has been gifted with the Sight.

    All that means is that from time to time the audience is treated to dreamy visions of the awful things to come. Which do not in any way serve as a spoiler alert; they're just there to up the artsiness factor.

    To show the young folk just where this tale is going, "Bonnie and Clyde" opens with a preface to the famous ambush, which left the two so pocked with bullet wounds it was said that the undertaker had a difficult time embalming them. This is not, by the way, in the movie. Instead, there is a disturbing but quite powerful image of the car with their bodies being towed and having to stop when the truck overheats. The minute it is glimpsed, people begin running over to it, to look and touch the horror within.

    Directed by Bruce Beresford with cinematography by Francis Kenny and studded with stars like William Hurt as Texas Ranger Frank Hamer and Holly Hunter as Mrs. Parker, "Bonnie and Clyde" moves with tommy gun energy through a landscape of picaresque poverty. The cars are lovely, as are the clothes, and it is tantalizing to consider a manhunt lacking in even the basic technology.

    Hirsch and Granger are lovely too, although Granger's accent is distractingly out of control. But neither of them offer any insight into what drove the couple, what they actually hoped to achieve, and what kept them going when it became clear that things were not going to end well.

    And History might have a little soul-searching to do; dramatic license should not mean Make a Huge Number of Important Plot Points Up. That "Smash's" Neil Meron and Craig Zadan serve as producers is not surprising — the message of the film is that Bonnie Parker wanted to be famous even if it killed her.

    Which it did.

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    CITAZIONE
    ‘Bonnie & Clyde’ Review: What We Loved
    Our favorite casting choice, Emile Hirsch, is the perfect Clyde Barrow for a 2013 audience. The 28-year-old fuses his trademark boyish charm with the real-life criminal’s ruthlessness, resulting in a fully-realized character, whom new viewers can be more sympathetic to than they probably anticipated.


    British actress Holliday Grainger, whom we still remember fondly as The Borgias‘ Lucrezia, was also an inspired casting choice. Her Bonnie Parker is fiery, fearless, and like Emile’s Clyde, strangely compelling.

    In 2009, when a different Bonnie & Clyde movie was in pre-production, Faye famously slammed the decision to cast Hilary Duff in the titular female role — she asked, “Couldn’t they at least cast a real actress?” — but we think Miz Dunaway will be much more pleased with Holliday’s performance.

    And with additional stand-out performances from stars like Holly Hunter, William Hurt, Twilight‘s Elizabeth Reaser and Modern Family‘s Sarah Hyland, there’s plenty to love about Bonnie & Clyde – even when the gun-toting duo isn’t raising hell.

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    There 
oughta be 
a law against 
series like 
‘Bonnie & Clyde’

    In this retelling, Clyde Barrow (Emile Hirsch, “Milk”) suffers bouts of “Donnie Darko”-style visions that foretell his bloody future.

    One key premonition even involves a rabbit — although, thankfully, this one is pet-sized. But it is still enough to give Clyde heaving nightmares.

    You expect this sort of half-hearted attention to reality from Lifetime, but History, really?

    Bonnie Parker (Holliday Grainger, “The Borgias”) starts as a disillusioned bride stuck in a waitressing job.

    Tonight’s opener (the miniseries is simulcast on all three of the A&E sister networks) half-heartedly argues for her as a feminist icon — the flip-side to aviator Amelia Earhart. It then spins into the cliche of the bloodthirsty femme fatale. the Eve to Clyde’s nice-guy Adam who led him astray.

    If you buy this story, Clyde just wanted to settle down, 
but Bonnie, a rejected, dejected wannabe actress, longed to make a name for herself. And if she couldn’t find a way to do it while being good, she’d do it by being bad.

    “See how his head bounced, Clyde. Just like a rubber ball,” she says after shooting one lawman.

    One problem with that conclusion is that Clyde’s life of crime started long before he hooked up with Bonnie.

    And while the miniseries depicts the sexual abuse he suffered during an early prison stint, it’s a mere footnote in his life, and not, as many surmise, a motive for his hostility toward law enforcement agents.

    Hirsch and Grainger spark little as a couple, though Grainger proves she’s capable of more range than she ever did in Showtime’s costume period drama “The Borgias.”

    The four-hour mini also truncates the supporting cast of gangsters, focusing mostly on Clyde’s relationship with brother Marvin “Buck” (Lane Garrison, “Prison Break”) and, tomorrow, Marvin’s wife Blanche (Sarah Hyland, “Modern Family”).

    This loose adaptation also plays up a lawman, Ted Hinton (Austin Hebert), who is sweet on Bonnie, and female reporter P.J Lane (Elizabeth Reaser, “The Good Wife,” in a horrific wig) who comes to regret turning the law-breakers into heroes. Neither character is especially well-developed.

    Academy Award-winners William Hurt and Holly Hunter take different approaches to their scenes as lawman Frank Hamer and Bonnie’s mother, Emma, respectively. Hurt practically spits bullets as an Old Testament-style hunter; Hunter underplays maternal concern. Both approaches work.

    Spoiler alert: Even from beyond the grave Monday night, Clyde gets the last word.

    “Bonnie & Clyde”?

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    Fallacies about Bonnie and Clyde

    Reports that Bonnie was a cold-blooded killer like Clyde are just one of the fallacies about the lives and criminal careers of Bonnie and Clyde. Many of the details of their criminal lives have been lost to the sands of time, if they were ever recorded in the first place.

    However, Bonnie’s role in the crimes has probably been exaggerated. Eyewitnesses of the time have stated that Bonnie didn’t fire a gun very often, and they are also in agreement that she likely never took part in shooting anyone.

    In cartoons, pulp detective magazines, newsreels, and newspapers, Bonnie was often portrayed as being a machine gun toting killer. Yet, W.D. Jones, a member of their gang, couldn’t remember a time when she ever fired at any police officers.

    There is a tale from Bonnie and Clyde’s heyday that Bonnie finished off a policeman with a bullet to his head, and that she made a joke about how the cop’s head bounced. That report has been discredited, though, and it is just one more of the fallacies that got to be a part of the lore about Bonnie and Clyde.

    Another of the fallacies about Bonnie is that she smoked cigars. She actually chain-smoked Camels, though Bonnie might have posed with one for photos.

    On June 10, 1933, CLyde Barrow totalled their car in a wreck. Bonnie’s leg was badly burned in the accident. She wasn’t able to get proper medical attention, and by the end of their criminal careers, she had problems even walking.

    Bonnie was 23 when she died. Clyde was two months past 25. They both would probably have been surprised, but also honored, that their names and fame have survived for this long.

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    This four-hour miniseries, starring Emile Hirsch ("Into the Wild") and Holliday Grainger ("The Borgias"), was in the works before the History hit. It has a cinematic feel and takes a few risks, particularly with showing Clyde's sixth sense and Bonnie's hysteria and presenting the story in a leisurely fashion.

    "It is a morality story and has some parallels to our modern era," Hirsch tells Zap2it. "They were almost the original reality TV stars. They were playing out their lives in the media, and that is an interesting parallel.

    "I feel like something about the Bonnie and Clyde story will appeal to people for generations and generations," Hirsch continues. "It is a real love story that is flawed and tragic. As horrible as they were, the one thing that was always consistent, that never changed, was their love for each other."

    The film does a great job of capturing the period, the costumes, cars and feel of the Depression. People may think they know the story well, but the miniseries aims to reveal who they were beyond the bank robberies.

    Clyde is shown to have suffered a serious fever as child, and after that he was said to have a sixth sense. He had visions, including one of Bonnie, long before he met her. He first saw Bonnie at her wedding, and even the fact that she was married did not deter Clyde.

    Bonnie is given to weeping fits, and only her mom (Holly Hunter) can calm her.

    Until she began working on this, Grainger was among those who thought she knew the story well.

    "I was very aware of Bonnie and Clyde growing up, in the way you know about Romeo and Juliet and Thelma and Louise," Grainger says. "It wasn't until I started researching the part, and I realized how quite short their lives on the road were. It was only two years. It must have been a long two years, constantly moving."

    The miniseries reminds us how they held up small banks for tiny amounts. This being the Depression, people had no sympathy for the banks. But they developed a kinship with Bonnie and Clyde because of a newspaper reporter, P.J. Lane (Elizabeth Reaser, "The Twilight Saga"), who wrote sympathetic stories.

    Her reporting drove Texas Ranger Frank Hamer (William Hurt) crazy. He explains that police usually nab the bad guys based on tips from the public, but because of Lane's stories, no one was turning in Bonnie and Clyde.

    Clyde, long a thief, had done time in prison, where he was raped and beaten. He never intended to kill during the robberies; Bonnie was the trigger-happy one.

    Bonnie married young and was abandoned by her husband. She had a flair for the dramatic, wrote poetry and desperately wanted to be in the movies.

    "She is very intelligent and quite manipulative but very vain and shallow and selfish and single-minded in that she has an aim for her life to get out of certain situations," Grainger says. "She is almost a fame-hungry reality TV star. She wants to get her name known somehow. She is quite ruthless in that way, but at the same time the part of Bonnie that really came out is just this lost little girl. She was such a mommy's girl but needs to be loved as much as she is manipulating. She thrives on the love and affection and needy vanity and needs to be recognized by someone."

    Bonnie and Clyde killed nine officers, or "laws" as they were called, and a few civilians in their wake before they died in a hail of bullets on May 23, 1934. Bonnie was 23, Clyde 25.

    Despite the bloody robberies and their transient existence, they were in love. And it was this romance that drew Lifetime to the project, says Rob Sharenow, the network's general manager.

    "Our version is the most historically accurate that has ever been told," he says. "It is an incredible love story. They fall in love at a very dangerous time. There is a lot known about them. All sorts of elements of this story are not familiar to people who think they know the story."

    While most TV movies are shot in under a month, Bruce Beresford ("Tender Mercies") directed this over 50 days.

    "People will see a tragic love story and a real slice of American history," Sharenow says. "These were desperate times. And for me, the big revelation of the script was really Bonnie and how much she drove the story and the escalation of violence. It was the story of her wanting to be famous, forging this bond with the journalist and wanting to be a star."

    And ultimately, getting what she wanted - for 80 years later, people still know her name.

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    Il primo episodio è stato noiosetto finché Bonnie e Clyde non hanno iniziato con le rapine, e pure tra le rapine c'erano intermezzi noiosetti XD la mia scena preferita è quella della prima rapina, quando entrano nella vault e la scoprono vuota perché c'è la Depressione XDDD Bonnie è il personaggio che spicca, perché è una psicopatica in cerca di fama e quando un tizio resta secco nel corso di una rapina lei piange perché hanno messo una sua foto da piccola lol. Emile Hirsch mi piace da morire ma il suo Clyde è un poraccio in balia della donna. Non saprei XD vediamo come va col secondo episodio, in ogni caso questo era carino ma niente di che.

    La quote più bella: Maybe if somebody left open a door they shut, maybe if we were living in times of milk and honey instead of grit and piss, Bonnie might've just faded off into obscurity. Maybe if everywhere you looked they weren't celebrating
    anyone who dared rise up... Hell... maybe if I wouldn't have promised to make all her dreams come true, Bonnie would've forgotten all about me. Lord knows she should've.


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    Did Bonnie sneak a gun to Clyde so he could break out of jail?

    Yes, although this show paints it as her idea, while most accounts have Clyde doing the planning.

    Did Clyde have a fellow inmate mangle his foot so he could get out of jail?

    Yes. He sacrificed two toes for an early release from Texas’ Eastham Prison Farm, only to have his parole come through five days later. After his injury, he drove in stocking feet for better control.

    Did Clyde infiltrate a prison work detail to free his buddy and exact revenge on a prison rapist?

    Yes and no. Clyde beat his abuser to death with an iron pipe while they were both still behind bars. But he did return to Eastham, kill a guard and free three men who joined his gang, though this retelling places the breakout years earlier.

    Did Clyde send a letter of appreciation to Henry Ford for making fast getaway cars?

    Maybe, though some biographers think the handwriting is Bonnie’s.

    Dear Sir:

    While I still have got breath in my lungs I will tell you what a dandy car you make. I have drove Fords exclusively when I could get away with one. For sustained speed and freedom from trouble the Ford has got every other car skinned, and even if my business hasen’t been strickly legal it don’t hurt anything to tell you what a fine car you got in the V8.

    Yours truly

    Clyde Champion Barrow

    Did Bonnie send the famous photos of her with a gun and a cigar to a reporter in her quest for fame?

    No. Authorities found the photos when they raided an abandoned hideout in Joplin. And Bonnie didn’t smoke cigars.

    Did Clyde play the saxophone, even on the run?

    Yes. His sax was found among the weapons and license plates in the Ford V8 he died in.

    Did they really look that good?

    Sometimes. Even during their crime sprees, the couple would drop their clothes off at a dry cleaner’s, then pick them up weeks later while on the run.

    Did Bonnie wield a Tommy gun like a pro?

    No. She almost certainly never fired a shot. And Clyde preferred a Browning automatic rifle.

    Did lawmen really ambush the couple with a hail of bullets?

    Yes, with 187 shots in 16 seconds. Bonnie, never wanted for any capital offenses, was eating a sandwich in the passenger seat when Clyde’s head was blown off. Former Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, who walked up to finish her off at close range, later said, “I hate to bust the cap on a woman, especially when she was sitting down. But if it wouldn’t have been her, it would have been us.”

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    Grainger loves Bonnie outfits



    Holliday Grainger loved looking "glamorous" for her role in Bonnie and Clyde.


    The 25-year-old actress embodies real-life American outlaw Bonnie Parker in the new TV series.

    As part of her role Holliday had to step into authentic outfits from the 1930s, which helped her get a feel for who her alter ego really was.

    "I love that juxtaposition [of having a beautiful wardrobe and carrying around a shotgun]. That's who Bonnie wanted to be," Holliday explained to collider.com.

    "She wanted to be this cool, glamorous fashion icon. The outfits were beautiful. Marilyn [Vance], the costume designer, did an amazing job. My trailer was plastered with pictures of the 1920s and 1930s front covers of Vogue, and Bonnie's outfits were straight off the covers of Vogue. It was amazing!"

    Holliday has previously spoken about how comfortable she feels when preparing for roles. Her previous projects include period dramas Great Expectations and Anna Karenina.

    "I'm very lucky as I've never ever felt any pressure from any producer to lose weight whereas a lot of actresses have," she admitted. "So if ever I feel that pressure from someone inside, then maybe ask me that question again and I may be down the gym and eating no carbs."

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    Sul secondo episodio: anche se meglio del primo perché più movimentato, restava comunque niente di speciale. Ho trovato banale l'obiezione della giornalista all'uccisione di B&C perché francamente, loro non hanno proprio avuto scrupoli ad ammazzare gente sul proprio cammino, figurarsi se la polizia poteva avvisarli un minutino prima di avere l'accortezza di stare fermi che li dovevano ammanettare. Erano disperati, ma erano anche nel torto. Non ho avuto particolare pietà di loro se non per il fatto che erano giovani e che avrebbero potuto fare tante cose... a parte rapinare la gente. Bonnie in particolare, mi dispiace, ma l'avrei ammazzata già dal primo episodio (comunque Holly BRAVISSIMA), mentre Clyde m'ha più che altro ispirato compassione perché anche se sbagliava a pensare che Bonnie non lo amasse aveva comunque tutte le ragioni di dire che lei lo usava per avere i titoloni. Musiche banali e abbastanza dimenticabili, orrorifica la sparatoria finale (quanta violenza!), ma immagino contasse l'effetto, la miniserie (o movie event, come la chiamano loro) TROPPO LUNGA, secondo me potevano cavarsela con un film da due ore. Però belle performance. Emile deve fare più film.
     
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    Quindi se sono a metà del primo episodio e mi pare che non succeda nulla è normale lol. HOlly è AMOUR cioè con il faccino amorevole a fare Bonnie tira fuori la cattiveria interiore, non pensavo che Bonnie sarebbe venuta così bene ma mi ha stupito. Clyde è succube di lei, un po' di spirito di iniziativa potevano lasciarglielo porino, pare una bambola, però bello che i ruoli di coppia siano invertiti, almeno per una volta!
     
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    però bello che i ruoli di coppia siano invertiti, almeno per una volta!

    Ma sì via, oltretutto non è proprio antistorico perché lessi proprio in un articolo che Clyde s'accontentava di poco ma lei accelerava perché voleva diventare famosaH!

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    Australian director Bruce Beresford, whose previous film credits include Driving Miss Daisy, cast Grainger after she seeing an audition tape she sent online. ”I didn’t know she was English because she auditioned in an amazing American accent,” Beresford says.

    Grainger is a ball of energy in the film, which seeks to make the case that Bonnie was the driving force for the crime spree which her and Clyde embarked upon between 1931 and 1934, during which they killed nine police officers and several civilians.

    She’s both a volcanic and vulnerable Bonnie- at one point bursting into a journalist’s home to demand she gets written about- and certainly better than Miley Cyrus, an unlikely early frontrunner for the part. “When the producers first sent me the script, they mentioned Miley Cyrus,” Beresford says. “I was apprehensive but when I called back, they said, ‘We’ve changed our minds. We don’t want her.’

    The director was initially reluctant to take on the project. “Originally I didn’t even want to read it but I thought the script was an interesting take on the characters,” he says. Rather than glamorise their exploits as the 1967 film did (its tagline was “They’re young…they’re in love”), the latest take on the outlaws depicts them as tragic victims of the depression. “It could easily have gone the other way,” says Beresford. “It was like that with a lot of people.”

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    The new incarnation has generated controversy for taking liberties with Clyde’s passivity (Grainger describes Hirsch as bringing “stoic depth” to the role). But Beresford defends the dynamic: “That was the conclusion the writers came to when they did the research. When I did the research, I thought it was valid.”

    Eight decades on from their crime spree, Hirsch sees parallels between Bonnie and Clyde and today’s ’selfie’ culture: “This narcissism and quest for fame that Bonnie and Clyde embarked on is something a lot of people have today in an age of round-the-clock celebrity. It’s this seething, crazy rage for fame that is frothing at all times. I think people will identify with Bonnie and Clyde in a really sick way.”

    Grainger concurs, reckoning that the combination of her creativity and self-absorption would have seen Bonnie Parker a cyberspace natural today. “I think it’s important to differentiate between what the actual Bonnie was probably like and the Bonnie in our script”, she says, “but even in her diary extracts that I read, she seemed a lost young teen who was so lonesome and depressed with life.

    "Everything was so dull and she couldn’t get anywhere. There’s an aspect of people being even more stifled back then because there was no freedom. You couldn’t find jobs on the internet. If Bonnie was alive now, she’d be blogging and sending her poetry off left, right and centre.”

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    Bonnie and Clyde è nominato come miglior miniserie agli Emmy:

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    Best Miniseries or Movie

    "American Horror Story: Coven"

    "Bonnie & Clyde"

    "Fargo"

    "Luther"

    "Treme"

    "The White Queen"

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