Tim A.
Well-known member
RANT TIME!
Shame on the people who called the shots (no pun here) on the new Bonnie & Clyde production. I realize that most movies based on a true happening takes liberties (artistic license?} but good Lord! the only thing they got right here was their names! I know quite a bit about their 4yr rampage but, anyone can get enough of the basic facts by a simple google search which apparently the people who put this together did not do.
There was way to many false scenes in the movie to list them but here's a few that were glaring....
Movie shows Clyde meeting Bonnie while crashing her and her husbands wedding party (Bonnie was married). Clyde actually met her at a mutual friends house while Bonnie's husband, Roy Thorton was in prison.
Fact- Bonnie never shot up a bank with a shotgun and she didn't murder the father while they were stealing his car on Christmas day. as a matter of fact none of the gang members that road with them ever recalled seeing Bonnie fire a gun. Blanche Barrow, Clyde's sister n law in her memoirs wrote that Bonnie seemed afraid of guns. Some idiots on the internet claim that she loved firing Clyde's B.A.R., Bonnie was 4'11", 80 lbs. I doubt she could even hold that gun up.
Fact- Clyde walked with a limp from paying an inmate while at Eastham prison farm to "accidently" chop his toes off.
Fact- Buck Borrow, Blanche Borrow and Bonnie were not even with Clyde when the first to policemen were killed. Clyde had other gang members riding with him at that time. Movie shows Bonnie, Clyde Blanche and Buck at the party in Stringtown with Buck killing one of the officers, BOOOO.
Fact- Bonnie never met with a reporter named "PJ" nor did she send the reporter photos of the gang as the movie shows. the photographs were found undeveloped in the gang's Joplin MO. hideout after a police ambush went bad and the gang escaped. The Tommy gun the movie shows Bonnie blazing as they were making their car getaway was also left there so she couldn't have been firing it, right! this is also where the movie decides Buck Barrow gets his mortal head wound and Blanche Barrow is blinded by flying glass. Actually both those injuries came from yet another Police raid which happened after Joplin.
These are just a few examples of the total disregard of historical facts about the two outlaws. If they want to make a movie based on a true story then throw a little truth in at least! you know....just the facts ma'am.
Tim
Shame on the people who called the shots (no pun here) on the new Bonnie & Clyde production. I realize that most movies based on a true happening takes liberties (artistic license?} but good Lord! the only thing they got right here was their names! I know quite a bit about their 4yr rampage but, anyone can get enough of the basic facts by a simple google search which apparently the people who put this together did not do.
There was way to many false scenes in the movie to list them but here's a few that were glaring....
Movie shows Clyde meeting Bonnie while crashing her and her husbands wedding party (Bonnie was married). Clyde actually met her at a mutual friends house while Bonnie's husband, Roy Thorton was in prison.
Fact- Bonnie never shot up a bank with a shotgun and she didn't murder the father while they were stealing his car on Christmas day. as a matter of fact none of the gang members that road with them ever recalled seeing Bonnie fire a gun. Blanche Barrow, Clyde's sister n law in her memoirs wrote that Bonnie seemed afraid of guns. Some idiots on the internet claim that she loved firing Clyde's B.A.R., Bonnie was 4'11", 80 lbs. I doubt she could even hold that gun up.
Fact- Clyde walked with a limp from paying an inmate while at Eastham prison farm to "accidently" chop his toes off.
Fact- Buck Borrow, Blanche Borrow and Bonnie were not even with Clyde when the first to policemen were killed. Clyde had other gang members riding with him at that time. Movie shows Bonnie, Clyde Blanche and Buck at the party in Stringtown with Buck killing one of the officers, BOOOO.
Fact- Bonnie never met with a reporter named "PJ" nor did she send the reporter photos of the gang as the movie shows. the photographs were found undeveloped in the gang's Joplin MO. hideout after a police ambush went bad and the gang escaped. The Tommy gun the movie shows Bonnie blazing as they were making their car getaway was also left there so she couldn't have been firing it, right! this is also where the movie decides Buck Barrow gets his mortal head wound and Blanche Barrow is blinded by flying glass. Actually both those injuries came from yet another Police raid which happened after Joplin.
These are just a few examples of the total disregard of historical facts about the two outlaws. If they want to make a movie based on a true story then throw a little truth in at least! you know....just the facts ma'am.
Tim
