Realism In New Hollywood

In the reading, Violence in Movies: Cinematic Craft or Hollywood Gone Too Far?, the response that states "Point: Hollywood, Stop Exposing Our Kids to Violence" is more persuasive than "Counterpoint: Hollywood Filmmakers Should Not be Villainized for Movie Violence" because it provides better-supported facts that are reliable and credible. The "Point" response explains how violence in movies has become very excessive and is allowing children to act out and think it is okay because of what they see on TV. While, the "Counterpoint" response explains how Hollywood filmmakers should not be punished for their creative writing and that parents should monitor their kids and decide whether or not they should be watching it.

The movie begins with the narrations of Clyde Barrow and goes into detail about his childhood and how he first got started with criminal activity. Bonnie and Clyde took place during the Great Depression in the 1930’s, therefore Barrow’s family lived in poverty and had little money. Clyde had an older brother known as Marvin “Buck” Barrow, and tells the story about how they first begun their crime sting by stealing chickens. During times of the Great Depression, money, food, and basic everyday items needed to live were hard to get. At a young age, Clyde begun following in the footsteps of his older brother Buck, and begun to commit acts of crime in order to get what they needed and wanted. (FIX!!!!!)

By the 1960s the studio system was all but over. Many cinemas were closed down and several of the production back lots sold. Society had changed dramatically particularly with the rise of youth and the youth market, and the old Hollywood product seemed stale to the rising youth audience. Times were changing and the industry had to change with it. The studio system had declined rapidly in the 1950s and by the late 1960s was all but over. The audience had segmented into different social groups with increased leisure options rather than the mass habit audience of the golden age. Many of the films the studios produced to compete with television seemed to many people old fashioned and part of a different world which led to a significant drop in

Film and realism are connected to one another; it gives the audience an opportunity to interpret the film in their own perspective, in relation to the real world. As someone with a firm opposition to editing and montage, Bazin stated that the mise en scène truly represents “true continuity” in film, reproducing the real world more realistically. (Cardullo, 7) There are two editing systems: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Neorealist Cinema. From their similarities and differences, it can be said that Neorealist Cinema portrays the real world more realistically and effectively than CHC… In order to produce Bazin’s “true continuity” and reproduce situations more realistically, the filmmaker must choose an effective editing system, refrain from interrupting the flow of images, and use minimal editing, proven through the two films Bicycle Thieves (Neorealist Cinema) and Stagecoach (CHC).

Hollywood cinema is primarily subjected to telling stories. The inclination of Hollywood narratives comes not just from good chronicles but from good story telling. The following essay will discuss Hollywood’s commercial aesthetic as applied to storytelling, expand on the characteristics of the “principles of classical film narration” and evaluate alternative modes of narration and other deviations from the classical mode.

They had an immediate liking to each other. Until Clyde was sent to jail for his petty crimes, Bonnie and Clyde spent almost all their time together. When Clyde went to jail in Waco, Bonnie smuggled a gun into the prison and busted Clyde out on March 8. When Bonnie and Clyde took off to Ohio, Clyde got caught and extradited to Texas. While in jail, he received a fourteen year prison sentence for hard labor. Clyde got transferred to Eastham prison. In 1932 of February, Clyde got paroled and his family and friends said he wasn’t the same guy when he came out. It was claimed that Clyde was beaten regularly while he was in prison and it made him hate the Eastham prison. According to some people it was said Clyde didn’t care about the money, he wanted revenge on the Texas prison system for how he was treated. One month later, Bonnie and Clyde made a gang consisting of Bonnie and Clyde, Ray Hamilton, WD Jones, Henry Methvin, Buck Barrow, and his wife Blanche Barrow.

It was often harder to get away and was not as much loot as you would think due to the Great Depression-era (10 Things..). Barrow would only work with people he knew and trusted, Bonnie was not to chose whom they worked with. Clyde meat a man in prison by the name of Frank Turner, they worked together until he was arrested. Barrow and Parker had a run into the law, Parker could not successfully escape the cops, she was captured, and served a couple of months in the Kaufman, Texas jail. Barrow then broke out his Childhood friend Raymond Hamilton.

In addition to that, they were petty thieves, saying that they would only rob rural gas stations or local stores, often stealing 10-20 dollars at a time, as opposed to ill-minded criminals who will attempt to rob banks (for large sums of cash), but are later caught by county police officers. Moreover, through Bonnie and Clyde’s actions they certainly had a lasting significance within the world. Bonnie Parker, being portrayed as another women who is immersed within her difficult home life, seeking any way to virtually escape it into a much more exciting life of being a criminal. She sees her chance once she meets Clyde, and becomes the spark to Clyde’s criminal career, giving it purpose and organization. This had caused her to become the leader in many of the organized crimes, creating a very high feat of human determination, rendering their crimes very significant as they changed people’s hopes, dreams and lives unimaginably, as well as being the pivotal stone to many of the law enforcement technologies we see

Films throughout American history have focused on such a wide array of topics – a lot of them having to do with the time period in which they were produced. Some of these topics appear all throughout the history of film, one of them being crime. No matter where you go or where you look, whether it be in a certain place or a certain time period, you can’t escape crime; it’s always there – which is why I think crime is such a popular topic in American films. One of the most popular crime films in America is Bonnie and Clyde – a 1967 film, set during the Great Depression, about a woman who leaves home with a man whom she just met and soon falls in love with to rob banks. However, this movie has a bit of a twist: Bonnie and Clyde, the criminal couple, are portrayed throughout the movie as heroes – the audience is actually sort of invited to root for them to not get caught by the laws and to escape. This unusual crime film illustrates a liberal perspective by portraying Bonnie and Clyde, the criminals, as the heroes and the cops, as well as the banks, as the antagonists. The uniqueness of this film kind of shows how America in the 1960s felt about crime and how the cops and the banks are a part of a failing system in society at the time.

They are also the good guys. But I think that this movie takes a look at the Hero's Journey a little bit differently. The hero in this story would be Bonnie. In the beginning she is living in an ordinary world. She wants a life of adventure but does not know how to go about this. Then there is that call to Adventure. I believe that Clyde would be Bonnie's call. He is young, fit, charismatic. He falls in her sexual range. But Bonnie wants a dangerous man. You just have to look at her husband to know she wants a bad boy. Clyde has all of that, seeing as that he was in jail, and was still a thief. He also carried a gun. This was alluring to Bonnie. There is not much of a refusal of the call. She is lured right away. She does learn some about him but still ends up running away with him. Then you have meeting the mentor. The mentor in this story would also have to be Clyde. He has experience is being a thief and a criminal. He knows how to use a gun in which he teaches Bonnie. He also shows her how to pull off a robbery. There then is crossing the threshold from where there is no return. Bonnie crosses this threshold as soon as she runs away with Clyde and crosses from staying within the law and becomes an outlaw. She commits herself to a life of crime. There are tests that Bonnie has to undergo. She has to learn to be cool during robberies, car chases, and being shot at. She recruits C.W. who becomes part of her gang. She also has to be contend with the enemies she gains which fall from the law enforcement to Blanche. Then we come to the approach to the inmost cave. With this it is the reference to their inevitable death. Which would be violent. And we see Bonnie handle this with acceptance. After we see the ordeal. It is the fill arc of Bonnies crime. It was fun in the beginning then it becomes deadly. When they start killing more and more people the violent becomes frequent.

The camera movement was cleverly done. The film was fast paced with the change of first person to third person view during the police chases and shoot outs. This makes the film very exciting and enjoyable. Bonnie and Clyde were living glamorous criminal life that is unattainable to make many.

Movies started being produced like crazy, people lost interest in old western times and they wanted to see more up to date things like movies about current events or sports. America was

Realism is a theory that depicts world politics as a ceaseless repetitive struggle for power. In other words, political realism seeks to explain international relations between states in terms of power. Realist “views that nation-state as the most important actor…because it answers to no higher authority;” in other words, it is an anarchic system (Kegley, 27). Some traits of realism are that states are sovereign, non-cooperation among states, and the exclusion if morality in policies.

Director Arthur Penn used Bonnie & Clyde as his medium to imprint the rebellious tone of the 1960’s and the uncertainty of the dominant values and norms of society.When we’re first introduced to the character of Bonnie Parker (played by Faye Dunaway), the camera focuses on her as she is admiring her naked body in the mirror. She then falls back on her bed and the camera views her from the outside of her bed rails, in order to give the viewer the impression that she feels imprisoned by her everyday life. Then, she looks out her window and sees a man attempting to steal her mother's car on their front yard lawn. She calls out to him and hurriedly puts on clothes to meet him outside. He quickly intrigues her curiosity by saying that she looks like a movie star stuck in a boring waitress’ job, while telling her that he is a bank robber. She asks him to prove that he is not a "faker", so he shows

In the film, Bonnie and Clyde directed by Arthur Penn, two criminals named Bonnie and Clyde work together to rob banks. This film shows a lot about true passion of love and thrill of rebellion. Also, shows the true meaning of family. And a little of greediness throughout.