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Bonnie and Clyde directed by Arthur Penn changed the course of American cinema. Setting a high point for screen violence that life history should not label as a bloodbath but rather as a rare film that presents the absence of cruelty which throws the audience off balance. The film is more of a representation to the Great Depression, starring the remarkable team of Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the so-called antiheroes who make their way across the South and Midwest robbing banks with Clyde's brother Buck, his wife Blanch, and their trustworthy driver C.W. Moss. Bonnie and Clyde is an unforgettable classic that has the ability to create suspense and meaning with the use of Arthur Penn’s style of sound, symbols, and camera movement. By today's standards, Bonnie and Clyde appears almost tame but, when it came out with its initial release, the level of violence was viewed as shocking. During these violent sequences the musical background always begins to play with a banjo get-a-way song to portray the characters that are in a hurry to escape, which is called mickeymousing. This theme song reoccurs throughout the film to intensify the situation then abruptly stops when they are no longer running from the law. As the film progresses the background music begins to change as the seasons change from a frantic fun hurry to romantic music linking the love that Bonnie and Clyde have for each other and their love of crime.
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