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"Bonnie and Clyde": a story of crime and love
Who are Clyde and Bonnie?
"Bonnie and Clyde": a story of crime and love
Author: Ekaterina Fomkina Date:
22.02.2015
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On May 23, 1934, at dawn, near the town of Sales, located in the state of Louisiana, a squad of policemen led by Frank Hamer, a Texas ranger, was waiting for a Ford V8 car to appear on the road, hiding in the bushes.
A few minutes later, the car was smoking on the side of the road, and inside were dead bodies belonging to the world's most famous pair of robbers, whose names were Clyde and Bonnie.
The Origin of Bonnie Parker
Bonnie Elizabeth Parker is the daughter of a bricklayer from Rowan, Texas.
Her father died when she was not yet four years old.
Together with her sister and mother, the girl moved to Dallas.
She was not yet 16 years old when she married Roy Thornton, a small time crook.
This marriage could hardly be called (especially considering the subsequent events) a love story.
Soon the husband disappeared in the criminal world, and after 1929 the newlyweds no longer crossed paths, although the girl did not take off her wedding ring until the last day.
Thornton learned in prison that his wife had died.
The main characters of our story, Clyde and Bonnie, met when she was 19 and he was 21 years old.
According to some versions, it happened in a diner where the girl was working as a waitress at that time, according to another - they first met at a friend of Bonnie's.
The girl was just making hot chocolate when Clyde came into the house.
Clyde's past
The latter was already an avid gangster by the time of this fateful meeting.
Together with Buck, his older brother, this son of the poor, originally from Dallas, has already committed a sufficient number of robberies of roadside cafes and shops.
After Buck went to prison in 1928, Clyde, the younger Barrow, became the leader of a criminal gang.
The beginning of the story of two lovers is unknown, what he said to Bonnie when they met, but she moved in with him the next day.
The lovers never parted for a minute.
Clyde was an excellent shot and always carried a gun with him.
The girl asked me to teach her how to shoot, too.
Clyde soon began to take his girlfriend "on business": she usually sat in the car when he broke into a gas station or a cafe and robbed the cash register, threatening the staff with a weapon.
A few months later, he was arrested, but Bonnie managed to arrange an escape by handing the gun to her partner.
Soon she herself went to jail, and then, for two years, Clyde again.
At that time, Parker was writing letters to him, in which she promised to wait.
The first murder committed by Clyde, he came out of prison in 1932 as a completely different person.
Barrow Marie, his sister, said that "something terrible" had happened there.
This "terrible" - Clyde's first murder - he beat the prisoner who raped him to death.
The love of these two people seems to be a dark story.
According to some reports, it was platonic, since the young man was a homosexual.
According to another version, they had sexual relations not only with each other, but also with other gang members.
Roy Hamilton, as you know, was a lover of both, and then he also brought his girlfriend, because of which the relations within this "collective" were heated to the limit.
However, everyone who met Clyde and Bonnie said that they really love each other.
For example, Emma Parker, the girl's mother, noted that she realized this as soon as Bonnie introduced her boyfriend to her.
"I saw it in her eyes," she said.
Developments Soon Buck, Clyde's brother, and Blanche, his wife, joined the company.
They all committed murders and robberies together with unjustified cruelty.
13 deaths are on the conscience of this gang.
The life of Bonnie and Clyde was the life of real tramps: they ate what they could get in the shops, slept on the street, drank themselves into unconsciousness, as if they had a premonition of their future death, knowing that they would not stay alive.
Bonnie, during the last meeting with her mother, asked her not to speak ill of Clyde when they were killed.
"Fighters for justice" They considered themselves fighters for justice.
It seemed an honorable thing during the Great Depression to deprive those who had at least a little money of funds.
Despite the fact that the crimes of these people were high profile, their prey was quite small.
In May 1933, they stole 2.5 thousand dollars from a Minnesota bank, which was the most significant amount.
John Dillinger, a famous contemporary of the couple, said at the time that Bonnie and Clyde "disgrace bank robbers."
Lovers in October 1930 shot the owner of a grocery store in Texas.
His life cost only $ 28.
The couple loved cars and weapons.
Shortly before his death, Clyde even wrote a letter of gratitude to Henry Ford, in which he promised that he would only steal cars of this brand.
Robbers in Oklahoma took Percy Boyd, the sheriff, captive, then left him on the side of the road, telling him to tell his people that they were "not a gang of murderers", but ordinary people trying to survive Depression.
The undisputed leader, according to the surviving policeman, was Clyde.
And he even liked Bonnie - in the sheriff's opinion, she seemed like a stranger in this company.
The policeman noted that they loved each other, and told a detail: the lovers had a rabbit in the car, which the girl was taking to her mother as a gift.
"PR campaign" organized by Bonnie Parker
These two were always happy when they saw notes about themselves in the newspapers.
Bonnie even specially developed a "PR campaign".
She sent staged photos to the newspapers against the background of a car, with a weapon at the ready.
She attached her poems to these pictures.
The notebook, in which several poems were written by hand, was sold for $ 36,000 at a Bonhams auction in 2007.
The fame of the robbers was growing.
The best forces of the FBI and the police were thrown at their capture, they were promised a reward of $ 1,500 for them.
It should be noted that well known criminal authorities also opposed the gang, for example, the Handsome Floyd, who absolutely did not want to share the already small prey with a bunch of visiting hooligans.
Ambush In 1933, the gang was ambushed - Blanche Barrow was shot in the leg, and Buck (her husband) was shot.
Hamilton was arrested and then sent to the electric chair in April 1934.
After that, Clyde and Bonnie went to Texas with the intention of staying there with Bonnie's relatives.
They found a shelter, but the location of the lovers was given out by Henry Methvin, the father of one of the gang members, in exchange for his son being found innocent.
It was his allegedly broken car that served as a bait on that fateful day - May 23, 1934.
How does the story of Bonnie and Clyde end?
The end of this story was as follows.
Clyde and Bonnie did not even have time to take a weapon when a barrage of lead fell on their car: many bullets pierced the bodies of the lovers.
The evening newspapers immediately published reports about the death of these famous robbers, placing a photo of their bodies riddled with bullets on the front page.
Clyde's jacket, in which 40 bullet holes were counted, and his rifle with 7 notches, one for each of the dead, were presented to the public.
However, this was not enough: the bodies of Clyde and Bonnie were put up in the morgue, and everyone could look at them for just a dollar for a few days.
This was done in Dallas by 40 thousand people who looked at Bonnie's body, and 30 thousand - at Clyde.
20 relatives, including friends and mothers of the couple, were also brought to court for harboring, and the criminals themselves, contrary to Bonnie's wishes, were buried in different cemeteries.
Such is the life and death of robbers named Bonnie and Clyde, whose true story was told in this article.
Bonnie and Clyde Museum There is a museum of this couple in Gibsland, located in a former cafe where the criminals bought their last meal.
The son of Ted Hinton, a ranger who participated in the shooting of the gang, works there as a caretaker.
Every next weekend to May 23, a festival dedicated to Bonnie and Clyde is held in this city, during which a fatal ambush is played out.
Film adaptations of the story For all couples of the criminal world, the names of these robbers have become common names today.
They are quoted in music, fashion, and cinema.
There are several film adaptations of this story, including documentaries, but the most famous of them is the 1967 film "Bonnie and Clyde".
The film is directed by Arthur Penn, the producer is Warren Beatty, who played Clyde.
For this film, they have been looking for a performer of the main female role for a long time.
Natalie Wood, Jane Fonda, Shirley MacLaine, Beatty's sister, as well as Leslie Caron, his then girlfriend (who left Warren after hearing a refusal), applied for this role.
Arthur Penn finally decided - the choice fell on the actress Faye Dunaway, whom he saw in the film "Incident", the debut for this girl, and immediately noted.
"Bonnie and Clyde" (film) tells the story of this famous couple from the moment they met until the fatal shootout.
Clyde was presented as a simple minded romantic who likes to talk about justice and suffers from impotence - this explains his allegedly platonic feelings for Bonnie.
The latter was depicted as an enthusiastic young girl in love with her hero.
She longs to escape from the gray everyday life of American life, to take risks, to live at the limit and to love, no matter what.
After the release of the film "Bonnie and Clyde" (the true story of the robbers ' life became very popular), women began to copy the style of the actress who played Bonnie Parker, and magazines began to publish various shots with models whose image resembled the heroine - girls in midi skirts and blouses posed in front of the cameras with weapons in their hands.
Faye Dunaway initially wanted to shoot in slacks that were more convenient for shootouts and chases.
But Teadora van Runkle, a costume designer, suggested a more glamorous look - a beret, a narrow pencil skirt and heels.
And I didnot lose it.
Modern Bonnie and Clyde took their idols as a model of style.
The popularity of the picture was great.
"Bonnie and Clyde" (the film) was released at a time when the West was gripped by a huge wave of student protests.
Therefore, the youth of the late 60s perceived these robbers as heroes.
The film was nominated for an Oscar and received two statuettes - for the supporting actress (played by Blanche Barrow Estelle Parsons)and the cinematography.
This film greatly influenced the further development of American cinema.
According to Quentin Tarantino, who quoted this story in his work "Natural Born Killers", this film began the Silver Age in Hollywood, which lasted right up to the early 1980s.
Of course, it was also a breakthrough for the actors.
When Warren Beatty was honored at the American Film Institute Awards ceremony in 2008, the 36th in a row, Faye Dunaway went up on stage and delivered a touching poetic speech in the manner of Bonnie Parker, concluding with the words that "this is the end of history", where Faye Dunaway is Bonnie and Warren Beatty is Clyde.
In 2013, the mini series "Bonnie and Clyde" also appeared.
The film was a great success with the audience.
The main roles were played by Holliday Granger and Emile Hirsch (Bonnie and Clyde, respectively).
Series 2, for example, tells us about how it all started (there are 20 episodes in total).
Many songs were also created based on this story.
The groups "Spleen", "Night Snipers", Bad Balance have the same composition, or, for example, we note the song performed by Kristina Si - "Bonnie and Clyde".
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