The director crafted a film that would pull audiences in with humor and flirtation, then slap them back with violence. "That," Penn said, "is how the real world has always operated. It was vital to me that the film be a new American gothic. . . . The movie was released into a world where kids were burning draft cards and feeling beset by their own government. We rang a big bell with this film. A very big social bell. We had no idea how it would reverberate around the world."
Above is an excerpt from a recent L.A. Times "Remembering Bonnie and Clyde", written by Geoff Boucher, who revisited the film with director Arthur Penn and Warren Beatty, Estelle Parsons and Gene Hackman.
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