Bonnie and Clyde Ultimate Collectors Edition

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Bonnie and Clyde – Ultimate Collector’s Edition hits stores on March 25. It seems like as good a time as any to revisit that great flick. Speaking of money shots, there are several great ones in Bonnie and Clyde: the first time Clyde meets Bonnie and takes her out for a burger. She has stars in her eyes and he has something to prove. Warren Beatty makes an odd outlaw, though, as there has always been something very soft about him underneath it all. In later years, his vanity ruined much of what would otherwise be great work from him. Like Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Jane Fonda and the rest of them – they are finding it difficult to just be old. Or maybe it’s audiences that won’t forgive them for getting old, a point that is brought home again and again whenever their older films come into the spotlight again; yes, they were beautiful. Young and beautiful.

What made Bonnie and Clyde a great movie, though, wasn’t that they looked so good. It was really the way tragedy chased the pair, how happiness always eluded them on a personal and professional level, how they could never appropriately manage their image and how fate ultimately beat them to the finish. Bonnie and Clyde is filled with magnificent supporting players, like Gene Wilder, Gene Hackman, Michael J. Pollard, and Estelle Parsons.

Great film. If you haven’t seen it yet, this DVD is a lot of bang for your buck.