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- “Thieves Like Us” is not another “Bonnie and Clyde,” and yet it does end in a similar way, with a shoot-out.
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The outline suggests “ Bonnie and Clyde ,” but “Thieves Like Us” resembles it only in the most general terms of period and setting. The characters are totally different; “Bonnie and Clyde” were anti-heroes, but this gang of Altman’s has no heroism at all.
Thieves Like Us is a 1974 American crime film, set in the United States of the 1930s. It was directed by Robert Altman and starred Keith Carradine and Shelley Duvall. The film was based on the novel of the same name by Edward Anderson, which also supplied source material for the 1948 film They Live by Night, directed by Nicholas Ray. The Altman ...
Aug 12, 2017 · In 1937, three years after the pair died, Edward Anderson novelized Bonnie and Clyde’s story in Thieves Like Us, then sold the movie rights for $500. The film, titled They Live By Night and...
Unlike Bonnie and Clyde, Thieves Like Us is neither nostalgic nor mythic; there is no attempt to glorify the criminal protagonist as a hero. And unlike They Live by Night, which uses the stylistic of film noir, it is neither sad nor depressing, using instead irony with some comic relief.
Permalink. With "Thives Like Us", director Robert Altman takes such gangster films as "Bonnie and Clyde" and "They Live By Night", removes the nostalgia and mythos typical of the genre, and inserts a tone of disinterested irony.
Apr 15, 2014 · But what is the real story behind Bonnie — a girl from Cement City, Texas, a small industrial town three miles west of Dallas — and Clyde — a young man of 5-foot-6 with dark, wavy hair and...
Bonnie Elizabeth Parker (October 1, 1910 – May 23, 1934) and Clyde Chestnut " Champion " Barrow (March 24, 1909 – May 23, 1934) were American bandits and serial killers who traveled the Central United States with their gang during the Great Depression. The couple was known for their bank robberies and multiple murders, although they ...
