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Bonnie and Clyde (and Blanche and Buck) with Jamie Loftus

You're Wrong About

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The Misrepresentation of Bonnie and Clyde

Bonnie is treated as an important character, but always a secondary character. Blanche famously did not want to be a criminal. Essentially got tricked into joining this crime spree. This is presented as very unreasonable in the movie which is wild. In the movie Bonnie is played by Faye Dunaway, glamorous, very young. And in the movie Blanche is played by Estelle Parsons, who is a Massachusetts legend. She's still with us, she's an icon, she's a legend. But she is really is made to seem older, less conventionally attractive and like a shrill asshole. That's how Blanche has treated the entire movie. It is so unfair. I will

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