Saturday, March 26, 2016

A Change in American Entertainment


March 24, 1909
Clyde is born

October 1, 1910
Bonnie is born.

1922
Clyde moves to Dallas. His life starts to change and he starts his career in robbery.

Clyde mugshot
Dallas Municipal Archives

1926
At the age of 16 Clyde has his first mug shot. 
Just before turning 16 Bonnie drops out of school and marries her high school sweetheart--completely opposed by her family.
This was a rough year for these two young teens.

Early 1929
Bonnie's husband comes back after a very long absence and what was to be expected, Bonnie refused to take him back.
 Not much longer, Bonnie realized that her husband was caught for criminal acts and was sentenced to 5 years in prison. Though all their relationship was revolved around conflict, they never had a divorce and Bonnie died wearing her ring.

October 24, 1929
Beginning the Great Depression was the crash of The Stock Market crashes leaving the nation in unemployment and poverty. It was then when criminals were glorified by the American people for their notorious illegal activities.
Clyde starts to become more known among the police.

January 5, 1930
Bonnie and Clyde meet.
A few months later, Clyde is put in the county jail where Clyde will ask Bonnie to smuggle him a gun--the start of her law breaking career.

1932
The Ford Motor company releases Clyde favorite car to steal, the V-8 engine--the most powerful car in mass production. Eventually becoming the infamous car that the couple runs away in.

February 2, 1932
The story behind his limp. While in prison, Clyde when to extremes to avoid the abuse of the guards, so before he was let out he asked some of his inmates to cut of two of his toes while working in the fields.

April 1932
The gang robs the First National Bank looting $33,000.
Bonnie is arrested for the first and the last time for stealing two car and an attempt at robing a hardware store. Clyde had escaped. 
ANYHOW I'M GOING TO STOP TALKING ABOUT 1932 BECAUSE WAY TOO MUCH HAPPENED AND MY MOM WANT ME TO GO EAT LUNCH.
SO IN 1932 MOST OF THEIR ROBBERIES TO PLACE NOW TO THE GOOD STUFF.


bonnie parker cigar
Bonnie poses with a cigar
April 13, 1933
The police is on the tail of the gang.
The gang takes off in a stolen V-8, leaving most of their belongings -- including pictures of Bonnie and Clyde. The Joplin Globe develops and publishes Bonnie and Clyde's photos, glorifying their relationship and lifestyle, thus giving the couple national attention, placing them high among the other criminals of that time.

April 1, 1934
On a highway two officers come close to where Bonnie, Clyde and Methvin were napping. Methvin misinterprets Clyde’s orders and kills the officers. The gang runs away however a nearby farmer claims Bonnie and Clyde to be the murders. So they are caught now for life and a reporter interviews Bonnie and asks her what she would like him to tell the press and she says her noted line, "Tell them I don't smoke cigars." Thus ending a long adventures life.

Aug 4 1967
"Bonnie and Clyde" is released

Bonnie and Clyde was a film was directed by Arthur Penn and stared Warren Beatty as Clyde Barrow and Faye Dunaway as Bonnie Parker.
This story is considered a landmark film regarded as a film of the New Hollywood era where movies broke many of the social taboos and deemed popular amongst many of the younger generation.
The successes in this film motivated many other filmmakers to open up towards having sex and violence in their films.

 

1 comment:

  1. hey jessie! your post this week was really interesting especially in the way you set it up like a timeline of Bonnie and Clyde. The way you structurally set it up in chronological order made me as a reader read it more enjoyably and in another perspective as well.

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