Where to watch Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

Trivia & production notes

• Warren Beatty bought the film rights after learning about the project from François Truffaut while visiting Paris, then offered the directing job to six established filmmakers before Arthur Penn eventually accepted.
• Jean-Luc Godard reportedly ended negotiations to direct by telling the producers 'I'm talking cinema and you're talking weather. Goodbye.' after they objected to his insistence on filming in New Jersey during winter when the story was set in Texas.
• The original script portrayed Clyde as bisexual with a three-way relationship involving their male getaway driver, but Arthur Penn convinced the writers to make him heterosexual and impotent to preserve audience sympathy.
• Warren Beatty wanted the film shot in black and white, but Warner Bros. rejected the idea, with studio head Jack L. Warner already hostile to the project and annoyed at Beatty for refusing to star in PT 109.
• The film was among the first to use squibs—small explosive charges with stage blood—to simulate bullet wounds, creating one of the first graphic death scenes in mainstream American cinema.
• 'Foggy Mountain Breakdown' by Flatt and Scruggs reached a worldwide audience through the film's frequent use of the instrumental, though bluegrass music was anachronistic since the genre dates to the 1940s, not the 1930s when the story takes place.
• Warren Beatty threatened to sue Warner Bros. after the studio neglected to promote the film despite its excellent critical reception, comparing their lack of effort to the expense they went to for another production.
• Jack L. Warner considered dumping the film during its sale to Seven Arts Productions but refrained because Israel's victory in the Six-Day War left him feeling defiant about selling studio assets.
• Newsweek critic Joe Morgenstern initially dismissed the film as a 'squalid shoot-'em-up for the moron trade' but reversed his opinion after seeing it a second time and witnessing the enthusiastic audience response.
• The New York Times critic Bosley Crowther was so appalled by the film's violence and apparent glorification of criminals that he began campaigning against increasing brutality in American films.

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