I'm watching Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061418/?ref_=nv_sr_1


There is a scene where the police take them by surprise about an hour & 20 mins in. There is a military type armored vehicle.

With all the recent controversy about the militarization of police, this caught my attention.

Haven't watched this in ages. Good film.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

1. That movie was groundbreaking when it came out because of the violence.

Great cast:Beatty. Dunaway, Hackman...

[Brother Buzz]

2. The bad guys were armed with Browning automatic rifles (BAR's)

A BAR could fire a twenty-shot magazine loaded with armor-piercing ammunition in under three seconds.

[YOHABLO]

3. Would you like to elaborate about the comparison? Then and Now sort of thing?

[Omaha Steve]

6. The police equipment now is much better

In the movie Dragnet LAPD has a tank. Geez.

In the film we see Bonnie & Clyde using Thompson sub machine guns with high capacity magazines and grenades. In the photo above of the BAR that is some firepower. Designed for war. The assault weapons of their day.

[TeeYiYi]

4. I was just 8 or 9 years old...

...the year I saw Bonnie and Clyde in the local theater and fell hopelessly in love with Faye Dunaway.



TYY

[Art_from_Ark]

5. I wasn't allowed to see it

because it contained *sex* scenes. Well, they actually weren't real sex scenes, because Clyde could never get in the proper mood, but it was the thought that counted!

[Ron Green]

7. The cast lived at a Holiday Inn during the filming; I knew a guy who worked there.

He was selling squares of what he claimed were Faye Dunaway's bed sheets.