I'm not ever going to say Bonnie and Clyde wasn't gutsy. It was. Super gutsy. You had Warren Beatty and Arthur Penn talk Warner Brothers into backing a film where the main characters shoot an innocent man in the mouth in basically a tight shot, medium-tight maybe, in 1967, when anti-heroes weren't loved then like they are today.
But I do have to underscore that Gun Crazy was double gutsy, pulling a noir femme fatale robbery lust love duo into the driver's seat as our heroes, our main characters, our spiralling dangers, our anti-heroes. In 1950.
This bank robbery shot is a classic. Long live the long take.
Directed by Joseph H. Lewis, written by MacKinlay Kantor and Dalton Trumbo (screenplay), and MacKinlay Kantor (story).
Be well.
