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<blockquote data-quote="Crimson" data-source="post: 347777" data-attributes="member: 5079">Last night, two more Dunaway films: BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967) and NETWORK (1976).There aren&#039;t many films that are clearly key moments in cinema history, but BONNIE &amp; CLYDE is such a one: it&#039;s the final nail in the coffin of Old Hollywood.&nbsp; Nothing that B&amp;C did was particularly revolutionary; creators had been chipping away at the old system for as long as the old system existed.&nbsp;&nbsp; With B&amp;C, all of the old confines of the Hayes-enforced, Studio System-back movie morality were dead.&nbsp; Little wonder Bosley Crowther, preeminent of the old guard critics, was so hostile to the film: he may have instinctively understood his era was over.Faye, not yet a star, only landed the part because more established actresses turned it down.&nbsp; Lucky for the film, as I find it unlikely that Fonda or Wood could have brought to the role everything Faye did: vulnerability, eroticism and a neurotic energy.&nbsp;&nbsp; Plus, those cheekbones![ATTACH=full]42146[/ATTACH]Dunaway&#039;s peak years were appallingly brief -- a decade-ish -- but she those years are dense with truly great films.&nbsp; It&#039;s remarkable how prescient NETWORK has turned out to be; if anything, its satiric take on the dangerous mixture of news and entertainment may have been understated in comparison on what was to come.&nbsp; Four and half decades later and Howard Beal&#039;s jeremiad is still depressingly truthful.Dunaway&#039;s Diana seems to have been written as some sort of feminist nightmare, but her performance was too canny to be boxed in by misogyny; she outflanked the film at every turn, creating the most engaging character in the movie.[ATTACH=full]42147[/ATTACH](I just realized the photo I posted of Faye for CONDOR was, in fact, from NETWORK.&nbsp; Weird -- it turned up in the Google search for CONDOR.)I found myself irked when Dunaway&#039;s character kept referring to William Holden&#039;s character as &quot;middle-aged&quot;.&nbsp; Well, damn, turns out Holden was only 58.&nbsp; He looked like he was well into his 70s.&nbsp; I&#039;ve said it before, but that generation aged hard.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crimson, post: 347777, member: 5079"] Last night, two more Dunaway films: BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967) and NETWORK (1976). There aren't many films that are clearly key moments in cinema history, but BONNIE & CLYDE is such a one: it's the final nail in the coffin of Old Hollywood. Nothing that B&C did was particularly revolutionary; creators had been chipping away at the old system for as long as the old system existed. With B&C, all of the old confines of the Hayes-enforced, Studio System-back movie morality were dead. Little wonder Bosley Crowther, preeminent of the old guard critics, was so hostile to the film: he may have instinctively understood his era was over. Faye, not yet a star, only landed the part because more established actresses turned it down. Lucky for the film, as I find it unlikely that Fonda or Wood could have brought to the role everything Faye did: vulnerability, eroticism and a neurotic energy. Plus, those cheekbones! [ATTACH type="full" alt="72e847dfc4b49f4e6420496d55cdf9f7.jpg"]42146[/ATTACH] Dunaway's peak years were appallingly brief -- a decade-ish -- but she those years are dense with truly great films. It's remarkable how prescient NETWORK has turned out to be; if anything, its satiric take on the dangerous mixture of news and entertainment may have been understated in comparison on what was to come. Four and half decades later and Howard Beal's jeremiad is still depressingly truthful. Dunaway's Diana seems to have been written as some sort of feminist nightmare, but her performance was too canny to be boxed in by misogyny; she outflanked the film at every turn, creating the most engaging character in the movie. [ATTACH type="full" width="603px" alt="7dd4548a260cd750a675352123f7eeddd81c9afcd09941b7aedcf58a85394f55._SX1080_.jpg"]42147[/ATTACH] (I just realized the photo I posted of Faye for CONDOR was, in fact, from NETWORK. Weird -- it turned up in the Google search for CONDOR.) I found myself irked when Dunaway's character kept referring to William Holden's character as "middle-aged". Well, damn, turns out Holden was only 58. He looked like he was well into his 70s. I've said it before, but that generation aged [B]hard[/B]. [/QUOTE]

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