lowlife criminals
I don't get that part of human nature that makes heroes of scum like these two.
It is history and bears reading, but a lot of people really go overboard. The first movie is partly to blame. The perspective was from their fictional point of view. The movie made their story romantic and evoked sympathy for them.
They are described as "handsome" and "beautiful". The actual pictures I have seen of them are of a couple of short, and at best average looking people.
Clyde seems to be a moron. A career criminal who was not that good at it. What are we to make of Bonnie, a waitress that ran off with him?
When I was a kid in Louisiana around the time of the movie stories and books about them were flying off the shelfs. I imagine many that I saw were pure fiction. Some were accounts of never-ending bloodbaths where they indiscriminately killed about half the population wherever they passed.
I hope to see a portrayal from the saner perspective, you know, law enforcement, people they robbed, survivors who had to deal with the senseless murder of a family member...the "good guys"
I will probably never understand the people who write to serial killers, collect gangster memorabilia or the kids who dress like gangbangers...