PPT Slide
- First full statement of the new cinema’s values
- transposed traditional roles of good and bad guys
- Academy awards for best cinematography and Estelle Parsons as best supporting actress
- Though finally vanquished by the Establishment, the charming outlaws’ freedom validated their lives
- self-consciousness of characters portrayed by their concern with their own media reputations
- several initial reviews that dismissed the film as a gratuitously bloody gangster film were rewritten
- Many later versions of criminal couple pictures: Sam Peckinpah’s The Getaway (1972), Robert Altman’s Thieves Like Us (1974), Steven Spielberg’s Sugarland Express (1974), Ridley Scott’s Thelma and Louise (1991), Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers (1994).