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It made no impact on the postwar audience, though it was a great success in England, where our moldy socially significant movies could pass for courageous. To be put on is to be put on the spot, put on the stage, made the stooge in a comedy act. The movie keeps them off balance to the end. This is the way the story was told in Eddie Clyde is a three-time loser who wants to work for a living, but nobody will give him a chance.

But his girl, Joan Bonnie —the only person who believes in him—thinks that an innocent man has nothing to fear. She marries him, and learns better. They do commit holdups, but only to get gas or groceries or medicine. While the press pictures them as desperadoes robbing and killing and living high on the proceeds of crime, she is having a baby in a shack in a hobo jungle, and Eddie brings her a bouquet of wild flowers.

And why so many accusations of historical inaccuracy, particularly against a work that is far more accurate historically than most and in which historical accuracy hardly matters anyway? The issue is always with us, and will always be with us as long as artists find stimulus in historical figures and want to present their versions of them. And it is indeed. To ask why people react so angrily to the best movies and have so little negative reaction to poor ones is to imply that they are so unused to the experience of art in movies that they fight it.

Is that really so terrible? In , the movie-makers knew that the audience wanted to believe in the innocence of Joan and Eddie, because these two were lovers, and innocent lovers hunted down like animals made a tragic love story.

The distancing of the sixties version shows the gangsters in an already legendary period, and part of what makes a legend for Americans is viewing anything that happened in the past as much simpler than what we are involved in now.

We tend to find the past funny and the recent past campy-funny. The getaway cars of the early thirties are made to seem hilarious. Imagine anyone getting away from a bank holdup in a tin Lizzie like that! In contrast, the Barrow gang represent family-style crime. The famous picture of Bonnie in the same clothes but looking ugly squinting into the sun, with a foot on the car, a gun on her hip, and a cigar in her mouth, is obviously a joke—her caricature of herself as a gun moll. Did people in the cities listen to the Eddie Cantor show?

No doubt they did, but the sound of his voice, like the sound of Ed Sullivan now, evokes a primordial, pre-urban existence—the childhood of the race. In the American experience, the miseries of the Depression are funny in the way that the Army is funny to draftees—a shared catastrophe, a levelling, forming part of our common background. Those too young to remember the Depression have heard about it from their parents. The movie becomes dreamy-soft where it should be hard and hard-edged.

If there is such a thing as an American tragedy, it must be funny. Our heroes pick up the wrong fork, and the basic figure of fun in the American theatre and American movies is the man who puts on airs. Bonnie and Clyde and their partners in crime are comically bad bank robbers, and the backdrop of poverty makes their holdups seem pathetically tacky, yet they rob banks and kill people; Clyde and his good-natured brother are so shallow they never think much about anything, yet they suffer and die.

Melodramas and gangster movies and comedies were always more our speed than prestigious, distinguished pictures; the French directors who grew up on American pictures found poetry in our fast action, laconic speech, plain gestures.

The scene that shows the gnomish gang member called C. In many ways, this method is more effective; we feel the violence more because so much is left to our imaginations. The dirty reality of death—not suggestions but blood and holes—is necessary. It is a kind of violence that says something to us; it is something that movies must be free to use. And it is just because artists must be free to use violence—a legal right that is beginning to come under attack—that we must also defend the legal rights of those filmmakers who use violence to sell tickets, for it is not the province of the law to decide that one man is an artist and another man a no-talent.

Too many people—including some movie reviewers—want the law to take over the job of movie criticism; perhaps what they really want is for their own criticisms to have the force of law. They look at the world and blame the movies. We see that killers are not a different breed but are us without the insight or understanding or self-control that works of art strengthen.

Mayer did not turn us into a nation of Andy Hardys, and if, in a film, we see a frightened man wantonly take the life of another, it does not encourage us to do the same, any more than seeing an ivory hunter shoot an elephant makes us want to shoot one. It may, on the contrary, so sensitize us that we get a pang in the gut if we accidentally step on a moth.

Do they, as some people have charged, confer glamour on violence? Nobody in the movie gets pleasure from violence. Is the charge based on the notion that simply by their presence in the movie Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway make crime attractive? Would having criminals played by dwarfs or fatties discourage crime? It seems rather doubtful. The accusation that the beauty of movie stars makes the anti-social acts of their characters dangerously attractive is the kind of contrived argument we get from people who are bothered by something and are clutching at straws.

Actors and actresses are usually more beautiful than ordinary people. And why not? We did not want her to be ordinary-looking. Why should we be deprived of the pleasure of beauty? Garbo could be all women in love because, being more beautiful than life, she could more beautifully express emotions. It is a supreme asset for actors and actresses to be beautiful; it gives them greater range and greater possibilities for expressiveness.

The handsomer they are, the more roles they can play; Olivier can be anything, but who would want to see Ralph Richardson, great as he is, play Antony? Actors and actresses who are beautiful start with an enormous advantage, because we love to look at them. The joke in the glamour charge is that Faye Dunaway has the magazine-illustration look of countless uninterestingly pretty girls, and Warren Beatty has the kind of high-school good looks that are generally lost fast.

Good roles do that for actors. His business sense may have improved his timing. The role of Clyde Barrow seems to have released something in him. It is, however, a tribute to his performance that one singles this failure out. However, as mentioned above, Mr. Donovan was supposedly a geologist. Of course, he may have more than one job, or he may have quit geology since " Terrance and Phillip: Behind the Blow ", and taken up a career as a shoe store owner.

Another version of this goof is that he is not Clyde's real father at all. The Donovan family apparently sold their house and moved to another as of the season eight episode " The Jeffersons ", as it is mentioned that Michael Jefferson bought "the Donovans' old house".

In the episode " Reverse Cowgirl ", shortly before her death, Clyde's mother mentions that he has a sister, asking him to put the toilet seat down from now on for his sister's sake. Clyde's last name appeared on merchandise during the first few seasons as 'Clyde Goodman', but this name was never used on the show. During " Quest for Ratings ", he was referred to as Clyde Donovan during a news segment, yet a few seasons later during " Lice Capades " the nurse asks him "Clyde Harris, is it?

Clyde seems to get along with Craig quite well. He even seems to lead Craig's Gang from time to time, even though Craig is the confirmed leader. Normally, though, the two just hang around with each other.

The two are often seen with each other, showing that they are likely good friends. Clyde and Craig are seen together in a number of episodes, whether they are sitting next to each other or just talking to each other. In " The Last of the Meheecans ", they play Texans vs.

Mexicans on Cartman's side to prevent "Mexicans" from passing their border which they, unfortunately, fail in doing. In Elementary School Musical , they eat together in the school cafeteria. Because of this, many fans see them as best friends like Stan and Kyle. Their names are sometimes mixed up as shown in " Super Fun Time " and they have nearly identical nasally voices.

This was also noted in " South Park: The Stick of Truth " when after you talk to Craig after he replaces Clyde as the owner of the armory, he will say he was given that role because the Grand Wizard Cartman said he sounds like Clyde, he denies that however. Token and Clyde appear to be good friends. They are usually seen talking to each other in background scenes and both form the core of Craig's group.

Clyde and Kyle get along well normally. In " The List " when Clyde had been voted the cutest boy in class and Kyle had been voted the ugliest, Clyde still tried to comfort Kyle - even though he was being a bit condescending at the time.

However, Kyle did hurl abuse at Clyde during their sledding competition in " Cartman's Silly Hate Crime " for being fat, although since he was replacing Cartman at the time, this was to be expected.

Also on Clyde's birthday in the same episode, Kyle was sitting right next to him. Clyde usually shows little or no interest in the antics of Cartman.

However, he does join in from time to time, usually as a result of everyone else joining in as well - such as his leprechaun hunt in " Imaginationland ", his membership of the superhero group Coon and Friends. There was one occasion when Clyde vehemently stood up for Cartman when Kyle and Stan failed to believe him in " Marjorine ", which shocked everyone present. It is implied that Clyde is somewhat easy to manipulate as he does usually end up following Cartman's lead on his various schemes.

There are other times, though, when Clyde will be distracted from Cartman's schemes - when most of the 4th grade had been recruited to help take down Jenkins on World of Warcraft in " Make Love, Not Warcraft ", Clyde was more interested in a Playboy magazine. As of " White People Renovating Houses ", Cartman appears to have forgiven Clyde as well as the boys for breaking his stuff, as he is no longer isolated from them rejoined their circle. In the episode " Clubhouses " Bebe has to break the news to Kyle that they can only be friends and then Bebe says "Okay, let's go Clyde.

In " The List ", after being placed at 1 on the girls' "cutest boys" list, Clyde briefly starts going out with Red before breaking up with her in favor of Bebe. Although Clyde seemed to have been romantically interested in her, it seems as though Red was only using him for the sake of getting free shoes, so it cannot be interpreted that she actually liked him. Clyde and Millie were paired up in " Follow That Egg!

The two are often shown together at school assemblies, implying that they are relatively close friends. After seeing a photoshopped image of Lisa going from overweight to beautiful, Clyde starts dating her, believing that her appearance actually transformed to how she is depicted in said photoshopped image.

The two are shown to be rather appreciative of one another's company. Clyde is seen crying after a recent breakup in " Skank Hunt ", although whether this was with Lisa or someone else is unknown. They have not been seen together much, other than in the background at the school dance in " Hooked on Monkey Fonics ". Additionally, Annie also kindly greets Clyde as he confidentially walks down the hallway after becoming the most popular boy at school. Clyde was originally used as a background character, and served as one of the first recurring background characters alongside Bebe.

In Season Four , he was given a lasting personality and gradually became one of the primary members of the boys ' class in Season Six and onward. He is sometimes overshadowed by Craig or Jimmy , whom he is shown to be close friends with. He has notably spoken in multiple episodes in every season to date, as well as the movie and several video games.

They ask him to help but he tells them he does not care. In gameplay, he is of the same class as Stan Marsh , Butters Stotch and Jimmy Valmer , doing average damage, speed, and range, and his special ability involves tossing his colostomy bag out and causing damage to enemies within a small radius.

Clyde first appears as a member of the Kingdom of Kupa Keep as a warrior under the rule of Eric Cartman. Clyde is the first person that fights with the player to learn the battle mechanics. After the elves invade the kingdom, Clyde informs that they have taken the stick, which he was supposed to guard. As a result of this, Cartman banishes him "from space and time", preventing him from playing with them, and he angrily leaves. Clyde is not seen again until the end of the battle of humans against elves.

After they discover the Stick was not at the school, they find a message that leads them to Clyde's locker, where they find a laptop that is in a video call with him.

Clyde reveals that he is in possession of the Stick and has formed a new army to get revenge at his friends for kicking him out of the game. Clyde also reveals that he has a barrel containing green goo, which he uses to turn animals into Nazi Zombies soldiers.

The boys go to his house but their attack fails as they are outnumbered and all the boys are sent to their houses due to being past their curfew. After Kyle's army has greatly grown in number, they launch an assault to Clyde's fortress.

When they get to his throne room, Clyde uses the goo to revive Chef as a Nazi Zombie. After he is defeated, Clyde surrenders. Cartman takes back the Stick, and kicks him off the treehouse to the ground.

Clyde's personality in the game is one of a power-hungry dark lord after he is banished by Cartman. He is also apparently not very discerning when it comes to the use of the green goo. While he is effective in using it to create a Nazi Zombie army, he firmly believes the Government's cover story that it is Taco Bell green sauce, and attributes its strange properties to its ingredients.

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