Sorry for the lateness of this post, but I’ve had other pressing academic issues to handle today but with the Internet being what it is those of you who will read this post in the future, the lateness of this edition of my review of post modern film history won’t even matter. Such is life.

This week in the syllabus, we are covering the beginning of the 5th era of Hollywood, ( whatever that was. It wasn’t explained to the class by the professor) which was unofficially kicked off by today’s film, “Bonnie And Clyde.” A film which was controversial back when it was first released, but looking at it now in today’s context, this comes across as a tame as a modern network television prime-time program, if not even more boring. But hey, Richmond, Virginia native, Warren Beatty, can still do the machine gun jitter bug with the best of them.

I have to admit that the blue grass soundtrack in “Bonnie and Clyde” is still somewhat “modern” sounding what with the recent bluegrass music revival started by “Oh Brother, Where thou Art” soundtrack. Though I have to admit when you find that the same artists who sang the “Beverly Hillbillies,” the soundtrack loses it’s effectiveness. I just kept expecting Jethro and Granny to show up in the background shaking their fists during one of the car chase scenes.

next week on the syllabus: 2001: A Space Odyssey!

jareddriskill