User:Hans Brüggener/sandbox

An album including Charles Strouse's score plus some important dialouge etc was released by Warner Bros. Records in 1968. I was fortunate enough to get one. The music, though composed for and partly used in the film, was referred to as "Inspired by the rip-roaring-electrifying sound of Bonnie and Clyde". It is not the way I would put it, but I was glad the music could be heard and enjoyed. Much later, the CD-version was released, and I compared the two. The only difference would seem to be that the vinyl still sounds better, with a fuller, richer sound. I am happy it available to the CD-generation, though. For those who want to relive some of the moments of the film, and concentrate upon the voices, the words and the fierce ambush it is all there. Just close your eyes, and you will be there, in Texas, in the Dust Bowl days. In the fantasy which this film about Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrows really is. Not the truth, but the legend. Just like Penn intended it to be. You will share with them the excitement, the fear, the love, the horror of the gunbattles & getaways. The fullfillment of their dreams right before the magnificently acted scene of betrayal with Michael J Pollard and Dub Taylor. Voices from the past. Real voices. You can hear and understand Bonnie's poem as read by Faye Dunaway. And travel with them to trail's end in the violent, deafening ambush. On the album and CD "The Ambush & End Titles" contains both the soundtrack from the film and the exit music. And, again, we leave the world of the film with the tragic awareness of the terrible things men do to each other.

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