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             Some day they'll go down together
             They'll bury them side by side;
             But it's death for Bonnie and Clyde.
             -Bonnie Parker, "The story of Bonnie and Clyde," 1934
             Accurate history often falls victim to the history that is displayed on film or in plays. For example, everything Shakespeare says of Joan of Arc is invented and yet, despite the works of historians, it is Shakespeare's Joan of Arc that the English remember (Ferro 159). Historians are no match for filmmakers when it comes to influencing people's visions and theories about past events. Accuracy is often sacrificed for avant-garde elements that create heightened emotions that keep audiences riveted. Such is the case of with the 1967 movie Bonnie and Clyde, where the main characters Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are more romanticized than authentic. This interpretation makes the audience care for Bonnie ad Clyde and make the ending of the movie that much more powerful.
             The inspiration for the film was a book on violent crime, which told the true story of Bonnie and Clyde, two young rebels who wreaked havoc on the Midwest in the 1930's. After one of the writers discovered that Bonnie used to like to send her poems to the newspapers, he decided that the characters' history would make an ...