9/10
broad impact
29 September 2010
Lot's has already been said about this movie. The impact of the film at the time went far beyond the sex and violence. First, while Beatty was already a movie star, this film catapulted all its cast members into stardom - Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman, Michael J. Pollard, Estelle Parsons and Gene Wilder all became successful through this film. The music was also highly influential, kicking off a revival of bluegrass music. And the film highly influenced fashion with a revival of thirties-style clothes.

Another important aspect of the film is the successful mixture of drama and humor. It's a funny movie despite the horror and dread.

FInally, although it may not be polite to say so on the day of his death, there were always disputes about how much Arthur Penn actually controlled the final cut. His editor, the great Dede Allen, had rather unkind words to say about his ability to pull a film together in post production. She deserves acknowledgment for this film as much as he does.
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