Hollywood film-maker Arthur Penn dies
September 30th, 2010 - 3:53 pm ICT by Sampurn Wire
September 30, 2010 (Sampurn Wire): The legendary Hollywood director Arthur Penn, who earned a huge amount of fame after he directed the film, Bonnie and Clyde in 1967, is no more.
He died at the age of 88. He breathed his last this Tuesday night in his New York home, his daughter Molly said this.
Penn is credited to have introduced a new wave of American film aesthetic; his films were in a way advanced than most of their ilk. His cinematic work manifested way more realistic portrayals of hostility and aggression rather than the idealized portrayals that existed before his films.
The Left-Handed Gun made in the year 1958 was this legendary Hollywood director’s first ever film. He got on with film-making after working on several live television dramas. He got his first The Miracle Worker in 1962, got him his first ever Oscar nomination. This was the flick in which Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke, both bagged an Oscar each.
Arthur Penn nominated again for the movie Bonnie and Clyde, starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the notorious duo of American bank-robbers. The film’s climax is considered to be one of the most memorable and one of the greatest moments in the history of movies.
The last scene of the film shows a relentless machine-gun firing from the police, where the two die, did ignite a serious hailstorm, after it was compared with the horrors of the Vietnam War.
–Sampurn Wire
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