Is it just me or outlaws in movies are cu-ute!! An outlaw is a person living the lifestyle of outlawry, meaning literally "outside of the law." In the common law of England, a judgment declaring someone an outlaw was one of the harshest penalties in the legal system, to be declared an outlaw was to suffer a form of civil death. However Hollywood has adopted the legends told after the deaths of outlaws and turned them into almost heroic figures. Bonnie and Clyde even have a song about them done by Marle Haggard
"Bonnie was a waitress in a small cafe
Clyde Barrow was the rounder that took her away
They both robbed and killed until both of them died
So goes the Legend of Bonnie and Clyde.
The poems that she wrote of the life that they led
Told of the lawmen left dying or dead
Some say that Clyde made her life a shame
But the legend made Bonnie the head of the game.
The rampage grew wilder with each passing day
The odds growing smaller with each get-a-way
With the end growing closer the harder they fought
With blood on their hands they were bound to get caught.
They drove back from town on one bright summer day
When a man they befriended stepped out in the way
With no thought of dyin' they pulled to the side
But death lay there waiting for Bonnie and Clyde.
Two years or runnin' was ended that day
For robbin' and killin' they both had to pay
But we'll always remember how they lived and died
So goes the Legend of Bonnie and Clyde."
They both robbed and killed until both of them died
So goes the Legend of Bonnie and Clyde.
The poems that she wrote of the life that they led
Told of the lawmen left dying or dead
Some say that Clyde made her life a shame
But the legend made Bonnie the head of the game.
The rampage grew wilder with each passing day
The odds growing smaller with each get-a-way
With the end growing closer the harder they fought
With blood on their hands they were bound to get caught.
They drove back from town on one bright summer day
When a man they befriended stepped out in the way
With no thought of dyin' they pulled to the side
But death lay there waiting for Bonnie and Clyde.
Two years or runnin' was ended that day
For robbin' and killin' they both had to pay
But we'll always remember how they lived and died
So goes the Legend of Bonnie and Clyde."
By the time Hollywood had finished working on outlaws and bandits they were good guys turned bad by the law and government yet they are the ones that seem to be doing the laws job of helping those in need, while the law sucks up to the rich and helps them get fatter and fatter hmm... law hasn’t changed much, has it?. Robin Hood has been retold a hundred thousand times and is a favorite story of mine. However while most people like me probably think it was a fictional character, there are others who say proof of the man still exists. In the link below Graham Phillips states that there was a man named Robert Hode and that Robin is a nickname for Robert and Hode is old English for Hood!!! He also states that Little John and Maid Marion were real people and that Hood was killed by some weirdo, well it doesn’t really say that but I can’t be bothered looking back and checking it. BUUT im telling you it is really some fascinating shiii....stuff
these last lyrics were in the handouts given in the lecture and I thought they tired in with what I have been babbling on about you know good guys turned bad yet still being good guys
Well, you say that I'm an outlaw, You say that I'm a thief. Here's a Christmas dinner For the families on relief. Yes, as through this world I've wandered I've seen lots of funny men; Some will rob you with a six-gun, And some with a fountain pen. And as through your life you travel, Yes, as through your life you roam, You won't never see an outlaw Drive a family from their home.
Speaking of Hollywood the new Jesse James movie coming out with the sexy gorgeous Brad Pitt arrrrgh drool sooo yummy!! Especially in Fight Club yummmmmmmmmm
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