So I’m gonna put up a few “theme” displays in the video store. Gonna start with a display of “Love on the Lam” movies.
So far I have in mind:
Bonnie and Clyde
Dirty Mary and Crazy Larry
À bout de souffle
Badlands
They Live by Night
Butterfly Kiss
The Living End
Gun Crazy
You Only Live Once
Natural Born Killers
Kalifornia
Any other suggestions?
And then, any other display suggestions? Working up lists for a Disease display and a Dystopia display, but hoping for other ideas as well.
Thelma and Louise should be up there.
Hal Briston: The Untold Story
Sorry. Couldn’t resist. I really couldn’t.
Right.
It Happened One Night (I think that fits based on what I’ve heard; haven’t actually seen it)
Sylvia Scarlett
The Terminator
Right, might as well add Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to the list.
PERFECT! Thanks!
Hmm. All boundary pushers, topic-wise, but all interesting suggestions. Mostly I was thinking of criminal couples, but these are very interesting.
Smokey and the Bandit
The Chase
The Getaway!
True Romance
Ladyhawke
Outlaw Blues
Thieves Like Us
How could I have forgotten In Cold Blood?
Love and a 45
Kiss or Kill
Incidentally, I’ve heard of this sort of films referred to as “Love on the Run” films. This is the only place online where I can find this term used:
Yes; you’ll notice one of the first titles I mentioned is “They Live by Night,” directed by Nicholas Ray, whose entry you’ve linked to above. I used images from that movie to design the display materials. Unfortunately the movie’s not available . . .
Grand Theft Auto starring Ron Howard
Starman
A Life Less Ordinary maybe?
Lolita
Could you be more precise about the sort of films you want? The examples people are giving are all over the place. I presume that you want a film that’s mostly about a couple running from the law. Apparently they must be in love, but they don’t have to be a hetrosexual couple. Is that what you want, or do you want something more general?
That’s the basic theme; variations are OK. I’ve included *Lolita * and Butch Cassidy, almost as jokes. Almost; more as commentary on those movies than as jokes per se.
Here’s the list I’ve gone with; changes will happen.
Bonnie and Clyde
Breathless
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Butterfly Kiss
The Chase
Dirty Mary and Crazy Larry
The Getaway
It Happened One Night
Kiss or Kill
The Living End
Lolita
Love and a 45
Natural Born Killers (yuck)
True Romance
You Only Live Once
(*Thelma and Louise * is missing; possibly stolen. Can’t get a copy of They Live by Night. Thinking of adding Sullivan’s Travels.
I don’t think you’re just allowing variations on the theme. I think that you’re ignoring any possible definition for the genre. If you want a movie that comments on this genre although it’s not part of it, try Straight Time. At the end, when you think that it’s going to turn into a “Love on the Run” film, the guy drops the girl off at a diner and gives her money to get back home (where no one will know that she almost joined him on the lam). He tells her that he can’t allow her to go with him, since he knows he’ll get caught eventually.