Modern day Bonnie and Clyde

What if a heavily armed gang, centered around an attractive couple started robbing banks in America, particularly the ones engaged in the sub prime mortgage mess? Would the public respond to them the same way as back in the 1930s or has society moved on?
 
What if a heavily armed gang, centered around an attractive couple started robbing banks in America, particularly the ones engaged in the sub prime mortgage mess? Would the public respond to them the same way as back in the 1930s or has society moved on?

I think some sort of sub-culture looking to them as heros would pop up, but other than that the vast majority of Americans understand these people awould be nothing more than monsters because if they were the modern Bonnie and Clyde they would kill random innocent people for the sheer joy of it which would piss off alot of Americans fast.
 
There was a movie like that made in 1986 called "Wisdom" starring Emilio Estevez and Demi Moore about a young couple going around and blowing up bank records and robbing them and most people did support them, especially in economically depressed areas. It turns bad when Moore's character killed a police officer, IIRC, she didn't mean to. Estevez played a convict who did his time but he could not find a job.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092225/
 

King Thomas

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It depends. If they start murdering and maiming, or if innocent people suffer as a result,their support will drop fast.If they avoid acutal violence and furthermore destroy the records that prove who owes what, thus stopping or at least delaying forclosures, a large number of people will start liking them.More so if they give some of what they robbed to the poor like Robin Hood.
 
Bonnie and Clyde weren't really attractive. Dunaway and Beatty who played them in the film were. And the public didn't think of B and C as heros. You're thinking more of "Pretty Boy" Floyd, who'd destroy records of foreclosures in his robberies and was kept hidden by people in his home region.

People looked up to John Gotti, so some will look up to bank robbers.
Some even made a hero out of Larry Davis.
http://www.nysun.com/new-york/larry-davis-is-killed-in-prison/71701/

For that matter, some people have altars to Pancho Villa in their homes. Drives the Catholic church hierarchy nuts.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/carlossg/2067297307/

There's still some people who admire the legend about DB Cooper as well. I'm sure a bank robber who played Robin Hood would get at least a few admirers.
 
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