i'm pretty sure this has come up before, but i just watched The Highwaymen again, and i do dig it
as always, "official trailers" rarely do justice.
funny how "history" is working in these kinds of films. admittedly, i haven't seen it in a while, but i know the film Bonnie and Clyde (with Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty) is sympathetic to Bonnie and Clyde and casts them as fairly righteous class rebels
which of course, means representing Texas Ranger Frank Hamer as a kind of monster--which is not to say that he wasn't one. one way i remember they do this, is by not giving him many lines, or face shots (and if so, weird close-ups), and by focusing mainly on his killing. i could be a bit off here, since i have not seen the film in a while, but i feel like i remember it that way. this new Netflix version, focusing on Ranger Hamer (and his partner Maney Gault), reverses this--you only get bits and pieces of Bonnie and Clyde, and they're almost always when they're murdering someone.
anyway, i'd be curious about what other heads in here think about this. historically, i've always been sympathetic to Bonnie and Clyde, because of the time and the circumstances of the time, but it is easy to overlook that they were fairly cold-blooded killers who did more than just defend themselves against the police...