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Synopsis: Bonnie and Clyde is a 1967 American biographical crime film directed by Arthur Penn and starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the title characters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. The film features Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, and Estelle Parsons, with Denver Pyle, Dub Taylor, Gene Wilder, Evans Evans, and Mabel Cavitt in supporting roles. The screenplay was written by David Newman and Robert Benton. Robert Towne and Beatty provided uncredited contributions to the script; Beatty also produced the film. The soundtrack was composed by Charles Strouse.
Production: Warner Brothers/Seven Arts
  Won 2 Oscars. Another 20 wins & 27 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.9
Metacritic:
81
Rotten Tomatoes:
89%
R
Year:
1967
111 min
852,242 Views


EXT. CAR. ANOTHER ANGLE. DAY.

The camera pulls back and above the car. The car starts to

go crazy in a comical fashion, manifesting to the audience

just what is happening to the driver controlling it. The

car swerves all over the road. The car comes to a sudden

halt. The car starts again. It swerves this time almost

right off the road before it straightens out. It jumps and

jerks. Another car comes down the road the other way and

CLYDE's car swerves so much as to make the other guy drive

right off the road into the dirt. It is almost Mack Sennett

stuff, but not quite that much.

INT. CAR. BONNIE AND CLYDE. DAY.

BONNIE grabs the wheel and turns it sharply.

EXT. CAR. DAY.

It hairpins off the road onto a shoulder beneath some trees.

INT. CAR. BONNIE AND CLYDE. DAY.

--still settling to a stop. BONNIE and CLYDE appear to be

necking heavily now, punctuated by BONNIE's squeals of

passion as she squirms and hops about like a flea, trying to

get to CLYDE. The floor gear-shift is keeping their bodies

apart, however. In exasperation, BONNIE takes the gear

shift and shoves it forward out of their way. She plunges

onto CLYDE, burying him from view.

9.

BONNIE:

(kissing, biting)

...You ready?...

CLYDE:

(muffled, laughing)

...Hey, wait...

BONNIE:

(giggling herself)

Aren't you ready? Well, get ready!

BONNIE has obviously touched him. With savage coquetry she

tears into her clothes and his.

BONNIE:

(muffled)

C'mon, honey, c'mon, boy...let's

go...let's...

CLYDE:

(muffled)

Hey...hey, wait a minute...quit

that now, cut it out.

(sharply)

I said, cut it out!

He shoves her rudely away, slamming her into the far car

door. Suddenly it looks as if they've been fighting. Both

unbuttoned and unglued, they stare silently at one another,

breathing heavily. CLYDE gets out of the car, clearly

shaken. Despite the fact that he may have encountered this

situation many times before, it's one that no twenty-oneyear-

old boy in 1932 is sophisticated enough to dismiss

easily with bravado.

BONNIE remains seated in the car. She seems terribly

vulnerable. She fumbles about for a cigarette, too confused

to figure out what didn't happen. CLYDE turns back and

reaches through the car window from the driver's side,

lighting it for her. BONNIE casts CLYDE a fishy stare, then

accepts the light.

CLYDE:

(trying to be casual,

even insouciant)

Look, I don't do that. It's not

that I can't-

(his voice cracks,

the match burns his

fingers, and he bangs

his head onto roof of

car, and he goes

right on)

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David Newman

David Newman (February 4, 1937 – June 27, 2003) was an American screenwriter. From the late 1960s through the early 1980s he frequently collaborated with Robert Benton. He was married to fellow writer Leslie Newman, with whom he had two children, until the time of his death. He died in 2003 of conditions from a stroke. more…

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