Bonnie and Clyde Page #6

INT. CAFE. DAY.

BONNIE, CLYDE and C.W. seated in a booth in a cafe. The

Waitress brings the food and serves everybody. We see C.W.

With great concentration, as he does everything by relating

to the immediate action he happens to be involved with, he

takes the sugar shaker and begins methodically sprinkling

sugar over all his food. He sugars the meat, the beans, and

the beets. BONNIE and CLYDE watch this performance with

first, amazement and second, disgust. They can't believe

what they see.

BONNIE:

(incredulously)

C.W., what are you doing? Why do

you do that?

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C.W.

(beginning to eat it)

Why not?

BONNIE:

It's just disgusting, that's why.

C.W.

(chewing)

Not to me it ain't.

BONNIE:

But...but it makes everything sweet!

C.W.

Yeah, I know.

With a resigned expression, BONNIE turns away and begins to

eat. Suddenly a look of consternation crosses C.W.'s face.

C.W.

Damn! No mayonnaise!

He gets up and goes down to the counter on the other end of

the restaurant, out of our vision, apparently planning to

put mayonnaise over the sugar. The minute he is out of

earshot, BONNIE gets CLYDE's attention.

BONNIE:

Clyde, why does he have to stay in

the same room as us?

CLYDE seems not to have heard the question. He takes up the

sugar shaker and spreads a thin field of sugar on the dark

table surface. He will sketch his plan in the sugar.

CLYDE:

Lemme show you about tomorrow.

BONNIE:

Why?

CLYDE:

Now C.W.'ll be waitin' right

outside in the car. Here is the

teller's cage. Four of them and

over here the desks and what have

you...

BONNIE:

Why, Clyde...

CLYDE:

Hmmm??

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BONNIE:

In the same room with us?

CLYDE:

Hell, where else? Ain't gonna

spread out all over the state...

The harshness of his tone concerns him and he recovers with

a smile.

CLYDE:

(continuing)

Not yet, anyway. Now, the door to

the bank is here now. You cover me

from there.

BONNIE:

(takes his hand to

her face)

Just that I love you so much.

CLYDE:

You're the best damn girl in Texas.

C.W. comes back with the mayonnaise; looks at the table.

C.W.

Hey, you spilled the sugar.

Three shot.

CLYDE:

(eating)

The layout for tomorrow up in

Mineola.

C.W.

Mineola? Gosh, that's four, five

hundred miles from here!

CLYDE:

So what? We take U.S. 85 to Willis

Point, don't you know, and cut over

on State Highway 28 at Kaufman,

keep on goin' till we hit the farm-

to-market road that connects to 105

and that's right up by Mineola. On

a Saturday afternoon...

EXT. SMALL KANSAS TOWN.

The car driving into a small Kansas town. It is Saturday

afternoon, sunny. The streets are filled with people, cars,

wagons. C.W.

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is driving, BONNIE is in front with him, CLYDE is in the

back. C.W. looks scared to death at the idea of robbing a

bank. The car pulls up in front of the bank, double-parked.

BONNIE and CLYDE get out.

EXT. CAR. DAY.

CLYDE:

Keep it running.

BONNIE and CLYDE enter bank.

INT. BANK #2. DAY.

Cut to the interior of the bank. BONNIE and CLYDE come in,

assume the class positions--she at the door where she can

cover the bank, CLYDE at the first teller's cage.

CLYDE:

(in a very quiet voice)

This is a stickup.

TELLER:

What?

CLYDE:

This is a stickup.

This time everyone in the bank hears it. The people gasp

and pull back. CLYDE slowly edges toward the door and prods

BONNIE forward. She carries a paper sack. CLYDE motions

her to go from cage to cage and get all of the money.

BONNIE begins doing so, while CLYDE keeps his gun trained on

everybody. We see BONNIE get the money from the first

teller, the second teller, then...

EXT. SMALL TOWN STREET. DAY.

A car parked in a tight spot has just pulled out.

Close-up C.W. Day--who suddenly looks delighted to see a

parking space.

EXT. CAR -STREET. DAY.

Immediately he methodically begins to back in. It's a tight

spot and he has to cut the wheel, pull forward, cut some

more, pull back and so on. The scene, for the audience,

should be nervous and funny.

CUT TO:

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INT. BANK #2. DAY.

Inside the bank, BONNIE and CLYDE have filled the sack.

They run out the door, the camera tracks with them.

EXT. SMALL TOWN STREET. DAY.

They run for where the car was, but it isn't there. Then

they see C.W. has parked it.

INT. CAR. DAY.

CLYDE:

Let's go! Let's go!

C.W. suddenly realizes what a stupid thing he's done.

EXT. CAR. STREET. DAY.

C.W. tries to shoot out of the parking spot, but he can't.

He has to go through the business of backing up, cutting the

wheel and all of it. The scene is one of pure pandemonium

and chaos.

INT. CAR.

CLYDE:

Come on! Get it out!

EXT. CAR. DAY.

A policeman arrives and begins firing at car. C.W. gets the

car halfway out of the spot, scraping fenders in the process,

and the car is almost out when suddenly a face looms up at

the window--a dignified, white-haired, celluloid-collared

man, obviously a bank official who has leaped onto the

running board. His screaming can barely by distinguished

from all the noise.

MAN:

Stop!

CLYDE fires through the window.

Close-up (special effects). The face of the man explodes in

blood. Then he drops out of sight.

EXT. CAR. DAY.

The car shoots off down the road, doing ninety. Police are

firing at the escaping car; BONNIE and CLYDE are shooting

out the back window; C.W. is almost having a nervous

breakdown at the wheel.

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EXT. STREET. A MOVIE HOUSE. DAY.

A police car that had been chasing CLYDE and BONNIE's car

comes down the street. It is obvious that the cops have

lost them. They are searching the street for a sign of

CLYDE's car. They pass a movie house whose marquee reads:

"GOLDDIGGERS OF 1933." They slow for a moment, decide that

is not a probable place to look. They drive off.

INT. MOVIE HOUSE. WIDE ACROSS AUDIENCE AT SCREEN.

The opening musical sequence of "Golddiggers" is on the

screen. Ginger Rogers sings "We're In The Money." Among

the audience we cannot make out our three people. It is a

small audience and thinly dispersed.

Tight shot at audience. Camera pans the audience while on

the track we hear the music of the song. First of our group

who becomes visible is C.W. He is staring at the screen and

eating bites from a candy bar in each hand. Camera pans

further and we see that CLYDE is in the row behind C.W. and

a few seats to one side. CLYDE is nervous and keeps watching

the entrance doors. He is in a rage. He shifts in his seat.

CLYDE:

Boy, you gotta be poor in the head.

You...! Count of you I killed a

man. Murder...you too.

Shot from behind CLYDE. Shooting toward screen.

CLYDE:

(continuing)

Dumb ass stupid.

C.W. turns to CLYDE and nods agreement. This infuriates

CLYDE even more. He slaps the back of C.W.'s head.

CLYDE:

Ever do a dumb thing like that

again, I'll kill you boy!

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