Bonnie and Clyde Page #8

BUCK:

(singing)

"What a beautiful thought I am

thinking

Concernin' that great speckled

bird,

Remember his name is recorded

on the pages of God's Holy word..."

BLANCHE:

All right, now you did foolish

things as a young man, honey-love,

but you went and paid your debt to

society and that was right. But

now you just gettin' back in with

the criminal element.

BUCK:

Criminal element! This is my

brother, darlin'. Shoot, he ain't

no more criminal than you are,

Blanche.

BLANCHE:

Well, that ain't what I heard.

BUCK:

Now word of mouth just don't go,

darlin', you gotta have the facts.

Shoot. Why he and me growed up

together, slept and worked side by

side.

(laughing)

God, what a boy he was!

BLANCHE:

He's a crook.

BUCK:

(chidingly)

Now you stop bad-mouthin' him,

Blanche. We're just gonna have us

a little family visit for a few

weeks and then we'll go back to

Dallas and I'll get me a job

somewheres.

(MORE)

37.

BUCK (CONT'D)

I just ain't gonna work in your

Daddy's church--That's final.

(laughing it off, singing)

"What a beautiful thought I am

thinking

Concernin' that great speckled

bird..."

CUT TO:

EXT. CABIN. THE FRONT OF THE MOTEL. DAY.

BUCK's car drives up to the cabin, honking the horn wildly.

The door of the cabin opens and CLYDE comes running out. He

is overjoyed to see his brother. BUCK jumps out of the car,

equally delighted. They hug each other.

CLYDE:

(hugging him)

Buck!

BUCK:

Clyde! You son of a b*tch!

They laugh happily and begin sparring with each other,

faking punches and blocking punches--an old childhood ritual.

There is a great feeling of warmth between the two brothers.

CLYDE is more outgoing than we have ever seen him before.

CLYDE:

How's ma? How's sister?

BUCK:

Just fine, just fine. Send their

best to you.

CLYDE:

(patting Buck's stomach)

Hey, you're fillin' out there.

Must be that prison food.

BUCK:

Hell no!

(laughing)

It's married life. You know what

they say, it's the face powder that

gets a man interested, but it's the

baking powder that keeps him at

home.

(MORE)

38.

BUCK (CONT'D)

(he explodes with

laughter and so does

Clyde, who loves

Buck's jokes)

Hey! you gotta meet my wife. Hey,

honey, c'mon out here now and meet

my baby brother.

Camera swings to car. We see BLANCHE still sitting there,

her face obscured by the glint of sun on the windshield.

Slowly, she gets out of the car, still carrying the movie

magazine.

BLANCHE:

(suspiciously, quite

the grand lady)

Howdy-do.

CLYDE:

(shaking her hand)

Howdy-do. It's real nice to know

you.

BUCK beams with pleasure, thinking they must like each other.

BONNIE comes out of the cabin, standing on the steps. The

screen door slams behind her.

Close-up. BONNIE. Day--expressionless, looking it all over.

EXT. CABIN.

BUCK and CLYDE notice nothing of this. BUCK bounds over to

BONNIE, all jollity.

BUCK:

(grabbing her)

Well! You must be Bonnie! Now I

hear you been takin' good care of

the baby in the family. Well sis,

I'm real glad to meet you!

(he hugs her; BONNIE

just lets herself be hugged)

Say...

(breaking the hug)

I'd like you to meet my wife,

Blanche.

BONNIE:

(stiffly)

Hello.

39.

BLANCHE:

(stiffly)

Hello.

There is an awkward pause. Suddenly the screen door opens

and C.W. comes out, dressed in his long underwear. BLANCHE

can hardly stand it.

CLYDE:

Everybody, this is C.W. Moss.

C.W., my brother Buck and his wife,

Blanche.

C.W.

(friendly)

Heighdy, y'all.

He pumps BUCK's hand vigorously and then goes to BLANCHE.

With his characteristic one-track intensity, he decides to

act just as friendly as he can with BLANCHE, ignoring the

fact that he's standing there in his underwear. BLANCHE,

however, is not ignoring it.

C.W.

Well how do, Mrs. Barrow. Or can I

call you Blanch? I sure am pleased

to meet you.

(shaking her hand;

Blanche is slowly

going crazy with mortification)

Did you have a hard time findin' us

here in this neck of the woods?

Well, you sure picked a good day

for it. Say, you got a Screenland

there! Any new photos of Myrna Loy?

She's my favorite picture star.

BLANCHE is starting to edge over to BUCK in sheer panic at

this strange, young man in his BVD's but C.W. takes no

notice of it.

BLANCHE finally grabs BUCK's arm. BONNIE watches it all,

smirking.

BUCK:

Hey, lemme get the Kodak!

BUCK goes to his car and gets a folding Brownie camera.

CLYDE:

(lighting up a cigar)

Hey, C.W., go put your pants on.

We're gonna take some pictures.

40.

BUCK:

Y'all hear about the guy who

thought Western Union was a cowboy's

underwear?

BUCK and CLYDE and C.W. laugh heartily. C.W. goes into the

cabin. BUCK pushes BLANCHE and CLYDE together, posing them

for a picture.

BONNIE:

Lemme get one of my bride and my

brother.

BLANCHE:

(getting kittenish,

and overdoing it)

Buck! Don't take my picture now.

I'm just a mess from driving all day.

BUCK:

Oh honey, now you look real fine.

BONNIE watches BLANCHE's behavior with hardly-veiled disgust.

BUCK snaps the picture as BLANCHE is just about to move out

of it.

BLANCHE:

(with unbecoming

girlish outrage)

Did you take my picture? Oh Buck!

I declare-

BUCK laughs and goes to BONNIE, takes her by the arm and

moves her next to CLYDE and BLANCHE. He lines them up,

steps back and takes their picture. CLYDE is the only one

smiling.

CLYDE:

(pulling out his gun

and posing like a

movie tough)

Hey, Buck, get one of this.

BUCK does.

BUCK:

(giving Clyde the camera)

Clyde, you do one of me and my

missus.

He puts his arm around BLANCHE. CLYDE takes the picture.

41.

CLYDE:

(throwing her a challenge)

Let me take on of Bonnie.

BONNIE grins at him and responds with amused arrogance.

BONNIE:

(she yanks the cigar

from Clyde's mouth,

smokes it and poses)

Okay.

CLYDE snaps the picture. Everyone but BLANCHE laughs. C.W.

comes out dressed.

BUCK:

(drawing Clyde aside)

Hey, brother, let's you and me do a

little talkin'.

CLYDE:

(handing C.W. the camera)

Here, C.W., take the girls' picture.

INT. CABIN. DAY.

They walk into the cabin. Camera goes with them. Bedroom

is dark, shades pulled down. There is an aura of boys'

clubhouse secret camaraderie in the following scene:

BUCK:

(as soon as the door

is shut; conspiratorially)

It was you or him, wasn't it?

CLYDE:

Huh?

BUCK:

That guy you killed. You had to,

didn't ya?

CLYDE:

(they are protecting

each other)

Yeah, he put me in a spot, so I had

to. He didn't have a Chinaman's

chance.

BUCK:

But you had to-

CLYDE:

Yeah. I had to.

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