'Hands and Hers': You're Like Me, You Want Different Things

Bartholome 2022-04-21 09:02:06

1. Clyde: If you just want to go to bed, you go back to West Dallas and stay there forever. You're not just like that, that's why you're coming with me. You'll find a lover anywhere, and they don't care if you're a waiter or a cotton picker. However, I care.

Bonnie: Why?

Clyde: What why, because you are special. You are like me and want different things. You're not just a waiter, we traveled together across the state, but also Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma, and let everyone know. Listen to me Miss Bonnie, do you want to walk into the Idafo Hotel in Dallas, in a beautiful silk dress, and have everyone come to serve you? Do you like it, is this asking too much? This is not excessive. You have rights.

Bonnie: When did you think of this?

Clyde: The moment I saw you. Because you may be the best woman in Texas.

2. Clyde: You were born near East Texas. From a big old-fashioned family. You go to school and don't care because you're smarter than everyone else, and one day you drop out. You met a man when you were 16 or 17, his job... (pauses for a few seconds with a laugh) Yes, the cement factory, you like him because he appreciates you. You almost marry him, but then back out and you get a job at a coffee shop. Now you hate it every day, you hate going there and wearing a white uniform...

Bonnie: Pink.

Clyde: The truck driver goes there for a hamburger. They flirt, but they're all idiots, you hate their tattoos, you go to their appointments sometimes, but you don't. Because they just want to have sex, whether you want to or not. You come home and sit in your room and you start thinking, how am I going to get out of this. Now you know.

Bonnie smiled.

At this time, the old woman waiter came over with chewing gum and Clyde saw the hair curling around her ear, and after she left, she said to Bonnie, I don't like this of yours. Bonnie put down her hamburger hand and hurriedly put down her hair, and her curly hair was gone.

3. Clyde: I know you have the guts to ask the old woman for oil money. I'm asking if you have the guts to rob the bank?

4. Clyde: One more lap here, it must be a prison sentence.

Brother Clyde: No, it's married life. You know what they say, makeup attracts men, good food keeps men.

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Bonnie and Clyde quotes

  • [about Bonnie's poem]

    Clyde Barrow: You know what you done there? You told my story, you told my whole story right there, right there. One time, I told you I was gonna make you somebody. That's what you done for me. You made me somebody they're gonna remember.

  • Clyde Barrow: Alright. Alright. If all you want's a stud service, you get on back to West Dallas and you stay there the rest of your life. You're worth more than that. A lot more than that. You know it and that's why you come along with me. You could find a lover boy on every damn corner in town. It don't make a damn to them whether you're waitin' on tables or pickin' cotton, but it does make a damn to me.

    Bonnie Parker: Why?

    Clyde Barrow: Why? What's you mean, "Why?" Because you're different, that's why. You know, you're like me. You want different things. You got somethin' better than bein' a waitress. You and me travelin' together, we could cut a path clean across this state and Kansas and Missouri and Oklahoma and everybody'd know about it. You listen to me, Miss Bonnie Parker. You listen to me.