"I think I lost mah shoes, Clyde! I think a dog got 'em!"

Gun Thugs week concluded with Bonnie and Clyde. This movie was a bit schizo in tone but I think that was on purpose - it's all fun and games till everyone ends up full of lead. Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty are so ridiculously gorgeous and fun to watch in the beginning as Bonnie and Clyde begin their infamous crime spree. What we didn't realize was that they were going to be so inept and wacky. They weren't criminal masterminds at all, just a couple of nuts messing up left and right and pulling people into their gang at every turn. The fun, screwball tone soon gives way to the desperation that sets in once they realize they haven't made much money on these botched robberies, they have nowhere to go, no real plan, and are running out of options. The glamorous, thrilling life Bonnie thought she was going to be leading quickly devolves into days on the run and nights camped out in seedy hotel rooms with a man too afraid to touch her and his weirdo brother, shrill sister-in-law, and a goofy mechanic they picked up along the way. I really had no idea that was how it would turn out, which I actually found far more satisfying that a silly romp would have been. On an interesting note, I spent the whole movie agreeing with Bonnie that they should get rid of Clyde's annoying, screeching harpy of a sister-in-law (the only part I enjoyed with her was when she was running down the street from the cops, waving a spatula), but apparently the real life woman upon whom that character was based wasn't actually like that and was really embarrassed by how they portrayed her. I kind of wish they hadn't gone that way because it added nothing to the story and she was my least favorite part of what was otherwise an extremely entertaining movie.