Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Flat, proud and almost polite, the introduction sums up how the film sees its outlaws: young people who treat robbery as a trade and a calling card. The nerve of saying it to a stranger's face is the point, and the three words have stayed the shorthand for the whole picture and for the 1930s outlaw romance it helped to create.
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In context
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In Bonnie and Clyde (1967), the gang's amateur holdups have grown into a Depression-era bank-robbing spree. After a heist ends with their getaway car disabled in a police chase, they steal the car of Eugene Grizzard and take him and his girlfriend captive. Clyde introduces himself and Bonnie to the frightened pair, finishing with the blunt line that they rob banks. The couple are dropped as soon as the gang learns that Grizzard is an undertaker. The American Film Institute ranks the line #41 on its list of top movie quotations.
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- Wikipedia: Bonnie and Clyde (film)PlotReference checked
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