y Warren Beatty). She smothers him with kisses so that he has to pull over on the country road and tells her to "slow down." Clyde informs her that he is "not much of a lover boy.” Appealing to Bonnie’s sense of rebellion and disgust with social norms, she decides to leave with Cylde and start robbing banks. The next morning, Clyde teaches Bonnie how to fire a gun by using an old spare tire. There is great significance in this scene because Bonnie takes her first step towards self empowerment. The gun also serves as a diversion from sex. She is satisfied, almost obsessed, with the phalicness of the gun and becomes sexually charged by using it; the gun becomes her substitute for sex because of Clyde’s impotence. On their way across Texas, the duo stop at a gas station where they meet C.W. Moss (played by Michael J. Pollard). They decide to recruit C.W. because he is a good mechanic with the car and stole money out of the cash register for their excursion. Later, the pair are joined by Clyde's older, ex-con brother Buck (played by Gene Hackman) and his stereotypical, subservient wife Blanche (played by Estelle Parsons). They join forces and become the Barrow Gang and head out through Texas. While stopped, the group decide to take pictures with Blanche’s camera and Bonnie poses in arousing style with her leg resting on the stolen Ford’s bumper with a cigar in her mouth and holding a gun in her hand. Awakened by her new found sense of power and sexuality, she attempts to document the endowed women she has become, as well as, effectively capturing the mood of the women’s movements of the 1960’s. This is also the first time we start to see tension between Bonnie and Blanche. Bonnie resents the type of women that Blanche is and calls her an "ignorant, uneducated hillbilly." This also further goes to support the ideas of the feminist movement of the 1960’s and the attitude of many...
