of the woman’s liberators toward the "conventional" women in society. During one important scene in the movie, the gang , now in Missouri, is parked by a lake, down a deserted road while Clyde goes out into the woods to relieve himself. Not knowing that they are being followed by Texas Ranger Capt. Frank Hamer (played by Denver Pyle), Clyde shoots the gun out of his hand when he is about to fire at them. They capture the Ranger and handcuff him with his own handcuffs. Bonnie suggests that the humiliate him by taking his picture with the Barrow Gang, this way all of his friends will know that he was captured and that they were "just as nice as pie" to him. Bonnie puts her arm around the Ranger, coyly strokes his mustache, and then she poses for Buck to take the picture while she puckers up and kisses Hamer on the lips. Hamer spits in her face with disgust, and Clyde almost drowns Hamer in anger, but then sets him adrift into the lake in a rowboat while he is still handcuffed. This scene is especially important because it shows the arrogant rebellion of both women and the youth in America, during the 1960’s. Bonnie shows that she is not afraid of the system and attempts to portrait herself to the public as the benevolent one. She also attempts to degrade the system for trying to take control and castigation over her life, one theme that was also very prevalent with the women’s and youth movements of the 1960’s. She shows the Texas Ranger that she is a liberated women who is free to taunt male authority. She is a radical women, like many of the women in the 1960’s who were disgusted with the system for attempting to repress their sexual and political expressions. During their temporary rest from police chase, Bonnie writes a poem about her adventures with Clyde, called The Story of Bonnie and Clyde. The novice, melodramatic poem, which Clyde sends into a newspaper to be published, compares thei...
