“EXCLUSIVE: BONNIE PARKER”

By

Kira Bowers

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FADE IN:

SHOT ONE

Picture of Bonnie and Clyde’s rap sheets.

INTERVIEWER

The story of the criminals and lovers Bonnie

and Clyde has become legend. Starting with
their crime spree across the American South.

A picture of Bonnie comes onto the screen.

INTERVIEWER

Though fame was harder to come by in the 1930s

Bonnie Parker was quite an audience favourite.
40,000 people attended her funeral in South
Dallas, Texas. Thousands more than her lover,
Clyde Barrow. So what was this charming girl,
with such a future ahead of her, doing with a
hardened criminal like Clyde?

SHOT TWO

Camera switches to BONNIE PARKER sat in the booth. She is dressed

in a smooth pink 1930s style dress, cardigan and beret. She
snuffs out a Camel Cigarette.

BONNIE

I just talk to the camera?

She fixes her hair around her face and checks her lipstick.

BONNIE

Make sure you get my good side I guess.

(smiles).

INTERVIEWER

Miss Parker did you travel with Clyde of your

own free will?

Bonnie looks into camera, confused.

BONNIE

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 You think Clyde could make me do a thing I
didn’t wanna do? What kinda interview is this?

INTERVIEWER

So that’s a yes?

BONNIE

Of course. I love him.

Awkward silence.

SHOT THREE

INTERVIEWER

Could you tell us more about yourself Miss

Parker? Or should I call you Mrs Thorton, my
sources say you’re married.

BONNIE

(scoffs)

That old thing. Yeah I was married, I was young

and stupid too. He went and got his ass locked
in jail. After that he didn’t show no interest
in being a husband, so why should I want to be
his wife?

INTERVIEW

Aren’t you still wearing your wedding ring?

BONNIE

May I have the next question please?

Short Silence.

INTERVIEW

Erm, yes. Surely Clyde and your ex-husband are

very similar. Both spent time in jail. Or are
you in the belief that Clyde should go back to
jail?

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 BONNIE:

Nah that’s my sister in law. And for your

information Clyde has gone back to jail a few
times, me too. But it ain’t done no good. If
they thinkin’ that jail is the kinda thing that
makes a man right to have a lovin wife, they
should take a good look at my ex-husband Roy.
Clyde wa’unt the same after jail either. What
they done to him in there ain’t right!

SHOT FOUR

INTERVIEWER

How did you meet Clyde?

BONNIE

He fixed my car. (sighs dreamily) Clyde is just

a wizard with cars, born ‘d ride.

Picture of the café that Bonnie worked at. (Today).

I was working as a waitress in Rowena at the

time, and o’course Clyde was on the run
(chuckles).

SHOT FIVE

INTERVIEWER

Witnesses connect Mr Barrow and yourself to a

chain of robberies across the country.

Newspaper Headline come across the screen.

BONNIE

I ain’t sayin’ we did, I ain’t sayin’ we

didn’t. (winks at camera)

INTERVIEWER

Have you ever killed anyone Miss Parker?

BONNIE

(stared down at her hands and rubs her right

knee) I ain’t never killed. But a girl’s gotta
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 keep herself safe out there. It ain’t his
fault! He was protectin’ me!

INTERVIEWER

I didn’t suggest that Mr Barrow was the culprit

but you are both credited with 13 murders.

BONNIE

He ain’t like that with me. Sometimes, he just

get wrong in the head. That ain’t his fault,
that because of what jail did to him! Clyde
didn’t hurt a soul before that.

SHOT SIX

Pictures come on the screen of the murders of Bonnie and Clyde.

INTERVIEWER

Bonnie and Clyde also broke prisoners out of

jail. 5 prisoners were sprung from a Texas
jail, ironically the man who would later rat
them out, resulting in their death, was among
them.

SHOT SEVEN

Camera switches back to Bonnie.

INTERVIEWER

But your fame isn’t just from your crimes is

it? I hear you write, and sing?

BONNIE

(beaming)

Oh yes, I sing, Clyde and his brother were both

trained in music, so he loved to hear me sing.
I write a lot too. I’ll read you some if you’d
like.

SHOT EIGHT

Camera switches of pictures of the originally hand written poems.

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 BONNIE

You've read the story of Jesse James

of how he lived and died.

If you're still in need;

of something to read,

here's the story of Bonnie and Clyde.

Now Bonnie and Clyde are the Barrow gang

I'm sure you all have read.

how they rob and steal;

and those who squeal,

are usually found dying or dead. (fade out)

INTERVIEWER

Bonnie’s poems sparked many other to be written

like it, many about her. Several of these were
published in the newspaper.

Show poems about Bonnie.

The most famous of Bonnie’s poems is called The
Trail’s End, it was found in a hideout they
left behind.

The audience hears Bonnie’s VO on a black screen

SHOT NINE

BONNIE (VO)

Some day they'll go down together

they'll bury them side by side.

To few it'll be grief,

to the law a relief

Bonnie fades in to view.

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 BONNIE (IN SHOT)

but it's death for Bonnie and Clyde.

INTERVIEWER

Your poem implies that you think you and your

lover are destined for death, why is that?

Bonnie stops smiling and bites her lip.

BONNIE

I know the laws’ gonna get us someday. But I’ll

spend as much time as I can with my baby till
they do. (smiles sadly) Clyde don’t think like
that. But I know. He’s been so cut up about his
brother, (turns to the camera) Buck, they were
so close. ‘says it should have been him dead.
(looks down as she begins to cry) I know that
we are gonna be.

SHOT TEN

INTERVIEWER

Does it bother you that staying with Clyde will

most likely result in your death?

BONNIE

I don’t care so long as I’m not stuck here

without him.

She wipes her face with a handkerchief.

SHOT ELEVEN

INTERVIEWER

Speaking of which, can you tell me about the

events that transpired on your way to Louisiana
on the 23 of May 1934?

Bonnie stares into the camera, still crying.

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 BONNIE

What are you talkin about?

INTERVIEWER

Miss Parker-

SHOT TWELVE

The camera cuts out as a bullet wound appears on Bonnie’s

forehead and disappears just as quickly. Bonnie steps towards the
camera and the shot cuts to black.

Credits roll.

‘How ‘bout a dance’ plays.

CUT OUT

THE END

CREDITS

INTERVIEWER, THOMAS MCKELLAN – STORM BOWERS

BONNIE PARKER – KIRA BOWERS

STORYBOARD, CONCEPT AND DIRECTING – KIRA BOWERS