43. Bonnie & Clyde

Faye Dunaway and Warren Beaty looking at the camera, seated in a car. From Bonnie & Clyde.

All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.

–Jean-Luc Godard

He left out “a car.”

I might revise it to “All you need for a movie is two people who share an attraction, a way for them to get around, and a world that won’t stop until it tears them apart.” But that’s not nearly as pithy.

But the car is an essential part of this movie. It’s not just a getaway vehicle for criminal purposes, but a means of escape.

And it’s no coincidence that the end of their lives also involves the destruction of a car. Mobility cut short.