..Because you""re a cunt! - Wait! It was only a joke").He pointed his finger at her in the position of a mock pistol (on the soundtrack, a gunshot was heard in a startling jump-cut) - a subliminal statement of his ambivalence towards her.Bonnie: Yeah, but what did ya do before?Clyde: I was, uh, I was in State Prison.Bonnie: StatePrison! (She halts again)Clyde: Uh-huh.Bonnie: Well, I guess, uh,somelittl"" ol"" lady wasn""t so nice.Clyde: (expressed as part of a tough guy act) It was armed robbery.Bonnie: My, my.The things that turn up in the street these days.In the small, rural, Southwest Texas town where they walk along the empty main street (except for one elderly Negro sitting on a bench in front of a barber shop), Clyde asks her about her dull life after passing the closed-down movie theatre and other mostly-deserted shops: "Whatcha all do for a good time around here - listen o the grass grow?" In a display of unconventional, daring bravado, he points down to his right foot and brags to her that he once chopped wo toes off with an axe "to get off of work detail" in state prison.BackgroundOn he Waterfront(1954) is a classic, award-winning, controversial film directed by Elia Kazan - a part drama and part gangster film.J.KING, PresidentHotel KingKing (a sign on the steering tower of the boat)King boasts how his successful enterprise will ruin Bill Canfield""s business:King: This floating palace should put an end to thatthingSteamboat Bill is running.