"Back at the Forbidden City, one of the surviving but wounded mutant humans reported their defeat to Mendez and Alma, who were playing a game of checkers.The story of Clyde""s rise and self-destructive fall as an anti-authoritarian criminal gangster is clearly depicted.The whimsical revisionist Western film, with the new "M" rating (for mature), although varying considerably in tone and mood, did so by imitating the styles of other cultish outlaw films, including director Arthur Penn""sBonnie and Clyde (1967), and the balletic graceful shootouts of Sam Peckinpah""sThe Wild Bunch (1969).One of the bluebloods from Kentucky.And if you don""t like the color, honey, we""ll change it."Maudie orders a chair from one of the waiters and satirically jokes: "Service here is terrific." Maudie plays havoc with he proper arrangements at the dinner, upsetting Mrs.Jellyman in particular.Maudie""s rapid-fire dialogue includes:- "I could go for some of that stuff in the bottle."- "Remember the night we""re all at the eatin"" house when a flock of them gangsters came in and tried to take me from ya."What a splendid way to wake up each morning," she old her husband at 5 AM.On that Sunday morning while the Hoggetts went off to church, Ferdinand had become frantic after seeing that Farmer Hoggett""s wife Esme had a new, wind-up alarm clock ("mechanical rooster") positioned at her bedside.