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From what I've read about the actual historical events surrounding Bonnie and Clyde is that Bonnie was mostly a bystander. One of the guys in their gang said she never once fired a weapon in any of their activities, although a police officer reported he saw her fire a rapid fire gun as they were making a gettaway from a police ambush at one of their hideouts. Most researchers of the Bonnie and Clyde story beieve the officer was just being dramatic, or mistaken, in his account. Surviving members of the gang certainly disagree.
And she also didn't smoke cigars. That profile came from a posed picture that was taken of her and Clyde in front of a car as they were holding guns and she had a cigar in her mouth. It was done for show.
Of course if the actual true story was told in most historical events it would probably make for a boring movie. So all directors embellish their movies. It's called "dramatic licence". Just look at what Oliver Stone did to the JFK assassination story with his movie. No director in the history of cinema has ever taken as many liberties with the truth as he did in that movie.