CSUN Thelma and Louise 1991 Discussion

Description

Discussion 13 – Thelma and Louise (1991)

Director

Ridley Scott

Genre

Adventure/Crime

Themes

Sexism

Female friendship

”Thelma and follows the time-honored tradition of other road movies such as ”Bonnie and Clyde” and ”Easy Rider” but with a major difference: The story is told from a woman`s point of view.

Callie Khouri, who wrote the screenplay in six months in 1988, insists that she had no feminist agenda. She simply wanted to tell a good story that featured strong female characters.

More than any other film we have discussed, then, Thelma & Louise has been adopted in the popular and scholarly literature as a touchstone for discussion, on topics ranging from feminism and pornography to law and ethics to travel and tourism. As Harvey Greenberg writes in his introduction to the 1992 Film Quarterly collection of essays on the film, Thelma & Louise is an exuberant…highly polysemic text.

In sum, Thelma & Louise has been viewed and analyzed as:

A Road Movie (a particularly American film type, by the way)
A Buddy Film
A Lovers on the Run Film
A Female Revenge Film
A Melodrama (what used to be called a Womens Film)
A Fairy Tale
A Screwball Comedy
A [Dark] Comedy (as referenced by director Ridley Scott)
A Western
(Specifically) An Outlaw Western
A Text for Legal or Ethical Analysis
A Text for Analyses of Representations (of Women, of Hillbillies, of Travel, etc.)
An Excellent Example of Screenplay Writing

The iconic final shot of the film is a freeze?frame, reminiscent of final freeze?frames in both Francois Truffauts The 400 Blows (1959) and George Roy Hills Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969).

What does this mean, do you think? An alternative ending was shot and edited, which shows the car falling far into the canyon, and then returns to Hal and the officers looking out over the canyon. How would this alternate ending have changed the meaning of the film?

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