Two best friends set out on an adventure, but it soon turns around to a terrifying escape from being hunted by the police, as these two girls escape for the crimes they committed.
Louise is working in a diner as a waitress and has some problems with her boyfriend Jimmy, who, as a musician, is always on the road. Thelma is married to Darryl who likes his wife to stay quiet in the kitchen so that he can watch football on TV. One day they decide to break out of their normal life and jump in the car and hit the road. Their journey, however, turns into a flight when Louise kills a man who threatens to rape Thelma.
They decide to go to Mexico, but soon they are hunted by American police. Eager to get away from their men and their cares, the lifelong friends from Arkansas, the wide-eyed and bullied suburban housewife, Thelma Dickinson, and the abused and emotionally drained waitress, Louise Sawyer, sneak off on a sunny summer morning without saying goodbye. It sparks the imagination toward demanding a different kind of world.
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Surely the number of Hollywood sex scenes that depict a character of any gender reaching for a condom mid-action is low. Much has been made of Brad Pitt's performance, which was widely hailed as his breakout role. Their scenes together are funny, touching, and genuinely erotic.
Khouri knew that women like context—Thelma and her new friend didn't have time to go to dinner and get to know each other, but their chemistry is believably established in the scenes they share together outside of bed. The actual sex scene stayed with me for years not because Brad Pitt had such a nice body—though he did—but because he and Davis seemed to get along so well. You feel as if they like each other, not just each other's bodies.
They flirt and tease and laugh and play together. It was her first taste of real intimacy with a man that made the sex so good for Thelma, not the way her lover's body looked in jeans although she liked that too. That scene possessed a humanity that is absent from every major movie sex scene I've watched since. Between Brad Pitt's enormously appealing performance as Davis's lover and Michael Madsen's touching turn as Sarandon's flawed but loving boyfriend, it's astonishing that anyone considered this movie anti-male.
Even Harvey Keitel's Detective Slocumb was honest, compassionate, and kind. As the reactions of certain critics in revealed, even smart, educated people are disturbed by female characters who assert control over their lives and bodies and aren't punished for it. And as Callie Khouri told The Observer in , "Bad guys get killed in every goddamn movie that gets made It was only because a woman did it that there was any controversy at all. At least back then we got to have the controversy.
Today, we don't make movies about women that are even worth fighting about. Whenever I'm dispirited by the crassly sexist ethos that governs Hollywood as well as television, politics, and the corporate world today, I think of "Thelma and Louise" and remember a time, not so long ago, when women were allowed to be human, if only in the movies. Skip to content Site Navigation The Atlantic. Popular Latest.
John, who after refusing a stuntman to stand in his stead, was only 50 yards in front of the vehicle when the explosion happened. Scott told him the blast would happen after he said "Ready, Steady, Go! John, who found out later that he had hearing loss.
The car does not drive off the Grand Canyon in the final scene. Two takes for the car going off the cliff were performed after they built a ramp and removed much of the car's weight to ensure the vehicle defied the law of physics, going up, rather than down. However, the car does contain Thelma and Louise dummies. Aikman had interviewed the man who made them but ultimately omitted the details from the book because it would have impacted the flow of her book.
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Join the conversation Create account. Already have an account? Q Thelma and Louise revisited: Six things you didn't know about the classic movie Over 25 years after Thelma and Louise hit movie theatres, a new book contextualizes the film's role in the history of women in Hollywood.
Social Sharing. By Del Cowie Thelma and Louise is a constantly referenced and immediately recognizable part of the pop culture lexicon just ask Shania Twain and Taylor Swift.
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