Released in the summer of , the film is still relevant because even in — the success of Wonder Woman notwithstanding — it is still rare to see a major motion picture with strong female leads, based on a script written by a woman, come out of the Hollywood machine. So I redirected my thinking towards the idea of one great film for women that got made and got made well and following that process to see what I could possibly learn about how it could happen again.
Naturally the very first thing that popped into my head and the only thing that popped into my head was Thelma and Louise. While some of the film's scenes that include robbery and fleeing multiple police cars might seem larger than life, Aikman is quick to nail the film's overall appeal to its ability to identify with the lives of everyday women. The disrespect, the sexism, the sexual assault, being harassed by the truck driver on the road.
These are all things that women faced then and still face now all the time and watching two characters fight back against that is immensely satisfying for the audience.
Some of the same sexist attitudes critiqued in the movie were co-signed by various power players in Hollywood. It didn't help that Khouri's script was first circulating in the late s, a time when the testosterone levels of action movies were at an all-time.
While Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger were in-demand stars, women were largely viewed as one-dimensional ornaments, to put it mildly.
Khouri, for her efforts, would eventually win the Oscar for best original screenplay for the film — the first woman to receive the award solo since Drawing on many of her own p ersonal experiences, the film flew in the face of Hollywood orthodoxy, but eventually found a few champions, including eventual director Ridley Scott. But as Aikman details, it was an arduous road to travel with many requests to change the film's original vision, particularly the climactic cliff scene.
Khouri partly based the main characters in the film on her friendship with country singer Pam Tillis. While working in Nashville's music scene as a waitress after dropping out of university in , Khouri immediately struck up a friendship with country singer Pam Tillis as soon as she fixed Tillis a drink at the bar. The innocence of Tillis and jaded Khouri, who was armed with what Aikman calls a "smart-ass mouth," would form the basis of the characters of Thelma and Louise, respectively.
Tillis and Khouri would become lifelong friends and Khouri helped to write a couple of Tillis' early songs. The film initially was going to star Michelle Pfeiffer and Jodie Foster. Michelle Pfeiffer and Jodie Foster were attached to play Thelma and Louise initially as Alien and Blade Runner director Ridley Scott who was acting as the film's producer at the time was looking for another director. Meek housewife Thelma Geena Davis joins her friend Louise Susan Sarandon , an independent waitress, on a short fishing trip.
However, their trip becomes a flight from the law when Louise shoots and kills a man who tries to rape Thelma at a bar. Louise decides to flee to Mexico, and Thelma joins her. On the way, Thelma falls for sexy young thief J. Brad Pitt and the sympathetic Detective Slocumb Harvey Keitel tries to convince the two women to surrender before their fates are sealed. Who played the cop in Thelma and Louise?
Harvey Keitel. Did Thelma and Louise rob a bank? It's the cowboy hustler played by an unknown hunk named Brad Pitt, stripped to the waist and bouncing on a motel room bed as he whips a hair dryer out of his pants to re-enact a bank robbery, before having wild sex with Thelma.
What was Brad Pitt's first movie? Interestingly, she also revealed that the idea of a sequel to the film was also proposed, as per her revelation in The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Susan, however, was not quite on board with the idea given that the ending kills them both. It focuses on their escape from law after one of them shoots an antagonist in the heat of the moment.
The film has been felicitated with quite a few prestigious awards post its release, including the Academy Award in the category of Best Original Screenplay. Now follow your favourite television celebs and telly updates. Republic World is your one-stop destination for trending Bollywood news. After some fans were left debating whether or not the duo survive, all questions were put to bed in a deleted scene on the DVD edition of the movie.
As the pair drive off the edge, the extended scene then shows it plummeting rapidly into the vast rocks as an aggravated Hal, played by Harvey Keitel, runs to the edge to watch.
The clip then cuts to a final shot of the pair driving off together into the distance, which appears a symbolic representation of Thelma and Louise's iconic "keep on going," rather than a miraculous survival. Notably, the extended ending opts for B.
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