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  1. Thelma & Louise isn’t a movie that encourages looking back, but the 30th anniversary of this film is a good enough reason to cheer for a film that smuggles feminist critique into a collection of ...

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  2. May 23, 2016 · T he road-trip movie Thelma & Louise, starring Geena Davis (Thelma) and Susan Sarandon (Louise) as buddies-turned-fugitives, drove a national conversation on feminism and the state of the women ...

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  3. May 26, 2016 · Text Alex Denney. When Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis went roaring into the abyss from the edge of the Grand Canyon at the end of Thelma & Louise, their fates could hardly have been more certain. But, 25 years after the cliffhanger ending to end all endings first played in cinemas, Ridley Scott’s feminist road movie shows no signs of ...

  4. Thelma & Louise has influenced other artistic works, and became a landmark of feminist film. In 2006, the American Film Institute ranked it 78th on its list of most inspiring films . In 2016, the Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry , finding it "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

  5. May 25, 2021 · Where often a male lead would grab the steering wheel of a road movie, here Ridley Scott’s Thelma & Louise takes inspiration from Spielberg’s Sugarland Express, and reimagines the typical male-buddy film with female protagonists, in addition to a freshness that would come to redefine the genre. Written and creatively masterminded by ...

  6. Aug 31, 2011 · August 31, 2011. The movie came out two decades ago, but its message has been lost. MGM. When it was released in the summer of 1991, Thelma & Louise was declared "the first movie I've ever seen ...

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  8. Apr 27, 2024 · Ridley Scott’s 1991 feminist road film Thelma and Louise uniquely explores female freedom through the mode of a traditionally male genre. Often criticized for being an anti-male film, Thelma and Louise takes the traditional male gaze and turns it on its head, repurposing the common perspective of women as the sexual object and flipping the power dynamic between the sexes.

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