“Thelma & Louise” The birth of a “legend” portrayed by Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, and Ridley Scott *Note! Contains spoilers.

*This article touches on the ending of the story, so we recommend watching the movie before reading it.

“Thelma & Louise” synopsis

Thelma, a housewife, goes for a drive with her best friend and waitress Louise to escape her boring life. At a drive-in for dinner, Louise witnesses Thelma being raped by men and accidentally shoots them. A drive that was supposed to be a fun memory turns into an escape at this moment.

Index

• Director Ridley Scott's Portrait of Women
• casting success
• An escape trip for two women
• women's freedom and liberation

Director Ridley Scott's Portrait of Women

Looking back at the films of director Ridley Scott, we can see that he is attracted to strong female characters. A representative example of this is " Alien " (1979). It depicts a journey into space on the spaceship Nostromo, and it is The Talented Mr. Ripley, played by Sigourney Weaver, who survives until the end.

I once asked Weaver himself about this character back in the 1980s. I was interested in why she became the character who survives until the end. Then, this answer came back.

"It doesn't seem like the idea was for her to survive to the end from a feminist perspective.However, the producers thought that a setting where a woman survives to the end would be a surprising development and would be a commercial success. See you.”

In the 1970s, actresses such as Jane Fonda who symbolized the era of "independent women" emerged, and new types of women such as " Julia " (1977) and " The Woman Who Never Married " (1978) emerged. Although movies were being made, the range of images of women was still narrow. Meanwhile, the presence of Sigourney Weaver, who played a tough character who is an astronaut on a spaceship but fights the enemy (Alien) until the end, was new.

Later, as talented directors such as James Cameron and David Fincher took over the series, the character of The Talented Mr. Ripley became legendary and became the origin of one of the ``fighting women'' images in film history.

Scott himself said this in an interview in the 1970s: ``There are strong women in my movies, but that's because I'm attracted to strong women. It's just my personal taste.'' “Omni's Screen Flights/Screen Fantasies: The Future According to Science Fiction” edited by Danny Peary)

“Thelma & Louise” preview

By bringing in a new director from the British commercial field rather than the United States, he created a tough female image that differs from conventional Hollywood movie heroines.

``Thelma & Louise'' (1991) was a further development of this. This time, with the appearance of two tough heroines, their strength stands out even more. Hollywood movies have a tradition of "buddy movies" in which two men work together, but the addition of Thelma and Louise breaks new ground.

casting success