1180 Thelma & Louise

[flyonthewall2983]

Semi-blind buy, as my clearest memory previously of it was when it was the Monday Night movie on NBC in 95. When they are in the desert at night it feels almost like a Lynch movie. It’s a kind of jarring darkness lit by the car and our leads drinking and driving away the pain. I’m sure my mom saw this but I don’t remember if she liked it or not. We’re talking about doing movie nights again soon so perhaps it’ll come up.

[colinr0380]

Whatever you do, don't let her drive home afterwards!

[colinr0380]

Messidor is the same basic plot as this film: two women meet up and go on the run together, flipping over to the wrong side of the law after standing up to a sexual assault. The big difference is that a road movie in Switzerland is claustrophobic, circular and clearly doomed, whereas one in the US plays into a long history of heroic rebel narratives.

I find it hard to believe nobody involved in this film was aware of Tanner’s. It wasn’t a particularly obscure film in the 1980s, and the plot overlap is substantial.

Re-watching Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult on television over the weekend reminded me that they did a fun riff on Thelma & Louise:

"Jane, I want to join you! To help you kill as many Men as possible!"

[knives]

Watched this for the list project and am so annoyed that I’ve slept on it so long. It’s easily one of Scott’s best utilizing time really well in all aspects of production though my biggest takeaway is that Christopher McDonald should play Danny McBride’s father in something.

Going back to time, the first and most obvious thing is how this is playing with a bunch of different eras at once to immediately convey the universal aspects of the story to the audience. It’s only really the technology that proves that this takes place in the ‘90s whereas several other cues like dress could easily be from the 50s, 60s, or ‘70s.