Plot summary thelma and louise are best friends living in a small town in arkansas, which. First, i draw a distinction in my screenwriting classes between a story with coprotagonists, where two characters are joined together on a single journey, and dual protagonists, where two lead characters a go through sharply distinctive transformation arcs. Links to movie scripts, screenplays, transcripts, and excerpts from classic movies to current flicks to future films. One of the most memorable movie endings in the last quarter century. She tests the weight of it, and then puts it under the seat. Its the least surprising thing in the world that a nameless hollywood executive had this reaction to callie khouris script for thelma. Thelma and louise are best friends living in a small town in arkansas, which is a small state in the southern part of the united states and the state where president clinton is from.
The film is essentially based around all white characters, apart from one bizarre scene with a rastafarian cyclist who symbolically blows smoke in to the trunk of the police car, and this can. However, their trip becomes a flight from the law when louise shoots and kills a man who tries to rape thelma at a bar. Meek housewife thelma geena davis joins her friend louise susan sarandon, an independent waitress, on a short fishing trip. Plot louise sawyer, a waitress in a fast food, plans a weekend in the mountains with her friend thelma dickinson, a housewife married to darryl, an arrogant and hypocritical man. Thelma is married to darryl who likes his wife to stay quiet in the kitchen so that he can watch football on tv. Responding to victimization in thelma and louise youtube. Feb 07, 2018 as i reread the script for the first time in years, i was struck by two things apart from the fact that it is a damn fine story. It makes us believe in its heroines poor decisionmaking process as. Thelma and louise and something to talk about screenplays. Thelmas husband, darryl chris mcdonald, is an overbearing oaf, and louises boyfriend, jimmy michael madsen, simply will not commit. Restaurant morning present day louise is a waitress in a coffee shop.
On the run and being chased by seemingly every law enforcement agent in the southwest, then confronted by the grand canyon in front of. A tipsy thelma ends up in the parking lot of the bar with a wouldbe rapist. The likelihood of a script by an unheardof screenwriter. An arkansas waitress and a housewife shoot a rapist. It is a fabulous movie and an outstanding debut script by firsttimer callie khouri.
Ridley scott films screenplay pdf collection download. The title is enough to clue us in that this movie is going to center on the friendship between two people. Both seem to be living somewhat depressing working class lives. While it is louises act of shooting harlan that triggers the plot, khouris belief that women in this world must live under a soulcrippling double standard is also embodied in thelmas radical awakening. Ridley scott films screenplay pdf collection download indie. You said that you and me were gonna get out of town and for once just really let our hair down. Khouris choice to have thelma free from danger when louise kills harlan takes us beyond the simple justice of selfdefense and into an uncertain moral ground where we must grapple with the more complex issue of how much abuse one individual can be expected to tolerate before she strikes back. Simplyscripts downloadable movie scripts, screenplays and. Movie script title click to read script type file size. Suddenly, a film in which women were, in every sense, behind the wheel. Start your free trial and access books, documents and more.
Ridley scott was going to produce, and khouri was appointed as director. After a weekend getaway turns into an interstate crime spree, thelma and louise are on the run to mexico. The two women have been living lives devoid of empowerment and general selfworth. In other words, louises qualities of being tough yet nurturing, in control yet vulnerable, and fierce yet kind were qualities shared with the new yorkand, at the time, staunchly antihollywoodactor herself. Thelma and louise script free download as pdf file. During a break in a dance hall, thelma gets drunk and a man tries to rape her. Apr 20, 2016 a new study by the data journalism website polygraph shows that the status of women in hollywood is bleak. Directed by ridley scott, who directed the science fiction classics, alien 1979 and blade runner 1982, thelma and louise is an onthelam chick flick with chase scenes, a kind of femme butch cassidy and the sundance kid 1969, somewhat akin to wild at heart 1990 and natural born killers 1994 but without the.
One of the greatest films to look at for insight on victim and crime genre is thelma and louise. There are several scenes of violence or threatened violence, as the stakes keep going up for the two fugitives. Thelma and louise and something to talk about screenplays khouri, callie on. Due to the incriminating circumstances, they make a run for it and thus a cross country chase ensues for the two fugitives. The script is constructed so that thelma and louise are more or less forced into some of the desperate measures they take. Imsdb opinion none available imsdb rating not available average user rating 10. A new study by the data journalism website polygraph shows that the status of women in hollywood is bleak. Simplyscripts downloadable movie scripts, screenplays. One day they decide to break out of their normal life and jump in the car and hit the road. Theiradventures,whiletingedwiththefatalismthatattendsanycrimespree,have thethrilling,lifeaffirmingenergyforwhich thebestroadmoviesareremembered. Besides the attempted rape scene, thelma later has implied sex with a drifter. When ridley scott saw susan sarandons audition for thelma and louise, he said that she was louise. Louise reaches over and takes the gun out of thelma s.
The only screenplay ever written where not one word was changed from the writers first submission to the final scene of the movie. Whilst on a short weekend getaway, louise shoots a man who had tried to rape thelma. All he wants me to do is hang around the house the whole time while hes out doing god only knows what. He never lets me do one goddamn thing thats any fun. Louise reaches over and takes the gun out of thelmas. Television writing wisdom from doctor who showrunner and script editor april 16, 2020 screenwriting wisdom from oscarwinning milk screenwriter dustin lance black april 14, 2020 successful producers, directors, and distributors on chasing screenwriting trends april, 2020. What happens to these womens relationship once they step into that 66 thunderbird is unprecedented in films priorwhich is a fancy way of saying no one in 1991 knew what was coming when those curtains opened. Theiradventures,whiletingedwiththefatalismthatattendsanycrimespree,have. Sep 09, 2019 television writing wisdom from doctor who showrunner and script editor april 16, 2020 screenwriting wisdom from oscarwinning milk screenwriter dustin lance black april 14, 2020 successful producers, directors, and distributors on chasing screenwriting trends april, 2020. Thelma s husband, darryl chris mcdonald, is an overbearing oaf, and louise s boyfriend, jimmy michael madsen, simply will not commit. Thelma and louise screenplay pdf free software and. Their journey, however, turns into a flight when louise kills a man who threatens to rape thelma. On the run and being chased by seemingly every law enforcement agent in the southwest, then confronted by the grand canyon in front of them, what will thelma and louise do. Sacha baron cohen relives times he went too far the jonathan ross show duration.
Along the way, both women rediscover the strength of their friendship and surprising aspects of their personalities and selfstrengths in the trying times. She is in her earlythirties, but too old to be doing this. In the end, callie khouri saw manifested on screen a clear representation of her belief that women in this world must live under a soulcrippling double standard. Halharvey keitel an arkansas policeman who seems to have great sympathy with thelma and louise after all the trouble they get themselves into. Neither do i, thelma, but darryl does it, how hard can it be. Louise decides to flee to mexico, and thelma joins her. In these 3 scenes, louise coaches thelma on how to act, she finds out the huge mistake she made, and the two of them try to figure out what to do next. Though the road trip starts out as a good time, the pair eventually wind up at a bar. Want us to email you a giant pack of epic free resources. Entering the story as a sheltered, dependent housewife, she makes her final exit as an empowered, selfdirected woman. It stars geena davis as thelma and susan sarandon as louise, two friends who embark on a road trip which ends up in unforeseen circumstances. The final scene of thelma and louise is, in my opinion, one of the best scenes ever made for a film.
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