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Susan Sarandon Thinks Her 'Thelma & Louise' Character May Acquire Become a Homosexual woman If She Had Lived
It's a Thelma & Louise reunion!
Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis got together for a photo shoot for Harper's Bazaar in honor of the iconic film's 25th anniversary, and even mused about what might have become of their characters if they had lived through the credits.
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"Well, Thelma's definitely not with her husband anymore! One would only wish she found Brad [Pitt] again," Sarandon told the mag with a cackle. "Maybe Louise became a lesbian. That would be fabulous. Maybe she continued her trip and ended up running an Airbnb. I certainly could travel better by the end of the movie, so maybe I became a driver of some sort."
Davis couldn't support but gush about Sarandon, declaring, "She changed my life." Davis added that the former co-stars still sometimes become together -- and it causes quite a stir when they do.
"We're really good friends," Davis said. "Oh, in New York one time, we were walking to lunch together. We're used to whatever level of people knowing us, but together it was insane.
Thelma & Louise is a Gender non-conforming Love Story...You Just Have to Look For It
The classic 1991 hit Thelma & Louise is more than a contemporary, female-dominant version of Bonnie and Clyde. While upon first glance many viewers may think that the film is simply a story of loyal friendship, when watching the film through a gender non-conforming analytic lens it is manifest that Thelma and Louise in fact share a special and queerly intimate relationship. This is obvious only when considering the subtext in the film, as the dominant narrative reads platonic. The women’s adherence to the stereotypical lesbian trope of a masculine and femme female pairing as well as the option to leave their male partners for each other solidifies that Thelma and Louise are more than platonic friends; they are lovers.
Thelma & Louise – An Queer Love Story (LGBT domination)
While Thelma & Louise is filmed in a heteronormative context, it is important to consider how non-mainstream, or that is to say, queer, non-heteronormative audiences may read the film. Because we are assumed straight until proven otherwise, non-queer audiences may not notice anything abnormal about a film, however, queer viewers ofte
How Thelma and Louise Is a Lgbtq+ Allegory
Geena Davis. Susan Sarandon. Brad Pitt. Dancing, sex, robbery, blowing up vast rig trucks with misogynistic drivers. It’s sexy, it’s the early-90s, Harvey Keitel is there to get justice — there’s literally nothing else an audience could want. In 2016, Thelma & Louise was preserved in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for its cultural significance (per The Guardian).
When Thelma & Louise was released in 1991, it was a huge box office success, appealing to adventure enthusiasts as well as fans of director Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner) and actors Geena Davis (Thelma) and Susan Sarandon (Louise). Though the movie falls under several genres (action, adventure, comedy), it’s no stretch for queer audiences who are used to reading subtext in pop culture to see the non-heteronormative, ever-growing freedom these women, written by Acadamy Award-winning Callie Khouri, give to themselves and each other. From their rapidly shifting clothing styles to taking the ultimate leap together, here’s why Thelma and Louise is a lgbtq+ allegory.
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Bijou Film Board
By Kat Trout
As a lesbian who aspires to be a filmmaker, I have always questioned my relationship with production. How do I move into something that has hidden my community for so long? How execute I embrace film when it only recently openly embraced me? It was while watching Cheryl Dunye’s The Watermelon Woman I realized my answer. In The Watermelon Woman, when Cheryl and Diana first meet in the video store, they identify each other as potential partners by name dropping Ridley Scott’s sci-fi classic Alien. Rather than explicitly mention their queerness, they understood it through the implications of interest. I realized through this scene how cinema has become a way for queer folk to safely identify each other. Alien, Aliens,What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, Mommie Dearest, and so forth have become classics in the queer group despite not openly telling LGBT+ stories. Ridley Scott’s film Thelma and Louise is among these films, perhaps being one of the most iconic queer-claimed films in cinema history. The ending of Thelma and Louise makes the film a tale of sapphic escape. Their last act together before dying is
Bijou Film Board
By Kat Trout
As a lesbian who aspires to be a filmmaker, I have always questioned my relationship with production. How do I move into something that has hidden my community for so long? How execute I embrace film when it only recently openly embraced me? It was while watching Cheryl Dunye’s The Watermelon Woman I realized my answer. In The Watermelon Woman, when Cheryl and Diana first meet in the video store, they identify each other as potential partners by name dropping Ridley Scott’s sci-fi classic Alien. Rather than explicitly mention their queerness, they understood it through the implications of interest. I realized through this scene how cinema has become a way for queer folk to safely identify each other. Alien, Aliens,What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, Mommie Dearest, and so forth have become classics in the queer group despite not openly telling LGBT+ stories. Ridley Scott’s film Thelma and Louise is among these films, perhaps being one of the most iconic queer-claimed films in cinema history. The ending of Thelma and Louise makes the film a tale of sapphic escape. Their last act together before dying is