Bring on the tough stuff. There’s not just one right answer.
- Okay, so we start with a country road, a country song, and country mountains. Clearly, we're being set up for something, err...specific. How does setting Thelma and Louise in the West muckle your ideas about traditional Western films or books and how they usually work?
- Callie Khouri, like millions of others, wrote a screenplay about two buddies going on a road trip and sent it to one of many Hollywood slush piles without much hope of it getting picked up. What does it mean that Khouri didn't anticipate the backlash she was going to get for coming up with a film that features atypical lady characters?
- Some of the backlash against Thelma and Louise involved people saying that it was anti-man. Why is this a troubling term? Can you think of any films that are anti-women? Any behaviors? Any realities?
- The major crooners featured in Thelma and Louise tend to be women covering songs by men. What does the soundtrack of Thelma and Louise tell us about the film and its themes?
- Some say that the ending of Thelma and Louise makes suicide seem okay, which is bad. Others say Thelma and Louise did something brave by driving off a cliff. What do you think? Why did they decide to go over the cliff? Would they have been in better hands facing the law? Why or why not?
- How could Thelma and Louise's deaths be seen as metaphorical or symbolic?