Thelma & Louise Revisited

[selenak]

Andrastewhite and myself are clearly destined to geeky supervillaindom. She wrote another scene for our threatened Trio subplot to Once More, With Feeling. Go and and admire hers here. Then read mine again. I'm narcistic like that.

Thelma & Louise I loved from the moment I watched it first in the cinema all those years ago, but had not seen for a while until

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[debxena]

*miffed* I'm only a pseudo-villain!

Great to read about T&L. I have it on video, but that doesn't have any special features on it. Thanks for sharing!

[caille]

What an interesting post! I've always liked "Thelma and Louise", and I appreciate the ways it's insinuated itself into the culture. (BtVS - at the end of "Ted", Joyce suggests renting a movie, except nothing with love or romance or men or....And Buffy says, "So we're 'Thelma and Louising' it again, huh?" Also, my own sister once named her shoulder pads Thelma and Louise.)

I never got the accusations of male-bashing, really. Clearly, Louise shot Thelma's attacker after the imminent threat was past. She knew it. She knew she shot him because she was just so damn angry. That's why she ran. She'd murdered someone.

One of my favorite small moments is when Thelma tells Louise to "shoot out the radio" in the patrolman's car. Louise promptly takes aim at the AM/FM dial, and Thelma says, "Louise, the police radioI'm curious to know if the DVD contains the missing scene with the Rastafarian bicyclist pedaling along the back roads, and how he blows some soothing ganja smoke through one of the air-holes in the cop's car trunk. I saw

The Rastafarian bicyclist is in.

[selenak]

Scott says he was someone they had come across during shooting, and it seemed a funny thing to include, so...

P.S. Blade Runner

[selenak]

With all due respect to Philip K. Dick, the reason why I love the film (director's cut) while I only admire the novel, is that the androids/replicants are handled more ambiguosly and hence more emotionally touching in the former.

Thanks!

[ide_cyan]

The description you give of Scott's commentary is exactly the same as what I remember from listening to the one on my earlier DVD release version of T&L.

But I'm SO glad that K, S & G recorded theirs together! I doubly want to listen to it now. Don't have the money to buy this edition, but I suppose I could rent it from the video club... or just save up, and sell the old version, or something. It was the first DVD I ever bought, or one of the first few.

(Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is so relentlessly unhappy, though, that I'm sad there wasn't a better example for Khouri to cite.)

Word on Marion Crane.

Re: Thanks!

[ide_cyan]

Crane? Where the frell did that come from? Ravenwood! Spielberg, not Hitchcock!

Spielberg & Hitchcock

[selenak]

He. At least Hitch made his blondes into icons.*g* Btw, have you heard that anecdote that when Hitchcock shot his last movie, "Family Plot", Spielberg had just scored his first big success with "Jaws" and hung around in the Universal lot hoping to be introduced to the Master, who did finally notice him and asked "isn't that the boy with the fish movie?"?

Re: Spielberg & Hitchcock

[ide_cyan]

My father's the Hitchcock collector. I'm not a huge fan, although I do appreciate his work and its importance.

Spielberg... I'm liking less and less. Rewatching the Indiana Jones films recently made me suddenly aware of how violent they are, I felt quite irked at Close Encounters's off-handed death toll, and there's a huge rant against A.I. in my LJ from last year. Visually, he's brilliant, and his kinetism puts the Greek back in cinema, but some of the movies he makes have a way of leaving a bad taste in my brain, once the fun's worn off.