Amy Petter- Thelma and Louise(1991) post 9

This film had quite a bit of a story line. In the beginning, it started off with a housewife and her sexist husband, but shortly she ended up ditching it for a little vacation with her best friend. The two friends take off in a blue convertible. On their first stop of the night, they make it into a loud bar. When they sit down, a young handsome man comes and dances with Thelma. Towards the end of the scene, he takes her outside because she had too much to drink. He tries to rape her when Louise catches him. Louise is infuriated, gets in a verbal brawl with him and shoots him out of anger. This is exactly where the movie took off.

            Thelma and Louise is shot mostly from inside of the car. The camera takes the position directly in front of the car for the majority of the time. However, the angle changes from the two of them to just one of them in the shot. The camera also just takes the angle above them looking down to see them traveling and how far they have gotten on their escape.

            One thing I have been paying attention too during the last three movies I watched was the music. In Boys in the Hood, the music was horribly distracting. However, in this movie, I found that the music went along with the movie phenomenally. The music added to the way that we were supposed to feel for each scene. The music was never too loud, so that I could always hear what the characters were saying.

            Much like in Fried Green Tomatoes, the characters were smoking everywhere that they could. In the majority of the scenes, someone is smoking cigarettes. In the beginning, Louise was waitressing at a diner and smoking a cigarette at the same time. The whole diner was a fog of smoke. I just thought it was rather funny considering that would be outrageous now.

            Overall, I thought that thing movie was really interesting. These two girls got in more trouble that you could imagine. The filming was done wonderfully and I was impressed at how the actors held their roles. I would recommend this movie to almost anyone, especially two best friends.