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* [[Big No]]: {{spoiler|Slocumb, when Thelma and Louise decided to [[Driven to Suicide|drive off]] the Grand Canyon.}}
* [[Big No]]: {{spoiler|Slocumb, when Thelma and Louise decided to [[Driven to Suicide|drive off]] the Grand Canyon.}}
* [[Bolivian Army Ending]]: Though the general consensus on what happened is {{spoiler|they both died. There's... pretty much no way of surviving ''plunging into the Grand Canyon''}}.
* [[Bolivian Army Ending]]: Though the general consensus on what happened is {{spoiler|they both died. There's... pretty much no way of surviving ''plunging into the Grand Canyon''}}.
** [[Lampshaded]] at the Academy Awards by Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon, when Sarandon brings up the possibility of a sequel. Davis is outraged, stated that there was ''no way'' they could have survived - until Sarandon mentions [[Money Dear Boy|how much money a sequel would earn them]]. Davis starts [[Wild Mass Guessing|trying to justify their survival of the deadly crash]].
** [[Lampshaded]] at the Academy Awards by Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon, when Sarandon brings up the possibility of a sequel. Davis is outraged, stated that there was ''no way'' they could have survived - until Sarandon mentions [[Money, Dear Boy|how much money a sequel would earn them]]. Davis starts [[Wild Mass Guessing|trying to justify their survival of the deadly crash]].
* [[Cerebus Callback]]: Thelma and Louise take a polaroid photo of themselves at the start of their trip and stick it to the rear view mirror in the car. The photo flies off the mirror just as the car goes plunging into the Grand Canyon.
* [[Cerebus Callback]]: Thelma and Louise take a polaroid photo of themselves at the start of their trip and stick it to the rear view mirror in the car. The photo flies off the mirror just as the car goes plunging into the Grand Canyon.
* [[Chick Flick]]: Albeit a rather violent one.
* [[Chick Flick]]: Albeit a rather violent one.
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* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Thelma and Louise.
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Thelma and Louise.
* [[Hero Antagonist]]: Slocumb.
* [[Hero Antagonist]]: Slocumb.
* [[Hey Its That Guy]]: [[Brad Pitt]] made his breakout role here as a robber named J.D.
* [[Hey It's That Guy]]: [[Brad Pitt]] made his breakout role here as a robber named J.D.
* [[I Have a Family]]: What the cop says as they lock him in the trunk of his cruiser.
* [[I Have a Family]]: What the cop says as they lock him in the trunk of his cruiser.
* [[Les Yay]]: They actually kiss at the end, but it's more in the context of [[I Love You Man]] than any romantic attraction
* [[Les Yay]]: They actually kiss at the end, but it's more in the context of [[I Love You Man]] than any romantic attraction
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* [[Mexican Standoff]]: How the movie ends... [[Take a Third Option|until Thelma has another idea]].
* [[Mexican Standoff]]: How the movie ends... [[Take a Third Option|until Thelma has another idea]].
* [[Noodle Incident]]: Whatever happened to Louise in Texas, it must have been ''[[Berserk Button|bad]]''.
* [[Noodle Incident]]: Whatever happened to Louise in Texas, it must have been ''[[Berserk Button|bad]]''.
* [[One Scene Wonder]]: To be more accurate, maybe three or four scenes. Either way, Brad Pitt's role in this movie is pretty well known.
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: To be more accurate, maybe three or four scenes. Either way, Brad Pitt's role in this movie is pretty well known.
* [[Police Are Useless]]
* [[Police Are Useless]]
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: Hey, the cop who pulls them over is just doing his job.
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: Hey, the cop who pulls them over is just doing his job.
* [[Red Oni Blue Oni]]: Thelma is Blue, Louise is Red (see [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]] below).
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Thelma is Blue, Louise is Red (see [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]] below).
* [[Road Movie]]: A [[Gender Flip|Gender Flipped]] version.
* [[Road Movie]]: A [[Gender Flip|Gender Flipped]] version.
* [[Run for The Border]]: The ladies decide to go to Mexico.
* [[Run for The Border]]: The ladies decide to go to Mexico.

Revision as of 16:07, 9 January 2014
"In the future, when a woman's crying like that, she isn't having any fun!"
—Louise Sawyer

A 1991 film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon, Thelma & Louise became one of the most iconic films of the decade. Scott and the film's two leads received Academy Award nominations, while screenwriter and intended director Callie Khouri grabbed the Oscar for her screenplay.

Thelma, a naive housewife and her best friend, the independent waitress Louise, pile into Louise's Cool Car for a girl's weekend out. Things go downhill when Thelma is nearly raped by a stranger named Harlan, whom Louise subsequently shoots. They hit the road to Mexico rather than face almost certain prosecution; along the way, they are pursued by a sympathetic FBI agent named Slocumb. As the two experience freedom they never had before, the long arm of the law finally corners them at the Grand Canyon a canyon that is totally not the Grand Canyon, because if it had been they would have had to pay to get there, because it's a National Park, and the rangers don't just let you drive up to the edges of cliffs like that. And...

This film features examples of:

 Harlan: Bitch! I shoulda gone ahead and fucked her!

Louise: What did you say?

Harlan: I said suck my cock!

Louise's Gun: BANG!

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