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Is someone willing to add a section about the soundtrack to this movie? The songs chosen for the soundtrack are a big part of the movie and it is not that often that they work so well. Dollvalley 14:38, 27 April 2007 (UTC)Reply
According to the Wikipedia article about Cleopatra (2003 film), that film closely follows the plot of T&L. Is this worth mentioning?202.179.19.18 (talk) 06:20, 3 February 2013 (UTC)Reply
I've done my best to incorporate the trivia into the article and give it better structure. I don't feel it's done and will carry on later.Wolfmankurd 23:36, 29 April 2007 (UTC)Reply
I have reverted this statement for several reasons
Friends. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.199.91.47 (talk) 20:22, 31 August 2007 (UTC)Reply
This section needs to be referenced or redone; according to the director's commentary by Ridley Scott, the Davis and Sarandon were cast relatively early on and no other actors were really considered for the parts. -Kez (talk) 16:43, 5 August 2009 (UTC)Reply
Is it revealed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.100.99.41 (talk) 23:12, 18 April 2012 (UTC)Reply
While there is some deliberate ambiguity, the film implies and it is widely inferred, with proof neither offered or really needed, that Louise was raped (or at least experienced some similar form of sexual violation) and, further, that the police were dismissive of the charges. The screenwriter's workbook makes explicit reference:
http://books.google.com/books?id=9gztRwYxZHIC&pg=PA119
IMDB plot synopsis suggests Louise was raped: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103074/synopsis A book on rape and film points out that att one point (which you can see by watching the movie or reading the subtitle file) that Thelma tells Louise that Louise was raped and Louise does not deny it, just says she won't talk about it. http://books.google.com/books?id=ycIuGP3ZlVwC&pg=PA130 http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/5912496-rape-culture-thelma-and-louise Google: "thelma and louise louise raped in texas"
The screenwriter, herself, deliberately left some ambiguity that was partially filled in by the director: "Plus, to give her more depth and dimension, I knew something had to have happened to Louise, something she wasn't going to expose, and I didn't know what it was. I didn't know what had happened to her until about halfway through the screenplay. And she was never going to expose it, never going to open herself up like that again. Which is why she's sometimes hostile with Thelma, because she felt that if she had really tried, the whole thing could have been avoided, which is really how society fells.
[This "something" that happened to Louise was that she was raped in Texas several years earlier.] "I wouldn't let myself say she had been raped. I never said it in the screenplay. We added a reference to it toward the end because Ridley Scott, (the director), felt that people would come out of the movie going, 'Well, what did happen?'
"It doesn't really matter what happened to Louise. What happened to her happened to her. There are thousands and thousands of women walking around that have something in their past we don't know about, and they deserve to be treated with respect, whether we had anything to do with it or not." Interview by Syd Field, author of The Foundations of Screenwriting. http://www.sydfield.com/featured_calliekhouri.htm Whitis (talk) 03:45, 25 May 2013 (UTC)Reply
Movie pages often list iterary/cultural references, parodies, and homages to or by other films and other media. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%22In_popular_culture%22_content
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112571/movieconnections Whitis (talk) 02:31, 25 May 2013 (UTC)Reply
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103074/trivia?tab=mc&ref_=tt_trv_cnn Whitis (talk) 02:31, 25 May 2013 (UTC)Reply
Barney: "Hey, Thelma, Louise, y'all don't drive off no cliffs now, y'hear?" Whitis (talk) 02:31, 25 May 2013 (UTC)Reply
More can be found at: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103074/trivia?tab=mc&ref_=tt_trv_cnn i have only included references I have personally seen Whitis (talk) 02:31, 25 May 2013 (UTC)Reply
The link to the main article is "Thelma and louise" when the talkpage is saved under "Thelma and Louise" needing a redirect. Could someone please correct the link so a redirect isn't necessary? 72.239.133.237 (talk) 19:46, 1 January 2017 (UTC)Reply
Although the article text suggests that some scene or scenes may have been set in Oklahoma, that is all the connection with the state. It seems to me that is too tenuous to warrant listing to list it under WP:Oklahoma - especially as a Class C article. Bruin2 (talk) 19:49, 5 October 2017 (UTC)Reply
We've got a slow moving edit war about if this film is a comedy, drama, crime film, buddy film or what. While this has been going on for years, near as I can tell the word Comedy was first introduced as the genre of the film in August 2022 with this edit [1]. For most of the article's history it was not identified as a comedy, but granted many edits through the years have changed the genre of the film. While I grant the film does have a few jokes, such as when the police officer is locked in the trunk of a car in the Arizona desert, and a passing biker drops puts his marijuana into the air hole, I don't think it counts as a comedy. (Hilarious? That's technically torture. If this is a comedy, it's a dark comedy.) For one, the rape of the lead actor in the opening scenes is not a staple of comedy, and to me strongly favors drama. For the record imdb uses adventure crime drama however I did find this article that does not call the film a comedy but says it has elements of a comedy. However, what most disturbs me about this edit war is a user who has repeatedly inserted the word "comedy" with an edit summary of "unsourced". This is inappropriate, unsourced is a rationale to remove material, not add it. If someone knows of a definitive review that declares this a comedy please include it. However, barring such a review I don't think comedy is appropriate and plan to revert. I would be ok with either a drama or buddy film. To me those are the primary genres of the film.Dave (talk) 22:08, 18 January 2023 (UTC)Reply
References a person who was born in 2002. Unless time travel was invented, he is the wrong guy. I cannot find another candidate with that name on Wikipedia and IMDB references another person altogether: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0820660/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t27, that would be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_St._John. IMDB states he is "uncredited" though. 2001:9E8:6129:9B00:E133:9D72:B63C:862B (talk) 07:32, 22 June 2023 (UTC)Reply
I removed Kyle Smith's 2016 New York Post review from the Feminism section because as he is a known conservative columnist (written for the National Review) who has vocally criticized feminism and the Bechdel test (his own words:『women’s movie ideas aren't commercial enough for Hollywood studios』because "women tend to write movies about relationships, and men tend to write movies about aliens and shootouts") it does not feel relevant to the subject at hand to include his thoughts on a film with strong feminist themes. Spectrallights (talk) 06:44, 16 February 2024 (UTC)Reply