The Female Gaze of Ridley Scott's Thelma & Louise (1991)
THELMA & LOUISE Directed by Ridley Scott Written by Callie Khouri ‘Thelma & Louise’ apart from being a pioneer of feminist cinema, is at heart a coming-of-age comedy-drama about two women. Thelma, played by Geena Davis, is a naive & indecisive woman, or she is forced to be so, rather. One of the apparent restricting factors is her controlling husband as she herself declares later in the film, but it is not just him if we start tracing the roots of her problem. Louise, played by Susan Sarandon, on the other hand, is a much active personality even at the beginning. She is the one who plans and makes things happen. She is the main decision-maker of the two and forces Thelma (who needs a break from her day to day life) to join her on a fishing trip as she wants her musician boyfriend to miss her when she isn’t home while he returns from his tour, and not talking to her in 3 weeks. A tough Texan woman, now working as a waitress in Arkansas, who hates to talk about her past spen
