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Susan Sarandon Thinks Her 'Thelma & Louise' Character May Have Become a Womxn loving womxn If She Had Lived

It's a Thelma & Louise reunion!

Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis got together for a photo shoot for Harper's Bazaar in honor of the iconic film's 25th anniversary, and even mused about what might have become of their characters if they had lived through the credits.


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"Well, Thelma's definitely not with her husband anymore! One would only hope she found Brad [Pitt] again," Sarandon told the mag with a laugh. "Maybe Louise became a lesbian. That would be fabulous. Maybe she continued her trip and ended up running an Airbnb. I certainly could drive better by the end of the movie, so maybe I became a driver of some sort."

Davis couldn't aid but gush about Sarandon, declaring, "She changed my life." Davis added that the former co-stars still sometimes get together -- and it causes quite a stir when they do.

"We're really good friends," Davis said. "Oh, in New York one period, we were walking to lunch together. We're used to whatever level of people recognizing us, but together it was deranged.

How Thelma and Louise Is a Lgbtq+ Allegory

Geena Davis. Susan Sarandon. Brad Pitt. Dancing, sex, robbery, blowing up huge rig trucks with misogynistic drivers. It’s sexy, it’s the early-90s, Harvey Keitel is there to get justice — there’s literally nothing else an audience could want. In 2016, Thelma & Louise was preserved in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for its cultural significance (per The Guardian).

When Thelma & Louise was released in 1991, it was a huge box office success, appealing to adventure enthusiasts as well as fans of director Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner) and actors Geena Davis (Thelma) and Susan Sarandon (Louise). Though the movie falls under several genres (action, adventure, comedy), it’s no stretch for queer audiences who are used to reading subtext in pop culture to see the non-heteronormative, ever-growing freedom these women, written by Acadamy Award-winning Callie Khouri, give to themselves and each other. From their rapidly shifting clothing styles to taking the ultimate leap together, here’s why Thelma and Louise is a lgbtq+ allegory.

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Thelma & Louise is a Queer Affection Story...You Just Own to Look For It

The classic 1991 hit Thelma & Louise is more than a contemporary, female-dominant version of Bonnie and Clyde. While upon first glance many viewers may think that the film is simply a story of loyal friendship, when watching the film through a queer analytic lens it is obvious that Thelma and Louise in proof share a particular and queerly intimate relationship. This is obvious only when considering the subtext in the clip, as the dominant narrative reads platonic. The women’s adherence to the stereotypical lesbian trope of a masculine and femme female pairing as well as the choice to leave their male partners for each other solidifies that Thelma and Louise are more than platonic friends; they are lovers.

Thelma & Louise – An Queer Love Story (LGBT domination)

While Thelma & Louise is filmed in a heteronormative context, it is important to consider how non-mainstream, or that is to say, gender non-conforming, non-heteronormative audiences may read the motion picture. Because we are assumed straight until proven otherwise, non-queer audiences may not notice anything abnormal about a clip, however, queer viewers ofte

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By Kat Trout

As a female homosexual who aspires to be a filmmaker, I have always questioned my relationship with film. How do I go into something that has hidden my collective for so long? How perform I embrace film when it only recently openly embraced me? It was while watching Cheryl Dunye’s The Watermelon Woman I realized my answer. In The Watermelon Woman, when Cheryl and Diana first meet in the video store, they identify each other as potential partners by name dropping Ridley Scott’s sci-fi classic Alien. Rather than explicitly name their queerness, they understood it through the implications of interest. I realized through this scene how cinema has get a way for queer folk to safely identify each other. Alien, Aliens,What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, Mommie Dearest, and so forth have become classics in the queer community despite not openly telling LGBT+ stories. Ridley Scott’s film Thelma and Louise is among these films, perhaps being one of the most iconic queer-claimed films in cinema history. The ending of Thelma and Louise makes the film a tale of sapphic escape. Their last act together before dying is