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Patreon, please visit patreon.com slash next picture show. It's very difficult to keep the line

between the past and the present. You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Welcome to the next picture show, a movie the week podcast devoted to a classic film and how it shaped our thoughts on a recent release. I'm Keith Phipps here with Scott Tobias. Genevieve Koski. Tasha Robinson is currently cruising the back streets and a hot 66thunderbird, but we have a special guest this week, Angelica Jade Bastien. Hello. For our next two episodes, we'll be talking about two films in which women exact violent vengeance on men who've wronged them in particular and the patriarchal system that allows those wrongs in general and, uh, ladies and gentlemen,

this is a robbery. Now, if no one loses their head, nobody will lose their head. Simon says,

lie down on the floor, please, right away. Genevieve, what are you doing? I'm robbing this podcast.

Why? Just seem like the thing to do. Again, why? I guess I'm just impressionable. I mean, I get it. In their own ways, both films in our pairing make life outside the law look pretty appealing and maybe kind of necessary, especially for women. Still not sure what robbing this podcast gets you, though, Genevieve. I'll back down then, for now. Want to make it up to us by telling us about our movies? I can do that. Released in 1991 with a picture of its protagonist smiling as they pose for a Polarite selfie, Thelma and Louise cast Susan Sarandon and Gina Davis as, respectively, Louise and Thelma, a pair of Arkansas friends who hit the road for Mexico after Louise kills Thelma's would-be rapist in a parking lot.

The longer their trip lasts, the deeper they sink into a crime spree, all while growing increasingly

comfortable with life as an outlaw. Thelma and Louise's impact includes contributing to a change

in female roles in action films. It was released the same summer as

Terminator 2. Its use of lawlessness as a way into a larger exploration of sexual inequality,

however, has been less imitated. The DC Comics film Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous

emancipation of one Harley Quinn takes some cues from it, however. Focusing on anti-hero

Harley Quinn, a former psychiatrist turned villainous, still getting over her split with the Joker depicted in the 2018 film Suicide Squad, Birds of Prey finds Harley tangling with the villainous black mask.

As she works to take him down, she forges tentative bonds with a group of women as invested in his downfall, if not always, for the same reasons.

This episode will revisit Dublin Louise exploring what made it so shocking 29 years ago,

considering how it looks today.

Then in the follow-up episode, we'll move from the American Southwest to Gotham City

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