Episode 136: Thelma & Louise

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2022

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

The BTS team discusses the design of the film's dual protagonists, the escalation of the stakes and pacing, and the story's enduring thematic resonance.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay, the podcast where each week we do a conversational deep dive analysis into a film.
0:13.7	Today, we're talking about Thelma and Louise, the 1991 film directed by Ridley Scott, screenplay by Callie Curry.
0:21.0	I'm joined by the Beyond the Screenplay team, Trisha Arand.
0:24.5	Hello, everyone.
0:25.7	Brian Bittner.
0:27.0	Hello, hello.
0:28.1	And Alex Galleros.
0:29.8	Hi.
0:31.6	Okay, so I'm excited to talk about this movie.
0:34.0	Before we do, to let everyone know what the next episode is on.
0:38.5	Our next film will be on the 2000 film Gladiator, which I have never seen start to finish.
0:46.4	Wait, what?
0:47.7	Whoa.
0:48.9	You've never seen Gladiator?
0:50.7	Wow.
0:51.7	Yeah, I know there's, you know, there's some fighting and, you know,
0:55.1	what's the name, Joaquin Phoenix is there.
0:57.8	There's some green.
0:58.9	I also gladiator.
1:00.5	Fields.
1:01.1	Yeah.
1:02.2	Anyway, so I'm excited to have to see this for the first time.
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