Talk:Thelma and Louise
Removed contributions of User:200.113.117.204. There is no such thing as a plutonium mine, so I also doubt the other trivia facts. pstudier 07:40, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
- they were all in the directors commentary of thelma and louise, ill try to see them what they were and discuss here what Scott sayd
# Scott fondly described actor Harvey Keitel as a rather childish actor, specially for one scene in which Keitel races another cop to the door bell (wich was improvised by Keitel).
from the directors commentary, time: 1:10:56
"That's Harvey... typical Harvey, having fun, he shoves the guy to one side as he race for the door.
Harvey is actually in many respects like a kid, harvey is a real kid... wich is one of his charming parts of his character, when you really get to know him."
# The old man from the abandonned plutonium mine and the ciclist were not actors, but rather real people that were hired on the spot (hence why they have no lines)
and on this matter, there are 2 different comments here, the first thing i must say, is that the ciclist is actually an actor, but theres a story on how i got confussed about it:
from the directors commentary, time: 1:39:58:
"Ive seen a rastafarian, on a mountain bike in that gear and i couldnt believe (...) we passed him and a mile ahead on i kept thinking about him and i sayd "Daisy, turn the car around and lets go back and find that guy". We found him and phtographed him and thats were i cast... the way the mountain biker looks on this"
and on the old guy, you were right, there are no plutonium mines, he was talking about a Uranium mine! (heh, they sound alike), anyways, heres the comment:
time: 1:19:9
"we found the oldman here, who lives in the trailer here, this is a minning community in the middle of Nowhere and was for uranium, all closed down, the oldman was 95 and had been a uranium miner and had only stopped minning 5 years before, physiclly"
- Film reviewer Roger Ebert was confronted by Oprah in her show, as he said that it was buddy movie, she replied that it was a movie about sisterhood, which made all the female audience to aplaud Oprah's view (it eventually ended up in Ebert doing one of his re-reviews of a film, wich has happened a few other times)
I found 2 Ebert reviews about Thelma & Louise, the first one [1] its a serious review, Ebert speaks of the movie in general lines. But, luckily i found the other review that backs up my previous statements [2]
Not long ago, I found myself discussing "Thelma & Louise" on the Oprah Winfrey program. "It's a female buddy movie," I said, meaning that as praise. "It isn't, either," a woman in the audience replied. "It's about sisterhood!" She got a rousing burst of applause. I wanted to ask her what the difference was between buddyhood and sisterhood, and then I realized something: That was the whole point.
So i was basicly wrong, but right at the same time... ok, i was just wrong. But my trivia was only wrong in 2 things: 1.-Oprah did not really "Confronted" Ebert, he basiclly talked about the movie with him, 2.- Oprah never sayd that it was about sisterhood, a woman in the audience sayd it.
But all in all, Ebert wrote a piece on it, but certainly did not re-wrote his first review he made. (still, its worth a mention, i think)
Utah vs. the Grand Canyon
editAlthough the scenes in the desert were filmed in Utah, the canyon that the women drive into is clearly meant to be the Grand Canyon. Just because the film was not shot on location doesn't mean that they were mistaken about what canyon they drove into. Joyous | Talk 22:37, 10 May 2006 (UTC)