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Off the Cliff: How the Making of Thelma & Louise Drove Hollywood to the Edge
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Overview
“You’ve always been crazy,” says Louise to Thelma, shortly after she locks a police officer in the trunk of his car. “This is just the first chance you’ve had to express yourself.”
In 1991, Thelma & Louise, the story of two outlaw women on the run from their disenchanted lives, was a revelation. Suddenly, a film in which women were, in every sense, behind the wheel. It turned the tables on Hollywood, instantly becoming a classic, and continues to electrify audiences as a cultural statement of defiance. But if the film’s place in history now seems certain, at the time its creation was a long shot. Only through sheer hard work and more than a little good luck did the script end up in the hands of the brilliant English filmmaker Ridley Scott, who saw its huge potential. With Scott on board, a team willing to challenge the odds came together—including the stars Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon and a fresh-faced up-and-coming actor named Brad Pitt, as well as legends like actor Harvey Keitel, composer Hans Zimmer, and old-school studio chief Alan Ladd Jr.—to create one of the most controversial movies of all time.
But before icons like Davis and Sarandon got involved, Thelma & Louise was just an idea in the head of Callie Khouri, a thirty-year-old music video production manager, who was fed up with working behind the scenes on sleazy sets. At four a.m. one night, sitting in her car outside the ramshackle bungalow in Santa Monica that she shared with two friends, she had a vision: two women on a crime spree, fleeing their dull and tedious lives—lives like hers—in search of a freedom they had never before been able to realize. But in the late 1980s, Hollywood was dominated by men, both on the screen and behind the scenes. The likelihood of a script by an unheard-of screenwriter starring two women in lead roles actually getting made was remote. But Khouri had one thing going for her—she was so inexperienced she didn't really know she would be attempting the nigh impossible.
In Off the Cliff, Becky Aikman tells the full extraordinary story behind this feminist sensation, which crashed through barricades and upended convention. Drawing on 130 exclusive interviews with the key players from this remarkable cast of actors, writers, and filmmakers, Aikman tells an inspiring and important underdog story about creativity, the magic of cinema, and the unjust obstacles that women in Hollywood continue to face to this day.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780143131489 |
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Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
Publication date: | 08/07/2018 |
Edition description: | Reprint |
Pages: | 320 |
Product dimensions: | 5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.90(d) |
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Table of Contents
Prologue-Beverly Hills, July 24, 1989 1
Chapter 1 Once In Ten Lifetimes 9
Chapter 2 Prostitutes and Empty-Headed Blondes 19
Chapter 3 "Next! Next!" 26
Chapter 4 Wielding A Graceful Cleaver 32
Chapter 5 Tits And Bullets 42
Chapter 6 Unlikable 51
Chapter 7 The Epic In Ridley Scott's Head 58
Chapter 8 D-Girls 68
Chapter 9 Playing a Different Game 76
Chapter 10 The Right Man for the Job 86
Chapter 11 The Curse of Katherine 93
Chapter 12 Who's Playing Whom? 100
Chapter 13 "Good Luck, Honey!" 109
Chapter 14 A Fresh Eye on America 119
Chapter 15 Real Characters 126
Chapter 16 "The Blond One!" 136
Chapter 17 The Girls in the Thunderbird 144
Chapter 18 Hot as a Pistol 153
Chapter 19 Bad Boys 161
Chapter 20 The Kid Enters the Picture 170
Chapter 21 What the Fuss is About 175
Chapter 22 Owning the Road 186
Chapter 23 Somethings Crossed Over 198
Chapter 24 Ready, Steady, Blow 208
Chapter 25 Off the Cliff 218
Chapter 26 Keep On Flying 324
Chapter 27 Massacre at the Multiplex 232
Chapter 28 The Snowball Effect 242
Chapter 29 Who Killed Thelma and Louise? 253
Chapter 30 A Film Of Their Own 262
Epilogue-Santa Monica, March 30, 1992 267
Acknowledgments 271
Notes 273
Index 295