Straight away we know that this film is a Road movie and road movies are usually men so the convention has already been changed. Thelma and Louise are escaping from the law travelling through the middle of nowhere just like the men usually did in these types of films. We see a scan shot of the mountains focusing on the road which reinforces what type of film we are watching although it is involving woman not men.

During the beginning of the film the women seem very stereotypical. Louise is working as a waitress and Thelma is the little "housewife" at home in the kitchen. Her husband is very arrogant towards her and tr

We now encounter Louise's softer, weaker side. She rings Jimmy for help. They have no money and she needs him to get her some. She is admitting that she is dependent on him for that moment in time. At the same time Thelma meets J.D and she is finally set free. She sleeps with him which at the beginning of the film the audience could never of imagined her doing and she comes to breakfast smiling and happy. We, as an audience feel happy for her. Yet as we have seen all through the film Thelma is unlucky with men and J.D steals all their money but leaves her with a wonderful tip on how to rob stores for money. From this point on everything changes. Louise and Thelma switch roles. Louise knocks down her emotional walls and actually cries, she is showing us the weaker side of her, the true side of her and Thelma has broken free from the stereotypical chains that bound her down in society and labeled her weak and pathetic. She is no longer Thelma, housewife of Daryl she is now Thelma in her own person.

Both of them react differently after this. Louise acts very calm tries to stay in control and think what she is going to do yet Thelma handles it less well. She cries a lot and lets her emotions get the better of her showing she is still a very stereotypical woman. She then rings her husband suggesting that she is still dependent on him when she is going through bad times. Stereotypical women cannot cope on their own, yet Louise still keeps all her feelings about the shooting inside. Instead, she acts like a mother figure towards Thelma, looking after her.

There is a point in the film where the whole film itself changes. Both Thelma and Louise are equally dominant and equally happy and having fun. When they get pulled over by the policeman and Thelma holds a gun to his head. The policeman is crying representing policemen as weak so Thelma makes him get in the boot. But they are still not seen an evil as they c

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