Word: thelma
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...watching "Bonnie and Clyde" is a little bit like traveling back in time. It features Faye Dunaway, Warren Beatty, Gene Hackman and Gene Wilder, long members of the Hollywood annals of stardom, in one of their debut performances. It also provides the escapistoutlaw inspiration for some contemporary faves like "Thelma and Louise" and "A Perfect World." But the outlaw-chase film is at its very best with "Bonnie and Clyde...
...cackle wildly every time they sharpen the butcher knife are neither "tired of hearing about victims" nor eager to honor them. They're tired of being victims. And they're eager to see women fight back by whatever means necessary. Probably it all started when Louise -- or was it Thelma? -- dispatched that scumball would-be rapist in the parking lot of a bar. In fact, we can't get enough of warrior-woman flicks: Sigourney Weaver in Alien, Linda Hamilton in Terminator II, Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct. These are ladies who wouldn't slice anything off, one suspected, unless...
Nancy Archer is the goofy, exaggerated incarnation of a character we know well: she is every Victorian heroine anguished by her own passivity, every sit-com wife stuck in a split-level with a Michelob-loving numbskull. She is the woman who has had enough -- Thelma or Louise, or Lorena Bobbitt minus a kitchen knife...
...Thelma and Louise" at 10 p.m. What would it belike to be pushed over the edge of a cliff? Thisfilm takes the metaphor built into such a questionand turns it into a plot...
...Thelma and Louise...