Thelma & Louise: A Feminist ‘Easy Ride’ Alejandro Martínez Fernández College

In 1991, well-known sci-fi director Ridley Scott directed a revolutionary film, Thelma & Louise. Focused on two women, the film explores their unconventional road trip and their relationships with men. Written by a woman, Callie Khouri (who ended up winning an Academy Award for it), Thelma & Louise was not only found a very compelling movie but also, a controversial portrait of a society in which women were in process of liberation of the patriarchal constraints. However, it has another lecture if we take into account that it is a female version, or even a female “reply”, to another film dated from 1969, Easy Rider. Easy Rider was also a very revolutionary film for many reasons. Telling the story of two young bikers who crossed the United States to meet some peculiar characters along the way, this movie can also be categorized as a “road movie”, as well as Thelma & Louise. The revolution came by exploring many topics of the counterculture, such as drugs or the hippy movement. We must have in mind that the end of the sixties was a time marked by violence in the United States (the Manson family, police riots, the Vietnam war…). Also, in cinematic terms, this was a pioneer in playing hit songs in the soundtrack,...