How does Ridley Scott create and destroy gender stereotypes in Thelma and Louise?

In the 1991 film Thelma and Louise, the director Ridley Scott creates and destroys sex stomps successfully of that period in time and helps us to believe that the characters visualised by Susan Surandon and Geena Davis were real. Here are a few examples of sexual practice stereotypesIn the first chance of the movie, Thelma was in her kitchen wearing a frilly and ornate night gown and the ph unmatched was ringing and she c aloneed to her husband, Ill catch it.This shows that Thelma is a nursing home slave and Ridley Scott dipicts this as he films Thelma on a blue fish and when Thelmas husband Darryl walks into the kitchen, he is filmed on a low tiptoe to irritate him seem a lot bigger and fiercer than he really is. He is shown as already in his work uniform and this tells us that Thelma is a ho implement wife and her entire day is pent locked up deep down the house preforming chores. When Thelma is just ab verboten to ask Darryl if she can go for the weekend on a roadtrip with Louise, she got s automobileed and ended up asking him if he wanted any matter special for dinner that night. To which Darryl simply replies, Thelma, I dont give couple what we beat for dinner tonight. I might not even make it home from work tonight.This shows that Darryl is an unfaithful husband and is having an affair. Thelma suspects this and states, its funny how galore(postnominal) salutary deal want to buy a carpet on a Friday night. You would have thought they would have forgotten about it for the weekend.To that Darryl replies, well its a good thing your no regional manager whence, and I am.He and so swings his keys around on his finger as if to say, I am conk out than you, you are worthless.The second depiction I am passing to decompose is where Louise is at work in the diner that she work at and she is depicted as having her hair tied up in a smashing bun, showing her as a couped up child who just wants to break free of her immaginary prison. She is wear ing her usual uniform of a long sportsmanlike dress and apron. There is a pan shot of her at shopping centre level moving across the diner serving people as she goes. This shows that women in this time cannot have richlyly paid jobs and they must each be a housewife or work in a dead end, minimum wage job where she does not get the respect that she deserves.The next scene I am going to observe is the scene in which Thelma is packing fro her road trip with Louise later Darryl had left to go to work. She had never had as much fun in the first place and had never jammed like it. She didnt know what she should harbor, so she just topples the contents of her drawers into many suitcases, she then looks in her bedside cabinet and takes out her earings and finds a six-shooter that Darryl had minded(p) her to protect herslef when he was a t work. Thelma takes the revolver out and holds it with her catch and forefinger. This creates a gender stereotype as it shows that women aren t meant to hold guns. Thelma then drops it into wholeness of her suitcases as if she didnt know the full capabilities of what damage the small silver thing in her hands could do. Later on in the movie, Thelma brings out the revlver when she is in Louises car and turns to Louise and asks if Louise can take care of it. Louise replies shocked, goddamnit Thelma, why in the brilliance did you bring that?To which Thelma replies, snakes, bears, psycho killers. You never know what could happen, look can you take it? I dont even know how to use it.Well put it in my purse then, Louise replies.This shows that Louise is a much stronger woman than Thelma and she had become tough after what happened to her in Texas.The last scene I am going to strike which creates gender stereotypes is the scene in the bar where Thelma and Louise are sitting at a table in a Western bar and the hold back walks up to them and asks if they would like andything to drink. The work is in the same conditions that L ouise was in at the start of the movie in the diner. Louise states that she doesnt wnat any drinks, but Thelma orders 2 alcholholic drinks and the waitress nods and walks away. Louise looks surprised, Thelma Ive never seen you like this, youre always so sedateIve had it up to my stub with sedate Thelma smiles, I just want to let my hair down.This shows that Thelma is playing out of character and just wants to have fun. This is where the well dressed, well mannered, magical Harlan walks over to them. He is filmed on a very low angle.Well hello ladies, he says, isnt this place a bit approximately for bauties like you?Thelma is flattered by the attention that Harlan gives her, but Louise doesnt buy it. She realises what Harlan is quickly as it shows a man just like him flattered her back in Texas.Oh Im sorry, Louise states, were having hush-hush convorsation here.Oh right okay ladies, Harlan says, visabaly dissapointed.Thelma holds him back, no its okay. He can stay.The waitress returns and gives Thelma her drinks, youre not bothering these poor girls are you Harlan?Nah, Harlan replies, Im just being friendly.Your names Harlan? Thelma asks, I had an uncle named Harlan.Thelma then goes to leaping with Harlan and he spins her ao slip awayd many times making her very dizzy and in indispensability of fresh air. He is clearly taking advantage of her. Thelma states she need fresh air and Harlan takes her outside. Harlan then starts to take advantage of Thelma and then he says that he wont hurt her. This shows us that Harlan has no regard for Thelmas thoughts or feelings. Louise then bursts out of the bar holding the revolver that Thelma had put in her bag earlier and aims it at Harlan. Harlan just laughs and tells Louise to suck his dick. Louise then shoots Harlan in cold blood. This is the first real time that we get to see the gender stereotypes destroyed as women arent supposed to show violence. Harlans dead body is then shown at a high angle to show that hi s power and scariness from before had been torn away in an instant.Here is the second point of Ridley Scotts use of destroying gender stereotypes. This is the scene where Thelma and Louise meet up with young hustler JD and he asks for a ride. They drive with him and drop him off in the middle of a rainy city. Later on in the evening, JD knocks on Thelmas motel door and the two make passionate love. Then in the first light Thelma goes to see Louise at a caf and they talk and Louise realises that JD mustve stolen their money that Jimmy had given to Louise, the two women run back to their motel room frantically to find it ransacked and the money stolen.Louise collapses into separate as her last piece of energy and moral sense of self-worth are shattered. Thelma then takes control and is filmed on a high angle to signify that know she is taking control. The old Thelma is gone and the untested Thelma has taken her place. The new Thelma is the sort of Thelma who will do anything to su rvive.The next scene I am going to describe is the scene where Thelma and Louise stop to get a cup of coffee and when the two of them get back into the car, Thelma states that she is going to go and get some gum, so she takes Louises handbag with the pistol even so in it and goes into the nearest convenience store. When Thelma goes into the store, she pulls out the revolver and shouts to everyone, good morning ladies and gentlemen, this is a robbery, now if nobody loses their head then no one will lose their head.She then steals all the money from the till and runs out of the store shouting to Louise, drive Louise GoA store? You robbed a store? Louise asks pedantically.Well we needed the money didnt we? Now drive Thelma replies.This breaks the stereotype that all women must abide by the law at all times.The second to last scene I am going to describe is the scene where Thelma and Louise are driving through the desert when a constabulary officer flags them down for speeding. The of ficer then take Louise back to his car and starts calling his colleagues. Louise asks if she is in trouble and the officer nods, big trouble. Thelma then appears at the officers window and smiles at him and starts to flirt. The officer asks sternly for Thelma to return to her car, but Thelma produces the revolver and points it at the officers head and demands for Louise to take his gun and shoot out the radio set which she does, but then Thelma corrects her and says the practice of law radio.This shows that although this is a dark film, Ridley Scott adds in a piece of comic relief. Thelma and Louise lead the distressed police officer to the physical structure of his vehicle where Thelma shoots two air holes into the trunk and instructs the officer to get wrong at which point the officer bursts into tears and Thelma asks him if he had a wife to which the officer nods. Thelma smiles and tells him, you be nice to her. My husband wasnt nice to me and look how I ended up.On which not e, Thelma slams the lid shut upon the officer.The last scene I am describing is the scene at the end of the movie where Thelma and Louise have been evading the police successfully for a fair few minutes which breaks the stereotype that women are bad drivers, but they eventually get captured on the go on of the epic Canyon. Behind Louises convertible is about twenty police cars, a whirlybird and at least forty heavily armed officers. The helicopter lands and a few suited FBI actors get out, one of which is the one man in the forces who believes Thelma and Louises story.Thelma turns to Louise and tells her she cant go back to the way she used to be as she had love the experience. Louise nods and turns on the engines despite the officers warnings of opening fire if they did not give themselves up to be arrested. Louise slams the car forward toward the edge of the Grand Canyon. The only FBI Agent that believes them sprints after them so that the police will not fire. He shouts move to stop them, but Thelma and Louise are adamant. Their car flies off of the edge of the Grand Canyon and the screen flashes with images of the past two days adventure.In conclusion I believe that Ridley Scott provides the audience with a thrilling and super realistic insight into the sexism and gender stereotyping that was around in America at the time of the films release. I believe that this film teaches a lesson to all American men who were racist at the point of the films release.