They say that the Thelma y Louise It was the first selfie in the history of cinema, the photo from the beginning of his trip. Her story, that of two women on the road riding a ’66 Thunderbird convertible turns 30, and his legacy still endures.
The film, a film halfway between a road movie and the unusual western at the time, marked a milestone in put the focus of attention on the female protagonist. Until then, we were used to another type of cinema focused on the female audience from a male perspective. He broke with the stereotype and the normative image of women in the cinema until then, as recognized by Ana Palacios, director of ‘Mujeres de cine’.
That caused controversy. Few in the study saw the project with good eyes, “in Hollywood they did not quite trust and no director wanted to take charge of the story,” says José Madrid, a journalist for ‘Vanitatis’. Tape openly showed violence against women and aroused a debate that until then had been dormant: his defenselessness against the system.
Her message of feminism and sisterhood, women friends and not rivals, were not so popular terms in the early 90s, which began to open that gap in society. Ana Palacios considers that many women “must have felt” that they could take a step forward. “More than a movie, it ended up being a phenomenon, and proof of this is that there are groups of women who go to the Colorado Canyon every year to do the same tour of the movie.
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