Four Screenplays
Chapter One
Chapter One
The Phenomenon of Thelma and Louise:
Callie Khouri
When Thelma and Louise was first released in the spring of 1991, I
was conducting a screenwriting workshop for Austrian filmmakers in
Vienna, a city of great beauty and culture, the home of Mozart,
Beethoven, Goethe, Schiller, Strauss, Mahler, and Freud, to name just
a few, and more recently, the homeland of Billy Wilder and Arnold
Schwarzenegger.
That spring MGM was in financial turmoil and executive chaos, and it
was possible that many films that were on the verge of release might
be locked up in legal limbo until the traumatic events could play
themselves out.
One of the films that was affected was a moderately budgeted film
called Thelma and Louise, starring Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis,
written by Callie Khouri, and directed by Ridley Scott, director of
such highly stylized films as Blade Runner, Black Rain, and Aliens.
But after the legal hassles had been somewhat resolved and the film
finally opened, everybody in the Austrian film indu ... read full excerpt from: Four Screenplays ebook
