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"You've been crazy," says Louise to Thelma, soon after she locks a officer in the trunk of his car. "This is just the first chance you've had expressing yourself." In 1991, Thelma & Louise, the storyplot of two outlaw women on the run from other disenchanted lives, was a revelation. Suddenly, a film in which women were, atlanta divorce attorneys sense, behind the wheel. It switched the tables on Hollywood, instantly learning to be a classic, and continues to electrify people as a ethnic affirmation of defiance. If the film's place in history now seems certain, at that time its creation was a long shot. Only through sheer effort and greater than a little all the best performed the script end up in the hands of the brilliant English filmmaker Ridley Scott, who saw its huge potential. With Scott onboard, a team willing to challenge the odds came along - like the personalities Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon and a fresh-faced up-and-coming actor known as Brad Pitt, as well as legends like actor Harvey Keitel, composer Hans Zimmer, and old-school studio key Alan Ladd Jr. - to generate one of the very most controversial movies of all time. But before symbols like Davis and Sarandon acquired engaged, Thelma & Louise was just a concept in the top of Callie Khouri, a 30-year-old music video recording production manager who was sick and tired of working behind the displays on sleazy sets. At four a.m. one night time, sitting down in her car beyond your ramshackle bungalow in Santa Monica that she distributed to two friends, she had a vision: two women on the criminal offenses spree, fleeing their dreary and boring lives - lives like hers - in search of a freedom that they had never before been able to realize. But in the later 1980s, Hollywood was dominated by men, both on the display screen and behind the displays. The probability of a script by an unheard-of screenwriter starring two women in lead jobs actually getting made was distant. But Khouri had one thing choosing her - she was so inexperienced she didn't really know she'd be making an attempt the nigh impossible. In Off the Cliff, Becky Aikman says the full remarkable tale behind this feminist sensation, which crashed through barricades and upended convention. Drawing on 130 exclusive interviews with the key players from this remarkable ensemble of actors, freelance writers, and filmmakers, Aikman says an inspiring and important underdog tale about creativity, the magic of theatre, and the unjust hurdles that women in Hollywood continue steadily to face to this day.

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