Thelma and Louise - S.Bihary

            

   Thelma and Louise had a lot of different uses of editing that if analyzed, you can pick up multiple details. For example, if you watch the scene in the beginning when the two ladies, Thelma and Louise, are packing for their trip, you can pick up a lot about the differences in personality.  Louise packed the essentials and Thelma went a little crazy packing things just in case something happened.  Louise even made a few comments about all of the things that Thelma packed. If parallel editing was not used, the viewer would not have been able to see the differences in the way the woman packed. Parallel editing made it possible to basically compare the differences. This was effective because if they showed one character packing, and then the other one packing, the viewer might not get the point.  

                Something else that was important in the beginning and during that scene is noticing the way Thelma and Louise had their hair styled. Louise had her hair pulled up tightly, and Thelma had her hair down and kind of all over the place. I took this as a suggestion that Louise had plans, she had her life tightly organized. On the other hand, Thelma was kind of all over the place like her hair. She did not have any plans, she just went along with what Louise said or did.  In the end, you can see they both ladies had their hair all over the place. Neither one had an organized plan for life either. They were just going along with whatever worked at that point so they did not get caught. 

 

                Something that I also found interesting with this film is how in the opening part, it goes from a black background and then dissolves into the desert background. This is important because after watching the film, you realize that the beginning is actually where Thelma and Louise end up. This is an example of putting a scene in the movie and the referring to it again revealing that it actually plays a big part, even if it did not seem important at the time. 

                I also enjoyed the shot in the end when you are looking through the barrel of the officer's gun. Using the point of view camera view was very effective.  It really helped building up the suspense for me. When I first saw the scene, I definitely thought that it was going to be the ending and they the officer was going to shoot the woman since they were not cooperative and were armed and extremely dangerous. When the camera angle was changed to show the officer, I still was not sure if he was going to shoot or not, but it was suspenseful since you knew he had good aim and could end everything at any moment. 

                Towards the ending, when the police cars were chasing Thelma and Louise, the jump cuts were extremely effective. They helped build the suspense because it really built up the energy of the scene when you got multiple views of how many cars were actually behind them. This is like the car chase example that we viewed in the editing module. It is much more exciting and keeps the viewer's attention better by cutting to different camera angles to see the cars chasing the suspect or suspects.

                Overall, I was impressed by this movie. There were many different filming techniques used throughout it. For the first time, I found myself pointing out the different techniques used to my family as we watched a movie. As I taught them the different words used for different techniques, they also said that they understand how they are effective and that the film would not be as superior as it is without them.