Loved this year’s wonder woman or The Beguiled? Thank Thelma & Louise. Before its release, in 1991, movies about women were largely written and directed by men and offered a watered-down version of womanhood. This explains why studios were so reluctant to greenlight a script from an unknown female screenwriter, Callie Khouri, about two women who broke the rules and took men to task for their bad behavior, argues Becky Aikman in her new book, Off the Cliff: How the Making of Thelma & Louise Drove Hollywood to the Edge. But the film was a hit, and Khouri won an Oscar...
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