As an avid movie watcher I have come across the wonderful film of “Thelma and Louise” about a year ago and the story of friendship and women empowerment was something quite different. Today I came across the article in Yahoo regarding this film in discussion to the memorable “fly off the cliff” ending in cinematic history. According to the article by Matt McDaniel, there was an alternate ending which reminded me about the semiotic reading of films. The original ending was to have the main characters fly off their ’66 Thunderbird convertible off the cliff and have the detective Hal chase after them and gaze down the canyon then gathering the police forces around as a montage of Thelma and Louise begin to play. It is said that the ending that we all know, shows a more hopeful ending, it manages to give the audience freedom to draw out the conclusion if the women survived or managed to go into a more metaphorical bitter sweet ending. As the ending shows them hold hands, drive off the cliff and the picture freezes with the car in mid air the screen goes into a white fadeout. McDaniel, discusses that when the movie was shown to audiences they said that the white fadeout gave a different meaning rather than actually seeing the car drop down. The semiotic readings really managed to alternate depending on the simple contexts of just seeing a car drop or freeze over, which I totally agree upon as I felt that the freezing of the car in mid air managed to show the women be more triumphant in their journey.
Article: http://blog.movies.yahoo.com/blog/1399-thelma-louise-opened-20-years-ago-almost-ended-differently
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