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...decisions, control their own destiny. In fact, according to Mimi Polk, Thelma & Louise's producer, the movie did not "pitch well" to studio executives: "The script was full of subtlety that was lost in a two-sentence description." Polk feels, as well, that had she and her partner, Ridley Scott, proposed two male stars in the lead, they could have got a budget heftier than the $17.5 million they ultimately spent...
THELMA & LOUISE Directed by Ridley Scott; Screenplay by Callie Khouri...
...Ridley Scott's movie pays direct, imagistic homage to at least three of these predecessors. And first-time writer Callie Khouri remains true to convention in two important respects: her road-running pair are lovably eccentric; and they are, in the largest sense, innocents. The uncomprehending world may see them as the dangerous perpetrators of a colorful crime spree. We, however, are encouraged to understand them not as public enemies but as public victims. It's an unfeeling society that is really responsible for their wicked deeds...
When the two Germanys prepared to unite last year, one allied anxiety concerned what kind of extraterritorial stormtrooper the reborn Fatherland might prove to be. In July, Nicholas Ridley, then Britain's Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, publicly stated what many privately thought when he said that proposals for a European Community common currency were "a German racket designed to take over the whole of Europe." World War II, he added, was "useful to remember...
...Bonn's partners in the E.C. and NATO, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, is the head of Britain's bothered-about-Germany group, which includes politicians like former Trade Minister Nicholas Ridley and a tabloid- fed, anti-German segment of the public. "Their specific fears are hard to pin down," says Adrian Hyde-Price, a specialist on Germany at Southampton University. "It's not about Germans pulling on their jackboots and marching into Poland. It's fear about a tendency toward neutralism, and that with its enormous economic power, Germany will assert itself and be less willing to defer...