Abstract
Ridley Scott’s 1991 film Thelma & Louise is a feminist film that bitterly criticizes masculinity and the patriarchal system set up to sustain male power. The film visualizes the subversion of masculinity and femininity. Thelma and Louise as the female main characters no longer are represented within the regime of woman as victim but rather go beyond the male-centered boundary and transform their roles as subjects to resist male violations and the male-centered system. For this reason, Ridley Scott transforms Thelma and Louise into law breakers. Focusing on the concepts of violation and power, this paper analyses the ways in which the movie Thelma and Louise criticizes and overturns the system of female representation in classical Hollywood films by exploring how the characters of Thelma and Louise become law breakers.
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