- Notice how Callie Khouri weaves Louise’s backstory into the way she views how the world works.
PAGE 10
ATTENDANT
There’s a place straight down this
road... you ladies like to dance?
LOUISE
None of your business.
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This place is jumpin’... pool tables with crowds... long bar
filled with customers... dense with smoke... dance floor.
Heads turn and follow Thelma and Louise to an empty table.
LOUISE
I haven’t seen a place like this
since I left Texas.
PAGE 12
MAN
What are a couple of Kewpie dolls
like you doin’ in a place like
this?
LOUISE
(coldly)
Mindin’ our own business, why don’t
you try it.
PAGE 13
WAITRESS
Harlan, are you bothering these
poor girls?
HARLAN
Hell no. I’m just bein’ friendly.
WAITRESS
(making eye contact with
Louise)
It’s a good thing they’re not all
as friendly as you.Louise understands.
PAGE 14
THELMA
It’s just all your years of waitin’
tables has made you jaded, that’s
all.
THELMA
Maybe. I just didn’t like the way
he was lookin’ at you. He was
makin’ me nervous.
PAGE 15
Thelma is breathless, drunk and giggly. She holds a beer
bottle in one hand. She is laughing a lot about nothing, and
Harlan is studying her closely. Louise notices this.
PAGE 20
LOUISE
Just for the future, when a woman’s
crying like that, she’s not having
any fun.
PAGE 22
LOUISE
Only about a hundred people saw you
cheek to goddamn cheek with him all
night, Thelma! Who’s gonna believe
that!? We just don’t live in that
kind of a world.
PAGE 48
THELMA
No, Louise. How come you never said
what happened?
LOUISE
(visibily shaken)
... if you blow a guy’s head off
with his pants down, believe me,
Texas is the last place you wanna
get caught! Trust me!
Louise looks very shaken up. She keeps here eyes on the road
but she’s holding the steering wheel so tightly, her
knuckles are white. She does not look at Thelma. Suddenly
she reaches over and locks her door.
PAGE 85
LOUISE
No physical evidence. We can’t
prove he did it. We probably can’t
even prove he touched you by now.
THELMA
God. The law is some tricky shit,
isn’t it? How do you know ’bout all
this stuff anyway?
Louise does not answer the question.
LOUISE
Besides, what do we say about the
robbery? No excuse for that. No
such thing as justifiable robbery.
PAGE 101
THELMA
(carefully)
It happened to you... didn’t it?
Louise knows what she is talking about. She becomes
immediately agitated.
LOUISE
I don’t want to talk about it!
Thelma, I’m not kidding! Don’t you
even...
THELMA
... in Texas... didn’t it? That’s
what happened... Oh my God.
LOUISE
(vehemently)
Shut up! Shut up, Goddamnit,
Thelma! You just shut the fuck up.
PAGE 123
THELMA
Hey. Where’d you learn to shoot
like that?
LOUISE
Texas.
PAGE 107
PATROLMAN
Ma’am, please... I’ve got kids... a
wife.
THELMA
You do? Well, you’re lucky. You be
sweet to ’em. Especially your wife.
My husband wasn’t sweet to me and
look how I turned out. Now go on,
get in there.