Two Very Similar Films!!!
Did 'Thelma and Louise' plunder and plagiarize 'Bless the Beasts & Children', filmed 20 years earlier?

Should 'Thelma and Louise' have won the 1991 award for 'Best Ripped-off Screenplay'? You decide!
  
Thelma and Louise

   
 
1991:

  Thelma and Louise  

 

-- Additional Similarities --

 
 The characters' metamorphosis is reflected in their
 change to tougher gear as their increasingly dangerous
 journey proceeds: they wear hats, levis, jackets, and
 jeans, carry a gun, shoot, steal, fight back in chance
 encounters and resist attempts to dominate and control
 them
 
 The characters' metamorphosis is reflected in their
 change to tougher gear as their increasingly dangerous
 journey proceeds: they wear hats, levis, jackets, and
 jeans, carry a gun, shoot, steal, fight back in chance
 encounters and resist attempts to dominate and control
 them
 
 Teft's father would hate Shecker  Thelma's husband hates Louise
 Music in background while they are on the journey; 
 it mirrors their moods (joy and melancholy)
 Music in background while they are on the journey; 
 it mirrors their moods (joy and melancholy)
 Journey starts at Box Canyon Camp 
 (Grand Canyon is written on a bridge they drive under)
 Characters journey is stopped by the Grand Canyon

 Drive through empty mountain roads

 Drive through empty mountain roads

 Characters sing in vehicle on the way to their  destination

 Characters sing in car on the way to their destination

 Characters spirits' lift as they drive through the mountains

 Characters spirits' lift as they drive through the mountains

 Stock market conditions discussed in the background

 Stock market conditions discussed on the radio

 Pot use

 Alcohol use

 

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