Never saw Heat, but I think something similar could be said for Mr. Orange (?) in Reservoir Dogs. But I understand it’s a plot device, so not really something addressing the OP.
The last scene is a reprise of the jump by Butch and Sundance. Thelma and Louise survive the plunge into the Colorado River (it’s as credible as Butch and Sundance surviving their jump) and they are rescued by Seldom-Seen-Smith a Mormon Fundamentalist who lives in a hidden, Garden of Eden, canyon that is unknown to the Park Service. Seldom takes both as his wives and they all live out their years as eco-terrorists, preying on lumber and wildlife poachers in the park.
Call me an optimist.
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My take on that was that the entire body served as a life-support device for the little dude inside the big dude’s head while he was on our planet. When the head opens up, you can hear what sounds like an air-tight seal being broken, so the idea that the atmosphere inside the big dude is different from the atmosphere outside is valid. Perhaps once the big dude was disabled, the little dude’s time was running out and opening up the big dude’s head was actually just a sort of mercifully quick end.
Yeah, the bug knew they weren’t really humans, so I imagine he made sure to hit the right spot to take out the life support system.
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I think the best part of this movie is that Thelma & Louise don’t act the way women typically act in films and novels. They act the way *men *get to act in movies and novels - i.e., doing whatever the hell they wanted, blowing shit up, abusing the opposite sex, drinking what they wanted, eating what they wanted, screwing whoever they wanted - consequences be damned.
I also think they were caught up in the moment at the end. They’d had the best times of their lives (despite all the bad things that had happened on their travels), nothing could top that elation, and they couldn’t imagine putting their newfound lifestyles back in the cupboard and returning to their previous lives. Going back to their old lives would have been its own kind of death sentence for them.
Ahh! Thank you for reminding me about this.
In Zombieland, the two girls say they are sisters.
Assuming that’s the truth (and IIRC, they give us no reason to question their relationship), why, then, would one be called “Talahassee” and one be called “Witchita”? The characters’ nicknames are all supposed to indicate the city where they come from - so if the girls really were sisters, wouldn’t they both be from the same city?
That annoyed me alllll throughout the film. Also, for some reason I’m the only person on the planet who does not like Emma Stone.
Why would they, in particular? By the time I was eighteen, I’d lived in four different cities. If my parents had had a second kid when I was, say, ten, my sib and I would have two different birth cities. On top of that, the girls were professional grifters before the apocalypse. They lie for a living. They act like sisters even when there’s no one else around, so that much is probably (but not certainly) true, but I wouldn’t particularly expect anything else they tell the other characters to be factual, including their claims about where they were born.