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How are women represented in Thelma and Louise and Fatal attraction? Feminism was the movement that came to the fore in the 1970s and 80s where women in western society campaigned for equal rights (and media representations) to men by, among other things burning their bras and dressing in male clothing (power-dressing), claiming, if they wanted to be treated the same as men they had to dress the same as men. In this hot, factious socio-political climate, Ian Ridley-Scott's Thelma and Louise (1991) and Adrian Lyne's Fatal attraction (1987) present very different representations of women. In this essay I will discuss these representations and the contexts and reactions to and theories about them. Thelma and Louise is about a mid-west road-trip with the titular women escaping their monotonous, servile, suburban lives. What was meant to be a short weekend fishing trip goes badly wrong when Louise (Susan Sarandon) shoots a man attempting...

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