10 Even More Best "I'm Dead And I Know It" Movie Moments

5. "Just Drive" - Thelma & Louise

Raiders of the Lost Ark
MGM

Ridley Scott's Thelma & Louise touts one of the most famous and widely-parodied endings in cinema history, as the titular best friends on the run (Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon) are finally cornered by the FBI on the edge of the Grand Canyon.

Rather than go to prison or even face the electric chair for murdering a man who attempted to rape Thelma, she suggests they "keep going," and the pair exchange tearful glances as they each recognise the full extent of what that means.

Louise then drives the car off the Grand Canyon edge, hurtling through the sky before the image freeze-frames and fades to white mid-air, the precise outcome unknown but the grimly triumphant implication clear.

 
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