 Ridley Scott (qv) is very receptive to ideas from cast and crew  members on his films, and used many suggestions from  Susan Sarandon (qv) during production. Some ideas of Sarandons  that made the final cut of the film: the visual of Louise packing  her shoes in plastic bags while prepping for the ladys weekend  getaway in the mountains; the scene where Louise exchanges her  jewelry for the old mans hat; and the scene where Louise stops the  car in the desert at night and takes a personal moment looking at  the stars while Thelma sleeps in the car. That last scene idea took  half the night to light. Sarandon and her longtime partner  Tim Robbins (I) (qv) reworked most of the dialog in the sequence  between Louise and her boyfriend Jimmy at the hotel in Oklahoma  City. Originally that scene called for Louise and Jimmy to make love  and conduct an impromptu mock wedding ceremony. Sarandon felt that  having sex would be the last thing Louise would be interested in  doing at that point in the story and told Scott that if she  performed the sequence as written that they would have to include a  scene where Louise would wig out as a result. And prior to signing  on to do the film, Scott gave Sarandon his word that he would not  change the ending of the movie. She had just experienced that on her  last movie, _White Palace (1990)_ (qv), with the original, ambiguous  ending being scrapped in favor of a more upbeat one and did not want  "Thelma & Louise" to meet a similar fate.