After the great success of "Instinct", Dutch director Paul Van Howen came to make a movie about the Crusades. The movie had already begun to be set in Europe, but the production company Carolco Pictures had financial problems, and the film was eventually aborted. .
Afterwards, Paul Van Hoven told the instinctual screenwriter Joe Eszterhas that he liked MGM’s classic musicals and wanted to make a musical. The two hit it off and the showgirls of "Showgirls" were born. As the first NC-17 film to be screened in mainstream theaters, "Showgirls" is very topical. The producer MGM arranges many staff in movie theaters across the United States to check the age of the audience to prevent audiences under the age of 17 from entering the venue.
Logically speaking, there is no reason why the film is unsuccessful for a big director, a big production costing $40 million, and a large-scale controversial sex topic.
The result was shocking. The box office of the film was only 20 million U.S. dollars that year, sweeping the Golden Plum Award for the second year. Paul Van Hoeven was very generous to the scene to receive the Worst Director Award (Paul was the first to receive the award. Winners).
The mainstream media in the United States has a wave of bad reviews, one-sided bad reviews, and a variety of harsh comments. The media's vicious evaluation of the heroine Elizabeth Berkeley's passionate play in the swimming pool is not passionate at all, like a great white shark fluttering in the water;
I also criticized the film for being totally obscenely American with European directors, and it was not grounded at all.
Paul van Hoven still cherishes these comments many years later, saying that these bad comments almost ruined his career as a director.
And the heroine Elizabeth Berkeley was so badly abandoned by the agency that she had no play to pick up. This very promising actress was buried in this way, and she never played an influential role again.
After that, the showgirls showgirls became popular in the video tape rental market. They rented out 100 million U.S. dollars in sales, making them one of the top 20 best film and video tapes sold by MGM.
The film attracted a group of die-hard fans and vindicated the film.
Gina Gershon, the actor of the female number two Cristal, repeatedly said on different occasions after many years: "If you really hate the Showgirls movie, why do you always discuss it?" The implication is that many people actually love it. Movies.
For the author, this movie is a memory of youth. In the summer of graduating from high school, as a regular VIP of the VCD store, the boss quietly gave me this Showgirls and said: "Movies that can't be put on show, take them back, they must be good-looking!" This is the first time for the young author to see the luxury of capitalism. Topless dancing, a few sex scenes close to the scale of adult AV, the cruel and ironic plot, it is so good to watch. Many years later, I went to Las Vegas in person, standing on the midnight street watching the turbulent crowds and the black people holding their signs to help solicit customers from the dance club. Recalling this enlightenment movie, I watched the new Blu-ray version again immediately after returning home. After reading it again, I just want to say that Showgirls is a masterpiece that has been misunderstood.
First, tear off the erotic coat of Las Vegas sensual dogma. Showgirls is actually an inspirational film about breaking the class and pursuing freedom, and it is a cruel life and workplace story dressed in an erotic film coat.
The protagonist Nomi was domestically abused since she was a child, and then fell into the dust. She was cheated of luggage and all her belongings when she first arrived in Las Vegas. Even if she has a good dance skill and a hot body, she can only dance and sell meat in the lowest-end strip clubs. Make a living. After finally seizing the opportunity to enter the top song and dance show, he will still be pimped out and secretly. I tried my best to make the top card on the show, but "prostitute" is like an inescapable label.
Nomi found that even if he became a big star on the show, he was still a "chicken" in the eyes of powerful bosses, just a little more advanced.
In the end, Nomi taught the singer who raped his girlfriends with violence, gave up the glitz of the casino, and went back on the road. Showgirls has a very high degree of completion of the story line. The sex scene is just an ornament. It is essentially a story of low-level girls seeking survival in the patriarchal and money society. In the review of the case for Showgirls, this is a satirical film. The movie is indeed full of irony.
The well-known singer is a violent rape abuser in private.
The top card on the show very transparently agrees that his essence is the identity of a "chicken";
In addition to being a superstar on the stage, the position of the top card must be free to go out to sleep with the unspoken rules; the "dancer" who keeps putting love and dance ideals first in order to trick different female partners into telling the same lies;
The casino owner is very good at acting every time, and a set of compliments praises different celebrities at different press conferences; the first card that can’t dance is worthless and will soon be forgotten; at the end, Nomi left the casino highway and Nomi’s large advertisement on the highway was even better. The irony has reached its climax, Show must go on people are like flowing water, only money is eternal, and Nomi's departure is more like a declaration of war against Quan Se's contempt.
In addition to irony, Showgirls will poke the audience with the cold reality from time to time. In Cheetah Nomi, you can’t keep your self-esteem, you have to go to the small room to dance the private bell for 500 dollars. In Stardust's high-level show, Nomi can't keep her self-esteem. At first, Nomi could not accept the request to apply ice cubes to her nipples before going on stage, and to make her nipples fuller during the performance, so she gave up the job opportunity of Stardust in anger. I finally got the Offer. Before going on stage, the program producer held the ice cube and signaled Nomi to apply ice. Nomi hesitated and put the ice on the nipple without hesitation.
After being poked, the film is not lacking in warmth. The mean program director heard that Nomi had mispronounced Versace, so he hesitated and politely followed the mispronunciation. After Nomi moved from Panther to Star, Panther's warm-up mother and boss came to visit Nomi and the audience was a little moved. The misguided choreography of the black dancers who swindled the guns was not seen at all, but they married their partners as their wives.
Many years later, directors Paul Verhoeven and Gina Gershon had an audience discussion meeting,
Some viewers asked that Showgirls is a movie that survives in an environment full of "asshole", and Paul Van Hoeven agreed. Paul van Hoeven complained that MGM was only selling meat when propagating, labeling the movie as erotic movie, desperately propagating how erotic the movie is, but in fact this is a serious drama about survival. Back to the topic of where Showgirls looks good, of course, the luxurious topless cabaret show is beautiful. Not everyone has the opportunity to go to Paris to watch the Crazy Horse Show and Las Vegas to watch the topless show.
The cost of 40 million US dollars is not covered. Several shows with different themes including volcanic eruption, star and moon romance and SM wind leather motorcycle themes are all pleasing to the eye.
Especially the opening show of the volcanic eruption in the movie, which was staged three times, although it was the same show, the purpose of each show was different. The first time was Nomi's first experience of a top-level show off the stage. Cristal’s style was unmatched.
Show Nomi and the audience the top show style of Las Vegas;
The second time was Nomi's debut as a dancer in the Stardust Show. Although he was uncomfortable at the first appearance, he soon began to shine and gain a firm foothold;
The last time Nomi came on the court as the lead dancer.
Top topless shows are good-looking, as are the pole dances in erotic strip clubs. Nomi has two naked and sexy pole shows in Cheetah, which are completely different from the elegant and erotic style of the show, and not everyone has the opportunity to go to the United States. Wouldn't it be nice to have fun in the strip club and watch it through the movie?
A few large-scale erotic scenes must be beautiful. Nomi watched Zac directly in the cheetah dance private clock, Cristal watched with a smirk, and the scene was beautiful;
Nomi's passionate scenes in the pool and Zac are comparable to adult AV, champagne showers, and blowjobs in the water. They are so good-looking. Cristal and Nomi fell in love and killed the lesbian lace bridge is also a bright spot, Gina Gershon and Elizabeth Berkley (Elizabeth Berkley) on the screen is very chemical reaction, the meaning of the two kisses is completely different, very interesting .
Gina Gershon interprets Cristal as a sexy little wild cat, a bit erratic and difficult to figure out, jealousy and possessive of wanting to play, make Nomi play dizzy.
The last two people kissed goodbye in the hospital regardless of their previous suspicions. In addition to the emotional chemistry between the two, it is more because the sisters of the same class can understand each other and sympathize with each other. This Kiss is definitely the best and hottest lesbian. One of the shots of Lace Kiss.
From rave reviews to being regarded as a classic by many people, Showgirls has many diehard fans. For example, Michelle Visage in Rupaul Dragrace stated that Showgirls is one of his favorite movies in the reality show. Rupaul even arranged a Cos Showgirls spoof movie in All Stars2 broadcast in 2017, starring Roxxy Andrew and Phiphi Ohare,
Telling the story of Nomi after leaving Las Vegas and restoring the small details of the movie, Phiphi Ohare imitated the movement of the hand in the volcanic eruption show, throwing beads and falling down, making fans who are familiar with the movie very happy. . Some stalks in Showgirls also began to circulate on the Internet. Nomi has never worn an Italian brand suit. Nomi, who made a small profit, bought a Versace dress. When he reported to the show administration department, he pronounced Versace as Ver-sayce, and Zac corrected the pronunciation.
Cristal, who fell in love and killed him, would naturally not let go of this opportunity to make fun of Nomi, and deliberately pronounced Versace as Ver-sayce to mock Nomi during the meal.
In the Rupaul show, guests will say funny that they are wearing Ver-sayce, and those who have not watched the movie will be inexplicable. Audiences who know this stalk will naturally smile. Obviously, the students in the subtitle group did not know the meaning of this joke and did not translate Ver-sayce's stalk. Many years later, the creators were interviewed and asked why the movie was criticized.
Gina Gershon thinks that it is because the ratings of NC-17 have misunderstood the audience. Now HBO TV is full of naked scenes, and the audience doesn't feel much about it. Paul Van Hoeven felt that the film was defeated by the conservative American social ethos. In fact, the film is very popular in Europe, especially in France.
Elizabeth Berkeley aggrieved on the Allen Show and said that she had done nothing wrong, but only acted in a movie. The feeling of being attacked by the media is really uncomfortable.
Time has passed. After more than 20 years, Showgirls has been regarded as a classic. For those of you who have never watched a movie, look it up!
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