The people who think this is dumb are the same people who think Inception is smart.
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Fresh to Las Vegas with no connections, Nomi Malone takes a job as an exotic dancer. Her talents are quickly noticed by Cristal, a headlining dancer who senses an opportunity to bolster her own act. But Nomi won’t play second fiddle and soon begins her venomous path to the top, ruthlessly backstabbing anyone who gets in her way.
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6What people say
My fiancé was expecting a movie about a stripper with one whole leg as a body. The poster misled him, and he was severely disappointed.
"They don't wanna fuck a Penny…they wanna fuck a Hope."Misunderstood even by some of its defenders as merely a satire of American greed and attendant dreams of stardom when its true target is the apparatus that sells those dreams to an endlessly returning audience of narcissistic suckers. All the more brilliant due to Verhoeven's staunch, heroic refusal to pander to good taste, not to mention the empathy he maintains for his lead character without ever letting her off the hook for her own culpability in the poisoned fantasy. That this movie continues to be "embraced" as unintentional camp (whether great camp -- and there's absolutely no reason this can't be that on top of everything else -- can ever really be an accident is another argument altogether) is only another example of Verhoeven exploiting peoples' ability to see whatever they need to.
Common questions
What is Showgirls about?+
A young drifter arrives in Las Vegas with ambitions of becoming a top-tier dancer, entering a cutthroat world of ruthless ambition and betrayal.
Who directed Showgirls?+
Showgirls was directed by Paul Verhoeven in 1995, a Dutch filmmaker known for his provocative, high-gloss studio features.
Has Showgirls won any awards?+
Showgirls famously swept the Golden Raspberry Awards upon its original theatrical release before later developing a massive cult following.
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