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Patreon Raffle #6: Showgirls (feat. Walt Lewellyn) (Patreon)

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Reviled by audiences and critics alike upon release and vehemently reclaimed as a cutting satire of American capitalism's evil culture of sexual commodification by the girls and the gays, Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls was chosen for discussion by raffle winner Hazel, allowing us to once again pay our respects to the patron saint of this podcast. To help us dissect this incredibly rich text of a film people were clearly not prepared for in 1995, we're joined by Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook. Leave your inhibitions at the door. And be careful, because everybody got AIDS and shit.

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AN ADDENDUM: Hey everyone, So it came to our attention that we got a couple things wrong in our Showgirls episode, as well as some stuff that could probably have used some more context that we either didn't get to (due to flow of our conversation steering us away from it, bypassed it for time, etc.) or just didn't quite give enough grace. For one, Cole's entire spiel about this movie being one of the last processed in Technicolor is incorrect: what we know as Technicolor in the classic sense was basically phased out in the 1950s, and what Cole seems to be actually referring to is the dye transfer process, which was begun only a few years after Showgirls. So yeah, Africa Checked. Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas was also more of a controversial and thorny figure than we were able to discuss. The story behind the production of the movie as it concerned his relationship with Verhoeven beyond simply stating that the two of them were at great odds with each other after Basic Instinct is more complex than simply "the two had a falling out" as it concerned the movie's making itself. And while a lot of critics treated this movie with total disdain and bewilderment (due in large part to the movie being mismarketed as an "erotic" and "sexy" time at the movies), the critical reappraisal didn't take all that long, certainly not a generation. Nor was it wholly defined by "dumb people who just didn't get it" so to say. If you can, we recommend checking out Showgirls: It Doesn’t Suck by Adam Nayman for an in-depth history of its reception and reclamation, from which the quote of "masterpiece of trash" Walt referenced from the documentary You Don't Nomi comes from.   If you're subscribed to the Hit Factory podcast Patreon, we also recommend their episode on Showgirls (https://www.patreon.com/posts/showgirls-feat-61116422?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_fan&utm_content=join_link) which touches on some aspects we didn't for the sake of not repeating any of their points. Thank you as always for listening, and we're cooking up some more bonus content for you all to enjoy! Love, Nicole