Showgirls (1995)

All About Eve 42nd Street

We first meet Nomi ("no me") as a switchblade-wielding wildcat hitchhiking her way to Vegas

Stardust Hotel

emotionally, she's an open wound and physically, she's spastic, which makes for a volatile combination on and off the dance floor (she kicks more than an unbroken horse). Her "erotic" dancing looks like a failed attempt at inventing a new martial art, and later she seems to do just  that, with a scene of topless roundhouse ass-kicking that might be called "sex-boxing."

a hall-of-mirrors satire of American culture that is simultaneously sexist and critical of sexism

plentiful nudity

orgiastic production design with wildly garish color

saw it as an MGM musical

blazingly bad script by Joe Eszterhas

Molly Abrams (), good-hearted seamstress

Cristal Connors (Gina Gershon) "Goddess" floor show

Zack Carey (Kyle MacLachlan), the Stardust's entertainment director

Glenn Plummer

Cheetah Club Al (Robert Davi)

Alan Rachins

gleefully profane

bond over having "nice tits" and having eaten dog food

brutal rape