
Showgirls, Jade, and the fall of Joe Eszterhas. (Erotic 90’s, Part 14)
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The Differences Between Showgirls and Other Ester Huss Movies
showgirls may actually be joe ester huss's least misogynistic movie at least of his movies that we've discussed it certainly has the most empathy for its female protagonist on a story level. The character of no me in the script is more sympathetic in my opinion that somehow got lost when it went up on the screen and you didn't care but in the script you care. Showgirls feels different from these previous films we've discussed more angry more manic maybe that's because it was written in crisis after falling out over basic instinct esterhuss and verhoeven had met for lunch at the ivy to make nice the seed of the idea for showgirls had come from
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