25 Years Later On, It’s Obvious We Got “Showgirls” All Incorrect
Former “Saved because of the Bell” celebrity Elizabeth Berkley’s performance almost torpedoed her whole profession
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Not one thing of beauty in the Western canon has seen its fortunes increase and fall because precipitously as Showgirls, its zig-zagging-leg poster right there within the dictionary underneath the concept of “film maudit.” Paul Verhoeven’s erotic satire par excellence was greeted by experts with near-unanimous revulsion, gradually reclaimed by a passionate cult audience worshipful of whatever they saw being a lovable badness, last but not least reappraised by a faction of experts and academics more likely to simply accept its over-the-top sex as commentary. (altro…)