SHOWGIRLS

It wasn’t the Las Vegas we know today – it was much seedier and hadn’t gone through its resurgence.  There was this very thinly-veiled underbelly to it, which is really the essence of Showgirls – it wasn’t this glamorous, perfectly packaged place, it felt gritty and kind of dangerous even.

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I think that Showgirls, as well as being an incredible piece of filmmaking, is a piece of art with a lot of cultural texture.  It really embodies that time and place and I think it feels authentic and original. It feels like a David LaChapelle photograph or something, in the way it has this extremeness others might be afraid to use.

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