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Another non-nude stripper--oh boy!

posted 9 years ago by lazarillo
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After cops and lawyers, the most common profession in Hollywood seems to be strippers. Which is ironic since half the Hollywood actresses won't actually strip. It's like if you have an issue with guns, but you still insist on playing a cop, so you end up running around with an obvious squirt gun yelling "bang, bang".

Of course, a lot of stripper movies are exploitative. But even if you want to make a REALISTIC stripper movie, you still have to deal with what strippers actually do. Would you make a baseball movie without showing the characters actually playing baseball? This nonsense all started with "Showgirls". The lesson from "Showgirls" should have been to not make bad movies about strippers, but the lesson they seem to have learned is just to not to have the strippers actually get naked. You really think THAT would have saved "Showgirls"?

Of course, everybody has ALREADY seen Ali Cobrin naked in the last "American Pie" sequel. But perhaps she didn't want to get typecast. So why play a stripper then, and (even though you're really the lead) end up cast behind such talented luminaries as Carmen Electra, Briana Evigan, and Staci Dash (now the token black female on Fox News)? Those are three actresses that shouldn't be allowed to act UNLESS they get naked. Cobrin should follow the lead of Juno Temple, Elizabeth Olsen, and Rooney Mara who got GOOD roles for their willingness to get naked and then parlayed these into a lot of other good roles where they didn't have to. Stripping off obviously doesn't make an actress talented, BUT neither does not stripping off, especially when you're playing a STRIPPER.

[–] Romeycash 9 years ago

Huh? There was nudity galore in Showgirls. That can't be the movie you mean..

[–] bura11 9 years ago

So basically you're shallow and thick enough to think all women who want to act should "earn it" by having to strip off in their initial roles and THEN expect to get roles of substance? Because getting naked is a right of passage for all talented people, right? Or all women, according to you. Wow, you win the internet with your misogynistic, vacuous and utterly idiotic comment that I hope came from a horny teenage boy who still has much to learn. For the record, MOST of Hollywood's A list top class actresses did not get there by stripping. They got there using this thing called talent (or notoriety in the case of a select few). Please join us in 2014.
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[–] d-style-cubed 9 years ago

Reading comprehansion is not your strong suit, so I will try to paraphrase what the OP was saying because you seem to have missed the point.

The point is not that female actors should strip at all. The main point was that the main actor in the role of a stripper should strip. The other point was that if an actress should film a nude scene in an early movie, then hopefully it should lead to a future role in which she doesn't have to strip unless of course she wants to - I don't personally have any hangups about nudity. There was no mention of what most A list actresses did or did not do to become A listers.

There just seems to be a lot of projection in your reply to the OP, so I am thinking maybe you were in a bad mood that day or something. All that was being said, and I think I would echo that sentiment, is that it seems silly to have a movie about stripping that does not have the lead actress actually stripping, much in the same way that it would be silly to have a movie about a basketball player where the lead actor, ostensibly a basketball player, doesn't play basketball in the movie.

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[–] jistar123 9 years ago

I agree with what you are saying but I think you come off a bit harsh. You cannot place the blame solely on actors/actresses for not being nude in a stripper movie. Most of those decisions are made by the director and casting before contracts are signed. This movie would have been better with more nudity and more grit that takes place in strip clubs. I would recommend watching Player's Club starring Lisa Ray in this movie. When watching Lap Dance I heard many of the same key lines said in Player's Club like "Don't let the money make you" used in this movie. To me this movie was a bit reductive of Player's Club and had too similar of a script.

Also I did not see the sexual appeal of Ali Cobrin as lead. She did not have the "assets" to play a big shot at a strip club. She is an attractive girl but that nape hair (hair on back of neck) was very distracting and she lacks having a stripper body. Briana Evigan has a better body but was not showcased much in this movie.

[–] Cinnamental 8 years ago

I've seen more average looking to ugly strippers in my life than hot ones. There's no such thing as a "stripper body." There are women who take their clothes off for money and those who don't.

[–] Cinnamental 8 years ago

I've never heard of any of the actresses you mentioned other than Carmen Electra. And I haven't heard of any of the films you mentioned other than Showgirls.