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It's not a great movie but in my opinion neither was Magic Mike. But it follows the basic story beat of watching sex workers with different private lives and motivations. Meanwhile the stars save Sandra Oh were trending down instead of up like Channing Tatum.
It's not a great movie but in my opinion neither was Magic Mike.
I haven't seen the sequel of course, but the original is terrible, with the exception of one scene (Tatum's solo ... I could watch that all day on a loop. lol)
Mike was a cross between Hannah's role who's plans went to hell because of drugs and Oh who presented stripping as an art form while trying to have a normal relationship. Tilly being an angry woman trying to get an abortion doing the lap dancing and Kelly being in an incestuous relationship with her brother and selling oral sex in the private dancing rooms.
I remember back in the day when male strippers first showed up on Phil Donahue's show I was amazed at how animated the female audience was compared to a real life male audience of female strippers trying to hide themselves while masturbating. While a few female stars came out of the sex industry like Channing Tatum did their former profession would never be promoted as nice or exciting. As close as you get is Flashdance where much of the audience characters ignored the dancers brought into their local bar.
You wouldn't even get a bait and switch like the first Magic Mike but the these are victims that's how they became sex workers story line.
It wouldn't be hard to find a "female version" of Magic Mike when women seem to be the first to get nude in a large percentage of films.
I don't think he was going after just nude but perhaps how sex workers are portrayed. While there has been a recent pole dancing chic in popular culture there is a tendency or socio-political need to present strippers as victims. So she might dance but she is also shown prostituting herself in Blue Iguana or grinding a man to orgasm in Showgirls. I can't recall a similar type scene in Magic Mike.
I a sense there can be a small independent movie about the Happy Hooker or a porn star like Nina Hartley but when it comes time for the promos the entertainment and talk show press would not be as nice to them as they would to a film about the first porn star Linda Lovelace who told her victim story. The culture almost demands it. In Lovelace you can see it in action the first part of the movie shows her gaining fame as the first porn star and then the second part replays the scenes with the message hey look here she was being raped
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