Hustlers Trailer
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Strip Club Nation
This movie comes out in theaters in less than three weeks. It is about strippers at Scores drugging and robbing customers during the late-2000s financial crisis, then eventually getting caught. It is based on a true story. It definitely has an anti-customer theme throughout.
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I cant imagine a guy at a strip club spending that sort of money in 1 night on his card of his own free will honestly.
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In a contest for "lack of social conscience" b/w strippers and the Wall Street mortgage securitization chain (circa 2008) I would choose Wall Street, any day. Looks like a good movie.
The real-life story behind the movie comes from this article in NY Magazine:
https://www.thecut.com/2015/12/robin-hoo…
some excerpts:
"Here’s a modern Robin Hood story for you: a few strippers who stole from (mostly) rich, (usually) disgusting, (in their minds) pathetic men and gave to, well, themselves."
"The men were mostly assholes. Even when they didn’t start out that way, they’d get drunk and say things like, “Did your father abuse you? Is that why you do this?,” which was unnerving even when it wasn’t true. The majority were married, though that didn’t stop them from asking for things like blow jobs or sex or to be penetrated with a Champagne bottle, a request that they were shocked came from a clean-cut family man."
“We had a guy who was — is — at Guggenheim Partners. He spent 300 grand in one week. He came in three times, 100 grand every time he walked in the room. Everyone made $10,000 every time he came in.”
Not all of us are Wall Street bankers. I drive my rusty Taurus to the club. I have to save money on other stuff to afford clubbing like I want to.
You're going to get some new dancers after seeing this, looking at us like we're all asshole bastards who they feel a certain responsibility to get drunk and bilk for the good of society. Some already feel that way.
I do everything possible in my day-to-day life not to be the bad guy. I'm not a millionaire. I make decent money, but it's a far cry from six figures, much less seven. I'm just out to have a good time.
Seems like a movie for the folks on SW, not TUSCL.
"Yeah, I went through niggas' pockets," she said. "A lot of you bitches be going through niggas' pockets for $40 to catch a cab 'cause a nigga don't want to give you that. Same shit. Was I wrong for that? That was wrong, but I never fuckin' hurt nobody."
Now that Cardi is rich, I wonder if she would feel that nobody hurt her if they stole her purse or jewels or car.
My last visit was with about a dozen sales reps from my company and thier senior sales manager. I was not a sales rep, but my role was to provide key support to the reps, so they brought me along as a reward for helping them make millions.
The sales manager decided to be a baller in front of his boys (there were NO girls hired for sales then), and bought each of us $2k in club scrip with the instructions: spend it all here or you lose you year end bonus.
20 minutes later I did my walk of shame and left the restroom, only to have the manager re-up my scrip and tell me to do it again. All in I think he dropped better than $40 grand, plus a load or two of his own. (Pretty sure he wrote it off as a business expense because back them you could do that.)
There were a lot of huddled giggle sessions the next day at the Javits center.
Good times.
Good news is she was a solid 9. Bad news is she seemed to have extremely unrealistic expectations. From what it sounded like she was making great money but wanted "$2500 a night".
Also one of the IRL characters, Roselyn, wrote a book about her version of the story. What about the Son of Sam law? Perhaps her plea deal was for a different charge?