I watched “Hustlers” last night
Have you seen this movie??What was the point, to make women who don’t strip feel good about stripping?
It felt like nothing happened and they barely stripped or did *anything* else??
I danced in 2008, we didn’t dance 5 feet in front of a guy lol.
Stuff like this makes girls want to try stripping when…it’s really not like this at all!
Also, accessory thoughts:
In the 2008-era I saw girls doing drugs itc all the time and now I see it rarely.
The part they did with Russian girls was accurate.
Mostly very unrealistic movie. 🤔🤔
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And you'll pull a Jacksonville in Vegas 🤡
It's a morbid deviation of 'girl power' and women's empowerment that in reality is neither.
just more 'woke' miscast revisionist history.
there were SCs in '08.
otherwise all bullshit.
"Wolf of Wall Street" also portrayed sex workers. As stupid doormats. When guys have the fantasy that that is what real sex workers are typically like, they're at high risk for their reality being Hustlers.
YES. This is what I meant by, is it supposed to make women who don’t strip feel good about stripping.
What does EI mean?
It was weird for me that Jlo wore a g string bc it’s really not required… 🤔 and big female stars don’t usually get that naked in movies.
Also why was Lizzo in this movie, wtf
So the story itself was a silly perversion of female enpowerment and financial populism. Using sex and drugs to rob men who go to strip clubs should be sort of okay, especially when they're scuzzy Wall Street types. Two wrongs can make a right, if you were born with a uterus and you're wronging someone born with a penis. Typical Hollywood Oscar bait. Pretty buzzy for a while, but entirely forgotten until someone starts a post like this.
Did you hear that Jennifer Lopez introduced her daughter during some event using gender neutral pronouns? I'm not surprised, but it's all so fucking silly.
did not know that jlo was technically not the top billed actress. she probably didn't care as she still made way more than the asian one. without jlo this flick goes straight to cinemax and airs on 3:45 AM.
I’m very certain Jennifer Lopez has work done on her face and body because of her age and her wealth. Idc that she does but just probably is reality.
Also I think they should have done implied topless scenes at the very least bc ain’t nobody not getting at least topless itc.
I read that the real life person who Jlo played sued her for $40 mil bc they didn’t tell the story 100% correctly and it resulted in her defamation. Such as, ‘we would never make our own drugs, that’s what a drug dealer is for.” (How defaming that must be). She lost.
For starters, this romanticized stuff about how easy the money was in '07 and early '08 was kinda' silly. Yes there were guys spending big amounts in the CR, but you'd better believe that they were getting a lot more than what was portrayed in the flick. High spending produces high expectations and even then there weren't many guys dropping several thousand without also leaving a few mL lighter. 😉
Then there was the nonsense about the Russians, like they suddenly infested clubs and dirtied them up by giving $300 blowjobs. Neither is true. For starters, there were only a handful of clubs in NYC that would even hire Russian girls and in a good percentage of them a BJ would have either been impossible or also come with a big CR tab. I will agree that many of those Russian girls were beautiful, but they knew it and tended not to sell themselves cheap. I had a Russian favorite at the time, who I was seeing ITC and OTC, and got to know a lot about how the Russian dancer crews operated in NYC.
There’s a lot of Eastern European girls working in the US, especially in Vegas, my bff in Washington was from Estonia. Never heard of anything like that.
But to be clear, this isn't a control situation. Too many silly shows over the years have characterized Russian strippers as trafficked, which couldn't be further from the truth. They do what they want, go where they want and otherwise live like anyone else. They are almost all here in the hopes of getting a green card and, once they have it and can work here legally, they no longer need the agency structure to work in the clubs.
About 10 years ago a joint ask force headed up by the FBI raided a few NYC clubs under the belief that they'd find trafficked Russian girls. Not only did they not find any evidence of trafficking, but they actually ended up charging a number of the Russian girls for marriage fraud, lol.
I’ve seen that in a few clubs NYC area clubs. Many of the Russian dancers don’t immediately get a drivers license when they come here. The cost of a car, tolls, and upkeep, isn’t worth it for dancers living in certain areas by NYC.
If a dancer has a few drinks, the van is a safe way to get home.
That's what they claim anyway. It's true that they call what they pay to the agency each shift a "ride fee" - or at least it was when I frequented the NYC metro area clubs. But the real reason is immigration status.
Most of these girls come over on a tourist visa, which does not allow them to legally work here, and then many just don't leave when the visa expires. I won't pretend to understand all of the legalities involved, but apparently contracting the "agency" to supply dancers provides some type of buffer between the club and the girls' legal work status. Even still, only a % of the NYC metro clubs are willing to hire the Russian girls even with this arrangement in place.
You can't handle your business like a man so you revert to form, by making allegations and slurs, I'll be in Vegas in September. I fully expect you to be hiding in the wilds of LA pussy.
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/11052702…
In better clubs, at least some dancers, invest time, thought, and effort to be at the top of their game. They pretty much always have jelly/resentment towards dancers who can be much lazier and still bank, due to a physical characteristic. Big boobs, big butt, petiteness, whatever triggers a large number of customers. Skin color can also be the physical characteristic, but not the most common one.
I've been fortunate enough to get dances for $400 - 600 per hour from several beautiful black dancers. And yes, I know that an equivalently beautiful white dancer could probably get hundreds more per hour than that. But, $500 an hour annualizes to a million a year. So no, don't think I'm a racist human trafficker, appropriating black bodies or whatever the fuck. Like everyone I have my financial limits, so I do the best I can with what I have, making it more likely I'll be the regular of black dancers rather than white ones. I don't feel obliged to lift them into the one percent, but I don't think that makes me a racist exploiter. Many a time I've given sex workers up to double what they asked for, because I'm not taking advantage of someone who doesn't know their earning power.
Even black sex workers often avoid black customers. Which is not fair to the majority black guys, who are as decent as anybody. But sex workers feel like it's a way to reduce the number of pimp wannabes they have to deal with. To talk about rude, threatening behavior towards sex workers as though it's primarily a racial thing is seriously dumb.
The women are FINE, the costumes are awesome, the stage performances and the background stage action—to me, these are real strippers and I love that.
It is not super realistic, no one is fat or ratchet in this small poor town where money is just flying everywhere.
Have to see more for better review.