...Must calm down. Damn, this acupuncture treatment.
Quentin Tarentino's latest flick, Jackie Brown, opened in theaters
nation wide on December 25, 1997. What does this have to do with strip clubs?
Well, I'll tell you. One of the scenes in the movie takes place in a strip
club in downtown Los Angeles and they actually filmed the movie at
Sam's Hof Brau. Advid readers
of this sight have read about Tarentino visiting Sam's in my
Diary Section.
Your next question is, why tell us about a movie that opened in December?
Hold on to your pants and I'll tell you. It's taken me this long to get upset
enough to rant again. The strip club scene was all but cut out and only about
30 seconds remain, minus all the topless dancer scenes. I was hoping to see
the seedy strip club and nudity on the big screen but alas, when I saw the
movie, there was no nudity at all. NO NUDITY! But plenty of violence.
Take a look at this still picture from that scene.
The picture shows Ordell (the main male character played by Samuel L. Jackson)
at the stage watching one of the strippers. In the original version, they
shot her topless and showed her "all that" butt as well. Margaret Chow played
the bartender and had a few lines but she was cut out of the movie completely
as well. All in all, about 5 topless dancers from the club worked on the
scene but were all left on the cutting room floor.
So what am I ranting about? I guess I'm just disappointed that all the slow
moving, dialog scenes were kept in (and making the movie horribly long),
but the few minutes of a cool seedy scene with nudity was completely cut
out. I don't pretend to know anything about movie making like Quentin, but
I do know sex sells. Maybe they will come out with a Director's Cut version
on DVD or Laser Disk. One can only hope.
Sometimes, I've had just about enough
about something or everything and need to vent somewhere. I'll try to keep
it about LA strip clubs, but who knows. It might turn out to be just good
ol' babbling and chanting. Good material for flame mail.
