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17 de ago. de 2021 · One woman, Tina Plackinger, literally moonwalks between poses. In between rounds of poses, Bev Francis and wonders about the nature of the sport, and the whims of judges, and the point of all this. “You’re not allowed to have muscles, you’re a girl,” she says in the voice of a judge. Francis is a spectacular athlete.
Judges and bodybuilders (Rachel McLish, Bev Francis, Carla Dunlap) try to define femininity at the 1983 world championship, Caesars Palace, Las Vegas. "Pumping Iron," the film that turned the obscure sport of male bodybuilding into an overnight phenomenon and made Arnold Schwarzenegger a star, broke the ground.
PUMPING IRON II: THE WOMEN, a film that is changing the way the world views the female physique-creating "a new definition of the female form." Join four women as they prepare for the 1983 Caesars Palace World Cup Championship: the sultry and curvaceous Rachel McLish, the current champion; the super-muscular Bev Francis, Rachel's toughest competition; and newcomers Lori Bowen and Carla Dunlap.
27 de feb. de 2024 · Tickets: $10 at the door. PUMPING IRON II: THE WOMEN. Directed by George Butler • 1985. “I happen to believe in bodybuilding, and I hold the belief that you can create a very feminine shape through bodybuilding.”. Pumping Iron II: The Women emerged from the monumental success of its predecessor, Pumping Iron — the documentary that ...
Pumping Iron II: The Women. by Douglas Sadao Aoki. Because the female bodybuilder in Pumping Iron II: The Women is constituted by being posed, she is the subject par excellence. This article considers that filmic subject through a logic of sex, strength, and semiotics. Jacques Lacan never judged a female bodybuilding contest, but he should have.
PUMPING IRON II: THE WOMEN. Directed by. George Butler. United States, 1985. Documentary, Sport. 107. Synopsis. After the success of his 1975 documentary on male bodybuilders, featuring the subsequently famous Arnold Schwarzenegger and Louis Ferrigno, director George Butler created this follow-up on a group of bevy of distaff weight lifters.
31 de jul. de 2010 · Uh-huh. In other words, Pumping Iron II: The Women was a prescient piece of staged reality years before there was such a thing as reality TV. Sure, there are signs that Butler’s film (based on his book Pumping Iron II: The Unprecedented Woman) is more fiction than doc, notably during a soft-core shower sequence in which the women get philosophical while soaping up, as well as numerous clunky ...
