This movie came out in 1987. I never saw it until very recently when it turned up for free on YouTube.
I went to the movies a lot in my teens when I was dating the future ex, not so much in my twenties when I was a homemaker and money was always tight. And when the movie came out, I figured it probably wasn't going to be a very good movie and, having seen it now, it's not.
I knew the first time I heard the title that this movie almost certainly had a ridiculous plot because the movie was basically about Madonna, the It Girl of her era. It came out back when she was interesting and cool, before success ruined her, both seemingly as a person and as an artist.
In her youth, she was fascinating because she seemed to have ethics and now she is willing to adopt children from Africa over their parental objections because she has money, which doesn't sit well with me, and her music trends more about massaging her ego than about SAYING anything like it did at one time. Her songs trend towards "I'm Madonna, bitch" and similar points. Cool, you are Madonna and you bore me, bitch.
I maybe should rewatch the intro of the film because the ridiculous cartoon at the beginning is actually not just random BS, like the beautiful but nonsensical visuals at the start of your typical James Bond film. No, it's actually the backstory for the film in TLDR form.
The fact that she had the goods on Worthington was painfully obvious from early on. The plot has no subtlety at all.
Her and Loudon falling in love after a day of her being a criminal psychobitch crapping all over his life makes absolutely no sense whatsoever and I really don't like how she is portrayed as a sweet, innocent, hardened thug stealing things left and right, comfortable buying stolen goods and threatening people with loaded weapons when it seems pretty clear she is merely being manipulative, etc.
I grew up with guns on the wall and clear instructions that you never threaten people with a gun merely as a form of social menipulation, so I hate see that in movies. I was told you need to be fully prepared, both in practical terms and mentally/emotionally to ACTUALLY kill them if you point a loaded gun at someone.
The movie portrays her as someone willing to lie and play head games, etc, but her willingness to SAY outrageous things that shock other people pretty clearly falls short of being willing to DO certain things. The whole plot hinges on "I'm a PETTY THIEF but I never killed no one!"
The way she dresses is ridiculous as someone who just spent four years in prison for a crime she didn't commit and the jail sentence makes no sense. She was convicted of murder and I don't think she should even be eligible for parole after a mere four years and also shouldn't have been sentenced to a mere seven years.
So it's got giant plot holes galore and only really makes sense as a kind of metaphor for Madonna herself and her life and her early career where she burst onto the scene unexpectedly and was the hot new thing in a way women usually aren't allowed to be.
The way she dresses -- in leggings and tutus and the like -- makes sense as a young, fit dancer by trade, not a petty thief from the wrong side of town who got framed for a murder she didn't commit. Madonna said once her dad was big on making all the kids take music lessons and she briefly took piano and then talked her dad into letting her take dance classes.
In her early days, her big strength was that she was a dancer and looked good. She wasn't actually a very talented singer to start with. I once talked to someone with a music background who was not a fan of Madonna and I talked about "Well, she works really hard" and they agreed that "Yeah, SOMEONE beat that Minnie Mouse sound out of her (from her early songs)."
Some "starlet" types get their initial break based largely on being cute, somewhat like she did, and then they think they've got it made and all they ever have to do is be cute. She didn't think she had it made in the shade. She continued to work at her craft after her initial success and that allowed her to stay in the limelight and not have the fascination with her go from "Who's that girl?" to "Madonna, who??"
Her being let out of prison after just four years sounds a little like being let out of the metaphorical prison of high school or the metaphorical prison of poverty where she worked at first at fast food places or whatever while trying to figure out how to make it as an entertainer. Though, really, I don't think she completed high school. She left for New York at like age seventeen with her primary goal being -- according to something she once said in an interview -- "to get the hell out of Michigan."
The movie sounds like a thinly veiled, poorly thought out mish-mash of metaphors and symbolism for Madonna. There is somewhat randomly a big cat in the film that gets along well with her and that she has no problem controlling, a metaphor for her perceived sexuality and the world thinking she was a tiger in bed.
Her being a petty thief convicted of murder is like a metaphor for all the minor ways in which Madonna broke all the rules while "the establishment" reacted like it was a federal case. The world felt threatened by Madonna being her own person, having opinions, being cute and girly and yet not conforming to a lot of expectations the world had for women generally.
Her outfits really aren't all that sexy. They look fairly comfortable to me, frankly, and she mostly does not have her bosom on display or a lot of skin on display, etc.
Other than the tutus, a lot of what she wears is stuff I would wear and have worn. I had a cast-off denim jacket hand-me-down from my older brother in high school. I happily wear leggings and oversized tops and flat shoes.
She puts on heels to pretend to be Loudon's fiancee at some point and in a later scene to fit in with high society, which she CAN do in spite of being from the wrong side of town and having spent the last four years in prison, but HER clothes involves wearing flats.
If you want to take the movie seriously and literally, God, I HATE it. She's an awful character with no ethics and the film makes no sense.
If you take it as an attept by the world to figure out "Who is MADONNA???, this person that is so shocking to the establishment and enjoying career success ANYWAY?", it makes much more sense and is much less offensive.
I went to the movies a lot in my teens when I was dating the future ex, not so much in my twenties when I was a homemaker and money was always tight. And when the movie came out, I figured it probably wasn't going to be a very good movie and, having seen it now, it's not.
I knew the first time I heard the title that this movie almost certainly had a ridiculous plot because the movie was basically about Madonna, the It Girl of her era. It came out back when she was interesting and cool, before success ruined her, both seemingly as a person and as an artist.
In her youth, she was fascinating because she seemed to have ethics and now she is willing to adopt children from Africa over their parental objections because she has money, which doesn't sit well with me, and her music trends more about massaging her ego than about SAYING anything like it did at one time. Her songs trend towards "I'm Madonna, bitch" and similar points. Cool, you are Madonna and you bore me, bitch.
I maybe should rewatch the intro of the film because the ridiculous cartoon at the beginning is actually not just random BS, like the beautiful but nonsensical visuals at the start of your typical James Bond film. No, it's actually the backstory for the film in TLDR form.
The fact that she had the goods on Worthington was painfully obvious from early on. The plot has no subtlety at all.
Her and Loudon falling in love after a day of her being a criminal psychobitch crapping all over his life makes absolutely no sense whatsoever and I really don't like how she is portrayed as a sweet, innocent, hardened thug stealing things left and right, comfortable buying stolen goods and threatening people with loaded weapons when it seems pretty clear she is merely being manipulative, etc.
I grew up with guns on the wall and clear instructions that you never threaten people with a gun merely as a form of social menipulation, so I hate see that in movies. I was told you need to be fully prepared, both in practical terms and mentally/emotionally to ACTUALLY kill them if you point a loaded gun at someone.
The movie portrays her as someone willing to lie and play head games, etc, but her willingness to SAY outrageous things that shock other people pretty clearly falls short of being willing to DO certain things. The whole plot hinges on "I'm a PETTY THIEF but I never killed no one!"
The way she dresses is ridiculous as someone who just spent four years in prison for a crime she didn't commit and the jail sentence makes no sense. She was convicted of murder and I don't think she should even be eligible for parole after a mere four years and also shouldn't have been sentenced to a mere seven years.
So it's got giant plot holes galore and only really makes sense as a kind of metaphor for Madonna herself and her life and her early career where she burst onto the scene unexpectedly and was the hot new thing in a way women usually aren't allowed to be.
The way she dresses -- in leggings and tutus and the like -- makes sense as a young, fit dancer by trade, not a petty thief from the wrong side of town who got framed for a murder she didn't commit. Madonna said once her dad was big on making all the kids take music lessons and she briefly took piano and then talked her dad into letting her take dance classes.
In her early days, her big strength was that she was a dancer and looked good. She wasn't actually a very talented singer to start with. I once talked to someone with a music background who was not a fan of Madonna and I talked about "Well, she works really hard" and they agreed that "Yeah, SOMEONE beat that Minnie Mouse sound out of her (from her early songs)."
Some "starlet" types get their initial break based largely on being cute, somewhat like she did, and then they think they've got it made and all they ever have to do is be cute. She didn't think she had it made in the shade. She continued to work at her craft after her initial success and that allowed her to stay in the limelight and not have the fascination with her go from "Who's that girl?" to "Madonna, who??"
Her being let out of prison after just four years sounds a little like being let out of the metaphorical prison of high school or the metaphorical prison of poverty where she worked at first at fast food places or whatever while trying to figure out how to make it as an entertainer. Though, really, I don't think she completed high school. She left for New York at like age seventeen with her primary goal being -- according to something she once said in an interview -- "to get the hell out of Michigan."
The movie sounds like a thinly veiled, poorly thought out mish-mash of metaphors and symbolism for Madonna. There is somewhat randomly a big cat in the film that gets along well with her and that she has no problem controlling, a metaphor for her perceived sexuality and the world thinking she was a tiger in bed.
Her being a petty thief convicted of murder is like a metaphor for all the minor ways in which Madonna broke all the rules while "the establishment" reacted like it was a federal case. The world felt threatened by Madonna being her own person, having opinions, being cute and girly and yet not conforming to a lot of expectations the world had for women generally.
Her outfits really aren't all that sexy. They look fairly comfortable to me, frankly, and she mostly does not have her bosom on display or a lot of skin on display, etc.
Other than the tutus, a lot of what she wears is stuff I would wear and have worn. I had a cast-off denim jacket hand-me-down from my older brother in high school. I happily wear leggings and oversized tops and flat shoes.
She puts on heels to pretend to be Loudon's fiancee at some point and in a later scene to fit in with high society, which she CAN do in spite of being from the wrong side of town and having spent the last four years in prison, but HER clothes involves wearing flats.
If you want to take the movie seriously and literally, God, I HATE it. She's an awful character with no ethics and the film makes no sense.
If you take it as an attept by the world to figure out "Who is MADONNA???, this person that is so shocking to the establishment and enjoying career success ANYWAY?", it makes much more sense and is much less offensive.