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Sheriff Lonestar Goes to the Movies: So you wanna be a wrestler?
By: SheriffLonestar Date: August 23, 2013, 4:13 am
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Here is a well kept secret of the BBC. They used to make and
fund really good documentaries. They have had a few hits lately
in my eyes. Last years documentary on British wrestling was as
funny as it was touching. When Wrestling was Golden: Grapples,
Grunts and Grannies, is an excellent program. But the best
wrestling documentary I have ever seen, and that includes the
excellent documentaries by WWE, is Kim Longinotto's GAEA girls.
It is not just a great pro wrestling film, its a great
documentary. Longinotto's choices of subject is perfect. Her
passive anthropological style captures the pure grittiness of
the moment and she matches it with touching scenes of tenderness
in a film that is about as stark as it gets. GAEA was a
promotion that was started by Chigusa Nagayo in 1995 and opened
its doors to great critical acclaim. As I have mentioned
elsewhere, GAEA began the stratification of the Joshi scene
which has left us so many companies today.
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The main thrust of the film is the story of one student Takeuchi
as she takes her final tests before making her GAEA début. It
shows the stark living conditions and harsh training methods
that make Joshi wrestlers some of the toughest performers in the
world. It really is a film about ambition and the relationships
between Nagayo and her trainees. Nagayo talks about how her
relationship with her father drove her in her wrestling career,
and its not impossible to see the relationship between Nagayo
and head trainer Meiko Satomura as a quasi father son
relationship in the same mould. The pattern repeats itself with
Takeuchi, taking harsh and very real beatings after very real
beatings to prove her worth to Satomura and Nagayo.
The reaction to this film has been as varied as it is brilliant.
Longinotto cried while watching the beat downs and humiliations
Takeuchi suffered, on the other hand wrestlers like April Davids
and Jenny Sjordin have said it was the reason they took up
wrestling. The discipline required to be a top level Joshi, or
any wrestler for that matter is amazing. The physical punishment
they go through is at an incredibly high level. The teaching
methods while not exactly picture perfect educational theory are
very tied into the military psychology of breaking people down
to build them back up. To bring out that killer instinct,
because in the long run, any wrestler has to have that instinct,
in the ring and in business life or they will not survive. It is
also not hard to see why the girls want to do it. Stardom is one
thing, independence is totally another, and in what was and to a
certain extent still is a very closed conservative society, the
chance to be something different is a big draw.
This film is a must see for any wrestling fan, it is the best
example of watching wrestlers at different tiers of the business
and being able to contrast their approaches to life. The fearful
Takeuchi looking to please at every turn and trying her hardest
to be a totally different person, the person she needs to be to
get in the ring. Satomura, the young but able wrestler, trying
to make her way worried about her students but worried about her
own career and its path. Finally of course Nagayo, the legend.
The one person who has seen it all from harsh abuse of her
father to adoration of screaming girls from all over Japan.
Nagayo was the biggest star Joshi ever produced a once in a life
time phenomena, and you can physically see her frustration as
she tries to bring the next generation of girls forward to fill
her spot.
Counter pointing all this stark reality are touching moments of
joy and mundane life, Nagayo getting her hair cut “I have a good
head for slapping” and Satomura sitting in the sun having her
noodle breakfast and singing a happy tune while the girls relax
for a short break.
Enjoy the film.
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Re: Sheriff Lonestar Goes to the Movies: So you wanna be a wrest
ler?
By: canyoudigit Date: August 23, 2013, 6:05 am
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Good read like always .mbut do you only do Japan ones ? Do you
not do UK brand or US brands shows to ??
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Re: Sheriff Lonestar Goes to the Movies: So you wanna be a wrest
ler?
By: SheriffLonestar Date: August 23, 2013, 6:38 am
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Well this isn't PPV of the week its me at the movies, the last
one of these was an American film and this is a British film, it
was funded by the BBC. The fact is that European and American
companies protect their copyrights better and chase down the
copyright infringements much more closely. The Japanese
companies either can't be bothered, don't have the budget or
like that people put it on youtube so that they can become more
popular in other markets. Ice Ribbon got tours out of the UK
purely on youtube hits and tape traders alone so its a lucrative
market for them. So there is more variety for me to write about.
Also if you look at my hits the one American show I did do
Starcade '87 got 35 hits, I average around 90. I merely go where
the people want to be taken sir lol.
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Re: Sheriff Lonestar Goes to the Movies: So you wanna be a wrest
ler?
By: canyoudigit Date: August 24, 2013, 4:00 pm
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Ok ok you win lol
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