Fleshdance (1983)

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Description: Shanna Evans is an aspiring dancer who takes on a job at a strip club as a dancer.
Scene Breakdowns
Scene 1. Janey Robbins, Herschel Savage
Scene 2. Rachel Ashley, John Leslie
Scene 3. Janey Robbins, Kimberly Carson, Rachel Ashley, Herschel Savage, Ron Jeremy
Scene 4. Tanya Lawson, Paul Thomas
Scene 5. Desiree Lane, Faybella, Laurie Smith
Scene 6. Shana Evans, John Leslie
Scene 7. Shana Evans, John Leslie
The movie 'Flashdance' was certain to be used by retro adult film producers as a basis for parody and this is one of several videos that came out in its wake. Newcomer Shanna Evans stars as Jennifer, a young dance student who bicycles past a strip club every day on her way to the studio. She fantasizes about dancing and stripping onstage there, and when the club sponsors an amateur dance contest, she succumbs to the temptation.
Looking back on adult films from Golden Era, it's easy to pan this if you're too young to have lived the times.

I remember this film as one of the highly touted adult films of the year. The idea that an adult film would copy the premise of a mainstream film was not as prevalent 25 years ago as it is now. I wouldn't say this was a parody. Parodies suggest a lampooning, a send up of sorts, and it allows an excuse to not try too hard. This was not just goofing around with the association. There was a visceral edge in both films, of a man watching an erotic dancer that strikes a nerve beyond the usual dancers.

I think the producers were anxious to get credible attention paid to this genre as an viable erotic alternative to what passes the MPAA ratings for wider release. They knew survival depended on tying in artistic cinema merit with the explicit sexual content to hopefully "normalize" the genre.

This was a very small industry back then. The big projects were still initially done expensively on film, with people that had legit acting aspirations before they fell into skin flicks. This was also the very first big role for a woman of color, and a previously unknown one at that. Vanessa DelRio was big then, but not taken seriously as a belle of the lusty ball. There were name stars in place in help bolster the draw, but make no mistake - Shanna Evans was commanding the full attention of the hottest male adult film star of that time - John Leslie. This paved the way for the idea of brown skinned women as primary erotic muses to not be dismissed so easily in the future.

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