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Allan tell me about Queen of the Ring
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it's an independent film that is in
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theaters it is about a female wrestler
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when female wrestling was not a thing
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was very much frowned
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upon yeah not only frowned upon but
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outlawed in many states but this is the
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true story of Mildred Burke uh the the
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basically the first million dooll uh
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female athlete played by Emily Brett
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Rickards it tells her story from the
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very Beginnings uh as a single mother
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raised by a single mother working in a
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diner uh she falls in love with
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wrestling and feel and wants to get into
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the business and she she goes to Billy
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wolf played by Josh Lucas one of the the
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great wrestlers at that time and uh they
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fall in love and uh he trains her to
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become uh the the greatest Women's
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Champion uh in wrestling but the problem
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is is that wrestling women's wrestling
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is out louded in Most states and so the
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women's wrestling is is subjugated to
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basically a car Carnival show and this
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whole movie is about her fight her
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struggle to be on the top of her her uh
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top of her craft to bring legitimacy to
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female wrestling a lot of uh a lot of
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known wrestlers are in this movie in
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terms of characters being played such as
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uh uh May young and G G Gorgeous
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George and uh and then a lot of upand
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cominging wrestlers are in the movie U
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mostly from aew uh Trinity Fatu is the
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only WWE per personality in the movie um
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let's see I'll I'll be honest I know you
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didn't like this movie I I liked this
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movie you gotta let me speak for myself
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I'll let you speak for yourself for
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myself I have issues go ahead go I don't
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know what you think maybe you liked it
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maybe you didn't I I did like this my
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issue with the movie it's too damn long
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it's that was my issue it's two two
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hours 15 minutes yeah and that's the
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second movie I that's the first movie
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yesterday that I saw that two hours and
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2 and um but I I did as a wrestling fan
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uh as someone also I'm not as familiar
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with the the territories I'm a WWE guy
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but as a wrestling fan I did find it
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interesting um you know the you know
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it's woke only in the sense that it
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tells the true story of what it was like
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being a woman uh in in this era we're
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talking the 50s 50s and 60s yeah EX look
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if it was a modern story yeah you would
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roll your eyes but this is truly at a
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time when women women's wrestling was
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illegal in many yeah and and her success
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uh part of it was entering a marriage
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contract with Billy wolf and she did
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that to basically protect herself and
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say that you know if she's going to
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build women's wrestling uh she wants a
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financial piece of it and the only only
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way she could do at that time was to
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enter into a contract and then and then
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it kind of gets into the the uh the
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basic wrestling tropes of you know
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working too many hours too long hours
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the politics of it all um but what
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milden and Billy were able to do was to
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broaden not only to uh to make women's
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wrestling legitimate but he was also on
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the Forefront of of bringing uh
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diversity and uh bringing first
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African-American uh wrestlers into uh
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overall wrestling um so yeah so the if
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you're a wrestling fan uh especially aew
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you're going to recognize people in this
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movie um I liked it uh but my only qualm
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is it's too long it's too long yeah I
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mean I I didn't like it as much as you
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you are a bigger wrestling fan than I
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I'm a casual viewer that I don't follow
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wrestling um but uh every time I watch
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it I love it it's I love the big
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personalities I like the true drama and
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the the stories uh but this I felt like
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when I was watching it because it's a
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period piece but I felt like the budget
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was really low it felt like they worked
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really hard with what they have to make
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it look like a period piece but I felt
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the haircuts were off like I don't know
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it just didn't it didn't ring authentic
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I felt felt the budget was anemic when
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it came to selling the period and
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additionally I felt this is a Amazing
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Story it's a sports story story which I
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like it's a struggle story but it should
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say something about modern
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times and I felt like well while it
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might be accurate what is it trying to
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say so I felt like ASO it's watching it
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I'd rather see a 90minut documentary
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about the true the real person the real
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Mildred than this movie so for me it's
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like a four out of 10 it's a pass what
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did you think yeah has a seven and I
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think you got to stop saying period when
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you're describing the film
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um it's International women's day
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tomorrow D you say that it's a period
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piece it was of its period um but no I
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you know to me I think the wrestling
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industry is just fascinating I think
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this is an aspect of it I think it is
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better than most biopics because usually
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you know you just really get the sense
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that when you watch a an indie biopic
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it's um it's you know and this happened
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and so we're going to do a scene about
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this event we're gonna do scene about
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this event but it was really about the
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business the the industry of of
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wrestling at that time the women uh
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trying to break into that industry and
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um and just how the fact that uh for
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some weird reason wrestling has been on
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the Forefront Forefront of culture when
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it comes to women when it comes to uh
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racial issues that uh that of anything
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wrestling has been that thing that that
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propels our culture forward to you know
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to broaden uh women's roles in the
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business uh and the roles of minorities
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in the business as well and this is a
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movie that just exemplifies
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that well it's a pass for me but you're
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you are recommending it yeah yeah uh but
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but hang in there it's a long one
