Lipstick and Dynamite

Craft: (How it was made)

This film was created by the use of a video camera. The film was a documentary which included small clips of old wrestling matches, old clips of interviews, a couple talk shows, and newly shot interviews with the actual women wrestlers. The documentary is about a series of women wrestlers who were the women who started women wrestling and where they are at now.

Composition: (Arrangement of Elements)

The creator of this film begins the film as a setup/mystery kind of film. The opening scene is from a old game show where celebrities interview three different people and try to figure out who the real wrestler is on that episode. After the beginning is where numerous interviews are beginning done which are introducing all of the women wrestlers and introduces other important people who took part in the process of creating women wrestling? It was very interesting to hear all the facts about how they didn’t get paid at the beginning and how the owners would make the girls sleep with them and ban them from everyone else.

Concept: (What is trying to be said?)

Its hard to say for sure what Mrs.Lietman was trying to say and I definitely do not think it was just one thing. I feel that she created this film to show women that everything did come easy like some things do today. These women sacrificed a lot of things and worked very hard for little if no money. Showing that if you want something really bad, you might have to sacrifice everything and never give up. Another message I received from the film was these women did it for more then the money. They wanted to gain respect from the man for women and by persevering through the struggles they gained major respect from the man.