Whip It (15th Anniversary)
This Ends at Prom
Brennan Klein
4.8 • 603 Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2024
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
"You really need to stop shoving your psychotic idea of '50s womanhood down my throat."
15 years ago, Drew Barrymore and Elliot Page joined forces to deliver a fresh new take on the teenage girl's coming-of-age experience with WHIP IT. Not only did the film help introduce roller derby to the masses, but it proved there's more to girlhood than beauty pageants and pleasing Marcia Gay Harden. Pick out your derby name and get ready to jam, because The Wives Colangelo are ready to run the rink.
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Article Mentioned
Feministing - Whip It: A Great Female Empowerment Story
(https://feministing.com/2009/10/02/whip-it-a-great-female-empowerment-story/)
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Theme Song: The Sonder Bombs 'Title': https://thesonderbombs.bandcamp.com/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings and salutations. And welcome to This Ends at Prom. |
| 0:05.3 | A coming of age podcast highlighting cinema about or marketed towards teen girls. |
| 0:10.3 | I'm one of your hosts, BJ Colangelo, and I'm joined by my wife. |
| 0:14.6 | Harmony Colangelo, a trans woman who grew up watching none of these movies. |
| 0:18.9 | Is today's movie a Queen Bee? |
| 0:20.9 | Or are we killing the teen dream? |
| 0:23.2 | Get in loser. |
| 0:24.4 | We're analyzing the movies. |
| 0:25.8 | People make fun of us for loving. |
| 0:28.4 | I don't want to be your merch girl. |
| 0:31.6 | I want to be your goddamn idol. |
| 0:35.3 | And I don't want to have to work twice as hard for the same motherfucking title but I |
| 0:42.3 | realize that I probably won't be so lucky. |
| 1:00.5 | Now whip it. |
| 1:07.8 | Oh, is that how we're going to? |
| 1:08.6 | Shape it up. |
| 1:09.3 | Is that what we're going to do it? |
| 1:10.3 | Get straight. Move forward. Go forward, move ahead. Yeah, I was like, that isn't right, but I'll just let you keep going. So what's funny is that when I was visiting my parents, we watched, like, finish the lyric or whatever that game show is. Yeah. And Whip It was one of them. And I was a little tipsy. I'm just going to say that. And as this person was like, I have no idea what these lyrics are. I was just sitting there like, go forward, move ahead, try to direct it. Like I was like going off. My mom was like, why do you know the lyrics to Whip It? I don't know because Devo's a good band. |
| 1:45.3 | Because Devo's a good band. |
| 1:46.4 | I mean, it's like, you know, not early Devo, but it's still good. That's true. That's true. I love that this like, okay, when I first Googled this, it was like, whip it. Do you mean the movie or do you mean the Devo song? And as we were getting ready to record, I was like punching and whip it to bring up the IMDB because this cast is huge. |
| 2:02.3 | And it was like, whip it's. |
| 2:03.9 | And I go, no. I have never done Whippets. I don't think I would enjoy doing Whippets. I don't think you would enjoy them. I have sold whipped cream chargers to people who very clearly have killed a lot of brain cells doing |
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