Gina Gershon Ruins Showgirls by Admitting She Was In On the Joke [Camp]

The most stimulating thing about camp cinema is the ambiguity of intention: It’s practically a game to figure out how aware the participants were in the creation of something so bad that it’s good. Things can look so ridiculous that you’d assume any actors/directors/producers involved would have to realize it, and yet their perseverance in and clear commitment to an inevitable bomb suggests a glorious lack of awareness. More »