Extra Credit: Lipstick and Dynamite

Extra Credit: Lipstick and Dynamite: First Ladies of Wrestling

Craft: The film was made with several old and new video footage from testimonies of women wrestlers in the history of wrestling. The creator of the movie used pictures and videos for her film.

Composition: The film had a great opening/introduction that provided viewers a sense of feeling of what it was like being a women while life was changing because of war. It gives us the information needed, for example that women had to get different jobs, some that were considered to be for men. The film began with an old tv show that had 3 people guessing to find who was "The Fabulous Moolah. " It is clear that many people thought that "The Fabulous Moolah" was a man, since there were two men and only one women. The film later goes and interviews many women wrestlers who tell their story of how they began wrestling and their life experience good and bad in the wrestling world. The film demonstrated the feuds tehy had amongst each other, but alos shows how real they were back in the day as wrestlers. The ending of the movie brought a real good conclusion to the story because in the film the women wrestlers had a reunion. I notice during the end of the film when the clip of the old tv show appears and reveals "The Fabulous Moolah" as true wrestler that the whole movie starts and ends with "Moolah." Once again demonstrating her importance in the wrestling business.

Concept: The film is not only of women wrestlers but of women trying to break stereotypes and certain affiliations as good housewifes. The women were breaking new bounderies and were coming out of the shadows of men. The film depicts the lives of these women and how some learned life experinces that they later used in life from their time as wrestlers and how certain women didn't give wrestling up. The film shows strong women who survived in the world of men in wrestling and how they were as good as men in the ring or out as promoters. The movie made me realize once again that there were other women before me that opened a pathway for all women to be as equal as men in any type of business.