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Michelle Rodríguez as Diana Guzmán || Girlfight (2000)

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You Can Find The Original Version -> Here

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Michelle Rodriguez in Girlfight (Karyn Kusama, 2000)

Cast: Michelle Rodriguez, Jamie Tirelli, Paul Calderon, Douglas Santiago, Ray Santiago, Victor Sierra, Elisa Bocanegra, Shannon Walker Williams. Screenplay: Karyn Kusama.  Cinematography: Patrick Cady. Production design: Stephen Beatrice. Film editing: Plummy Tucker. Music: Gene McDaniels, Theodore Shapiro. 

An attractive cast and intelligent camerawork and editing help make Girlfight watchable even for someone who dislikes boxing and finds sport movies boringly predictable. And yes, Girlfight is predictable. The protagonist is Diana Guzman (Michelle Rodriguez), who lives in a tough Brooklyn neighborhood with her father, Sandro (Paul Calderon), and brother, Tiny (Ray Santiago). Sandro is a macho bully whom Diana suspects of abusing her mother, who committed suicide. He takes little interest in her, putting his hopes on Tiny, whom he forces to train as a boxer, even though Tiny really wants to be an artist. After getting in trouble for fighting at school, Diana thinks that she might want to try to learn to box, too, so she persuades her brother's coach, Hector (Jamie Tirelli), to coach her. When she turns out to be good at it, Hector sets her up with a sparring partner, a guy named Adrian (Douglas Santiago), who wants to be a professional boxer. And of course Diana and Adrian fall in love, which presents a problem when through a series of plot contrivances they find themselves fighting each other in an important amateur competition. With the help of solid performances, writer-director Karyn Kusama makes all of this more interesting than it sounds in summary. That she named a character Adrian and has someone comment that it's usually a girl's name shows that she knows her sports movies and doesn't mind the comparisons. 

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When Models Attack

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Feliz Cumpleaños/ Happy Birthday Michelle🥳🎂

Mayte Michelle Rodríguez

July 12,1978

Buon Compleanno 🥳🎂🎈🎁🎉

12 Luglio 1978

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Michelle Rodríguez as Diana Guzmán || Girlfight (2000)

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Michelle Rodriguez at the Sundance Film Festival, 2000

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You Can Find The Remix Version Featuring Lil Jon, Da Brat, Remy Ma, Miss B -> Here

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Joan’s GirlFight Hot Pink Carpet look

Here’s some of her looks for this seasons GirlFight ! Hopefully next season I’m not as busy so I can make more of the prompts

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Girlfight (2000)

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We Need More

In my opinion, as a longtime horror fan, we need more and more memorable female werewolves. There have been great female vampires (Gloria Holden and Winona Ryder come to mind), themes of transformation into cats or cat-like energy (Cat People, plus Catwoman in DC Comics, even though that is not horror), and the highly memorable eponymous character in The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), played so memorably by the great Elsa Lanchester.

Despite everything odd and macabre usually being on Tumblr, though, there are only a very few women who transform into werewolves.

Wolves are not as elegant, perhaps, as cat or as most vampires, but it is precisely because werewolves are so primal that I think it could really work with the right casting and direction. The first actress who comes to mind as someone (the general "type") who could play such a character well would be a fit, action-oriented performer like Michelle Rodriguez, for instance.

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Girlfight Criterion Collection Blu-ray: Criterion Knockout

Girlfight was both Michelle Rodriguez’s first film and writer/director Karyn Kusama’s. Now it is in the Criterion Collection 24 years later. Looking back it is remarkable how fully formed Rodriguez was as a debut actor, and how Kusama anticipated the world of legitimate female fight sports. The gritty grain of 16mm film is preserved in his Blu-ray. The saturated colors of the chipped paint on the…

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time to bring up my number one crack ship again which is middle-aged diana guzman/angel every boxer's girlfriend from every movie about boxing ever. if diana fights tonight she's taking her four kids from her previous relationship to her sister's. when's it gonna be enough