"All you need to make a film is a girl and a gun", french cult director Jean-Luc Godard apparently once claimed. What is it this fascination with scantly-clad, but heavily armed women in popular culture, as most recently documented in the controversial reception of a US web-based reality show called „Girls and Guns“? From Homer's godesses to Jeanne d'Arc, from Barbarella to Pam Grier and Charlie´s Angels, from the voluptous vixens of Russ Meyer, Jamie Lee Curtis (Blue Steel) to Lara Croft or the more recent Bikini Bandits, predominantly male audiences seem to be fascinated with strong female characters, who know how to defend themselves.If they wear a bikini, that is. Although I´m not so sure about Jeanne d'Arcs casual clothing choices.
Unlike the gun-bunnies at ToughSportsLive, the Bikini Bandits appear to be a parody. They are a band of bikini-clad, gun-toting superhotties who star in internet shorts and their own movies. And they have that other, decisive ingredient: Rock n Roll.
The Bikini Bandits starr in videos by A Perfect Circle, hang out with Tool and had Dee Dee Ramone play the Pope 
in one of their flicks. In other words: they rock.So, what´s the deal with all these machine gun maids and superheroines? Since I am far from being a social scientist, I leave the research to the scholars and just mindlessly embrace this weird popular culture phenomenon . By the way, „Girls and Guns“ comes with a subscription for similar intellectually challening shows such as cockfighting or Brazilian cagefights….what else could we ask for?
Feel free to add your comments. I might pick up this topic again after having seen the new Rodriguez / Tarantion Grindhouseflicks Planet Terror and Death Proof…. or I´ll add a little something on rrrriot girls or the like‚ `cause, actually, nothing beats a girl with a …guitar!
Further reading or unadulterated mindless indulgence:
http://www.girlswithguns.org/
http://www.moviebadgirls.com/
http://www.girls-with-guns.co.uk/
http://www.atomfilms.com/home.jsp
http://www.ifilm.com/video/2683985
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