Atlanta’s Legendary Strip Club: ‘Magic City’ Documentary
Lauren Greenfield, the award-winning documentary filmmaker and photographer behind the film The Queen of Versailles, is back with her new short documentary Magic City. If you’ve watched The Queen of Versailles, you’ll know that Greenfield can pull back the curtain on culture of super rich and not caring about how much money you spend on the biggest house you can build — even if it means losing your fortune. With Magic City, Greenfield attempts to do the same with another culture many of us don’t know about. What is Magic City? It’s a strip club, and if you’re from Atlanta, it’s THE strip club.
In this full-length documentary by award winner Lauren Greenfield, we get to know the strippers, rappers, hustlers, and dreamers that make up the legendary Magic City. More than just a strip club, the ATL hot spot is where aspiring rappers use the club’s influence in the hip hop industry to try and make it big, and where dancers and DJs call the shots as they seek out their own fame and fortune
The documentary really shows the culture that surrounds Magic City. It influences local music, shows how and the why exotic dancers got into the business, and really effect it has on all involved. One stripper, recognizing her own cliche excuse, states, “It’s so cliche, uhm, I was in college and I couldn’t pay for my classes.” If there’s one universal cliche thing about strippers, it’s that they’re only there to pay for school, yet many seem to give up the dream of college after they see how much money they can make, thus slipping further down the rabbit hole.
Magic City is an interesting view into the world we ignore after we hopped on a party bus for a friend’s bachelor party to hit up a strip club for an evening. I’ve never in my life been a fan of strip clubs, but Greenfield shows you a reality you’ve never really had much thought of past a night of partying.
Watch the full documentary below:
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