5/24/2023 0 Comments Derby Girl by Shauna Cross![]() It seemed so small.”ĭespite the film’s message that a little sporting brutality can be a good thing for a gal, “Whip It” is fundamentally a feel-good movie about finding out, as the tag line says, how to be your own hero. And still, it took me a little while to get the confidence to write about it. “When we started in 2003, there were like four leagues in this country,” she says, “and we were like, ‘This is a movement!’ Now, there’s over 450 leagues. “Whip It” screenwriter Shauna Cross, a founding member of LA team the Derby Dolls, is still a little stunned at the uptick in interest. This Friday, derby comes to the big screen via Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut “Whip It,” starring Ellen Page as a small-town Texas girl who ditches beauty pageants to join a derby team called the Hurl Scouts. Fouls - including the use of elbows, hands and lower legs to block or trip - abound, and smash-ups are a big part of the fun. The game, played on an indoor track in two-minute races, involves two individual skaters, known as “jammers,” who attempt to break through packs of other skaters from both teams. Take it from Anais Ninja, Lucille Ballistic, and Beyonslay.) High-speed skating, violence and girly camaraderie are three essential tenets of the punk-styled game of roller derby, a female-only sport that’s exploded in popularity over the past six years. “I’m always like, ‘Wow, you really kicked my ass last night. ![]() ‘When you get hit by one of your friends on the other team, it’s beer-worthy afterwards,” says Miss American Thighs, skater for local roller derby league the Gotham Girls. ![]()
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