Kida L'amour, Petite Femme Fatale

SO I was recently watching The Legend og Billie Jean and I have to save that love this movie for all it's campy-ness. I actually like the wardrobe choices as well. Billie Jean is one of those cult hits that you either get or don't.

Plot Summary:
Average Texas teen, Billie Jean Davy, is caught up in an odd fight for justice. She is usually followed and harrased around by local boys, who, one day, decide to trash her brother's scooter for fun. The boys' father refuses to pay them back the price of the scooter. The fight for "fair is fair" takes the teens around the state and produces an unlikely hero. Written by Jennifer Valley

The Tagline: When you're seventeen, people think they can do anything to you. Billie Jean is about to prove them wrong.

I believed that this movie might of been produced by MTV ( explains a lot doesn't it?) Anyways. I actually love the


The British historian E. J. Hobsbawm developed the idea of the "social bandit," the peasant youth who becomes an outlaw after his honorable resistance to some outrage by the landlord He calls to others who share his anger at injustice to follow him to the hills where they will lead the outlaw life, stealingn from the wealthy exploiting the poor, respecting the peasants and righting wrongs on their behalf.... (This equitable treatment is also close to what E.P. Thompson called "the moral economy of the poor:" the Honest Loaf, the Fair Day's Wage for a Fair Day's Work--a slogan of early labor unions--etc.)

Billie Jean is a social bandit. The events that launch her "career," the actions she performs, and above all her simple watchword "Fair is Fair" clearly put her in the category that includes the Brazilian Lampiao, the Sicilian Salvatore Giuliano, and others. Hardly surprising, since this teenage cult script was written by a formerly blacklisted old Lefty in his seventies, Walter Bernstein, who surely had read Hobsbawm and Thompson and found, I think, a very ingenious way to illustrate their ideas in a 1980's US setting.
Paulet of San Francisco

I don't think this reviewer is exactly off point but I find humor creating depth and complexity to this poorly directed movie. Hey! I love Christian Slater movies and I think Helen Slater is pretty awesome but in all honesty I would watch this movie as a cheap thrill.
Either way I do love watching this movie not only for the thrill of it but because of its styling and for it's eel good vibe. Thank you Helen and Christian for creating this jem!