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Satana loved her fans, and most importantly she
loved the role of Varla, the character she made
famous in director Russ Meyers crime thriller
"Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" The reason Satana
seemed to identify with Varla so much that Satana
rarely took the character down when making public
appearances was because Satana was Varla. Varla of
course was a rebellious warrior woman, that of
seering unique sexuality with an attitude that told
the world "I'm getting you before you get me."
Co
star of "Faster Pussycat!" Sue Bernard explains in
an interview for Russ Meyer's film that Satana was
always an aggressive and intimidating woman, and
that she expressed considerable fear of Satana
whenever they were filming. Varla was such a butch
yet insanely sexual warrior woman with an allure and
aggression that demanded attention from the
audience. When I finally sat down to watch "Faster
Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" a few years ago on
television, unedited, I was enamored. She looked
like no one I'd ever seen before, and odds are if
she ordered me to drop trou, I'd have done so in a
matter of seconds. The late great Ms. Satana was a
woman who had a tumultuous and traumatic life. The
woman (as she explained in "Dark Stars Rising") rarely ever
had a break in her life to settle down.
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often denied an education from her
school, and due to her development in to
puberty before she even reached her
pre-teens she was abused and tortured by
her classmates, all of whom were jealous
of her assets. At a young age she was
forced in to a loveless marriage, was
horribly raped by five boys from her
neighborhood. And in an effort to stave
off the constant attacks from jealous
classmates, took up martial arts. And
yet in the end, Ms. Satana was a woman
of good spirits and high energy. Whether
elderly or on her last days touring the
country, Ms. Satana was out and
about making appearances for her fans,
dressing as Varla, and even donning her
own official website. And fan support
was amazing with Ms. Satana garnering
her own comic book, and her very own
custom action figure for the collectors.
In spite of all of her hard ships, Satana kept a happy face and a brutally
honest sexuality that made it impossible
for her fans to resist. Tura loved
her fans and more importantly she loved
the fame that came with "Faster Pussycat!"
as she was always happy to flex her sex
appeal. And sadly, at the age of 75,
Tura Satana has passed away and the
world of film is at a loss for words and
grieving the gaping hole she's left in
the cult world and the feminine world as
a whole. There was no one like Tura
Satana, and there will never be anyone
like her again. But this shouldn't be a
time to mourn, this should be a time to
celebrate the legacy she left behind. |
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"Faster
Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" is still a widely celebrated
and much sought after crime thriller with Satana leading
the charge, and she continued acting
well in to her old age with films like
"The Doll Squad," and "Sugarboxx" to
keep our appetites whet.
Life couldn't tame Tura Satana, so the odds of the
afterlife turning her angelic are slim. Tura always
calls the shots, no matter what. In the end, Tura
may have passed on from life, but fans will never
move on from Tura. Because we know deep down while
"Faster Pussycat!" was iconic, Varla didn't make
Tura immortal. Tura made Varla immortal.
Rest in Peace, Tura. Go, Baby, Go! |
