Vegas Vengeance Quest

(realistic inspired by elizabeth berkley) Young drifter Nomi Malone hitchhikes to Las Vegas hoping to make it as a showgirl. After a driver who picked her up robs her, she meets Molly Abrams, a costume designer who takes her in as a roommate. Molly invites her backstage at Goddess, the Stardust Casino show where she works, to meet Cristal Connors, the diva star of the casino's topless dance revue. When Nomi tells Cristal she dances at Cheetah's Topless Club, Cristal derisively tells her that what she does is akin to prostitution. When Nomi is too upset to go to work that night, Molly takes her dancing at the Crave Club. Nomi is arrested after causing a fight involving James Smith, a bouncer at the club, and pays him little notice when he bails her out of jail. Cristal and her boyfriend, Zack Carey, the entertainment director at the Stardust, visit Cheetah's and request a lap dance from Nomi. Although the bisexual Cristal is attracted to Nomi, her request is based more on her desire to humiliate Nomi by proving she engages in prostitution. Nomi reluctantly performs the lap dance after Cristal offers her $500. James happens to be at the strip club and sneaks a peek at Nomi's lap dance. He visits Nomi's trailer the next morning and tells Nomi that what she is doing is no different from prostitution. James choreographs a dance routine for Nomi, but gives the role to Penny, a former co-worker of Nomi's, when Nomi refuses to have sex with him. Cristal arranges for Nomi to audition for the chorus line of Goddess. Tony Moss, the show's director, humiliates Nomi by asking her to put ice on her nipples to harden them. Furious, Nomi abruptly leaves the audition after scattering ice everywhere in a fit. Despite her outburst, Nomi gets the job and quits Cheetah's. Cristal further humiliates her by suggesting she make a "goodwill appearance" at a boat trade show, which turns out to be a thinly disguised prostitution set-up. Undeterred, Nomi sets out to get revenge against Cristal and claim her mantle. She seduces Zack, who secures an audition for her to be Cristal's understudy. Nomi wins the role, but when Cristal threatens legal action against the Stardust, the offer is rescinded. After Cristal taunts her, Nomi pushes her down a flight of stairs, breaking her hip, and replaces her as the show's lead. Despite having finally secured the fame she sought, she alienates Molly, who realizes she caused Cristal's injury. Molly later relents and attends Nomi's opening-night celebration at a lavish hotel, where she meets her idol, musician Andrew Carver. Carver lures Molly to a room, where he brutally beats her and leads his two friends, who are security guards, into gang-raping her to the point of hospitalization. Nomi wants to report the assault to the police, but Zack explains that the Stardust will bribe Molly with hush money to protect Carver, their star performer, before then confronting her about her sordid past. He informs her that she was born as Polly Ann Costello in San Francisco, and she became a runaway and prostitute after her parents' murder–suicide in 1989, when she was 15 years old. After escaping from a foster home in nearby Oakland the following year, she changed her name several times and has been arrested several times in several states for various crimes ranging from drug possession to prostitution and assault with a deadly weapon. Zack blackmails her by vowing to conceal her past if she abstains from informing the police about the assault. Unable to obtain justice for Molly without exposing her own past, Nomi decides to take matters into her own hands. After severely assaulting Carver alone in his hotel room, she then pays two hospital visits, one to inform a semi-conscious Molly that Carver's actions did not go unpunished, and another to Cristal to apologize for injuring her. Because her lawyers have secured her a large cash settlement, Cristal forgives Nomi, admitting she pulled a similar stunt years earlier, and they exchange a reconciliatory kiss. Nomi leaves Las Vegas and hitches a ride to Los Angeles, coincidentally robbing at knifepoint the same driver who stole her possessions when she arrived. art nouveau, atmospheric lighting, Molly and Nomi backstage at Goddess, Molly in vibrant costume designer attire, Nomi in showgirl garb, tension in the air, Molly's sympathetic glance towards Nomi, Vegas nightlife in full play, clamorous ambience with illuminated marquees, stage bursting with feather-laden dancers, time is late hours, weathered show posters adorning the walls, inspired by Elizabeth Berkleyand trending on DeviantArt, warm color palette, low-angle shot emphasizing these ever-so-hopeful dream chasers, evoking a poignant narrative depth amidst glitz and glamour, intricately detailed setting.