I was trying to capture the voice of Varla, Tura Satana's signature character from Russ Meyer's 1965, girls gone wild masterpiece, Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill! but I am hopeless at recreating Varla's sassy, nihilisism.
Tura Satana was a strong, outspoken woman who approached life with a (literal) no holds barred attitude that she infused into her characters. Varla, the homicidal, invective hurling, Go-Go dancer, was chaos personified. She dished out the attitude she wouldn't take from anyone else and anyone who tried, did so at their own risk. Both Kali the Destroyer and Kamakhyer, goddess of love, passion and desire, in one, she shook, shimmied, and cut down anyone or anything that got in her way. Tura played the role with such gusto that Varla became an icon of American cinema.
