Tuesday, 2 July 2013

Dena: A Retrospective (Day 4)

Screening 4: Fantasy and Reality

“The Wonderful Life of Dr Dena” (Parts 1 and 2) 19.48 total
Awefilms: “Mirror Mirror…” (Parts 1 and 2) 14.10 total

There will be an intermission this evening, as you’ll be pleased to know that tonight’s screening comprises over half an hour of Dena material. The first part of our programme explores the reality of Dr Dena Westerfield: professional bodybuilder, chiropractor, personal trainer, massage therapist, nutritionist and lifestyle management tutor. After the break, an Awefilms two-parter that is pure, unadulterated Dr Sexy, the purveyor of female muscle fantasy of the highest quality.

There’s a whole lot of Dena coming your way this evening, and post-intermission the heat gets turned up to 11, so we beg you to pace yourselves.

Firstly, a two-part documentary insight entitled The Wonderful Life of Dr Dena, made in 2009 by Edward L.M. Spicuzza, who, as far as I know, made no contribution, other than this highly significant one, to the world of female muscle.

Part 1 begins with Dena in her kitchen first thing in the morning. In a baggy t-shirt, her voice still croaky from sleep, she mixes up her first protein intake of the day. And it continues with Dena speaking to the camera at length about her life, her creed and her motivation for bodybuilding.

Certainly candid, very interesting, but not at all for the same market as Dena appeals to as Dr Sexy. Nevertheless, there’s still a little something to quicken our pulses. Blink and you’ll miss it, but around the 4.30 mark, we see Dena at home in one of her trademark tiny bikini tops, slapping some meat onto the barbecue. No doubt that is exactly the kind of thing you fantasise about your dream muscle woman doing. Well, if this documentary is to be believed, that particular fantasy is not very far from reality!



Part 2 takes place at the 2009 Arnold Sports Festival, where Dena finished 9th in the Ms International, and at a contest in St Louis some weeks later where Dena performs a guest posing routine and afterwards speaks to the crowd.

It’s an absolute treat to see her on the stage in her pomp, doing what she, and all other female bodybuilders, live for. And there’s no mistaking the reaction of the crowd both at the Arnold and the St Louis show, nor the emotion in her voice during her speech.

And once again, a little bit of that fantasy sneaks in. Check out the outfit Dena is wearing at 0.44 as she speaks to Lauren Powers. If she unzipped her sleeveless jacket any further, she’d probably get arrested. Talk about wearing your pecs with pride!




INTERMISSION


And now to the fantasy. Dena’s two-part epic of sensual flexing and self-worship, which begins with a variation on the Queen’s lines in the Snow White story, ‘Magic mirror on the wall…’. Instead of ‘Who is the fairest one of all?’ we get ‘Who’s the hottest muscle babe of them all?’ And unlike the Queen’s mirror, which you may or may not recall replies ‘You are the fairest of them all,’ Dena’s mirror is apparently rendered incapable of speech.

As if Dena needed a magic mirror to boost her ego anyway. Dena knows

Part 1

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We begin with Dena apparently exhibiting herself at the window while the viewer watches from behind, but before long the mirror, or rather the reflection of herself in the mirror, gets her attention...

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The heat is turned up as suddenly we, the viewers, get the mirror's point of view...

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As we watch from behind again, she flexes and admires her bicep before sinking to the floor once more. There are wonderful angles in this little sequence - we see the bicep from behind but also from in front courtesy of the mirror, and as she starts to grind on the floor this viewer doesn't know whether to watch her pulsating glutes or the reflection of her superb pecs...

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And we end Part 1 with Dena writhing on the floor, flexing and caressing herself before sitting up to once again gaze at her own magnificent body...

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Part 2

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You thought it couldn't get much hotter, but Part 2 begins and you realise how wrong you were. With the mirror now below her (the number one fantasy position the majority of female muscle fans would like to be in, I would bet), Dena launches into a hypnotic flexing dance, grinning and pouting at herself in the mirror, breaking off only to fling her head back in apparent ecstasy...

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She strains to pump her muscles up to their fullest glory, she dominates the mirror...

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And again, we are given a variety of viewpoints with which to savour Dena's beautiful physique, shown off in her own inimitable style...

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She does what it seems she has been wanting to do for the previous fourteen minutes and bends down to kiss the mirror, kiss herself. And we find ourselves jealous of an inanimate object! Slowly, the film fades out with Dena still at it, the extent of her self-worship positively boundless...

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I leave you today with this thought. In the documentary, Dena says, ‘I want people to look at my physique and know this takes commitment and dedication and if I choose to be a part of your life, that’s what you get also. So I’m 100% committed and dedicated to my patients, to my bodybuilding…’ and, we might add, having revisited her performance in front of (not to mention on top of) the mirror, to bringing our female muscle fantasies to life.

Perhaps, in one sense anyway, there wasn’t such a boundary between the reality and the fantasy. Dena just gave it her all no matter what she was doing. Perhaps that, after all, is the secret of her enduring appeal.


The wonderful Dr Dena continues to give it her all tomorrow.

And if you haven’t experienced today’s clip (or any of the other clips this week) in its entirety, FMS would be delighted to point you in the direction of a place where it can be found for download. Just get in touch.

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