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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Zola is a 2021 Black Comedy drama film directed by Janicza Bravo, based on an infamous 148-post thread from Twitter and the Rolling Stone article, "Zola Tells All: The Real Story Behind the Greatest Stripper Saga Ever Tweeted".Struggling Detroit waitress A'ziah “Zola” King (Taylour Paige) meets and befriends a woman named Stefani (Riley Keough), the two women bonding over shared experiences with pole dancing. Stefani later invites Zola to Florida to make money at strip clubs, joined by Stefani’s boyfriend Derrek (Nicholas Braun) and her “roommate” X (Colman Domingo). What follows is a weekend filled with sex, lies, and violence.Has nothing to do with French writer Émile Zola. Or the Zoras from The Legend of Zelda, who were originally called "Zolas".
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Actor Allusion: This isn't the only movie where Riley Keough's character is involved with the life of a stripper in Florida. It's also not the first time she's played an escort/sex worker (although her character in The Girlfriend Experience was more of a High-Class Call Girl).
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Adaptational Dumbass: Mixed with Adaptational Jerkass: Jarrett in the original thread carried on a long, interesting conversation with Zola despite his bipolar swings, and it turned out to be one of the only high points of Zola's trip to hell. Derrek is a whiny, melodramatic idiot who is slavishly devoted to Stefani despite her constant exploitation of him, whose only bright spot of intelligence is keying Zola into the fact Stefani has deceived several other strippers in the exact same way before, though he also clearly does care about Stefani and is stuck in the trap of thinking that if he tries hard enough, he'll finally get her to give up that life.
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Adaptation Name Change: The woman Zola befriended was named Jessica Rae Swiatkowski, but is named Stefani in the film. Likewise, her boyfriend was named Jarrett Scott but renamed Derrek in the film. The pimp's alias was Z in real life, but was changed to X in the film, as was his real name (Abegunde Olawale in the film, Akporode Uwedjojevwe in real life).
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