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Cast-o-rama
June 12, 2006
So one of the cool things about this whole porno director thing is that I get to hire people I jerk off to, and I can even tell them that and it’s a compliment, not sexual harassment. Seriously, there is really no other context in which a boss-type-person can, in an interview, say “You make me come when I look at you doing things. I would like to hire you.”
There are also many less awesome aspects of casting, like this thing where I have to try to hire people who will like to fuck each other. Coordinating other people’s chemistry is a fucking headache and a half. It is certainly a learning process, and I sure am learning. I hope not to mess shit up too badly, but I have had some interesting moments.
So the movie I’m making has a plot. In theory, I dig porno with a plot, but in practice I typically fast forward through that shit because seriously, I’m here for the fucking. So I’m attempting this delicate thing, where I want there to be just enough plot so that the viewer knows why these people are fucking each other, but not so much that it’s like, “dude, shut up and bone already.”
In one of my early casting sessions, I interviewed a dude who also has an off-off Broadway acting career, and he asked me a question I hadn’t thought about in any great detail: “What’s my character’s motivation?” It was pretty obvious that this had never occurred to me before, and I stammered, “Uhhh, he wants to do it?” in reply. I don’t think he was impressed.
I laughed to myself about it dismissively later – what, does he think this is a real movie or something? - but then I spent a day on Candida Royalle’s set in early April and I started to get it.
I don’t fancy myself any kind of master of method acting or whatever, but watching Candida prep her cast for their scenes, I saw how more developed characters could be a good thing and could give the movie an interesting texture. So as I’m sitting down to write my script, it’s something I’ll be thinking about an awful lot. Who are these people, and what drives them? Ok, maybe I won’t get too deep into it, but it should be kind of rad and hopefully a bit of that will come across on screen.
Posted by Dacia at June 12, 2006 05:41 PM
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I can’t wait to hear all the details, from the cast to the action on set! It seems like your porn will fulfill most, if not all, of my own fantasies - will the ass get loads of attention? :)
Posted by: Brian at June 12, 2006 06:40 PM
I fast forward thru the “plot” too, but sometimes I do wish they would be good or at the very least sensible enough to compliment and maybe amplify the actual fucking.
In one of the many cheapo compliation porns I own, there is one segment featuring an Asian girl getting fucked by four Black guys and yeah, as you can expect, all the gradeschool dialogue stereotypes come out of the woodwork…the “plot” leading them getting together is a real eye-rolling groaner and not in a good way…and I know people get off on that shit, but man…is it really so difficult to CREATE something NEW? I wonder sometimes if the performers really buy and think the crap that they act out or are they able to turn their brains off for the paycheck?
I have no doubt whatever you’re creating will be at the very least, good. And I won’t fast-forward thru the “plot.”
Posted by: Irezumi Kiss at June 12, 2006 08:39 PM
i changed my blog name and ended up writing a fair chunk of my sexual honesty…
mentioned that i’d once thrown a queenie strop because you took me off your blogroll… feeling slightly guilty that i’m still there now even though i post so infrequently…
haven’t read you in an age and i’m delighted that you’re still so damn sexy and intelligent, who else in this world is going to be making the heartfelt porn i want to watch but audacia ray…
glad you’re still investigating ideas and attitudes and though i don’t do porn so much these relationship days i would dearly love to watch you fuck someone…
remembering how much that girlcock post turned me on back when i was a regular…
but shit, you’re good, maybe i’ll be a regular again…
love you
x
Posted by: orgasmcurious at June 13, 2006 11:33 PM
Sex is psychological (or so a friend tells me). Many amateur pornographers (think guys who shoot for Zero Tolerance) seem to think pointing their camera at a naked chick getting pounded is what I want to see. There’s nothing sexy about that. I don’t need an elaborate plot, but whatever I’m seeing, if it looks like a “porn shoot” (guy talks to the models, there’s that big couch in the middle of the room, etc) it’s not going to cut it for me. At least make it look as if there’s no cameraman there and the people in the scene arn’t getting paid to fuck.
Posted by: Halfdeck at June 19, 2006 05:22 AM
