![]() However, most porn stars never make it to legitimate films. In fact, had he made different choices in his life or taken different chances, John could have been a "legitimate" actor. ![]() He would strut around in his kimono wrapped tightly around him and recite from "Othello" or "Macbeth." And he wasn't bad. One of his ideas was to adapt Shakespeare to porn. And since it sells, why change?Īmazingly, during the six-day shoot, John and I would talk about ways to make porn sexier. Also, most pornos are made on extremely tight schedules and budgets, with much of the production time allotted to sex - not character development. Granted, the scripts and story lines don't help and the actors, with all due respect to how hard they work, aren't trained. For me, porn films feature lots of well-endowed characters who mimic being hot and turned on, but they're not. Pornography is a multimillion-dollar industry with eager - if not insatiable - customers, but I didn't, and still don't, find it a turn-on. First of all, I had no idea what to expect in terms of whether the actors would really "do it" (they usually didn't), if I would be right there watching and taking notes (I was) and what the hell I was going to feel (nothing). I was relieved that the first sex scene was over. Phenomenal, by motion picture standards, but merely average for porn schedules. Here, she tricked the infamous "Detective Johnny Wadd" and left him shackled to a bedpost. Anyway, by 10 a.m., John and the busty-lusty Mimi had already had frenzied sex in Mimi's office location and then proceeded, while groaning and shedding their pull-apart wardrobe, to Mimi's antechamber. Turns out, quiet director Tom was giving Andy his big break into porn and Andy was working for deferred payment and a weekend with a porn star - or something like that. Wadd."Īnd this, in turn, annoyed Andy, who was not only an inept A.D. For instance, we changed Mimi's endless quest for "hot and hunky man-meat" to more of a challenge, where she would order Johnny Wadd to "Fuck me to the moon, Mr. This one, however, also suffered from atrocious dialogue, which John and I began to rewrite. But it wasn't just his physical attributes he actually knew his lines and was trying sincerely to act the part of a film-noir detective who had been double-crossed by a busty and lusty blond. Fortunately, he was as discreet as a naked man with an 11-and-a-half-inch cock could be, considering he was under lights and shackled to a bedpost. He really did have a huge penis - or "cock," as everyone reminded me ("dick" was also acceptable). of the first day on location, which was a ramshackle loft in East Oakland, I had a pretty good idea why John Holmes was on his way to becoming a porn star. At the time, I had never seen a porno, much less had any idea who John Holmes was.īy 10 a.m. With this in mind, and a promise to myself that if there was any hint of sadism I would walk, I took the job as script supervisor on "Liquid Lips" (not the film's real name) starring John Holmes as Detective Johnny Wadd. However, my boyfriend helped by reminding me that certain practicalities of life also had to be addressed, like paying the rent and buying groceries. ![]() I couldn't even rely on the wise quote of my favorite director, Luis Buñuel: "To live is to contradict oneself." But as a feminist who had just completed a documentary on the emerging women's health movement, I had very mixed feelings about working in a genre that notoriously denigrates women. In fact, certain crew people, caterers and soundstage owners made a decent living working exclusively on pornos.Īs for me, I was building my résumé as a script supervisor and needed the experience - or that was how I rationalized it to my friends and myself. San Francisco was especially popular because it was cheap, the vice squad was understanding (some said well paid) and the crews were eager. In those days, porn films, or pornos, as we called them, were made in the San Fernando Valley, New York and San Francisco. And if you were breaking into film work in the Bay Area, sooner or later you'd have a chance to work in the thriving porn industry. What was a nice feminist doing on a porno? "Look guys, John's dick was on the left side, and he can move it himself!" I said.īlushing, I looked up from my script notes and saw them all grinning, including the naked star of the movie, John Holmes. "Come on, take it and show us," piped in Roger, the gnarly gaffer. "Where? Show us." This was from Andy, the punk assistant director with stringy hair. "Where was it, Denise?" asked Tom, the quiet director. ![]()
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