00:00As someone who was a writer before porn and now has worked on all sides of the porn industry, can you explain why porn writing is often really bad?
00:10Yes, it's because you're trying to jump from the connection moment to the fucking in a very short period of time, which is why one of the most cliched things you'll hear on set is, what are you doing?
00:30Because it's like, oh, my stepmom enters and then all of a sudden she's touching my dick.
00:35Whereas in a movie, that connection is taking place throughout the whole movie and they have time, they have different locations, they can build this tension.
00:43In porn, you do not have that time.
00:47I've done a lot of writing for Ricky Greenwood and he'll usually be like, all right, I want to do a Western, I want to do a war movie like Rambo.
00:54And so I think of ways, I try to make the sex make sense in the story, but then they'll come back with notes and be like, okay, and then I need them to fuck at this point.
01:06And I'm like, but it doesn't make sense that these characters would fuck or they're in the middle of a war, they probably aren't going to just stop and have sex while they're being hunted.
01:17But you have to do a little bit of suspension of disbelief for that, I guess.
01:25Also, like a lot of porn plots are just going to be centered on the house because guess what?
01:30We don't have a budget for multiple locations.
01:32So what's the conflict that can happen in a house?
01:34Hmm, looks like we're related.
01:36Or that used to be the plumber or the pizza delivery thing.
01:41It's how do you get a random person into a house?
01:44Okay, who shows up at your door?
01:46Some sort of tension and conflict and then...
01:49Yeah, I think it's really just the limitations of porn and what people don't realize that we're working with.
01:55Most people don't get into porn.
01:56I know this is going to shock a lot of people.
01:58Most people don't get into porn to be actors.
02:01Nor do they think they're going to be actors.
02:02That's not true.
02:03It's not everybody is a theater nerd.
02:08I'm here for the camp of it all.
02:10Yeah.
02:11Oftentimes, people are getting 20-page scripts if they get that day and that they memorize.
02:16And I still think that in porn, there's some people that I am very impressed.
02:21I'm like, how did you memorize that in 10 minutes?
02:24That is an accomplishment.
02:25Now, you weren't necessarily a great actor, but you did the fucking part great, which is important.
02:31The part that everyone watches.
02:33Right.
02:34Yeah.
02:34I mean, the kind of porn stories that I like are the ones you actually think could be true or real.
02:40And those are more really easy POV stuff.
02:45It's hard because features generally, the big movies, they generally need minimum four sex scenes.
02:52Yeah.
02:52How are you going to find a reason why people are going to have sex four times and they have to be different people and that kind of thing.
03:00That's kind of like why we like producing featurettes because there only needs to be one sex scene and then you can build a whole story around that.
03:08Yes.
03:09But the whole like there has to be four sex scenes like thing is just.
03:14And then the director will come after you've written the script and be like, can you make this scene into a foursome?
03:20Um, and I don't have this person on this day.
03:23So you have to cut this section.
03:24Yeah.
03:25And you're just kind of like, okay, well, this story makes no sense anymore.
03:29But yeah, sure.
03:30Sure.
03:32Sure.
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