Faster
When I was much younger I saw a fantastic film in the theater called "The Warriors." I loved the whole concept of the film. There was the pimp gang and the baseball gang and of course, the heroes of the show. That would be the warriors themselves. They get framed for killing sires and must battle their way through many of the city gangs and cops to make it home safe. I loved the action and the violence, plus the really cool one liner. Recently I re-watched the same film some 30 years later and found myself quite bored. The scene with the base ball furies chasing the warriors took forever. Had it really been so slow or was there something else at play? I understand that we live in a much faster paced world now and that we all have so much to do but I must ask myself, "Are we losing our attention spans?" How many things that used to move at a certain speed now have been condensed into a much shorter format.
Zombies for example, like in the classic "Night of the Living Dead" brought a whole new monster into play and it did it in a semi-documentary style. Haven't we all asked, "What would I do in the house? Would I have survived? The monsters were slow meandering zombies. Yes, you had to destroy the brain but they were slow moving reanimated corpses so how hard could it be? Then came the "Dawn of the Dead" remake and the "28 Days Later" series which put everything into overdrive. The monsters not only moved faster but the rate of infection also increased. In the original "Alien" movie it took three days to incubate the first alien. In "Aliens vs. Predator" this event occurred much faster. More recent productions show banana heads popping out of people’s chests within hours, if not faster.
The same seems to be true for the adult industry. We have all seen the shake and bake productions that look like they were thrown together in an assembly line with no consideration for lighting or atmosphere. Often sets are adorned with cheap blankets or sheets covering the apartment windows of these low budget films. I’m not saying that only high budget movies are worth watching. I have seen plenty of stinkers from their end as well. It's understandable they want to cram six sex scenes, which contains a lot of "acting" into two hours of footage because the four hour DVDs cost more to replicate. We all want to keep our costs down but you are sacrificing your product by cramming in an extra scene when you know better.
Maybe I’m off tract here but it seems to me, if we take the time to pace our product better then we will have a better appreciation for what we do. The most startling example of this was when I was showing a friend the new "Resident Evil" trailer. Three seconds into the preview nothing had blown up yet so he starts texting on his phone and misses the set up for the next event. He only looked up when the rock music kicked, at which point the bad guy was throwing his sunglasses at the camera. My friend then asked, “Why is he throwing his glasses?”
Maybe if we produced something better than we would not have to cram a bunch of gimmicky crap into our product just to keep our customers engaged for more than three seconds. If we don't, we may get stuck with "Ninja Porno Zombies from Space." Hmm... maybe I should check to see if that url is taken!
Yariana is the producer with http://www.desperateamateurs.com
