November 21, 2006
La Dolce Vita Fashion Show
Michael Lucas is taking a huge gamble with his latest film,
La Dolce Vita, both creatively and financially. He's included a fashion show scene using porn models models from the film as well as non-porn runway models. In the bizarre "Making Of" video just posted to YouTube, he even hired a voiceover actor that sounds like he's doing a trailer for a splatter film. The voiceover announces that this one scene cost more than an entire movie usually costs!
On one hand, I hope that the movie is a success so that other studios will also start taking more risks, breaking out of their "formulas", trying new promotional gimmicks, and doing more outreach to the mainstream.
On the other hand, I'm skeptical that Lucas can sell enough copies to justify the money and effort spent. Everyone has an opinion about what makes a porn movie "good", but are they the same people who actually BUY movies? Studios like COLT, Titan, Raging Stallion and Hot House have built their businesses on the premise of "no plot", and "let's get right to the fucking asap".
Or maybe this is Michael Lucas's way of moving out of the porn business and into bigger and better things in other industries...
I'm anxious to see this movie in any case.
Posted by lavenderlounge at 3:19 PM
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