I knew that American culture was in trouble, but this New York Times front page article on the decline of plots in porn movies confirms my deepest fears.
The Times quotes porn actress Savanna Samson, who “said she took her acting seriously and used to prepare studiously for her roles.”
“I used to have dialogue,” said Ms. Samson, whose given name is Natalie Oliveros, and who is one of the industry’s biggest stars.
“Getting it on in one hardcore scene after another just isn’t as much fun,” she added.
Maybe Samson could apply for a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Or maybe New Haven has an opening for its “Shakespeare in the Park” program.
Porn DVD movies are being displaced by the Internet. A rep from porn-producer Vivid Entertainment told the Times: “On the Internet, the average attention span is three to five minutes. We have to cater to that.”
I have heard editors say that Internet articles should not be longer than 800 words, because readers do not have a longer attention span.
Maybe I underestimated the catharsis effect from op-eds.
UPDATE: It was only 2 years ago that the New York Times trumpeted a different crisis in porn – the advent of High Definition movie formats that were requiring many actresses to run back to the plastic surgeon:
Jesse Jane, one of the industry’s biggest stars, plans to go under the knife next month to deal with one side effect of high-definition. The images are so clear that Ms. Jane’s breast implants, from an operation six years ago, can be seen bulging oddly on screen.
“I’m having my breasts redone because of HD,” she said.
If Jesse Jane had only waited 2 years, this is the kind of intervention that probably would have been covered by Obama’s stimulus package.
Okay, Jim, I’ll bite…
Yea, you just don’t see ‘epic’ porn films like Behind the Green Door anymore.
And it is even rarer to see stars who were previously Ivory Snow advertisement girls.
Oh, for the good ol’ days when America was almost pure.
When a culture is starting to dumb down porno for the 3-5 minute attention span one just as well call the walking dead culture “culture interruptus”
I must say though that imagining a porn actress really working at dialogue is almost as funny as watching reruns of W delivering his speeches.
Maybe the porn star was tormented by seeing the adulation that Sarah Palin received.
The porn star thinks to herself, “Hey – I can give a speech as well as Palin…”
LOL, next they’ll be talking about the declining artistry of the music in porn movies.
It was only 2 years ago that the New York Times trumpeted a different porn crisis – the advent of High Definition movie formats that were requiring many actresses to run back to the plastic surgeon:
If Jesse Jane had only waited 2 years, this is the kind of intervention that probably would have been covered by Obama’s stimulus package.
Watchit buster, just what do you mean by “Stimulus package”?