Just picked up
To Die For, the current Vivid DVD release, staring the amazing Monique Alexander (you may also want to check out a review I did of her last Vivid title,
Mythology). She looks so good it almost makes me want to get into the business so I can act with her... if you know what I mean.
This is a major motion picture for Vivid since it’s produced by the great Shylar Cobi and directed by the multi-award winning Paul Thomas. So what’s this movie all about? Here’s the official word...
This is the big one for Vivid Girl Monique Alexander. The adult industry's most awarded director, Paul Thomas, brings Monigue's most potent sexual images to the screen and the result is pure horniness. Beautiful Monique humps Manuel Ferrara like a wild beast and the she screws the dickens outta Tommy Gunn on a boat. These scenes are so hot it's sick. Haley Paige diddles Tyla Wynn's butt with a dildo and takes Kurt Lockwood's dick up her rump in another scene. Kurt bangs Liz Harper up her butt as well. Austin Kincaid pussy pumps Manuel Ferrara's sausage until he squirts and she gets a good boffing from Tommy Gunn in a loft. There are eight, count'em - 8 (eight) big sex scenes here. This could have been 2 great movies, but instead we put everything into one huge Vivid Spring blockbuster! Insist on the best... INSIST ON VIVID.
A while back Scott and Frosty sat down with P.T. and talked about the art of porn. Here’s some of that interview and some pictures of Monique from the set of To Die For.
SCOTT: Looking at some of the Vivid titles recently, I thought that story was dead in adult films...
PAUL THOMAS: Why did you think that?
I guess because most of the stuff I’ve seen in the last few years has been the stuff that gets right to it. And I thought that’s all there was. Is it a resurgence of story? Or has story never gone away?
I’ve never changed. I do the same sort of productions I did when I was an actor. They’re story-based. Some of the development of the story is considerable. Character development is considerable.
The arcs of the characters and the plots... sometimes they’re seventy page screenplays, sometimes they’re done on film, and sometimes they’re twenty page screenplays or fifteen page screenplays done on video... which have very, very little story... just sort of an excuse...
Just to get to the business.
Just to get to the business. And I think when you just use an excuse just get to the business you shouldn’t even have the excuse. You should just do the business. But three quarters of the work is story-based.


Do you detest the movies that are non-story?
Detest them?! My god, no. My god. Good gonzo... okay... detest is too strong a word, but I don’t like product that just starts with the sex scene. But good gonzo doesn’t. My friends Rocco, and John Stagliano, and John Leslie... they have gonzo and it’s just sex but they don’t just start with the sex; there’s fifteen-twenty minutes of setting it up, seeing the girl on the street, following her around, talking to her... it’s all about the setup.


Whether it’s a script or non-scripted, to me, just as important as the sex itself, and actually, to me, more important, is the setup and the seduction and the tease and building up of the sexual tension, getting to know who the girl is, seeing her in life situations that are not just fucking. I love to see that girl walking down Rodeo Drive in something really sex and men looking at her see-though skirt way before I see her fucking. Yeah, when they just start off with the fucking, I do detest it, because it’s a waste of good time and energy. (Laughs)