French beauty with the lousy stage name (sort of pronounced "Angie") N.'J. DeBahia got the Michael Zen treatment in this one of two Vivid Video tryouts, with her man Sergio in tow. Zen's pretentiousness combined with a condescending attitude and terrible film technique result in an absolute loser.
Tony Tedeschi, wearing shades and with cigarette in hand, plays Randy Paradise, a pornographer who narrates this story of a beauty breaking into Hollywood to become a U.S. porn star. Though Vivid ended up assigning her to a half dozen starring roles, N.'J. failed to make the grade and deserved a better shot with better material.
The usually reliable Raven Touchstone is credited with the screenplay, which covers random sex scenes and an idiotic sort-of story line. Tedeschi pontificates about dreams, lecturing the viewer, before ending the show with a freeze frame derisive cackle of laughter, insulting the audience. Looking down on the "pervs" who watch their videos is nothing new for screen pornographers, but Zen loses many a brownie point with this exercise.
So we have the foreign couple N.'J. and Sergio asleep dreaming, while Tony keeps emphasizing the title "Going Down" through use of a prop elevator. How clever.
Subplot of two porn actresses (busty blonde Rachel Love and the wonderful (elsewhere) gonzo artiste Nancy Vee arguing over a man goes nowhere, except to their inevitable Sapphic sex scene. A particularly crummy set supposed to be the surface of planet Mars is used pointlessly as the backdrop for sex, evidence of the Vivid attitude of the time that the sex scene, suitable for endless excerpting, is all that matters, not the feature film within which it is contained. Though Vivid no longer produces these clunkers, the label was prescient in the audience moving towards all-sex vignettes in place of the Adult Cinema that previously made the industry relevant.
Zen's editing tricks are very poor, ruining most of the sex scenes with stutter-frame strobe-like cutting or even annoying Chroma Key gimmickry. As for N.'J., she's pretty, has a fine figure and attractive French accent (mainly speaking in French for this film) but the two Vivid videos I've seen her in are worthless.
Tony Tedeschi, wearing shades and with cigarette in hand, plays Randy Paradise, a pornographer who narrates this story of a beauty breaking into Hollywood to become a U.S. porn star. Though Vivid ended up assigning her to a half dozen starring roles, N.'J. failed to make the grade and deserved a better shot with better material.
The usually reliable Raven Touchstone is credited with the screenplay, which covers random sex scenes and an idiotic sort-of story line. Tedeschi pontificates about dreams, lecturing the viewer, before ending the show with a freeze frame derisive cackle of laughter, insulting the audience. Looking down on the "pervs" who watch their videos is nothing new for screen pornographers, but Zen loses many a brownie point with this exercise.
So we have the foreign couple N.'J. and Sergio asleep dreaming, while Tony keeps emphasizing the title "Going Down" through use of a prop elevator. How clever.
Subplot of two porn actresses (busty blonde Rachel Love and the wonderful (elsewhere) gonzo artiste Nancy Vee arguing over a man goes nowhere, except to their inevitable Sapphic sex scene. A particularly crummy set supposed to be the surface of planet Mars is used pointlessly as the backdrop for sex, evidence of the Vivid attitude of the time that the sex scene, suitable for endless excerpting, is all that matters, not the feature film within which it is contained. Though Vivid no longer produces these clunkers, the label was prescient in the audience moving towards all-sex vignettes in place of the Adult Cinema that previously made the industry relevant.
Zen's editing tricks are very poor, ruining most of the sex scenes with stutter-frame strobe-like cutting or even annoying Chroma Key gimmickry. As for N.'J., she's pretty, has a fine figure and attractive French accent (mainly speaking in French for this film) but the two Vivid videos I've seen her in are worthless.