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Sex Sells Sex Sells: The Making of Touche (2005) – Jonathan Liebert This is a laugh out-loud little comedy set in the porn business. In actuality it is a mock-mockumentary … isn’t postmodernist sub-referencing wonderful? From the start one is pretty sure that this is not a documentary about the making of a porn film going by the title “Touche”, however, the first 20 minutes or so of this film really does paint a rather semi-accurate behind the scenes of a porn film. That alone is a clue that something is amiss since the subject of the film, “Chuck Steak” (pronounced Stee-ack) is a lost breed … a porn producer still shooting on film stock instead of digital video. The final “big” clue is when the star of the porn-to-be reveals his 42” penis. From that point on the tone of the film is locked down. The cast is one where everyone seems slightly familiar. The actor playing “Chuck Steak”, Mark DeCarlo has been on a ton of sitcoms but close your eyes and you can hear the father from “Jimmy Neutron” telling the star not to blow his load yet. The actress playing the veteran pornstar, Pricilla Barnes, is also extremely familiar. Take twenty-plus years off her and you remember her as Suzanne Somers replacement on “Three’s Company”. As you watch all the actors you get a strong sense that everyone was laughing through the whole film. There is a clear sense that everything was a “hoot” to do. The film is not without it’s flaws and even the self-referencing genre falls apart at one point and we eventually seem to be watching a standard fare work of fiction (even though it started as a fake-fake-documentary). The film is not meant to be taken seriously and it is essentially fluff, but there are not too many films out there that use the porn industry to make comedy. For those into kink, really the only overt imagery revolves around the “fluffer” who needs not touch the actors to get them ready for the shots. She is a goth-Domme-sadist to the extreme and her words are all it takes. Pricilla Barnes portrays an older woman that will satisfy anyone with a MILF interest. A word of advice is in order. Do not have any beverage in your mouth when the interview with “Lance Long” is on the screen. When his 42” member awakes the visual gag will make fluid shoot out of your nose. That should set the viewing tone for this film. Note: I sometimes get told I am too serious about my selection and interpretation of the films I review. This film is an attempt to demonstrate it isn’t all academic film critique that I am into. Note: for those who do not know, a “fluffer” is the person who is hired to get and keep the males erect between takes.  |
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