bob94600 wrote:Great post.
According to me, the answer to that is very simple : Luis is a VERY VERY bad producer.
A few months ago, he still had some good male actors to shoot with, hiding his lack of skills in terms of production.
Nowadays, he doesn't have anymore...And his weakness appears in every single scene he makes...
I hope XXX or Luis don't think that I'm calling them "VERY BAD" producers. grey00owl wrote:A big praise also from me, magizi!
Very good post and sharp, deep analysis. Also nice gifs.
I agree about all, but the fact it's a GONZO's issue: in my opinion GIORGIO's and IV's productions suffer the same problem. It's all about to build up a scene according to some schemes, where fantasy plays no or a minimal role, where is no place for feeling, passion and spontaneity, where thus intensity and authenticity go inevitably lost.
I also share your concept of "manhandle", it's not about some slaps, but mood and involvement.
It's so nice when the actors are passionately into it: I like so much when a man slaps hard a woman and this smiles to him and shows that she likes it or even begs for it. I also love when a guy spits a girl in the mouth and then kisses her, and she spits him back and/or slaps him. I really have nothing against reverse and mutual manhandle, it's also exciting and part of the game.
As a good example of manhandle I always take that scene with Misha Cross, HARDCORE CLIMAX SZ317, where she, having been slapped hard by the guys (Mike Angelo, Yanick Shaft and Tony Brooklyn), at one point reacts and slaps Tony back and he enjoys it too.
Of course not every actor, male and female, is into it, therefore it's important to choose the right ones. Rocco Siffredi, Mike Angelo, Mike Chapman are maybe the best rough performers, because so passionate and involved, but Mr Anderson, Robin Reid, Yanick Shaft, Chis Diamond, Potro and the "Russian" boys are also good, although with a different, colder style.
For me Gonzo are the ones who produce gangbangs closer to how I wish they were.
And therefore I think they just need tweaks here and there to make that happen.
Whereas IV or Giorgio, they need complete overhauls for me to like them at this point.
Which is why I don't post any feedback over there anymore.
Over many years Giorgio politely said to me, privately and publicly, something along this tune:
basically "he build a fanbase for his porn, that is very much incompatible with what I like in porn".
I think DAP, makes movies worse, for example.
His movies are basically all about DAP, with a few other niches sprinkled on top.
I remember at some point realizing that I was paying 5 or 6 tkt for a 45 minute movie,
that basically only had 2 to 6 mins of content that I actually enjoyed.
IV is kind of the same story, were Joachim-Kessef
has explicitly comment that he prefers tip-fucking content for aesthetic reasons.
And on top of that I think their director hold the camera at angles
that don't make the girls pop. Simply I think they subtract attractiveness
from the ladies by the method the hold the camera, lol.
greenfunk727 wrote:Feedback from me would be:
Gaping - More focus on some big gapes - proper power gapes. I don't need lots of gapes but when the gapes do happen I want to see big (camera straight on, not from the side) power gapes.
Fashion - Gonza has the worst fashion. They dress the models in Shorts! half the time. They dress the models like pseudo teen girls from a max hardcore nightmare. IV & GIO have much better understading of how to dress a model.
Otherwise I think Gonzo do a pretty decent job!
I agree with this, in particular with the fashion part.
I think most Gonzo outfits are either forgetable or downright awful. lol
This is actually so important for me that I'll cover it in my next post.
dap-addict wrote:Great post, indeed!
Would be very good to have you back here with your video analysis and explaining 'gifs, magizi!
Now, I dont think Luis is a very bad director, but he's lately just bored and seems more and more absent minded, maybe planning already his next SAM holidays or family stay instead of focusing on the porn scene he's shooting. Having no strong competition on gonzo anymore sure adds to a certain laziness. Add the fact that its doubtful how many of these bookings he does himself. Looks a bit like he is only the tech and camera guy, and probably a fairly cheap one, apart from his expensive flight tickets.
So why fly in a cameraman every second month from the other side of the World? - Because he has the best studs crew maybe. But now as that crew is obviously gone and Luis shoots halfway with usual local studs, his star might be sinking rapidly.
This said I have doubts about gonzo studio as such. No updates, obviously bad planning, OTS scenes instead, looks a bit like dying.
Now while I am a clear GIO fan because there I usually get the daily minimum dose porn fix I need, LP without gonzo would be definitely not LP anymore for me. LP for me was always GIO
and gonzo, formerly also with SOS and IV.
I do want to make gifs, but I need content that motivates me to do them, lol.
I hope Luis can ensamble most of his old crew back.
But if that's somehow not an option,
He need sot do what Giorgio did,
which was to build a reliable team,
and stick to it. The models come and go,
but the essence of the studio is really him, the behind the scenes ppl like Petra, and the guys.
If you change all the guys, the whole thing feel like a different brand,
and at this time I just don't like it