Whatever It Takes

This all-girl video from Vivid has infant terrible pornographer David Stanley at perhaps his lowest creative ebb, though I'll have to peruse several dozen more of his features to establish that nadir. He seems to be working hard to produce a valid product, but fails miserably.

One has to watch the BTS short subject on the DVD to discover that heroine Alana Evans is playing a character named Jesse, as she discusses her "psychotic girlfriend" role. Even David's casting is suspect, as his choice of similar looking blondes confused me no end during the first two lengthy all-sex vignettes involving Alana, her spotlighted girlfriend (top-billed Kelle Marie) and more familiar Tanya James.

The short feature seems interminable given its lack of a bona fide story, and highly repetitious Sapphic sex. Supporting cast has no roles to speak of, merely injecting Isabella and Nikki as pole dancers in a seemingly Lesbian club, or far bigger names Ariana Jollee and Holly Hollywood as prostitutes who accost poor Kelle later on.

In voice-over Kelle with her marked accent explains Stanley's wimpy theme, that she can only prove her love to Alana's character by being abused. If this sex filler video had any legitimate dramatic content, it would qualify as a downer, rather than a mere boredom-inducing exercise. It emerges as a key to how pretentiousness and self-indulgence proved so self-destructive to the nascent talent David Stanley's career. Perhaps significantly Vivid's Toni Brooks gets no executive producer screen credit on this release, with hack production manager (seen briefly hamming it up as usual in the BTS) filling that slot. I inferred after watching it that quality control at Vivid was wholly absent this time around.

For Kelle, we learn from her in the BTS that this was a one-shot tryout with Vivid for the Welsh lass and former Penthouse Pet in hopes of being signed as a contract star. With an audition as crummy as this one, it's no surprise that Vivid said no.