Max Hardcore is releasing his back catalog through JM Productions, so the other day I watched a scene between Max and Inari Vachs that was shot in November, 1997.
I like Max Hardcore because he’s up front about being evil.
He doesn’t talk about making porn for “the kids” and doesn’t adopt a paternal attitude; at most he takes on a diabolically avuncular one. He doesn’t hand out bears one moment and justfy his irresponsible behavior the next. Even the boom shadow is refreshingly sordid.
Vachs encounters Hardcore somewhere in Golden Gate Park and he takes her back to his hotel. On the way he asks if she’s familiar with “Herman Miller’s ‘Nexus’, ‘Plexus’, and ‘Sexus’.” When one of his crew members says, “I think that’s Henry Miller,” Max brushes this off but for a moment displays a look that says “I know someone who isn’t getting paid this week.”
Vachs, true to her costume, feigns surprise at everything that happens to her. This is so much better than when Hardcore’s partners are genuinely surprised.
“Have you ever been sodomized?” Hardcore asks.
“I don’t know what that means, Mister,” Vachs says (this was the style in 1997).
“It’s when you get a big cock up your ass,” he explains.
“I hope it doesn’t hurt, Mister.”
Previously: Hardcore hears a hammer
See also: Max Hardcore, JM Productions, Ten Years After: “Bad Scene”
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