Erotic film jumps into the third dimension
"Avatar" might have gone hard, but Hong Kong filmmaker Stephen Shiu promises his film goes harder. Shiu and director Christopher Sun, is touted as creating the world’s first 3D erotic film and hopes to create a new, lucrative, niche market to follow the success of James Cameron’s seed.
The film, “3-D Sex & Zen: Extreme Ecstasy”, boasts a $3 million budget and follows a man who befriends a royal duke and ensues on many royal orgies. The plot is based on 17th century erotic Chinese text “The Carnal Prayer Mat”. The story follows Scholar Vesperus, a striking orphaned student of Zen, as he embarks on a sexually deviant journey before devoting to monastic vows. The satirical text was banned in Beijing, but it's growing popular in Asia and Europe.
Low and behold, though, Shiu is not the only one in on the new dimensional bump and grind. In 1969, Al Silliman Jr. strung together unrelated soft-care 3-D video shorts into one feature called “The Stewardess”. The movie grossed $27 million, which was the highest engrossing 3-D movie until Cameron’s flick, which profited over $2 billion.
Even adult industry firm and magazine, Hustler, is remaking Cameron’s blue aliens to bone.
The Internet took the once-lucrative pornography market and made it limp. Will choking the chicken in the future be complete with rose and blue tinted glasses?
If this made-for-IMAX movie can spray splooge at the audience and see a full panorama of the twins and boys, it will be a real score. Shiu notes his film contains violent and explicit carnal scenes, which could provide strong footage to erect audiences. Pornography is one genre of visual entertainment that begs for hands-on interaction.
The major draw to 3-D is its ability to display vast and rich scenarios in depth. The adult industry films are typically shot on inside sets, which could make replicating the stereoscopic images that make 3-D films profitable and more difficult. Unless filmmakers will bask in the landscape of the human body for the entirety, this picture could be overwhelmingly long.
The legitimacy of a 3-D erotic film is flaccid, as the home entertainment equipment that supports the format is incredibly pricey for the average nymph. Bottom of the line models will cost you around $3,000. For that much, viewers can only choose from less than a dozen 3-D flicks or the newly launched ESPN network.
IMAX screens average 72 feet tall, nearly 70 feet too many to bring audiences to come without the imagery and special effects the profitable 3-D predecessors packed. Porn was made for the small screen -- leave the extra dimension for Disney.
