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August 08, 2006
Corn porn: Soderbergh allows
"What sort of porn are you watching?" Scott Indrisek asks Steven Soderbergh over at the Believer, in a lengthy, offbeat chat from the print edition, in its entirety. (They also made a short film together as part of the deal.) "I’m not interested in the well-produced porn with good lighting. That ruins it," Soderbergh says. "Maybe there are people for whom that takes the onus off. I like the amateur stuff. It’s fascinating—as much of it as there is around, in our culture at least, it’s still so powerful. The portrayal of these acts, the documentation of these acts—people are sort
of numb to watching violence, but sexual activity is still as strong as it ever was in terms of generating response... You wish people wouldn’t become so numb to violence. Everybody has sex, but not everybody is experiencing violence. I feel like porn is such a better marker…" And about taking a chance as an artist: "[Y]ou’re going to make some mistakes. Every time you make something that somebody likes, your impulse is to remind them that if you hadn’t made some of these other things that they hated, you wouldn’t have been able to make the thing that they liked. The attitude toward the stuff they don’t like is so extreme because they don’t understand the role that it has in your development."
Posted by Ray Pride at August 8, 2006 07:25 PM
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