Bella Thorne

I never thought she'd actually do it, though. Maybe we're approaching another crossover point as we did in the '70s? Maybe porn is finally scratching the surface of the mainstream again?

Edited by - evilpineapples on 8/14/2019 6:50:29 AM

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I like the different feel that people from outside the industry bring the short films in the series.

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Can you imagine how many doors have now been permanently closed to Bella just because she chose to direct a porn video? Who is her manager because he/she needs to be fired or maybe they quit and she is self-representing.

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As for her career, well, it's true that her decision to do this will have an effect on her opportunities, but if she felt a genuine creative impulse to do this (i.e. it's not just for publicity), then she should not have backed off from the idea just for career reasons. Creative people don't work that way.

I say all of this with the caveat that I know virtually nothing about Bella Thorne, apart from the vaguest awareness of who she is and what she looks like, so I may be attributing more artistry or intelligence to her than the reality reflects. I don't know. The point is that I'm reserving judgment until I see what she's done, and I don't think career planning is a valid reason to refrain from doing anything if you're really passionate about it.

Edited by - evilpineapples on 8/14/2019 3:01:28 PM

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Let's be honest with ourselves. The only reason why there is a thread about this is because Bella is a celebrity and I think many believe that this may mean that she will do porn because if this is her first and only foray into porn than we won't be talking about her six months from now.

Does anyone remember when Kanye West name being attached to porn? Is anyone still talking about it?

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Not to be indelicate, but a washed-up former actress (Maitland Ward) and an ex-Disney star who always had a "porn vibe" about her (Bella Thorne), plus a few isolated shoutouts to the Lansky sites in talk shows and print media, is no more a sign that porn is going "mainstream" than the glitzy porn premieres of the '70s were. Remember, back then they reveled in the porn appearance of "the Ivory soap girl" (Marilyn Chambers), but it amounted to nothing in the end.

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From my perspective, the only difference here is that Bella has chosen to partner with a major porn outlet (and whether we like it or not, Pornhub has become just that) with an "artsy", and implicitly "more legitimate", style of production.

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Because her acting career is mostly indie movies that won't care that she did this, and this is something that people will forget about in a few weeks anyway. It's probably no more complicated than she thought it would be cool, so she did it. It's not like she'll never get any acting gigs again because of it.

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Ooh, I love the way she say, "That pussy mine" (pussy mine)
Ooh, I work that pussy out like nine to five (nine to five)
Ooh, can't get that pussy off of my mind (of my mind)
Ooh, hit it from the front, then I hit that pussy from behind

She had nudes get leaked (who hasn't these days), but unlike most, she responded by posting more nudes online.

This is not at all out of step for her.

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The first entry was The Gift, which was written and directed by rapper Young M.A

The second entry was I Love You, which was written and directed by Brooke Candy, a rapper, with art direction by Claire Barrow, an artist, and designer.

Both of these were hardcore. The Gift was an all-girl movie and I Love You was all-girl, all-male, and transgender.

I highly doubt they would change the imprint for the third one.

To answer the question of why would anyone want to see it? I do. I don't see why a child star can't direct an adult movie. She has already directed several music videos and being on television shows as long as she has means she knows the ins and outs of directing.

Many, many, many people have cut their teeth directing adult movies before going on to mainstream directing success.

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This may be great publicity for PH but I see nothing good for Bella. At least nothing good if she wants to ever work for thee big studios.

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What bad publicity? No one cares. You're not gonna see hit pieces from media outlets because some random independent movie cast her in a role. Chloe Sevigny has been acting for years after she actually performed a sex act on camera for Brown Bunny, and you don't see any blowback from that. And this is only directing a short movie, and not actually performing in one. I think you're assigning way more relevance to this whole thing than anyone else will.

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I don't think this will ruin Bella's prospects with the whole mainstream or indie film world but Disney will think long and hard before casting her in an adult role and I have the sneaking suspicion this may have been a conscious choice to rebel against her former employer.

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She more than likely wasn't working with Disney any time soon before any of this became public anyway. Look at what killbill posted earlier, she's been trying to shed any "squeaky clean child star" image she had for a while.

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----Dread's Twitter----

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She's already lined up her first non-porn movie as a director, and is still getting indie acting work.

So yeah, there's been like zero blowback up to this point.

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