[UA] Naked Goddess Sighting

[Bailey Watts]

>The concept of a slew of NG films with mystic undertones is cool, and good 
>luck with it, but -- just so y'all know -- my view of the NG and her career 
>has always been a little more prosaic and "standard."  More along the lines 
>of "Boogie Nights" or Martin Amis' "A Rough Trade" (which you can read at
>http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4153718,00.html
>and which has the dubious distinction of providing a context in which 
>Salman Rushdie would utter the word "octobullshit!")  I've heard the 
>documentary "The Girl Next Door" might also have the same vibe that's in my 
>head.  With the coincidental (?) exception of the Rosa Cross film 
>referenced in the main book, the NG was probably doing a lot of the 
>standard plotless, badly acted, multiply-sequelled stuff that makes up (I 
>presume) most porn flicks.  In my mind, it's the very banality of her stuff 
>that makes it important.  98% of the porn consumers out there aren't going 
>to want to see some weirdo thing with lots of symbolism and undertones.  
>(This is what breaks Gunter Lorenz' heart -- the grossly plebian tastes of 
>the vast majority of his potential consumers.)  They're going to go for 
>"Wet Adulteresses In Jail IV."
>

Maybe it's just where I'm from, but a lot of porno has weird shit.  I'm 
mainly thinking of scatporn.  The voodoo thing probably was a bit much 
though.  In any case my vision is that she's a hard worker never hit big 
time.  Fetish films are part of the niche that low budget porn, and I see 
the Naked Goddess as having made films for most of the major fetishes.

I'm also figured that she did a lot of the low budget fetish stuff since 
noone seems to know what her name is.  The low budget studios don't want any 
of the girls they have contracts with to get a following of their own, 
otherwise the girl could demand more money.  Low budget porn lists the names 
of everyone involved, but doesn't put them in any particular order or 
connect the names to any of the characters.

Even in the film with her name in the credits noone knows who she is.

>P.S. -- Regarding putting the script on the internet as a hoax... er, hm, 
>all I'll say is this: I've seen one RPG company try a cute hoax promotion 
>and it turned out very, very, very badly.

I thought Hunter sold rather well.  You said so yourself.
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