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‘Sex Is Integral To Telling A Story Simply’: Jacky St. James Talks Porn Plotting, Music And More

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Jacky St. James is relatively new to the world of porn directing, with her first feature arriving in 2012, but her filmography already includes some of the most acclaimed adult movie titles of the decade. AVN talked with St. James as part of their series of interviews with premiere directors — here is an excerpt from that conversation:

On sex and narrative:

“I think there are a lot of different dynamics to sexual relationships. There’s the person that maybe you’ve always wanted to have and can’t have, or there’s the person you have that lustful connection with. But I think you can’t take out characterfrom the story. So I think the character for me inspires the sex versus the sex inspiring the story.”

On what adult movies can do that mainstream movies can’t:

“I think sex is integral to telling a story simply because when you watch a movie and you see the sex and it fades to black, you don’t really see the entire dynamic of that relationship as a sexual entity. You just see: OK, we know they had sex, but we don’t know what kind of sex that couple had, and I think it informs the characters just as much as anything else. For example, in Emma Marx [the main characters] have an anal scene, but it wasn’t this crazy pounding, typical porno anal scene. There were a lot of dynamics within the relationship that appeared in that scene, with her resistance and then her sort of submitting to him. And that wouldn’t really be fully explored just through dialog. You see it in the sexual aspect, and I think it enhances the story to be able to do that.”

On music in her movies:

“We work with a great editor, her name is Gabrielle Anex. She does almost all of our features. Sometimes Eddie Powell edits them, but she’ll do a rough cut of a few scenes and throw in music and get our feedback. And normally before she starts editing, I’ll tell her the feel of the music that I want. And with this [Emma Marx] we definitely wanted to lean on classical, just because it’s such an edgy story, that to juxtapose that with classical music always helps. And we’ve definitely played around with music a lot in our movies, and I think it’s so integral to building the story.”

On the porn movie format:

Emma Marx definitely broke what a lot of people do because we had only two different pairs of people having sex … In The Temptation of Eve, we played around with a swapping during the sex scene, where she [Eve] is in her head fantasizing about one man while she’s having sex with another. So it’s trying to be creative within the restrictions, but still have those four sex scenes and make them as unique as you can.”

Read more here.

Browse Jacky St. James’s director movies here.

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