Movie Title
Jenna's The Provocateur : Link
Director/Producer
Jenna Jameson, Justin Sterling
Starring:
McKenzie Lee, Sophia Rossi, Jesse Capelli, Melissa Lauren, Ashton Moore, Krystal Steal, Chanel St. James
Jenna's The Provocateur is Jenna Jameson's first effort as sole director, and is called a "couture" film. Certainly the girls are couture, and the style is kept as professional and stylish as possible.
The film is episodic, with each scene – called acts – blending into each other via montage-styled edits.
First off, is McKenzie Lee, who is introduced with a sensual dance, and then a shift to her being fondled by three men. The shift is abrupt and really shifts into a raunchy gear, with Lee servicing the three men. She sucks them enthusiastically, slobbering and drooling all over their cocks and happily deep-throats them with the accompanying gargles. A cum-shot plasters her tits, and she rubs it all over.
The two next stages are a standing anal shot, where she happily kneels to suck the cock and taste her own ass, and then a pile-driver shot, where the guy drives it into both her ass and her pussy. The scene wraps up with a double-penetration, with Lee babbling dirty talk, finishing up in a facial glazing. Throughout, Lee has plenty of camera/viewer eye-contact, something I enjoy, but others may find disruptive. The scene emanates raunch, and Lee is definitely into it, convincing us of her pleasure and enjoyment – excellent start.
Next up, is Sophia Rossi, who starts her scene riding a Sybian-rocking horse-style contraption. We get nice shots of the dildo going into her pussy in calm, slow-motion shots, before a guy turns up and begins to eat her out. After a bit of pussy-eating, Rossi sucks off the guy, and they move into a reverse cowgirl, a position in which Rossi's tits hardly even bounce.
They move to doggy-style, with Rossi's face pushed unto the head of the tiger-rug, and she moans in the typical porn-bimbo style of 'fuck me, fuck me'. Much less convincing than Lee's performance, but Rossi's hot looks make up for a lot. They go to a standing fuck position, where Rossi attempts to keep eye-contact with the camera/viewer, but loses focus. In the end, she kneels to suck him off, and take his cum to the face. A nice scene, mostly surviving on Rossi's looks.
Jesse Cappeli starts off the third scene riding a rodeo-bull, before the scene shifts and she eats out Melissa Lauren. Dirty talk is prevalent in this scene, with Capelli finger-fucking Lauren, commanding her, and demanding to know how many fingers she wants in her pussy (no more than the legitimate four, of course).
Laurenn then takes over, and fucks Capelli with a strap-on, but Capelli remains the dominant one, controlling the pace and commanding Lauren. We fade to Capelli fucking Lauren in the ass with a dildo (not a strap-on), while pulling her hair and slapping her ass. Capelli pulls the dildo from Lauren's ass and shoves it into her mouth, giving us a bit of cheek-stretching and throat gargling in what is absolutely the best bit of this scene. We get an extreme close-up of Capelli pumping the dildo in and out of Lauren's ass, with the requisite demands of whether Lauren is a dirty whore – she admits to being one.
The lack of cum-shots in lesbian scenes always frustrates me for their lack of closure, and this is no exception as we simple fade out to sensual dancing of Capelli, and Jenna herself who is otherwise not present in the film.
Ashton Moore plays around at a pool, puts on make-up and fondles a cello, before a guy comes round and she starts sucking him off. The blowjob is handled well, and quite erotically with slow dips and plenty of kissing, while she strokes him. He eats her out to return the favor, and when he finger-fucks her, Ashton almost loses it and actually squirts quite a bit – something I didn't know Ashton could do. He proceeds to fuck her doggy-style and reverse cowgirl, with Ashton begging him to fuck her harder, as per porn-custom. We end up in a regular cowgirl, before Ashton kneels before him and takes his cum to the face. The camera zooms in, with light glistening off the cum on Ashton's face. What began as a slow, erotic scene has suddenly turned into a very slutty performance from Ashton – which is a good thing, of course.
Krystal Steal brings up scene five, bending over to get her ass and pussy eaten out, before the guy slides his cock into her accepting mouth. Steal's performances often suffer from being as plastic as her tits, but here she shows real passion, as she deep-throats him and even lets him throat-fuck her a bit. She moans enthusiastically as he fucks her first in the missionary and then doggy-style. Her husky voice breaks in excitement as he pumps away. When Steal bounces in reverse cowgirl, we get a great view of her body and those perfectly chiseled tits. Once again, we round-off with a regular cowgirl, before he spurts in her face. I think she gets hit in the eye, as she jerks out of the frame, but then steadies herself to suck him off.
The final scene is the battle of the brunettes, as McKenzie Lee and Chanel St. James go at it. First, Lee attacks James' ample tits before she eats her from behind, slapping James' pussy and ass. Then they switch places, and generally attempt to be the most dirty and aggressive performer. I'd tip my hand toward Lee, who rides reverse cowgirl on James' strap-on, and shoves up another dildo, for another round of double-penetration. Lee puts on the strap-on and fucks James from behind. There is an attempt at closure, when James kneels as if to get the cum-shot from Lee. With this, the film wraps up, and we get the credits.
The film is a good one, if one can deal with the editing, which is an MTV-style montage. There is often cross-cutting between two different positions within a single scene, which may seem disturbing. Also, throughout the film, position and scene cuts are accompanied with presence of the clapper board, which is definitely unusual and may also frustrate viewers.
For a film that is primarily aimed at the couples market, it is surprisingly hardcore. McKenzie Lee's scene with ass-to-mouth and the pussy-ass pile-driver springs to mind, as does Ashton Moore's squirting. As stroke material, I certainly enjoyed this film, but I'd hesitate watching it with my girlfriend.
Review by Steen Christiansen
I thought your most intriguing points were in your summary.
That MTV-montage swinging camera thing-- I hate it. I don't think it's motivated by any sexual comprehension. If the point is to masturbate to this movies, and you are taking in the arousal with your eyes, you are going to be "fighting" the editing everytime they're cutting back and forth like this. It's a pathetic technique to broadcast that the director can't shoot worth a damn and tried to cover it up in the editing. And what, to sell it to an MTV producer as part of his resume package? Ugh. This kind of crap makes my head hurt.
Do you think they call it "couples porn" because that's derigueur now? Or because the women have nice makeup and clothes, is that what "couples' means now? Or do you think they get letters from women saying, "wow, I did this kind of sex?"
I think it's the hair and makeup-- I think that's the only point they understand.
When you said you wouldnt' watch it with your girlfriend, did you mean your very own personal girfriend, or just the average gal? Tell me more about the anxiety you can imagine in the three scenes you describe. Did you feel more turned on or less turned on because of that apprehension?
The thing that would turn me off about this movie as a "girlfriend" is that none of the women come. My "fake" button would be repeatedly pressed.
And their "couture," to me is a bad joke. Last decade's Barbie Doll. I'm saying that as someone who follows fashion.
I know they set up the rimming scenes and oral/anal so there's no actual feces involved-- the illusion of taboo breaking is perfected without risk. Same with the pile-driving-- looks like it went on for hours, when it's about a minute's worth of tape.
However, I don't like the anal followed by oral, even as an illusion, it's nauseating. Pile-driving,that's the usual "hardest fuck ever" idea, which can be arousing with the right people. And Ashton leaking something.. that's interesting. Was she actually aroused? I like female ejaculations because at least it "looks" like uninhibited satisfaction. Much as you like the cumshot yourself!
Posted by: Susie | September 30, 2007 at 06:23 AM
Thank you for some very good comments, that really made me think about not just this film, but porn films in general. I'll try keeping it in mind next time I review a film.
Regarding the montage-style editing, I don't fully agree with you on that. Yes, to some extent, it can be seen as disrupting the flow of desire, but when we are taking in the arousal with our eyes, building layers of images on top of each other can just as easily enhance the arousal. Rather than moving linearly from one position to another, you get different positions, angles and even scenes heaped on top of each other, thus generating even more imagery with which to get aroused. I like it, up to a point, but overdone it does get disruptive.
Yes, I agree that couples porn indicates pretty hair and make-up – something meant to be recognizable for women from fashion and lifestyle magazines, so as not to alienate any female viewers. If it looks like something Catherine Zeta-Jones would do, then perhaps it's okay to watch it. I realize this says more about the porn industry than women, but that's where I think it's at.
Which leads into the point about my girlfriend. I simply meant I wouldn't watch this film with my own, personal girlfriend and extended that as a pointer for others. She wouldn't enjoy the scenes – except perhaps the Krystal Steal one – and so I'd choose another film. As for my enjoyment of these scenes, they aren't lessened or enhanced by how I imagine my girlfriend would react, if she saw them. I don't feel guilty for watching them, or feel a certain, enticing taboo being broken by seeing them. I enjoy squirting scenes and piledriver scenes, but only watch them alone. Nothing more to it than that, I think.
As to their reactions being fake, I take that as a given. I don't have any illusions about the women – or men for that matter – being actually aroused during filming. It's film, and like any other film whatever goes on is acting to some extent. I like my porn to be fantasy rather than realism, so to speak, and often prefer the surgically-enhanced models to natural models, and don't mind the fake moans and feigned arousals.
And that really ties into the couture comment. It's taken from the film cover, and I simply used it to indicate that all the women in the film are of the mainstream, popular type – big boobs, long legs, etc. That this is in fact the very opposite of actual couture is true, in that sense these stars are most definitely off-the-rack and interchangeable by a hundred other models. However, the stars are high-profile and are meant to present a sort of luxury-type porn, hence the comment.
I do believe that Ashton Moore was actually turned on, and she did ejaculate. Some say all female ejaculation in porn is fake, I don't know, it looked real to me. It surprised me, too, that this would actually be included in the film, as it's a rather marginal practice (taboo-filled also, I guess) for such a mainstream film. It was a pleasant surprise, however, and I'm glad it was included. It does serve as the flip-side to the cumshot, and it would be nice to see it used more.
Posted by: Steen | September 30, 2007 at 01:26 PM