10 Things Hollywood Could Learn From The Adult Movie Industry

You’ve heard the stories from the Hollywood trenches: getting a movie made is basically a dick-measuring contest, a time when egotistical people come together to clamour for credit on a $200 million blockbuster that will be forgotten a few days after its opening weekend.

Motivated by the belief that they’re making Great Art, they want to leave their fingerprints on a movie they neither wrote nor directed, giving them a story they can dine out on for years. “Remember that scene in Planet Of The Apes with the monkey Abraham Lincoln?” they’ll say. “That was my idea!”

Not only is such egotism unheard of in porn, but the resulting pictures usually have a better third act (and make more sense). By all accounts, the performers genuinely enjoy what they do, and nobody is under the impression that what they’re making constitutes Art.