Adam had always been, to the eyes of others,
perfect. He had always been taller than others, but not too tall. He was also
smart, but not exceedingly intelligent. He was a very sporty guy but also found
time to enjoy and participate in so many other activities such as theatre and
dancing. Besides, everyone loved his physique, his smile and his nice and
gentle way of being. He was perfect, as said before but the only thing people
judged him for was the choice of his career. He had envisioned, at first, to
become a professional footballer. Then, as he was stopped everywhere he went,
he was asked to be a model several times and he enjoyed every experience he had
doing that. He even acted on a couple of TV advertisements for products aimed
at young people.
So it was a surprise, to everyone, that he
ended up being a porno star. Yes, Adam had found a way to earn his life
honestly by taking his clothes of and having sex on camera. As a model, he knew
he looked great on camera and as a sports player he knew his body was more than
enough to be able to pose naked. The sex part was the most awkward for him but
once he got to know the people, it was more comfortable. He had chosen this
path, solely because his family was having money issues and he wanted to help
them as much as he could so the best way to do it was with porn, as they paid
fast and generously. Before he realized, he became one of the favorite actors
and he was doing movies in other places, travelling for conventions and getting
more and more in the industry.
Different was the life of David, who was not a
perfect guy, or at least he would never be named as such by anyone he knew. He
was not good at sports and he didn’t really like any of them. And the concept
of going to a gym, a “cage for monkeys” as he put it, was not even in
consideration. He was smart but not intelligent and he had no special talents,
at least not that he had found in himself. Physically, David was rather short
and not fat but not skinny either. He didn’t really like to take his clothes
off at the beach but didn’t mind doing it in his house. David and Adam were
very different but, somehow, they ended up in the same place.
But not in the same capacity. David had gone
to college and studied to become a film director. He loved movies and wanted to
make his own, mainly science fiction and maybe some action ones. He loved
everything that had to do with creation and writing and he was ready, at some
point, to take over the world with his ideas. But that didn’t happen. Finding a
job, specially when you’re young and have no experience. So David sent his
curriculum everywhere and only one company responded. He only found it was a
porno production company once he went there for an appointment with the head
producer. But he saw it was money and he needed experience so he took the job.
The two guys didn’t meet immediately or
anything. Adam was too busy getting famous in his medium and, eventually, he
even told his family about what he really did for a living. They were shocked
at first and even prone to convince him not to keep working on porn, but then
they realized it was that money that had put them through rough times, so they
couldn’t really say much. With time, they learned to respect Adam’s decision
and they would simply not ask him anything about his job, except maybe when it
was him that brought it up, normally something from a trip or a funny story he
had lived. He understood those unspoken conditions and was fine with them, as
he knew his family would eventually be ok with it.
He would travel a lot, going from city to
city, country to country, visiting all conventions aimed at adult
entertainment. The funny thing the first couple of times was the amount of
people that recognized him. Both men and women knew who he was from ads online or
his movies and that, to him, felt very strange but very good too. He would pose
with many fans for pictures and would sign various deals in those places, to
put his face on several products sold to adults, toys and so on, but he also
signed on for more and more movies, in other countries and with actors and
actresses he had never worked with. He had good experiences and bad too but he
was always “the perfect guy” and that was even the name of one if his movies.
David, on the other hand, was working very
hard for not so much money. At first the pay was good but then he was
transferred to another production company, one that was smaller, and his
workload became much larger and his paycheck much smaller. He endured for a bit
as others praised him because of his technical ability, something he didn’t
even know he had in himself. He did so for several months until he was
transferred back to the place where he had a better workload and was surprised
to know they wanted him to do the lighting for all the top movies they were
releasing. That meant, that all the movies he would do would be the ones the
production company was going to push harder on their clientele and that meant
also that David’s work would be known.
The young man was happy to see that people know
respected him more, even if they didn’t always knew his name. He had control
over a whole section of these movies and, even if they weren’t what he wanted
his life to be about, it was a good beginning, as his technical expertise would
suffice to make someone important look at him. But at the beginning it was all
about porn and filming in these crazy locations such as lavish mansions and
fantastic forests and even a rundown train station. It was funny to him how
everything got into porn in such an easy way and no one even doubted it would
work.
After returning from a filming in Japan, Adam
had several hours on the plane to think about his life. He was as perfect and
gorgeous as he would ever be and he had the favor of many people that
surrounded him but he had started to wonder if he didn’t need something more in
life, maybe something to call his own. He had the idea of starting a pizza
business but the idea remained there on his mind because of the amount of
responsibilities he had and that he couldn’t ignore. People were also asking
why he didn’t have a girlfriend or a boyfriend but he would never answer those
questions and he didn’t really know the answer. Maybe it was because, in that
line of work, it was best not to combine your personal life and your private
one and adult movies are something not every couple would understand fully.
Meanwhile, David had been contacted by an
independent filmmaker, who had asked him to pitch him some ideas for a mystery
movie. He had seen David’s work in the adult industry and had also read some of
his stories that he published online and had been surprised by his ability to
tell stories. So now David had a way to slip away from porn and reroute his
life towards what he really wanted. But as he developed the mystery film, he
didn’t stop working with the company that had paid him for so long. After all,
he had commitments to them and he didn’t wanted to just drop everything and
move on to something he didn’t even know if it would work or not. So he opted
for patience.
Eventually the mystery film went into
production and David decided it was time to leave the adult film industry. He
announced it to his boss and they scheduled together his last film that would
star none other than The Perfect guy, in other words, Adam. Curiously, it was
Adam’s last film too before he decided to move along and create his pizza
business with his family. The filming was very relaxed, despite being quite
ambitious for a porno film. They had amazing cameras and lights and costumes.
It was a true film being made and it was, for many, the first time porno films
were being done in such magnitude, with such grandeur and potential. It was
supposed to be a game changer.
The truth is, Adam and David only spoke once
and it wasn’t even a conversation. It was David telling Adam to move a couple
of steps backwards for the lights to hit him in the best way and Adam complying.
That was it. Adam was of course no interested in David, as he didn’t even
acknowledged him at all. David, on his side, did look at Adam extensively as it
was stupid not to but he got bored after the first half hour. He was just too “up
there” and he was just himself. So after they wrapped up, everyone went home
and carried on with their lives.
Adam’s business was a success, although only
in his hometown were the pizzas sold nicely and people would often ask him if
he was who they thought it was and also asked for a picture. David’s mystery
film was well received in festivals and he went on to win a couple of awards
for it. He moved on to be a prolific director, notably adding very intimate
scenes in many of his movies, all of them beautifully lit.
