Max Hardcore
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| Birthdate: | August 10, 1956 |
| Birth location: | Racine, Wisconsin, USA |
| Birth name: | Paul F. Little |
| Eye color: | Blue |
| Hair color: | Gray |
| Ethnicity: | White |
| Stage Name(s): | Paul Little, Vince Hardcore, Randy Andy, Video Paul, Michael Smith, Max Steiner |
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| Max Hardcore at IMDb | |
Max Hardcore (born Paul F. Little on August 10, 1956 in Racine, Wisconsin, USA) is a controversial and unique male porn star and producer whose films usually feature him engaging in variety of sexual encounters with young women who dress and act like prepubescent girls. He has faced obscenity charges and charges of simulating child pornography, but has never been convicted of these.
Hardcore's films are considered by some to be highly obscene—more so than most commercially available pornography. Some critics say that his works are misogynistic.
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[edit] Early life
The fifth born of six children, Hardcore was a hyperactive and aggressive child. Things changed little as he got older, so he was put on various medications and sent to Catholic schools.
After traveling around doing amateur adult photography for a number of years, Hardcore followed his older brother Peter out to California in 1990, his sights set on porn stardom. A meeting with producer Bobby Hollander led to Max being asked to produce segments for his 'Mr. Peepers' line of amateur videos. It was while shooting these sessions that Max hit on his own unique sex shooting style.
[edit] Common themes in film
[edit] Sexual acts
In some of his films, usually only available to the European market, Hardcore urinates in the mouths of the actresses. Graphic anal sex predominates over vaginal intercourse in his films, and anal to oral activity is common. One unique feature of his films is a setup where he inserts a test tube-shaped cylinder in a woman's anus; a long plastic tube connects the cylinder to her mouth as Hardcore then urinates, spits and eventually ejaculates into the cylinder while the woman sucks the urine out into her mouth through the tube, or she simply siphons out Hardcore's ejaculation.
Other films involve deep throating and vomiting. The actresses vomit and sometimes collect it in a large glass bowl, sometimes visible throughout the scene. In some scenes, Hardcore draws lipstick across the face, vagina, or anus of the actress. Regularly, he or another actress slaps the face of an actress.
[edit] Plot
The plots of Hardcore's videos usually involve him deriding the young women, calling them sluts and whores, and often involves him "tricking" them into performing with the promise of a modeling contract or by playing to their vanity. He not only physically humiliates them, he (according to his characters) makes them revel in their worthlessness as people. He usually has the actresses refer to him as Mister.
Hardcore, who often appears wearing nothing but socks and his signature cowboy hat, is usually the only male actor in his films. The actresses who appear in his films often sport pigtails and almost always wear loud, garish clothes (meant to imply a child's idea of slutty clothing). Most of the sex scenes take place upon a bright yellow leather couch.
While widely seen as an outlaw and the 'unacceptable face of porn' within the industry, it is worth noting that Hardcore's trademark scenarios, dialogue and positions have influenced American pornography, bringing anal sex, anal gaping, spitting, gagging, drooling and the unabashed degradation of female performers into the mainstream.
[edit] Music
Venturing into previously uncharted territory, Max released "Harder than Hardcore" in 2000 and "Harder than Hardcore 2" in 2004. These films feature a hardcore metal soundtrack by the band 8mm Overdose and are edited in more of an MTV type of style than the "typical" porn style. In a complete departure from the "standard", the band's hardcore music is featured up front (not in the background) and the scenes are edited to match with the music. This unique style of pornography had never been produced before the "Harder than Hardcore" series.
[edit] Prosecutions
Although Hardcore often depicts his actresses as young and sometimes beneath the age of consent, they are not actually under 18. In one of his films, an actress over the age of 18 was portraying someone younger, and the fictional character states that she is 12 years old.
Based on these movies, the city of Los Angeles in 1998 charged him with child pornography and distribution of obscenity. The fact that the actress was over the age of 18 was not disputed; they brought charges based solely on the fact that the actress was portraying a character who was under the age of consent.
Just before the case was brought to trial in 2002, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the statute prohibiting adults from portraying children in films and books was unconstitutional (See Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition). Based on this ruling, the child pornography charges against Hardcore were dismissed. The misdemeanor charge of distribution of obscenity was retained, but the jury failed to reach a verdict. An additional obscenity charge was subsequently levied against him by L.A., again resulting in a hung jury. Hardcore commented that "it was a frivolous waste of public resources."
On October 5, 2005, the offices of Max World Entertainment were raided by the FBI. Five video titles and the office's computer servers were seized, ostensibly for research toward a federal obscenity indictment or a charge related to the 2257 record-keeping law. In response to this action, Hardcore released the following statement: "Once again, the government is wasting tax dollars and otherwise invaluable law enforcement resources to try to force a minority view of morality on all of America. Five of my movies have been targeted by the Federal Prude Patrol. There is no indication of any crime to be alleged except obscenity. If indicted, I will fight to protect my liberty, as well as the liberty of consenting adults to watch other adults engage in lawful, consensual, pleasurable sexual action. Shame on the Bush Department of Justice. I am proud of the movies I make and proud of those who buy and sell those movies."
[edit] Felicity
In 2001, the British Channel 4 documentary Hardcore showed him allegedly raping porn actress Felicity, who had come to audition for one of his films after being referred by her porn agent Dick Nasty. The scene played out as Felicity (aka Leanna McQueen) got an 'interview' with Max Hardcore, and at the point of the interview where she might have expected to be shaking his hand she found him thrusting his penis into her anus. Things went on from there in the way that might be expected from Max Hardcore, and 20 minutes into the interview Felicity fled, loudly complaining about having been throttled, and generally abused. Max followed her and spent several minutes talking to her, followed by several more telling her what a waste of space she was, and that only one other girl had ever tried less to perform with him than Felicity had done. Though clearly unnerved, Felicity apparently decided to continue with the session, but at this point the photographer, concluding that he was presiding at a rape, intervened and took Felicity away, back to his apartment. Max H apparently made no effort to contact her again, but the experience had somehow made Felicity willing to do things on film that she hadn't been prepared to before. No charges were ever filed. There was, though, an enormous fallout after the incident, which saw a temporary backlash against the British pornography industry. Following the incident, Hardcore released a statement reading:
I would like to express my apologies to Felicity for any misunderstandings, as well as all the viewers of the program who found it so offensive. This is not the real Max Hardcore at all. In any case, let me assure you that I have not and never will be releasing any of this material to the public, and will never again deal with her agent.
Many who read the statement after seeing the program found Hardcore's apology to be insincere, as he is featured in the documentary threatening Felicity and repeatedly insulting her when she refused to participate in certain extreme sexual acts (such as being forced to vomit by having Hardcore trigger her gag reflex with his penis). However, it later emerged that the porn actress, Felicity, had full prior knowledge of the sex acts that she was asked to do although she claimed that she had no prior knowledge. Anal sex is common in Hardcore's films and actresses are invariably briefed beforehand. Felicity herself had several times participated in anal scenes for British hardcore film productions prior to meeting Max Hardcore. One such scene was with famous UK porn star, Ben Dover. Hardcore maintains that the entire 'Felicity' episode was contrived by the media company who were following Felicity's progress and that her agent, Dick Nasty, was a part of the conspiracy.
[edit] External links
- Official site - a pay site with a members-only message board system where members can interact with Mr. Hardcore via thread posts
- The Max Faktor Movies - a site with info about Max Hardcores Max Faktor movies.
- The Max Hardcore Extreme Movie Series - pictures of the covers and information about the movies in the Max Hardcore Extreme movie series.
[edit] Non-pornographic links
- rotten.com article
- Max Hardcore Titles from the Internet Adult Film Database
- Max Hardcore at the Internet Movie Database
- Biography from talkingblue.com
- Miscellaneous postings from rame.net
[edit] Articles
- Max Hardcore – Free At Last! by Mark Kernes and Jared Rutter, AVN
- Max Hardcore Trial Travesty, by Steve Nelson, Adult Industry News
- News story about a recent raid on Max Hardcore's studio
- Max Hardcore Raided by Feds in Obscenity Probe News release from Free Speech Coalition (October 4, 2005)
- Hoffman Hardballs Hardcore Interview by David Hoffman (February 11, 2003)
- Harder than Hardcore 2 - review
