Natty Soltesz

That Time I Wrote a Porn Movie

Added 2021-12-10 13:00:00 +0000 UTC

Hi, friends. I'm having a rough week. It hasn't deterred my writing, but it's Friday and I frankly don't have anything that feels ready to post. So here's something different.

First, though, I recommend you read this true story about the most surreal thing that has ever happened to me. In short: I once sat down to watch a porn movie and soon heard my own dialogue being read back to me. Eventually I realized I'd been plagiarized by legendary porn director Joe Gage (Kansas City Trucking Company, L.A. Tool & Die). Contrary to what I said in that post, I don't give Gage the benefit of the doubt. I think he lifted my story from Nifty and didn't think he'd get caught, but I was too timid to say it at the time. And please, no well-meaning comments on how I should have sued. It was a long time ago, and I did what I did.

Anyway, the outcome of that plagiarism and me reaching out to Gage was that we collaborated on a script for his next movie which, at the time, was to be about men on a vineyard. Why a vineyard? Probably because Gage knew someone with a vineyard who would let him film there. I thought it was a lame idea but wrote four or five scenes for it just the same. The project never materialized but Gage used two of the scenes for his 2009 movie Dad Takes a Fishing Trip. I got a co-writing credit for that one, and I think $300. Whoop-de-shit, but it was fun and now I have my own IMDB page.

Attached is a PDF of one of the scenes Gage didn't use. I re-read it the other day and thought it was kinda cute and funny. Let me know what you think! And I'll have some new fiction to post very soon.

xo,

Natty