Porn Valley- Director, publicist, writer, raconteur DCypher was a recent guest on the Sports Swami show. Swami brought up the subject of DCypher’s latest movie Wonderland noting that it had an A-plus cast.
“How did you get everybody together and keep them all happy?” he’s asked.
“There’s probably a lot of egos involved- everybody wants to be on the boxcover. And everybody wants to be the star,” he replies.
“There’s a lot of luck that went into it,” Cypher also comments. “I have an excellent production team that helps me get things together. We spent a lot of time trying to compile the right people and the right schedules. Steven St. Croix had read the script and he was coming off a huge Vivid show. And he was just exhausted. He needed some days off. He wasn’t going to take the show. Then he read the script and he said no this is a movie I want to be a part of. Some of it was luck and some of it was just the fact that talent was willing to work with me.”
Some of the names in the cast were also read off to include Violet Blue, Katie Morgan, Charlie Lane and Trina Michaels.
“All of them are boxcover worthy,” it was noted. “How did you keep all the egos with them in check? All of them want to be the boxcover girl. How did you pick who fit in what role?”
Regarding the egos on set, DCypher said everyone was just happy to be part of the project.
“They all brought their best so I didn’t have any issues with clashing or anything like that,” he continued. “Everyone got along so well, it was great.” According to Cypher, he flew Violet Blue in from Washington state.
“We had been in talks about this for awhile because due to the nature of the script, we had a lot of Shakespeare in it- when you have the most classic soliloquy from Hamlet, you can’t mess it up. The audience is going to notice and it’s going to reflect poorly. So we tried to get it as flat on as we could.”
With back-to back hit movies, DCypher was asked essentially what the differences are between the two projects. DCypher describes Prisoner as a psychological high drama thriller with different perspectives operating.
“With Wonderland you’re getting different characters’ points of view over this climatic situation that occurred in their lives,” said Cypher comparing it to Confessionals.
“Steven St. Croix has a midlife crisis and he finds himself crossing a line that he never dreamt he would cross which is to fall for a Lolita character. He’s sleeping with his stepdaughter’s college roommate and he’s just completely unraveling and demolishing his marriage and his relationship with his daughter. He finds himself so entranced and seduced by her young girl charm. So you almost have an element there like Dru Barrymore in Poison Ivy where you see his perception of it all the way through; but when we go to Violet Blue’s perception who plays Lola in the movie- the Lolita character- you see it quite different.
“She just thought it was a simple fuck and conquer and move on situation. Whereas it unravels Steven St. Croix’s whole life and gives him a new perspective. Ultimately, despite the fact that he’s trashed everything in his life to have this one intense moment, it’s freedom that’s involved. Like the line from Fight Club where it’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything, St. Croix ultimately embraces that freedom that comes with not having the pressures to be a perfect husband and the jealousy that he deals with over whether or not his wife is cheating on him. It’s the strain of trying to uphold a cultural ideal that he just doesn’t subscribe to.”
Asked how he remains a professional rather than a sampler of the goods, DCypher didn’t think there was a good answer.
“I like the stuff that I’m doing,” he said. “I’ve been somewhere in the area of nine years in this business. I’ve written well over 200 feature movies that have been shot and put out in the world- I kind of lost count after 200.” That being said, Cypher mentioned that it’s only be recently that he’s been allowed to put out the things he’s wanted to do.
“That allowed me to polish my style and what I’m looking to do,” he reflects. “Now it’s trying to take an idea I have and actualize it. I would be nothing had I not had a great production crew- the best camera people; the best lighting people and the best sound people; a very talented art dept., and wardrobe. I’m a producer who takes care of me from start to finish and that support when combined with a very creative and the best editor in the business- Raoul Duke- they’re taking what I do and are just polishing it up. I’m looking at it and going, wow. I remember what we shot- I’m just so grateful that I have you people to help me keep moving it along. I guess the results have turned out pretty good lately.”
The fact that Blue was late to set because she was flying in was source of consternation on the set, according to DCypher.
“They’re like oh know. We got two days to shoot that whole movie. Shit, where is Violet and what will we do if we can’t locate her? The script was kind of intense and it had to be thought-on in places. That was scary for a moment because we had no clue who to replace her with. But ar the end of the day she showed up and was ready to roll. And things rocked from there. Between that and the lighting gag that we did in the movie- which I didn’t know if it was going to work- Violet and St. Croix were having dinner with his wife and daughter played by Katie Morgan and Candy Summers. “As they’re talking, the idea in Steven St. Croix’s mind, everything else kind of disappears except for Violet. And so the conversation cross table between his wife and his daughter gets quieter and quieter until they’re not making any sound but still looks as animated as if they’re talking. Meanwhile the light goes down and two spotlights appear on Violet and St. Croix and then his wife and daughter disappear out of the picture completely. And we have a different lighting scheme entirely. I know that it seems like such a small thing but if I didn’t have the right people to pull that off, it would have looked ridiculous. And it turned out really cool- I thought.”
Some of the other male performers in the cast include James Deen, Herschel Savage, Evan Stone and Eric Masterson.
“Herschel Savage does THE most intense and erotic and bordering on creepy scene in the whole movie,” said DCypher. “It works so well because he’s playing an older John who buys prostitutes and Violet Blue plays the prostitute. That’s how she pays for college especially being with older men. He has a fetish for being with young girls and he likes to play pretend that they’re his daughter. It really walks a fine line. It’s edgy and it’s intense and it turns out to be a really hardcore scene. The first time I watched it, I went, wow. That’s really sharp stuff there. Eric Masterson was nice enough to come in and give us a b.j. scene.
“James Deen who was sick and getting over a cold came in and swung it out of the park like a champ with his gigantic fucking penis. And what can you say about Evan Stone? Evan Stone is the best. But at the end of the day I was very grateful to get St. Croix. He’s probably the best actor in all of adult entertainment right now and it really shows. Because he made the movie. We couldn’t have put anyone else in that role and have this movie turn out as well as it did in my opinion.
“Like I said, part of it is me putting things together and creating a script and trying to get the right cast together to make it happen,” DCypher continued. And part of it is luck having the right elements come together. And part of it is just having very talented people working around me that, thank God, are loyal and like coming to work for me.” After that, said DCypher, he was working on putting a movie a month out between May and October, so there’s some debate which of the next Hi-Def features would be put out.
“We had a movie slated that we’ve moved back so I believe the next movie will be in June called Power Line,” he states. “It’s a cop drama/thriller/suspense movie. I just got the first cut of that back and it’s fuckin’ perfect. I don’t have any changes on it. That’s a movie starring Haley Paige and Charlotte Stokely and Steven St. Croix and Evan Stone, Holly Stevens and one of my favorite girls in the business, Ally Sinn, doing a scene with Don Hart who plays a senator.”