This article appeared on XL Republic, September 2007 issue. Italy at gunpoint. Rival gangs that challenge under the lights of a capital city infamous. Corrupt cops, ugly and unscrupulous. Stories of drugs, prostitution, several murders. To put it this way, it seems the plot of a common gangster movie series B, the kind that a fictional Bronx devastatissima replace the outskirts of Rome. Then there are the details. The film's title: "Wild Bunch", and is not a reference to the eponymous Peckinpah westerns. The names of the actors as pornodivi Elena Grimaldi and Franco Trentalance one hand, and hip hop stars such as our national Club Dogo Truceklan and secondly, not to mention the ex suicide girl / Howler Violetta Beauregarde. The name of the director: Matthew Swaitz, a fifteen years ago that stirred the waters of the illegal rave scene in Rome, before ending up behind the camera to sign some of the experiments most bizarre of the hard flag. And then the plot. A concentration of borderline situations, including gunfire, music, street life and live sex, such as to make the film a unique example of a "gangster-porn subculture."
Some examples: one morning by the parties of some abandoned factory along the Via Ostiense. Four young people comment on the techno music that is going in the background: "Nice party, huh? Of course, however, 'ste tribe [nomadic sound system that organize illegal parties] ... A straight cash ever, eh? ". Scenes that family say the least, for those used to chase the tracks of the semi-clandestine rave nation. Then, the four they encounter a girl leaning on a car, the colors washed out and comely shapes, it seems foreign. Part stentatissima a conversation in English, peppered with allusions to everything but subtle. There is a van nearby. The girl, incited by hunger chemical salt. Inside, the first drug. Then down the clothes, and via a series of acrobatic sequences hardcore, even with the techno in the background, but away from prying eyes. Except the camera, of course.
as a set for a porn film, the disused warehouses in Via Ostiense is a curious choice. Not to mention the extras: a bunch of raver ultratatuati and bony, but account for only half history. On the other hand in fact, there is another tribe, that of the rapper, and attention, because the two bands There's bad blood. On the contrary: among rappers and ravers, is open battle. A feud in full style with lots of chases, ambushes, smoking guns. Drugs and blood everywhere, but violence in the wild as held by a comic parody, shrewd, full of quotes and passages self-mocking. And then, in the middle, and sex. "Wild Bunch", despite the abnormal characters, remains a porn movie, God forbid, but would also like the kind who do not attend, having regard to the names in the field and the considerable ambitions of breaking.
Definitely the kind are to attend the Club Dogo, who declare themselves "fans of porn for a long time." The heroes of rap Milanese Matteo Swaitz know at the Misex, the erotic fair held every year in Milan. Together with Swaitz for the occasion, there Truceklan Gel. Swaitz, we said, is a director of the special touch. It belongs to the stable of Silvio Bandinelli, possibly the most visionary producers of hard Italian, one that "the race between pornstar preferred content. Among the films Swaitz titles such as "Criminal Passion" (in his words, "an experiment in style greek theater, played by truceboy Chicoria) and "Snob" ("populated by a fresco Bukowski failed, alcoholics and losers of all kinds). But Swaitz has a long experience in the undergrowth "off" Capitoline: in addition to being among the souls of Ostia raver, was among the founders of the counterculture magazine Torazine pop, and participated in the project with TV rival Candida. Tired of what he calls "the underground intelligentsia," discovers the various hip hop Gel Metal Carter, Noyz - in a word: the Truceklan - an unexpected breath of fresh air. A friendship that led him to shoot video so much for Carter to gel, and when Milan comes into contact with Dogo, the intuition is simple. He explains: "I wanted to put together in one film, the passion for the textures in the margins, passed by raver, hip hop and new drives. All in salsa porn, of course: my job, after all, is this. "
easy to understand how the gangs are made up facing each other in "Wild Bunch", a cross between "The Warriors" and a poliziottesco ours. Among the rappers, and Truceklan Club Dogo, but do not participate in any kind of hard scenes. To those we think Marco Nero, a rising star in the Italian porn scene, the opportunity to convert to rap. Among the ravers, along with another porn actor Omar Galanti, extreme body artists like Freaks Bloody Tricks, techno producers like Lou Chano, especially Violet Beauregarde. Instead, the scene hard, participate in person, although on one occasion: "After the experience of Suicide Girls," he says, "I felt the need to tackle the next step. I'm not saying I'm interested in a career in porn. What I did I did it because it amused me, because Dogo Truce and are great friends, and because Matthew Swaitz for me is like a father. 'Wild Bunch' at the bottom is nothing but an exaggerated picture of how we really are in everyday life. " Dogo also stated that what convinced them of the project, besides the passion for the genre, was first of all the fun aspect and touch "creative, full of twists" of the film badged Swaitz. His films are "you can also look hard Skippa scenes" for pure taste of the vision. This does not mean that in "Wild Bunch" is not the pornodivi abound by definition, with Franco Trentalance ("the heir of Rocco Siffredi") as a police officer, and Elena Grimaldi in one of a kind of rapper unsatisfied, tired of feuds and street life and attracted to the shiny universe mainstream. The Grimaldi is excited: said that "during the filming, has created a real family. I now live in Milan, and with the Club Dogo hung out constantly. We send messages, we are on the phone, we keep abreast of their projects. "According to the actress Brescia," Wild Bunch "is a new experiment, in comparison with many universes. Please those fans of rap Italian, is the classic public hard. " And the film is seen as a real event, it demonstrates the attention that has surrounded the project since the early days of shooting. The myspace page of the film was being stormed. Reservations are wasted. The public is in turmoil. Incidentally, one of the reasons could be that still Grimaldi, in "Wild Bunch", became deeply involved in his first test "anal", and it is certainly not escaped the fans. Whatever the reasons for so much waiting, it remains a project that already, you whisper, asks for a "Wild Bunch 2" could be just around the corner. The war by dint of lovemaking between rappers and ravers, continues.
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