Max Hardcore

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Max Hardcore (2015)

Max Hardcore , actually Paul F. Little (born August 10, 1956 in Racine , Wisconsin , USA ) is an American porn actor , director and film producer . Other pseudonyms are Max Steiner , Rex Reamer , Video Paul and Sam Smythe .

Career

Hardcore grew up as one of six children in a working Catholic family. After high school he worked as a designer and photographer . While watching a porn movie by John Stagliano , Hardcore got the idea that this was "something he could do too".

In 1990 he followed his older brother Peter to California with the intention of becoming a porn actor. In a meeting with Bobby Hollander, Hardcore was asked to produce parts of his Mr. Peepers amateur video series for him. During these sessions Max developed his own style: he did not produce the videos as long films, but as short vignette-like segments. Through his experience as an amateur actor, he also learned that the sexual acts in films worked better when they were accompanied by the original sound than underlaid by beautiful swelling music. These two methods have become typical characteristics of Hardcore's work.

Max Hardcore became famous in the porn industry when Zane Entertainment signed him in 1992 to produce his own video series. The result was the series The Anal Adventures of Max Hardcore , which paved the way for him to a controversial career. In particular, on the part of various law enforcement agencies, Hardcore has so far repeatedly had to deal with the question of the legality of its work.

Hardcore became known for its violent film productions with young and often obviously not just purportedly naive newcomers to the porn film industry. These brutal sexual performances often involve partners who are not only dressed like innocent and inexperienced young women, but also have to pose as such in the films.

Another series that Max Hardcore produced for Zane Entertainment was Cherry Poppers . He then founded his own production company, FilmWest Productions, in 1994. His company released its Max World , Anal Auditions, and Hardcore Schoolgirls film series . He claimed that he was working off the beaten track in the porn industry.

In the comedy Orgazmo by Trey Parker and Matt Stone from the year 1997 Max Hardcore makes an appearance in a supporting role.

In 2004 the British documentary filmmaker Stephen Walker was able to prove in his Channel4 production "HARDCORE", during which he was an eyewitness to the practices of Max Hardcore on his own film set, that Max Hardcore's alleged "acting" was sadistic sexual behavior by no means a performance, but real and violent sexual abuse .

Max Hardcore was inducted into the AVN Award Hall of Fame in 2004 for lifetime achievement as a porn actor, director and producer .

Hardcore has a relationship with the porn actress Layla Rivera .

Criminal proceedings and imprisonment

Max Hardcore and Layla Rivera in Barcelona (2004)

In the porn films of a series produced by Hardcore there are women who are dressed like immature and naive young women or even underage girls and who behave accordingly. Although the actresses are presented at least as young and occasionally as minors, they are actually at least 18 years old. In one of his films, an adult porn actress claimed she was 12 years old. This prompted the U.S. federal government to charge Max Hardcore with producing child pornography , which also led to charges. Before the case went to court, however, the Ashcroft vs. Free Speech Coalition passed a ruling by the Supreme Court , the highest American court, which declared the law on which the indictment was based unconstitutional (the law, the Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996 , had declared any representation of sexual act to be criminal child pornography that even appeared to be criminal raised that children or young people were involved). Based on that judgment, the child pornography allegations against Max Hardcore were dropped.

The City of Los Angeles continued to charge him for distributing obscene scriptures. These charges were also dropped after the jury failed to reach a verdict. Another obscenity charge also ended with a divided jury. Hardcore called these efforts a "frivolous waste of public funds".

On October 5, 2005, his offices were again searched by the FBI . Five films were confiscated. Hardcore responded with a press release in which he again accused the government of wasting taxpayers' money. In 2007, in Tampa, Florida, Max Hardcore was charged ten counts and found guilty of distributing obscene scriptures. The court then sentenced him to 46 months in prison on October 3, 2008, and fined him and his company a total of $ 82,500. Hardcore served his sentence from January 2009 to January 2011 in prisons in La Tuna, Texas, Los Angeles and Long Beach. This was followed by five months of house arrest until July 2011.

Awards and nominations

Web links

Commons : Max Hardcore  - collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Max Hardcore Says' I'll Be Seein 'Ya'. Retrieved June 9, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Report of the Free Speech Coalition on the search operation ( Memento of the original of December 8, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.freespeechcoalition.com
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tampabay.com
  4. ↑ Paul Little: Max Hardcore: Letter From a Former Inmate . AVN.com. S. 1. January 16, 2011. Retrieved January 24, 2011.
  5. ^ Federal Bureau of Prisons . Retrieved October 6, 2011.
  6. ↑ IMDb; Max Hardcore Awards. Retrieved June 9, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Hardcore, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Little, Paul F. (real name); Reamer, Rex (pseudonym); Paul, video (pseudonym); Smythe, Sam (pseudonym); Steiner, Max (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American porn actor and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Racine , Wisconsin