As Digital Playground declared, with “Project X,” they were looking to "pay homage to the genre of sci-fi thrillers." While Greenwood said it felt to him like a blockbuster movie.
And he should know, with his impressive credits and seeing as just recently, another film Greenwood directed, “Alive,” is a porn musical the man might know blockbusters as well as why genre seems to work so well when attempting to make porn ever more mainstream.
Even when that is not a director, studio or producer's intent.
Genre anyone?
If one can judge by only these two recent films, rendering a longer porn narrative through a specific genre seems to as much bring viewers to the content, and fuel website press releases as it does push adult fare ever closer to what all people like to watch. With the aforementioned “Alive,” featuring original songs, and "Project X," dependent on some sure sci-fi tropes one could argue that this porn fare is infinitely more accessible to even the most casual of porn fans.
There is no mistaking how much Hollywood has been captured most recently by genre movies, as even a great director like Martin Scorsese has grudgingly admitted. It stands to reason then that mixing in some fantasy or a good ol’ country tune or two will work for porn as it does for the mainstream. And even make a porn movie mainstream, in the broader sense of the term.
The overall mainstreaming of modern naughty stuff
Genre or not, there is no denying that naughty material has slipped ever further into the mainstream over the past few years. Surely, what was once considering ‘softcore' fare can be pretty much viewed on any of our streaming services, with shows like “Bridgerton,” and the sex on display in the sure fantasy genre epic “Game of Thrones,” all too common and accepted.
