Midnight To Monaco 'One In A Million' by Nicolas Randall & Marc-Edouard Leon

By Luke Bather
Posted On 13th July 2016
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Nicolas Randall & Marc-Edouard Leon deliver a night-crawling, sleazy and heartbreakingly bleak video for Midnight to Monaco.

Tackling the subject of male prostitution in 80s LA was never going to be pretty, and this video makes every scenario seem sinister and cold. Nobody genuinely smiles, there's no passion in anything seen here and the neon lights of cheap motels illuminate a world cast under Hollywood's shadow with a sickly glow - beautifully shot, it must be said, by DoP Starr Whitesides.

It's not an easy watch, but it's certainly a rewarding one - with Midnight To Monaco's Ricky Ducati convincing in the lead role as the wannabe actor turned hustler. The bookending of the video with a VHS scene adds a sinister, voyeuristic element to a story where the young and the pretty try and thrive and quickly find themselves becoming obsolete.

From the director

NICOLAS RANDALL & MARC-EDOUARD LEON:

"The concept of this came from our fascination with an era when Los Angeles was so rife with male prostitution that several blocks of Hollywood were known as Hustle City. We met with real hustlers in order to portray their world with realism and even cast one of them, Christopher Bobal, to appear in the video."

Credits

Director: Nicolas Randall
Director: Marc-Edouard Leon
Producer: Jona Ward
Producer: Matt Bobbitt
Production Company: LOOSE JOINTS
Production Company: Ranch Hand Entertainment
Production Company: Partizan
Executive Producer: Jona Ward
Executive Producer: Peter Williams
Executive Producer: Paul McKee
Director of Photography: Starr Whitesides
1st AC: Tobin Oldach
2nd AC: Mark Daniel Quintos
Editor: Kyle Valenta
Editor: Cami Starkman
Colourist: Gregory Reese
Production designer: Spencer Graves
Stylist: Michelle Laine
Make-up: Jacque Piotrowski
Hair: Jill Zegarski
Casting director: Joanna de Moyer
Post production company: The Mill
Post Producer: Kiana Bicoy

Set Dresser: Leah Borrie, Joe Fastiggi
Stylist Assistant: Katya Nenchyna-Sussman
Makeup Assistant: Jordan Mitchell
1st AD: Erik Mateo
2nd AD: Nandy McClean
DIT: Jon-Michael Burgess
Gaffer: David Graves
Best Boy: Halsey Corbin, Mike Viera
Electric: Joel Sutherland
Grip: James O'Connor
Best Boy: Joseph Cordova
Production Supervisor: Rachel Ottenstein
Asst. Production Supervisor: Sam Tiger
Production Support: Lucia Dompnier, Julius Fletcher, Alec Schiff, Steve Hulse, Zachariah Groll, Striker Ross, Victor Hernandez, Steven Andrew, Garcia, Alissa Aiton
Finishing: Scott Johnson
Sound Design: Matthew Rogers
Cast: Ricky Ducati & Donnie Sloan (Midnight to Monaco).
Motel Manager: Johnny Robish.
Female Clients: Bobbi Ward, Susie Carla, Veronica Bloom, and Brenda Marie Davies
Male Clients: Christopher Bobal and Mel Kohl
Motel Runaway: Diane Rosser
Motel Pimp: Tate Simms
Hustlers: Niko the Ikon, Lewis Kane, Mike Gamms, and Jules Gonzalez
Streetwalker: Lindsey Gordon
Waiter: Sam Tiger