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