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

Luke Bather - 13th July 2016

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. 

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."

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Luke Bather - 13th July 2016

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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
Nicolas Randall
Director
Marc-Edouard Leon
Producer
Jona Ward
Producer
Matt Bobbitt
Production Company
Paul McKee at LOOSE JOINTS
Production Company
Ranch Hand Entertainment
Production Company
Executive Producer
Jona Ward
Executive Producer
Peter Williams
Executive Producer
Paul McKee

Camera

Director of Photography
Starr Whitesides
2nd AC
Mark Daniel Quintos
1st AC
Tobin Oldach

Art

Production designer
Spencer Graves

Casting

Casting director
Joanna de Moyer

Editorial

Editor
Kyle Valenta
Editor
Cami Starkman

Grading

Colourist
Gregory Reese

VFX

Post production company
The Mill
Post Producer
Kiana Bicoy

Other credits

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

Luke Bather - 13th July 2016

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