USA, 1994 Director: George Duroy
Stars: Lukas Ridgeston, Willie Ridgeston, Martin Valko, Johan Paulik, Filip Smirnof
Though this wasn't Lukas Ridgeston's first film (the bizarre Boytropolis, where a tribe of hunky youths stay young forever by drinking from a fountain of youth and fucking each other continuously marked his debut, and then he performed a memorable solo in Tender Strangers, where he shot part of his load onto his forehead and into one of his eyes) Lukas' Story was the film that launched Ridgeston into gay porn mega stardom.
Lukas seems confused about his nascent sexuality, but it's fairly clear to the viewer that he has an unambiguous interest in cock from the film's first scene, where he spies through a keyhole on his brother (Willie Ridgeston, who looks a bit like Lukas - are they really brothers?) whacking off. At school later that day, Lukas watches two of his buddies suck each other off under a staircase, before getting on a bus where the famous blowjob scene takes place. In voiceover narration (the voice doesn't really match Lukas' Slovakian upbringing) Lukas observes that Filip Smirnof, though fairly unattractive, has the biggest dick Lukas has ever seen. For some reason, Smirnof has his cock out of his pants, and Lukas quickly sidles up the aisle and gets on his knees. Smirnof comes all over Lukas' tanned upper chest and shoulders.
We move outdoors, where Lukas, wearing no shirt, rows up to a boating shed, where another two of his buddies are having clandestine sex, which again, Lukas observes from a hiding place. What a strange group of friends Lukas has!
Two more guys fuck each other in an abandoned building before a soccer game between Lukas and Johan Paulik leads to the two buddies getting it on big time. Paulik, who went on to major porn stardom himself, has a great time with Lukas, who fucks the brains out of his slightly-built friend.
Not at all a bad porn, and the guys are all gorgeous (though you have to be a fan of uncut dicks). In the early 1990s American gay culture in AIDS tatters and West Hollywood porn personae of the day seemed out-of-date. Druggy Joey Stefano was hurtling towards his early grave, and Jeff Stryker's gruff "who's your daddy" routine was out of favour with newly self-empowered gay audiences, so sporty Lukas was well set to become the greatest porn star of the 1990s, which he quickly became. The then re-emerging states of Eastern Europe burst with a sense of promise and the exotic, possibly even a place that AIDS had never visited, and George Duroy was right to sweep in and set up his Bel Ami empire, which took off virtually from the word go and has grown very rapidly into one of the world's great gay porn studios.
After thirty years of Americana gay porn with innumerable tales of mechanics, football studs and college roommates, Bel Ami's milieu of young and horny gay-appearing Czech boys having spontaneous sex in meadows or the ruined slums of the old Soviet Empire were a real breath of fresh air. Lukas' Story is the most successful gay porn title ever, apparently, with more copies shipped than any other. It isn't, however, the best, and a bit like Midnight Express, is notable mostly for its fascinating lead and his unique charisma.
Lukas eyes
Lukas' famous cobalt eyes are almost unnaturally blue, and have been described as wolf like. Almost a little too wolf like for me, as sometimes, when he stares straight at camera, all I can think of is a docile Alaskan Malamute imploring his master to throw him a bone. Siegfried and Roy's majestic White Lions of Timbavati have similarly unbelievable icy blue eyes. I guess their crystalline limpidity suggests a blank slate - purity and health. Stefano and Stryker had beady bedroom eyes: hot and handsome but sort of dirty and sleazy. Their scenes were often dimly lit and set in greasy manmade milieux. Lukas' doll eyes, endlessly contextualised in flowered fields, log cabins, lakes, canoes and so on, light up his naturist, well-behaved path.
Lukas' smile
Working in tandem with the eyes is Lukas' smile, always deployed post-cum, when he stares straight into the camera and gives a dopey, closed-lipped grin. It's a grin of pride - look how much I came! - and a wink to the viewer. Unlike lots of other porn stars, who avoid direct gazes into the camera, Lukas has always been positioned as the gay porn watcher's friend. When he smiles, he's letting you know that he knows that you're there. Unlike the aloof Stefano copping it for his own insatiable arse-pleasure or the quite rude Stryker who revelled in the detached heftiness of his cock (which looked larger than it was on Stryker's dwarfish frame), friendly Lukas is doing it just for you. He knows you're there, and he's happy you're watching. For younger viewers, it's a wink of fraternity and for older viewers, a sweetly son-like hope that you liked what he did for you.
Lukas' legs
Rarely discussed - I can't remember seeing a single reference, actually - is Lukas' legs, which are beautiful and easily the best in the porn business. If only beefy Erik Rhodes - stacked like a gymnast above the waist, but teetering on pipecleaners below had a few of Lukas' lower-body shape. Stocky but not stumpy, Lukas legs are lightly dusted with grey-caramel hair and maintain beefiness right down through the calves. He is perfectly proportioned - chunky from top to bottom. His hefty athleticism looks well-fed and fit: he has the body of a young rugby player, not a pec-heavy model/actor. Alexei Gromoff has a similar build, but is a tad over-trained and pneumatic. Early Chad Conners was up to Lukas' lower-half standards, but years of over training have given him a Michelin Man butcher shop look that has possibly been fueled by steroids. Conners' previously great thighs now look more like railway bridge stanchions.
Lukas' cock Lukas has a big, thick cock. I prefer cut guys, and Lukas toying and twisting his foreskin reminds me of someone tying up a balloon. But it is a handsome dick. His massive loads of come, shot in multiple geyser spurts and often landing in his eye or over his head altogether are very sexy and underline his boyish essence.
Lukas' youth What makes this film a prize is the presence of slightly oily skin on Lukas' face - there's even a hint of acne - and his body's minute layer of body fat give him an enticing succulence. He's a teenage sex dream on legs, you can litereally see his hormones. Today's Lukas is an architecture graduate who is model-beautiful, and we're all lucky to have this record of his super-hot late-teen looks.
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