SPRING BREAKERS (2013) GUCCI MANE, SELENA GOMEZ & JAMES FRANCO (as Riff Raff?) DIR. BY HARMONY KORINE

this is going to be amazing

http://i.imgur.com/0gvh8.jpg

http://www.fuse.tv/2012/03/james-franco-is-playing-riff-raff-in-spring-breakers

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2101441/

it's like every famous person i've ever felt personally trolled by (selena counts for dating bieber) decided to get together and give me a heart attack

plus gucci

i really wish riff raff was actually in this

yep

man I'm old, I looked at this thread title and my first reaction was "DAMMIT JANET"

I thought of RHPS too Dan. It was very confusing.

Franco looks amazing. Too bad I really hate Korine.

every so often i need the internet to remind me that i really can still be confused at this late date

http://i.imgur.com/aFA2u.jpg

http://springbreakersfilm.tumblr.com/

Anonymous asked: Do you know if Selena Gomez will have a scene where she's topless?

Don’t think she will.

Tue, Mar. 27, 2012 → 1 note

wow, this looks HOOOOOOORRRIBLE

pumped

amazing

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1m4xt1MUg1qhuc9do4_250.jpg

harmony korine pulling a david gordon green i suppose

and franco can of course write this off as another instance of "performance art"

this will be terrible btw

another "david shapiro" scoop

Anonymous asked: Any truth to the following: Selena pees on the street. Selena masturbates in the pool. Selena smokes weed. Displays of cocaine use. Lesbians fingering each other. Sex scenes.

Well.. Let’s find out next Spring. ;)

korines been watching a lot of the disney channel huh

Vanessa Anne Hudgens (born December 14, 1988) is an American actress and singer, who is best known for her portrayal of the character Gabriella Montez in the High School Musical series.

the Houston MC who got his start on MTV's From G's to Gents

I look at all this and I feel like I'm having a seizure.

harmony korine pulling a david gordon green i suppose

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, March 28, 2012 8:49 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i like this concept, who else has pulled a david gordon green, did herzog w/bad lieutenant

lol korines married to one of the girls in this

she got her start on mtv's from g's to gents

this will be terrible btw

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, March 28, 2012 7:50 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not as spectacle

korines been watching a lot of the disney channel huh

i know her from this btw http://yeeeah.com/2009/08/05/newvanessa-hudgens-naked-pictures-leaked-online

this looks fuckin great btw

this looks like, uh, something

i anticipate a spectacle unrivaled since the days of trash humpers

bguh @ "food store" pic

amateurist u wanna see this with me? u in chicago riught?

the fuck does bguh mean?

fair question

u were feelin the broads rigt?

tgise

FEELIN THOSE BROADS

is dylannn in chicago??

no. i am located in northeastern china/western canda but as a longtime ilx contirbuor i would fly to chicago to see this film with amateurist.

oh ok thats what i thought

but yeah this film looks fun to me

u, me, amateurist

get some rails smoke a little weed we doin it

armed franco in cornrows. FEELIN. what's not to like?

rails

so u into james franco?

more into bad cornrows, but he was funny in knocked up

like yr either into a korine movie w/gucci and franco-as-riff-raff etc or yr not, but surprise/disgust at it
seem kinda eh

which is to say, stoked

i am excited, as we all should be.

i just want to know how korine raised the scratch to make this. and then i want to apply this chicanery to my own financial situation.

step 1. be the best known avant-garde filmmaker of your generation
step 2. james franco
step 3. make her open the box.

once again, dropping out of film school bites me in the ass.

though i figure at this rate james franco will appear in a production by every american with a digital camera by 2017.

like yr either into a korine movie w/gucci and franco-as-riff-raff etc or yr not, but surprise/disgust at it
seem kinda eh

― bear, bear, bear, Thursday, March 29, 2012 8:27 AM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my 'heart attack' comment itt was obviously leaning in that direction but to be honest it just kind of speaks to the desperately enthusiastic memecore culture we live in now that the guy people had learned to ignore long before whatever the fuck Mister Lonely and Trash Humpers were is back in the spotlight with a little savvy lol casting

i mean sure vanessa hudgens in a bikini, i'm there, but not because i'm dying to be on the ground floor of the next Southland Tales

holy shit, i live in chicago and i will totally see this movie. it looks like an abomination, and we have history with harmony korine in my household.

i feel like shouting HOORAY for how bad this is going to be!

if you feel like shouting hooray, shout hooray is what i say

its cool if youre in it for disney stars in bikinis otherwise chill

i'm having second thoughts about shouting hooray because i'm wondering what harmony korine must look like to selena gomez. is he an "old dude"?

chill: accomplished

how old is she?

he's almost 40, he is an old dude

yeah, i guess so. i am sort of in it for disney stars in bikinis but mostly i want to see everyone squirm around this movie.

he is def an old dude

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1cm1ajUV11qbt8b8o1_r1_500.jpg

looks happy

I would totally see this, and I haven't seen a Harmony Korine joint since julien donkey-boy.

gordon green is an interesting comparison, if korine has the chops to make a legit mainstreamish narrative while mixing in some of his weirdo sensibility it could actually be p sweet, i recognize that this is not v likely, but it is my sincere aspiration for this production

i just want sum lolz

Lol @ him following up supreme anti-film Trash Humpers with what looks like an ironic American Pie sequel.

That pic: People who've figured out how to live

That pic: the reason Kid Rock wears a hat

looks like wayne coyne and george costanza had an impish baby

was gonna say wayne coyne x demitri martin

i hope it turns out that this movie was also funded by proenza schouler

i'm gonna have to unbookmark this because it's making me unreasonably angry every time i see the thread title on my screen

thx 4 the update, keep us posted

he types 'angry' but means 'horny'

its a fine line

no it would have to be tim & eric level wacky meta to make him horny

now that I've reframed this as Disney girls in bikinis, I'm feeling much more onboard with this. Tag me in, forks

it's making me unreasonably angry every time i see the thread title

Korine be provokin'.

FWIW, I quite like Harmony Korine. He's made a couple of almost great films, his last film is definitely one of those, this doesn't look like it will be but you never know. Glad he's able to keep doing his thing though. Good luck to him!

His dad had a nice touch too:
http://www.folkstreams.net/film,173

the david gordon green comparison was definitely not intended to be flattering btw

intent is the thing with feathers

p.s. bguh

the david gordon green comparison was definitely not intended to be flattering btw

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, March 30, 2012 3:17 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

when u pull a david gordon green you leave all of that behind

for those still wondering about the rap game james franco http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2012/04/riff_raff_james_franco.php

"the era of trollgaze" otm

It should come as no surprise that he has songs actually named "Lil B" and "The White Gucci Mane," which play up his shamelessness while also goosing YouTube views.

Strickly S.E.O.

was gonna ask who Riff Raff is, but fuckit

You don't know, dude? Aren't you hip?

nice piece jordan i enjoyed it

Edgy remake of Beach Blanket Bingo.

now he splits his time between making legitimate strides in his career by appearing on tracks with Soulja Boy and Action Bronson and hanging around with trolls both professional (Andy Milonakis, Simon Rex) and amateur (V-Nasty, Diplo).

nice piece of trolling there

morbs you could just read sarge's (excellent) primer he just linked to

http://i.imgur.com/Tng48.jpg

http://www.harmony-korine.com/news/2012/04/gucci-mane-on-the-springbreakers-set/

nice

i really hope gucci actually has a part in this and he and harmony arent just doing some bogus cross-hype

yeah that would be a publicity-grabbing sham

did anyone see this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM4zVazjYTE

plus, didn't everyone love this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=eMVNjMF1Suo&feature=endscreen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMVNjMF1Suo

he kinda created vice magazine out of thin air. out of his brain. somehow.

Grolsch Film Works and VICE Films present 'The Fourth Dimension', a film that gives us a glimpse of enlightenment through the eyes of three one-of-a-kind characters. The three filmmakers - Fedorchenko, Korine and Kwiecinski - have created three unique stories that offer up their vision of this higher plane of existence, the Fourth Dimension. Each filmmaker takes his character on a journey that changes the way they see the world and themselves. And each filmmaker will offer a different perspective on what the Fourth Dimension is. Written by Anonymous

i forgot all about mr. lonely! i still haven't seen it. and i didn't even know about trash humpers. that looks cool. the trailer looks cool anyway. i'm a gummo fan though.

Fourth Dimension looks great

trash humpers (2009)

trash, humping (2013)

trash, humped (2017)

for those still wondering about the rap game james franco http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2012/04/riff_raff_james_franco.php

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, April 3, 2012 3:24 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

i didnt know "Riff Raff" was an irl person, guess that helps explain some of the astonished reactions

should have done it like the dylan movie where different actors all play riff raff at various times in his life.

Would love to see Taryn Manning as Riff Raff.

damn otm

Mister Lonely is possibly the worst film of the last ten years. That or 'Kaboom' at least.

yeah that would be a publicity-grabbing sham

― some dude, Thursday, April 5, 2012 9:53 AM (2 hours ago)

looool

never forget
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-IGcCfLdAo

Mr. Lonely was good, didn't see Trash Humpers yet. kinda think he'll never top Gummo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uZgJapYmEI

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/394335_277342629007410_159935530748121_644484_77753752_n.jpg

guys that fourth dimension trailer makes it look aaaaawful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP8haMvigqw

lol jimmy franc's character is named "ALIEN"

lol those girls vibin hard to franco

Lol

HK is so awesome. I hope he makes a ton off this.

lol I am gonna watch the shit outta this

ALIEN.

http://i.imgur.com/nNReB.jpg

http://www.theonion.com/articles/ironic-porn-purchase-leads-to-unironic-ejaculation,1567/

*chuckle*

Skrillex was recruited by the movie's musical director Randall Poster, who admits he had barely heard of the electronic music star until a recommendation from Spring Breakers director Harmony Korine.

Poster tells music website Pitchfork.com, "I'm working on Harmony Korine's movie Spring Breakers now and Skrillex is doing original music for us. I had heard of Skrillex, but I wasn't watching it that closely.

of course.

that was my main takeaway from that interview as well.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/venice-2012-spring-breakers-review-368066

sounds about right

Left-field writer-director Harmony Korine's new picture is quite the weirdest, wildest beast we've seen in this year's Venice competition – a college-kid caper that's not so much a case of Korine moving to the mainstream as him showing us just how woozy and debauched the mainstream can be.
...
Full credit to Korine, who sustains this act of creative vandalism right through to the finish. Spring Breakers unfolds as a fever dream of teenage kicks, a high-concept heist movie with mescal in the fuel tank. The director monkeys with the plot and kicks away the signposts. He loops the dialogue and drags a dilated, ecstatic camera-lens across honeyed flesh and painted nails. The result is his most fully realised, purely satisfying feature film since Gummo, his outrageous directing debut, way back in 1997

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/sep/05/spring-breakers-review

PSYCHED

It has hypnotic visual style and a dense, driving soundscape.

sold.

At one point he sits poolside at a cheesy white grand piano and sings a Britney Spears ballad while three co-eds in DTF pants and pink ski masks do an impromptu dance routine with AK-47s.

sold.

pussy riot is in this?

the only way this could be better is if it had David Hasselhoff...PLAYING HIMSELF!

ooh, or wait no, Fabio, that'd be crazy

Whites Celebrate Early 90s Gangsta Rap Culture: The Movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJbCZj3z9oE

i got...SHORTS!

#YOLO

so this was a thing that I watched.

is riff raff gonna be a huge thing after this movie

is he already a huge thing idk I dont think he is

imna go w/no and no but who knows

can diplo help him

^important question

oh my.

is riff raff gonna be a huge thing after this movie

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, September 7, 2012 8:33 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

haha how many screens is this movie going to open on? 15?

However many screens can hold college kids who grew up on Selena Gomez.

GQ: With regards to your character in the movie, the rapper Riff Raff has said the role you are playing was originally meant for him. Is that true?

James Franco: None of that's true. I'll tell you why he could have never been offered the role. Harmony (Korine, the movie's writer and director) and I were talking about doing a movie together before Spring Breakers was even conceived. I had been a fan of his work and he wanted to do something and I said, "I'll do anything with you." We started discussing ideas and one day he sent me a treatment, which he said he's never done before, just to run it by me. And it was this idea of these girls going on spring break and then they meet up with this guy who leads them into the dark side. And then he wrote the script. So there's no chance Riff Raff could have been offered the role. Of course Harmony and I looked at some of Riff Raff's videos as inspiration, but he was one of a number of people we looked at. I would say the biggest influence on the role was this local Florida rapper named Dangerous. He's fairly unknown, but he was down there in the place, living the life, and he became the biggest model for me and he's in the movie.

Somehow I didn't know about this, or if I did I wasn't paying attention... I've seen <i>Gummo</i> probably more than any other movie and I'm hugely psyched for this.

Gummo

I will at least allow that the first 2 mins of this were the most hilarious I ever spent in a press+industry screening

sometimes i feel like this film only exists for the google image searches

i mean james franco you have just got to be fucking with us at this point

This is gonna be ridiculous (goes without saying)

i got...SHORTS!

― jed_, Friday, September 7, 2012 7:31 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark

this still cracks me up

http://hollywoodlife.com/2012/12/17/ashley-benson-threesome-spring-breakers-video/

did anyone actually ever see this? i feel like i failed 2012 here.

i couldnt get in :(

we can console ourselves that this seems like a film designed to be watched drunk, at home, with a group of equally drunk friends

and by drunk friends you mean stuffed animals lined up on the couch right

well yeah

doused in malt liquor

friends/dealers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SiHa6gVuyI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC5nCxloXVU

http://cf.badassdigest.com/_uploads/images/28092/spring-breakers-poster-1__span.jpg
http://cf.badassdigest.com/_uploads/images/spring-breakers-poster-2.jpg
http://cf.badassdigest.com/_uploads/images/spring-breakers-poster-3.jpg

Blowin up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR8ms2OIPmU

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1700334/spring-breakers-trailer-exclusive.jhtml

best picture 2013

did anyone actually ever see this?

I did. It's fun, though it could use a trim.

u could use a trim

nice

~spring break~

is the phrase 'rap game...' uttered at any point?

quite possibly

~sprang break~

Let's pray for HK's sake that there is a market for movies about scantily clad coeds.

do you think Franco was scripted or is the movie him improvising?

has this been posted?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVvn9T6bqls

also i've been staring at this thread title all year and it hasn't registered that gucci mane is in this

it didn't register for me that this was actually a HK film until yesterday

In October, Gucc sat down with Power 105's Breakfast Club in New York City and tried his best to break down the premise of the movie. "It's a white movie," he said. "I'm the only black guy in the whole movie. It's a white movie. It's like a white Pulp Fiction... I'm the bad guy. That's what they wanted me to play. I could have been the good guy if they wanted me to."

aw

gucci deniro

want to give gucci a hug rn

"It's like a white Pulp Fiction" should be the tagline on the poster

http://media.aintitcool.com/media/uploads/2013/the_kidd_pic_database/spring-breakers-james-franco-character-poster.jpeg

EST ALIEN
LE 6 MARS

Very much want to hear French people say "spring breakers."

red band:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ9_7d7Udjw

doesn't exactly bear much resemblance to his other stuff but I love Korine and looks about as lol as you would expect

ANTICIPATING

EST ALIEN

So did anyone see this thing

I did. It's fun, though it could use a trim.

― Simon H., Thursday, January 17, 2013 5:36 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

doesn't open till the 22nd fwiw

Best thing I've seen all year so far.

what's second?

better than Project X?

Same message as Project X, but imagine it distilled into Katy Perry "Teenage Dream" video as directed by Terrence Malick.

Second place is any random episode of RuPaul's Drag Race.

Third place is you're fired.

i thought this was pretty zzz

"I'm the only black guy in the whole movie. It's a white movie. It's like a white Pulp Fiction... I'm the bad guy."

the trailer has one of the girls says "i have a really bad feeling about this" just as the only black guy in the movie appears

illustration accompanying anthony lane's nyer review needs to be a polish theatrical poster:

http://i.imgur.com/NsCJ1Mk.png

otm

that's great

that's the greatest illustration I've ever seen in the NYer -- are the masks a reference to something in the movie or just weird?

Just a happy coincidence that image coincides somewhat recently w the whole Pussy Riot deal.

oh nm they are ski masks, i.e. crime. I thought they were like mexican wrestler masks or something

Maybe James Franco is about to play squash against the four sisters of The Eradicator.

there are scenes in the trailer where they are wearing pink ski masks

it reads like a reference to pussy riot although I guess numerous parties could come up with the idea of pastel ski masks independently

I don't think I realized until recently that this is going to be a mainstream movie that people might actually see

yea last i saw (a week ago maybe?) they were expanding it to 550 theaters next week, now it sez 1000+ next wk

Bet it will do at least as well as Pineapple Express.

it is crazy that anything Harmony Korine does gets any mainstream exposure. I love him but this is a serious coup he's pulled off here, even if the movie is terrible.

when a friend said he looked forward to this movie and he mentioned Korine's name I don't think I said anything for a few seconds.

The scene where the girls put Pitbull in a microwave has apparently been cut for the N. America release.

Pineapple Express is actually a pretty high bar to match ($87 million domestic!) so i kinda doubt it'll make half that, but even half would be an impressive accomplishment

yeah I dunno if it'll do that, but a 90 grand per-theater while only playing in 2 theaters is pretty impressive in itself, so at this point I wouldn't be too shocked if it clears 40 mil

the trailer has one of the girls says "i have a really bad feeling about this" just as the only black guy in the movie appears

― eris bueller (lukas), Monday, March 18, 2013 2:58 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao at this btw

I read through Pitchfork's interview/feature thing. I haven't been this psyched for a movie since a couple years ago. I'm guessing it's gonna be pretty hugely polarizing.

Glenn Kenny: art-pop pleasure.

i have answered the question "what are your weekend plans?" with "seeing spring breakers" about 5 times this week

http://www.vulture.com/2013/03/gucci-mane-slept-through-spring-breakers-sex.html

hahaha

http://www.refinery29.com/2013/03/44661/opening-ceremony-spring-breakers

At the end, he woke up and was like, 'I feel real nice. I feel like Mozart’s on my dick.'

I think it'll hit that Pineapple money, because it's got us excited, it's got Selena Gomez fans excited, it's got fans of Selena Gomez's body excited.

her Letterman interview was really funny. "Paul, remember that Harmony Korine? remember how straaange he was? and we thought he was asked to leave show business?"

gotta be honest, i'm waiting for 'word of mouth' on this one

Franco clearly based on gr80

seeing this tuesday or wednesday and going to enjoy the shit out of as much of it as i can

i wonder what glenn kenny thinks "agent provocateur" means

'third best foreigner album'

^^^ love this guy

I loved this

thought this was absolutely breathtaking from a visual perspective, kinda crappy otherwise

there were some really effective scenes tho... the first one where the girls are in the pool springs to mind

but yeah the colors in this movie are unreal

Korine is an extremely slappable person who generally makes good films.

step 1. be the best known avant-garde filmmaker of your generation

also croup, wtf were you smokin'?

absolutely breathtaking from a visual perspective

This is enough to push just about any movie to the 90th percentile for me, though I think there's a lot more going on beyond that in this case.

Franco clearly based on gr80

― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Friday, March 22, 2013 3:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

how dare u sir

unless you mean in oz

Interior. Leather. Bar.

gr80's version of pineapple express is about actual pineapples

btw forecases for SB's opening weekend are less than a quarter of PE's opening weekend

http://i.imgur.com/lsCHFQH.png

lol

this is great. if nothing else the funniest movie i've seen in a few years

otm: i saw it in a suburban theater at 10pm with only abt 40-45 other ppl, but when the britney piano sequence started it was the most laughter i've heard since borat on opening weekend

throughout the movie i was like damn skeillex must have listened to a ton of cliff martinez before he sat down to score this, until i saw the credits lol

i def went in with too many expectations and wasn't really in to it at first but once i kicked back and just let it do its thing i really was enraptured with it. with the multiple voiceovers and floaty non-linear editing its really much closer to malick than any obvious mann/depalma/tarantino comparisons (or korine for that matter), but a bizarro world malick where ~oneness~ is replaced by ~endless tension~

gucci was great, couldn't help but imagine how better it would have been with the almost-happened riff raff appearance

just thinking about franco going 'spring breaaakkk... spring breaakkk....' is making me crack up

I'm not sure Korine's editing tack of endless looping did much for me on this. Think it woulda been better served as a medium length piece (like a lot of other full-length pics.)

also: lol @ my little pony making two appearances

oh wow i thought that was riff riff the whole time and was kinda pissed about it although i ended up liking it.

SPRING BREAK FOREVER

I am on vacation with a friend, just saw this, and am gonna say "spring breeeeak" at each other the next couple of days.

Skrillex -> Martinez comparison otm

heh

brb waking up his hungover self by whispering "spring breeeeeak" at his head

mh my post was in reference to the fact that most of the score was cliff martinez not skrillex

haha, I was drunk, and that makes a lot more sense than whatever I was thinking

yeah the piano scene had me in stitches.

also loved the scene that seemed like franco's take on 'in brazil bad bitch stripper'

i kinda wish korine wasn't so heavy handed with the ironic voiceovers, obv the visuals are inescapably engorged, let them do their thing

like i kinda wish michael bay had directed this instead

i really dug the orchestral version of scary monters and nice sprites at the end

Is the movie itself as visually ugly as the ads for it are? Will kinda be the deciding factor for me.

you mean is it as visually splendid as the ads make it out to be, and yes, it is

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/on-spring-breakers-and-its-relationship-with-gangster-rap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvTn-8BhVQc

man i gotta watch this movie

^^ from http://waxinandmilkin.com/post/46286308005/over-the-weekend-i-thought-about-how-much-the-film

damn that's a great take

xposts

like i kinda wish michael bay had directed this instead

― 乒乓, Monday, March 25, 2013 10:21 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark

probably because they showed the trailer for 'pain & gain' before this

also mega lols @ them showing the trailer for the bling ring before this. 1.) they know their audience 2.) people are probably gonna peg it as a spring breakers rip even tho it was probably in production before spring breakers

heh i thought of belly while i was watchin this

mostly the scene where gucci (who isnt convincing at all as a tough guy, but i liked how plump and satisfied he seemed) is talking about needing to feed his baby

thinking of seeing this after work 2morrow

"They sent me a clip of this girl walking across the room with three or four Coke cans on her ass, and we cast her, based on that video," Korine told Vulture.

I just needed to quote that.

"Why can't you just dream on it ?"

http://stereogum.com/1298072/harmony-korine-on-skrillex-gucci-mane-spring-breakers-and-why-florida-is-like-a-whole-other-country/interview/

but yeah the colors in this movie are unreal

― A$AP Rovi (J0rdan S.), Saturday, March 23, 2013 1:25 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark

colors felt almost believable in the beginning, just some well chosen and lighted locations, all this naturalistic work done with huge aperture lenses, soft focus in the lecture hall and other dark environs

but after a while it became clear the cinematographer just went to party city with hundreds of dollars and bought out the colored fluorescent section

fucking around with white balance

this was like an old corman movie directed by a kid who'd later go on to making great movies

also mega lols @ them showing the trailer for the bling ring before this. 1.) they know their audience 2.) people are probably gonna peg it as a spring breakers rip even tho it was probably in production before spring breakers

same distributor, whose primary focus seems to be art movies about teenagers (And charlie sheen): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A24_Films

Aiming for the Saw of teen comedies.

inspired me to go back and listen to In The Zone again. I almost forgot how great the songs on it are.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/spring-breakers-harmony-korine-was-banned-from-letterman-for-trying-to-steal-from-meryl-streeps-purse-20130326

"enfant terrible" "harmony korine"
About 43,800 results (0.33 seconds)

haha guys Belly is such a terrible movie for real

belly owns

this is happening tonight, yay

the weirdest thing about this movie (and I can only find a couple things alluding to this online): Janusz Kaminski was the original DP for this?

no wai

he did say his next project will be Harmony Korine‘s Spring Breakers.

http://collider.com/janusz-kaminski-war-horse-interview/

okay this was huge fun. biggest small-theatre crowd for 5pm $5 Tuesday I've seen in ages, and almost all teenagers, which made it fun. Britney piano scene got huuuuge lols, and everyone cracked up every time Franco did his spraaaaaaannnnng breeeaaaaaaak

Visuals were ridic. It took me the drive home for my eyes to adjust to the fact that Sacramento does NOT look like Florida

Was really into the fact that it was pretty much a no-consequences crime drama, and that the girls weren't just fresh meat. Franco blowing the guns for the girls was LOL

i wonder if that was franco's idea

yeah i was wondering that too
felt kinda franco

Plans to go hotbox and then go see the early show of this with friends Friday. Fuckin Amped.

no-consequences crime drama

no spoilers intended but tell that to franco and gucci mane's characters!

i meant more the girls but yeah point taken lol

The disparity of consequences is one of the main points, I think.

my main problem with the film is that korine's arthouse tics are so transparent

did anyone see the bit (clipped on the soup) of korine talking about meeting his wife?

the looping got a *little* tiresome by the end

so did old ppl humping trash, thats the point think abt it

old ppl humping trash prob find that humping trash gets tiresome, too. unless you meant that figuratively.

great roundup:

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/what-does-the-conservative-media-think-of-spring-breakers/

four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens!

the american conservative is such an amazing meta-troll publication, and it does it by being straightforward

this was really bad & tedious

maaybe if harmony made this 10 yrs ago it wouldve been effective, both in regards to harmony possibly actually writing provocative content and that the culture itself was less saturated w/ this actual vibe & maybe itd seem genuinely fresh and satirical, rather than just less interesting than like an ep of 'bad girls club'

i did lol @ the extent they had to go to to cut around how bad of an actor gucci is

the multiple voiceovers and floaty non-linear editing its really much closer to malick than any obvious mann/depalma/tarantino comparisons (or korine for that matter), but a bizarro world malick where ~oneness~ is replaced by ~endless tension~

i thought this too, re: the malick parallel, but theres no tension @ all imo

maaybe if harmony made this 10 yrs ago it wouldve been effective, both in regards to harmony possibly actually writing provocative content and that the culture itself was less saturated w/ this actual vibe & maybe itd seem genuinely fresh and satirical

...so it'd be more satirical if the subject being made fun of was less already in-your-face and needing to be made fun of? nah.

Maybe the point was that it's more difficult now to decide to what extent this is satirical. Which imo is what makes it even more impressive and what sort of gives some of those conservative critics a leg to stand their arguments on.

Maybe the point was that it's more difficult now to decide to what extent this is satirical.

...no it's not this is the guy that made gummo.

I'm only speaking about the people approaching this movie with no prior knowledge of Harmony Korine.

its also less far from my memory of 'mr lonely', widely considered a critical failure right? than ppl might want to remember -- very aimless w/ a decent color palette & ok music but wholly lacking tension/characterization/purpose (imo)

...no it's not this is the guy that made gummo.

― fauxmarc, Thursday, March 28, 2013 4:01 AM (59 minutes ago)

i feel like 10-15 years ago we would have heard the mom/grandma side of the phone conversations, but that would have been a very different film

did anyone see the bit (clipped on the soup) of korine talking about meeting his wife?

― goole, Wednesday, March 27, 2013 11:13 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha yessss this was amazing, was shocked/disappointed to not find the footage or any similar commentary on it online (basically he talks about how his wife is 26 and "we met about 10 years ago [akward pause], actually we met 8 years ago")

can't wait to see this, hopefully it achieves the same heights as gummo's chair wrestling scene

lol who is jordan bloom, this guy is good

Debbie Schlussel says, with her usual blend of moderation and critical insight, “every single person involved with this movie is a complete scumbag unworthy of human life” and gives it “four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens” which must mean it’s really bad. Some Breitbart guy didn’t really get it so he isn’t worth quoting.

four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens walk into a bar

if I have four Marxes and suzy has four bin ladens and tommy has four bin ladens...

...and would you be surprised to hear that circa age 20, Mrs Korine was doing an internship (arranged by hubby) at a certain Edgy Style Magazine?

ugh im so tempted to parse and analyze that weird conflation of obama/marx/bin laden since it's totally incoherent but it's just fucking stupid and for my own sake I'll have to leave it at that.

take three qualities you don't like in each (marx = communist, bin laden = 9/11, obama = black), generalize it, and it all fits nicely together.

haha thank you that quiets the cognitive dissonance i was experiencing.

jeff jarrett as the youth pastor = MEGA lols

yeah that was great -- his sermon gave me so many lols

jeff jarrett was perfect

not seen this but doesn't ryan trecartin satirise/celebrate contemporary youth culture in a pretty delirious and artful way? can't get over a family finds entertainment, doubt i ever will

imagine trecartin watered down abt 98% and youre close

http://emilianogranado.com/projects/beach-party/

that reminds me that i have this art book

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51v9qZ8rm8L.jpg

nice, any good?

p cool i guess, its exactly what youd expect but well done

Ok, I have finally seen this. The hype outweighed the movie itself by a pretty wide margin -- this was not particularly sensational in content unless you live under some kind of blandness dome.

I thought it was sign-o-the-times noteworthy that Faith/SG (the only character whose name I can remember, outside of Alien) kept going on and on about how beautiful and magical and spiritual and transcendental she felt spring break was, how she had found true enlightenment in this paradise of good wonderful kind generous people...who, when you looked at them, were constantly flipping off the camera while literally having alcohol funneled into their naked bodies both before and after playing with guns. Not that the latter was surprising at all (except for the fixation on guns, not sure what that was about), but the stuff about how ~magical twinkle star soft grunge love people~ everything seemed very zeitgeisty.

For better or worse, the twins were classic Korine. The Britney montages and gun blowing were memorable. Vanessa Hudgens was my favorite character because I could see in her eyes when she was lying to her parental figure on the phone that she really dngaf.

She was the Telly of this movie, I guess?

this was not particularly sensational in content unless you live under some kind of blandness dome

<3

I still think that the movie is some good intentional/unintentional trolling of kids who think they're going to get a dumb teen/heist film and end up with Korine-lite instead.

The kids behind us at the theater who kept grumbling, especially the guy who exclaimed, "That was the dumbest movie I've ever seen!" are probably evidence of success.

I still think that the movie is some good intentional/unintentional trolling of kids who think they're going to get a dumb teen/heist film and end up with Korine-lite instead.

oh i think that's undeniable given the casting

hobes: http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2013/mar/29/girls-gone-wild

Opening with an Ed Hardy Christian t-shirt was great.

question: how does this compare to the cheerleader bank robber movie "Sugar and Spice."

haha i was just talking to someone on twitter the other day about how much i love that movie and don't think i could enjoy Spring Breakers as much

i've heard this described as the white 'set it off' but i've never seen set it off

this was great!

Dunno yet if it's great but it's the Korine film.

*the best

ha, prob didn't need the amendment.

no direct korine connection (i think) but how's it compare to bully?

I've never been to Florida but love this, Magic Mike, and Miami Vice about equally.

i really enjoyed this but i thought the first half was better than the last half, which needed someone better than gucci mane imo

Saw this today; my wife and I were the only people in the theater. I loved it. The student has surpassed the teacher - Larry Clark hasn't made anything 1/8 this awesome since Bully. Just about every element - the music, the photography, the performances (Hudgens in particular) - was perfect. Could have done with a little less repetitive looping of the dialogue, especially in the run-up to the climactic raid on Gucci Mane's compound, but overall it was extremely tight in its drifty way, and it looked phenomenal.

will be really sad if this doesn't come to the theatre here. but somehow i doubt it will. its playing in normal movie places, right? not just arty places.

yep, normal places

so many confused teenage girls last night

its playing in normal movie places, right? not just arty places.

Yep, I saw it at my local 12plex. Trailers for the new Marky Mark/The Rock movie (which looks fucking awesome), Iron Man 3, etc.

yeah the teen audience gave a WHOOP with the opening credits & then stunned silence with the boobs + bong hits, lol. But they warmed up pretty quick

some girls in the bathroom afterwards were like 'ugh it was like a porn, too many boobs'

but then another group were like 'it was cool! there's no way that would ever happen tho'

made at my arthouse spot we just got boring trailers (except for the silence) and of course no PAIN & GAIN or iron man 3

Nelson George ‏@nelsongeorge 1m
'Spring Breakers' is exploitation with art house pretensions. Didn't believe or enjoy James Franco's "white Negro." Nicely edited. But trash

I take it Nelson George is unaware of the existence of Riff Raff, then?

Loved the piano/Britney Spears bit.

Yeah the multiplex crowd I saw with it seemed to find it amusing, especially Franco's "sprang brake" refrain.

Previews at my multiplex for Kick Ass 2, End of the World, etc.

sprannnng breaaaaak

franco's white rapper accent wasnt perfect but he was still awesome. got a lot of mileage out of those fronts. made me wonder if channing tatum could've pulled off Alien. probably not, he's too square, not slimy or weird enough - hes the guy who goes on spring break, he doesnt rob SBers

sprannnng breaaaaak

sprannnng breaaaaak

i loved this. it was a 90-minute montage that a plot kinda flickered through and it was hilarious and boring and haunting. i loved the repeated shots of girls on the bus being carried out of the movie until all that's left are the two girls selena gomez's friend says have demon blood. the others couldn't hack it in the abyss. audience was clearly a mix of high school musical types and film kids and everyone seemed to enjoy it just about exactly the same amount, which was a nice populist thing.

meanwhile the two girls who stay can hack it so well in the abyss they, like, ascend. into empty cinematic invulnerability. last couple shots of lips kissing franco's + girls walking away down gatsbyswag pier were totally eerie.

Pool scene caught me offguard by how hot it was

gatsbyswag pier lol

I still haven't seen it yet. Here's the take of another critic with doubts:

I think that Korine is a talented filmmaker in the way he conjures atmosphere. I think Benoit Debie is one of the most exciting working cinematographers. I am not trying to say that I found nothing here to think about, to be entertained by, even in some ways, to enjoy (I am not going to act like the Britney Spears montage was not grotesque/sublime/something I will Youtube in the future). But I do want to question what people find so subversive or rebellious or “intellectual” about this reductive ogglefest in arthouse’s clothes. I want to ask you to think about what you think radical art looks like to you in 2013, and how (or if!) it is at all different from what mainstream “pop” art looks like to you. Which is a really long-winded way of saying: Meet the art boss. Same as the old boss with the combover and the (“ironic”) Penthouse subscription and the self-satisfied air that everything he’s doing is New and Edgy and Never Been Done Before, ‘cept he knows Werner Herzog so I guess he’s cool.

http://lindsayzoladz.tumblr.com/

film critics are so lame.

they can't just say that they loved the boobage and the swank look of the movie so they make up lame hemming and hawing arguments and say they don't trust harmony. as if anyone has EVER trusted him. i mean he's not to be trusted. who cares. who is trusted? probably someone really lame.

just relax & enjoy the (boob) show

95% of all film critics working today are lame crybaby nags and nobody listens to them and they are the least influential critics on earth. and they can't write. and they have horrible taste. and they are wrong all the time. and they hate fun.

<3

She's a Pitchfork rock critic more than a film critic

"What is new about “Spring Breakers” is the punch of the thing: positively raging with affect and crafted with a care that rebuffs the deliberate, faux-amateur roughness of early Korine. Is that care loving, though, or mocking? Has the outsider joined the mainstream or has he simply realized that there is no better, dumber place to hold a pool party? . . ."

from anthony lane. IS HE TRYING TO TRICK US??? so many critics afraid of being tricked. they're like little kids. do i like this? is it okay to like this? i never thought there was anything faux-amateur about Gummo. it had punch. it was raging with affect and crafted with care. but it didn't look like this movie so its okay to forget all that and just make an argument up out of thin air. i need my tumblr where i review bad film reviews. maybe in another life.

In anthropology, liminality (from the Latin word līmen, meaning "a threshold"[1]) is the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of rituals, when participants no longer hold their pre-ritual status but have not yet begun the transition to the status they will hold when the ritual is complete. During a ritual's liminal stage, participants "stand at the threshold" between their previous way of structuring their identity, time, or community, and a new way, which the ritual establishes.

The concept of liminality was first developed in the early 20th century by anthropologist Arnold van Gennep and later taken up by Victor Turner.[2] More recently, usage of the term has broadened to describe political and cultural change as well as rituals.[3] During liminal periods of all kinds, social hierarchies may be reversed or temporarily dissolved, continuity of tradition may become uncertain, and future outcomes once taken for granted may be thrown into doubt.[4] The dissolution of order during liminality creates a fluid, malleable situation that enables new institutions and customs to become established.[5] The term has also passed into popular usage, where it is applied much more broadly, undermining its significance to some extent.[6]

This is by far his best movie.

http://i.imgur.com/TovArnu.png

Alien's alien brake light was great.

lol gr8080

I mean I wish the movie fetishized male nudity but

franco probably does too

I wouldn't have minded

so many critics afraid of being tricked. they're like little kids. do i like this? is it okay to like this?

otm

I mean I wish the movie fetishized male nudity but

What about that whole scene with the dudes standing around Korine's wife in their jockstraps?

i agree with scott re: critics about trickery though at the same time he's just some web board crank going off about a movie he hasn't seen

since when does a jockstrap = nudity

Jockstraps ain't fetishizing.

yeah, the movie has boobs and cool images, and I def liked more than Gummo, mostly thanks to the James Franco comedy bits. but it also has interminable, cliched, portentous loops of dialogue along the lines of "pretend it's a video game". part of the reason you have critics who didn't like the film are hand-wringing about whether the film was "intellectual" or "subversive" or not is that a lot of critics who liked the film have come up with bullshit "study of nihlism"/"state of america today" reasons to like it.

tv edit of this movie is just going to be selena gomez ruminating in voice-over for the first hour

i need to see this but no one i know will go with me so now i have to be the creepy guy seeing it alone. I'd like to think im gonna get the full intended experience that way.

regarding scott's comments about critics above, i've often thought about starting a "state of film criticism" thread here but i don't really have a thesis about it other than it really sucks.

i feel like rotten tomatoes is a more appropriate place for people who haven't seen a movie to shake their fists at critics who didn't like it.

part of the reason you have critics who didn't like the film are hand-wringing about whether the film was "intellectual" or "subversive" or not is that a lot of critics who liked the film have come up with bullshit "study of nihlism"/"state of america today" reasons to like it.

Well that was part of Scott's point I thought. So much of what currently passes for criticism is just defensive, pre-emptive posturing against other people's opinions rather than having anything interesting to say. There's an adolescent insecurity and spinelessness about it.

totally, i just think it's funny that a) it's coming from someone who hasn't even seen the movie and b) it's movie that's basically like one of those roger corman movies by a director who wins an oscar 10-20 years later.

So much of what currently passes for criticism is just defensive, pre-emptive posturing against other people's opinions rather than having anything interesting to say.

haha, but enough about anthony's posting. bomshaakala!!!!

BALLR

are you trying to say "boom shakalacka" or are you quoting borat or something?

oh I counted at least three moments when I almost walked out.

I love young bodies but you have to inhale the movie's vaporousness deep to think it's compelling for 90 minutes. Would totally have loved a 70-minute cut.

yeah but i kinda already know i'll love this movie and its not just reviews of this particular movie. its so many reviews of so many movies. like people writing about movies don't even know how to watch a movie anymore. not that there's one correct way to watch a movie, but their little heads are stuffed with so many preconceived notions before the lights even go out. they need to take a class. in movie watching. and writing. and thinking.

more movies need to be 70 minutes

yeah but i kinda already know i'll love this movie

...their little heads are stuffed with so many preconceived notions before the lights even go out

who knows? maybe you'll surprisingly bored with selena gomez' monologues

i dunno my beef is that too many seem eager to demonstrate some position of superiority in regard to the film. so many reviews boil down to scolding or patting the head of the filmmakers. if i never have to read "this movie isn't as smart as it thinks it is" again I think I'll die happy.

xpost or maybe you'll be like, i can name 15 exploitations movies about teen girl rampages where the dialogue isn't monotonous and doesn't loop and the film doesn't depend on james franco showing up as a goofy rapper to keep us awake

xposts! and anyway yeah i get that criticism needs to defend its prerogative to designate artistic quality but at the same time that's basically the organizing principle of making interesting observations and arguments about those observations, and not really terrible interesting when that judgement is sorta the "point" of the review.

yeah but i kinda already know i'll love this movie and its not just reviews of this particular movie. its so many reviews of so many movies. like people writing about movies don't even know how to watch a movie anymore. not that there's one correct way to watch a movie, but their little heads are stuffed with so many preconceived notions before the lights even go out. they need to take a class. in movie watching. and writing. and thinking.

― scott seward, Sunday, March 31, 2013 5:30 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

why do u even read that shit, man

if i never have to read "this movie isn't as smart as it thinks it is" again I think I'll die happy.

― ryan, Sunday, March 31, 2013 5:33 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

same, which is why im killfiling da croupier. his reign of tedium has come to an end... tears of joy on this amazing day

you lie

I don't know if I could have gotten this movie down to 70 minutes but I definitely could have gotten it down to 80:

- fewer/no repetitions of dialogue, especially the "are you scared"/"scaredypants" part and one or two other sections where one or two lines of dialogue were repeated four or five times;
- end early, so that as the girls and Franco get off the boat and are walking toward the house for the climactic shootout, it just smash-cuts to closing credits as their asses are bouncing along the dock; not one shot is fired on-screen

In general, though, I loved it and am totally in agreement with Scott about the worthlessness of film criticism. Especially David Denby, who is just a tedious moralistic scold. Can anybody recommend a movie critic who focuses on how a movie looks rather than its message? That's the writer I'm constantly searching for, just like I'm constantly searching for music critics who write about music instead of lyrics or an album's presumed socio-cultural context (within the critic's circle of peers and friends, though that's never explicitly acknowledged—it's always just assumed that the entire world is made up of a few dozen critics who all follow each other on Twitter and Tumblr).

Glenn Kenny often does. So does Dave Kehr.

I really like Kenny because he always seems totally willing to accept a movie in the same spirit it's given.

I definitely wish there were more critics that wrote well about the visual experience of a film, but any writer whose primary goal was to discuss that would probably hate being a weekly movie critic in 2013.

Yeah, I read Kenny's blog and reviews. Don't know Kehr's work, though - where does he publish?

Can anybody recommend a movie critic who focuses on how a movie looks rather than its message?

not that you can really untangle the two, but... vishnevetsky could be your guy. bordwell's blog, too

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/author/45
http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/

beaten to vishnevetsky, he's one of the few newer guys i really like. seen some people passing around the negative edelstein (to name one) review of this accusing korine of being a creepy letch like "SEE I HAVEN'T SEEN THE MOVIE BUT THIS IS HOW IT IS" which is mildly annoying.

we know korine is a creepy letch. what does that have to do with the movie?

have you seen the movie

yup!

I guess I mean, "why is that relevant in reviewing the movie"

i agree that it isn't

it's there but it's pretty tangential to the movie korine actually made

seen some people passing around the negative edelstein (to name one) review of this accusing korine of being a creepy letch like "SEE I HAVEN'T SEEN THE MOVIE BUT THIS IS HOW IT IS" which is mildly annoying.

― ta-nehisi goatse (fadanuf4erybody), Sunday, March 31, 2013 7:15 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

yeah that review is awful. im normally cool with edelstein, hes not the most insightful guy but he can be glibly amusing sometimes, but that was such phoned-in garbage.

I like Edelstein if we're on the same hate page but I forget what a snob he sounds like when he derides things I like

i dunno my beef is that too many seem eager to demonstrate some position of superiority in regard to the film. so many reviews boil down to scolding or patting the head of the filmmakers. if i never have to read "this movie isn't as smart as it thinks it is" again I think I'll die happy.

As with some Girls criticism, some of the reviews are bound by the idea that there's nothing to learn from a woman under 30.

Also, it wouldn't be hard to cut The Tree of Life or Einstein on the Beach to an even hour.

One unexpected corollary result of having seen this movie: the sudden desire to give the finger to all cameras.
What's with the camera anyway -- who's behind the camera? Lots of footage that was playing to the camera, but did we ever see who was operating it? Is that part of the movie and I just missed it because I'm dense?

ilx sure loves to complain about how long movies are

i love long movies

the longer the better

you must not like this one very much, then, it's pretty short!

cant wait for your guys' fan edits of spring breakers

slow motion beer bongs to skrillex 4ever

we know korine is a creepy letch. what does that have to do with the movie?

― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Sunday, March 31, 2013 8:28 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this movie couldn't have not been made by a creep tho. so it's relevant in that sense, i guess

one of the funniest scenes was when franco & the girls are sitting at a parc bench just after he bails them out of jail & he's describing the twins "gangbangers... talkin bout double penetration" and then in the next shot it turns out they're sitting at the table with them licking their lips & nodding along

i think the movie peaked after the skrillex song stopped playing

wait, i mean... you know whati mean

not really

parc bench

secretly filmed in quebec

glad someone else finally decided to talk about the twins
they were something else

whoever said upthread they were "classic korine" otm-- def one of the only parts of this movie that could have been in gummo

that was me

one of the funniest scenes was when franco & the girls are sitting at a parc bench just after he bails them out of jail & he's describing the twins "gangbangers... talkin bout double penetration" and then in the next shot it turns out they're sitting at the table with them licking their lips & nodding along

― flopson, Monday, April 1, 2013 3:16 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

that was good but it sucked that we didnt see them dping anyone

not really

― zero dark (s1ocki), Monday, April 1, 2013 3:43 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

... you know

they play themselves! their real story is pretty much as presented, although they're employed by some lawyer-type guy instead of Alien

yeah the ATL twins. they're cool as hell

they're something

lol the atl twins are in this?

balls

where have you been?

the H&O thread.

talked with a student about spring breakers upon our return from spring break. she had the following observations:

* it was funny and also disturbing (her words)
* james franco used to be hot, but is not anymore
* ashley benson is great
* vanessa hudgens was the best
* the reason selena gomez didn't get to go totally bananas (my words) is because of her Disney contract
* she had never heard of harmony korine and had no idea what i was talking about when i brought him up

not sure why i capitalized disney, totes doesn't deserve it

these are good points

does she know who gucci mane is

she said nothing about gucci mane but i can ask her later this week

hudgens really was magnificently psycho

The way she used her sexuality to influence people/their behavior was really haunting/scary. It reminded me of this girl who used to say things like "boys like me because I'm small, they can pretend I'm young" and then just looked at me straight in the face and waited for me to react. The look in her eyes was the same and they shared that same cocky dangerous fearlessness. That was years ago and I still think about it from time to time. What a creepy yet insightful and also terrifying thing to say.

anyone itt seen marfa girl (2012)?

I thought I read that the only way to see Marfa Girl is to stream it from Larry Clark's website - you can't even download it to a device or something, and I don't really watch full-length stuff on my computer.

I had never heard Skrillex before this movie, though I'd heard endless jokes about him - but I thought the score in this was awesome. And what I assume is his big hit given an orchestral treatment at the end was fantastic... that melody is great! (Why are people so down on that dude (without opening a surely gnarly ILM thread)?

Wait - who is the redhead on the far top left in the photo in the first post of the thread?

a member of the film crew (it looks like she's holding the boom mic)

Marfa Girl was on YouTube, but now it's gone.

as mentioned, there are about 1.5 skrillex songs in the whole film, mostly that one you noticed, which is mostly represented as a repetition of the theme part. I think they only played the breakdown once, during that slow motion montage.

don't you mean "the drop" lulz

shhh, trying really hard not to say "drop"

the vibe here def veered btwn fantasy and costume party, at least when it was semi-good.

was JF overdoing the Fla hillbilly accent?

that was good but it sucked that we didnt see them dping anyone

no HAH WE SAW THE BLONDZ DPing FRANCO DO U SEE?

cant wait for your guys' fan edits of spring breakers

This could've been way better around maybe 75 minutes, ie a B picture? Cut the opening half-hour of exposition down to 15 mins, booze-soaked jiggling tits get boring fast.

you do your edit, i'll do mine

I'd a trimmed it by 10 minutes or just kept the "Everytime" scene.

I went to St Petersburg for spring break during the Reagan Administration.

- Saw some spring training baseball with my 67-year-old uncle, who took me to the breakfast diner at 6 a.m.
- Went to Big Country / Wire Train concert
- Ran into famed mass murderer Henry Kissinger at the Salvador Dali Museum
- An older man (about 30) tried to pick me up on the beach, which I only fully realized afterward

Rated G

MORRRBZ BREEEEAAAAK

can't believe you passed up an opportunity to murder Kissinger btw

St Petersburg has good restaurants – and that Dali museum is worth the trip, although I haven't had any Angie Dickinson experiences in it.

one of my biggest regrets, Shakes

that would've been at the Bayfront Center, right, Morbs?

yes.

I put my hoodie on backwards during the end credits and didn't notice til I was nearly home, or I would've been pointing and yelling LOOKAH MAH SHEEEIT!

Thought it was a bit on the nose to have the one girl who has a moral/religious crisis be called "Faith".

Good film, though. Not quite as leery as I was expecting. All the non-linear editing stuff reminded me of Nic Roeg.

SPRANG BRAAAAKE

This could've been way better around maybe 75 minutes, ie a B picture?

Definitely agree with this.

Loved this film, Malick has still got it! His best one yet imo

girls didnt twirl around enough

Ya and he may be overdoing the mumbly v.o. stuff but I like the whole Grace attained thru sociopathy thing

There are two ways through life: the way of Nature and the way of TITTAYS

im waiting for your fan edits ppl

i got yr edit right here

SCENE BREAAAK

Next thing to edit after this movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZM4yxbE0ZE

is that a Kraftwerk song?

was JF overdoing the Fla hillbilly accent?

― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Thursday, April 11, 2013 3:15 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

he underdid it, if anything

Florida hillbillies exterminated by Cubans.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/apr/12/riff-raff-tv-james-franco

spoiler

I thought the film was buiklding to something other than it did. Seems somewhat nihilistic the way it ends.
I would think years on the street would outweigh teenage spirit.

Sorry, trying to keep that as vague as possible but think I could be failing.

Wonder what the outcome of normal Spring break normally is, embarassment & need to check for STDs? & the need to live with new reputations. & sort out your bank balance?
Noty living in th eculture I'm assuming that the sprinbreak experience is particular to one particular branch of society, but then maybe the college experience is too? like if you don't have money you're not going to be able to get into the whole thing anyway, but I'm outside the U.S. & not familiar with the education system. So not aware of how egalitarian it is in the first place. Is Spring break one of the few times that peopl get to let their hair down in that way? Or is that the life the collegiate classes live all the time, just with added sun at that point?

The climactic scene is clearly a "fantasy," even if the whole film isn't.

I had never heard Skrillex before this movie, though I'd heard endless jokes about him - but I thought the score in this was awesome. And what I assume is his big hit given an orchestral treatment at the end was fantastic... that melody is great! (Why are people so down on that dude (without opening a surely gnarly ILM thread)?

FWIW a huge portion of the actual score was by Cliff Martinez, who also held together Drive's soundtrack.

I saw this last night and was surprised how much I loved it- the slow pace, the slow flashback/forward editing structure, circling around significant lines of dialog, the single-shot robbery scene, but most of all LOOK AT MY SHIT. I got numchucks!

yeah, this was amazing. i loved it for all the reasons you mentioned. something about the editing, the "circling back" to specific significant moments such as the robbery, really allowed the movie's images to get lodged in my memory. i don't have a lot to say by way of "interpretation" of this movie, but i seems like a very accomplished manifestation of korine's distinctive vision. also the use of "everytime" by britney spears was incredible.

http://thenewinquiry.com/features/spring-break-forever/

Trying to get a friend out to see this this week. I've assured him it's not because I'm a lecherous old man, I'm just dedicated to transgressive outsider cinema.

it's already officially achieved the status of cult midnite movie

http://www.musicboxtheatre.com/features/spring-breakers

SPRAANG BREEEAK

http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/33700000/Spring-Breaker-New-pics-2013-selena-gomez-33739490-500-250.gif

I found this pretty tedious. It wasn't funny/campy (not that it tried to be), but neither was it anywhere close to shocking/menacing. It felt suggestive of other things--a bit of Manson, a bit of Sport from Taxi Driver, a lot of Wild Things--and the early scenes, before they left, caught a mood of sorts. Franco's good. I didn't know how to take the sledgehammer irony of the various calls home. This was my first Harmony Korine film--maybe context would add something I missed.

ok

http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/33700000/Spring-Breaker-New-pics-2013-selena-gomez-33739490-500-250.gif

This is one of the most important films I've seen in a long time. Wonder how it would do in a double billing with Crossroads.