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

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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

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