From anyone but Harmony Korine, known for scripting Kids and directing Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy, and Trash Humpers, the plot for Spring Breakers would sound like a wild piece of material. For Korine, it almost sounds like a family film. The story follows four late-teen girls who rob a restaurant in order to finance a spring break trip, and end up enlisted to kill the rival of their drug dealer. Now Emma Roberts is in talks to play one of the four girls, and James Franco is attached to play the dealer. Variety [1] describes the plot: [Spring Breakers] follows four college-aged girls who rob a fast food restaurant to afford spring break in Florida, only to get arrested upon their arrival... Alien, a rapping drug and arms dealer, bails them out and entices them to kill his arch-rival, a murderer who is appropriately named Arch. I can see this turning into quite a scary piece of work,...
- 11/2/2011
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
This is what happens when you combine Breaking Bad, Kids, and a mushroom trip into one Lynchian trailer-park-themed short film. Fashion house Proenza Schouler roped weirdo film director Harmony Korine into directing a short film, Snowballs, featuring garments from their Fall 2011 line. Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough, designers for the house, apparently took a trip through the American Southwest and were "inspired by Navajo textiles." (They say that like that's some sort of unique influence. Have I not seen garments "inspired by Navajo textiles" every time I've left the house for the past two years?) Anyway, the video features some models in latex masks and Native American headdresses dancing around in a backyard that sort of looks like a place people would go to do meth. Then they have a birthday party with an asthmatic, shirtless man — a scene that's pretty clearly [...]...
- 10/2/2011
- Nerve
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