SPRINGBREAKERS

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"Spring Breakers" gets more interesting to me by the minute. - Ti West

https://twitter.com/#!/Ti_West/status/1 ... 8868430851

[JulienDonkeyHumpers]

http://museproductions.tumblr.com/post/ ... ntly-up-in

There's a spot from MTV with Franco talking about his role but it's only available to US users.
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/168470 ... rows.jhtml

"That's a character that Harmony and I have been talking about for over a year," Franco said. "Harmony is one of the best, kind of, researchers that I know, and we just went through a series of looks. You know, people have said, like, K-Fed or Riff-Raff, but that character really is kind of an amalgamation of a lot of different people and inspirations."

orine's films are notoriously gritty and provocative, and "Spring Breakers" is no different. It's a big departure from Disney's "Wizards of Waverly Place" for Selena Gomez and "High School Musical" for Vanessa Hudgens. And while Ashley Benson's "Pretty Little Liars" is a tad more scandalous, the ABC Family hit series isn't nearly as graphic as "Spring Breakers" is expected to be.

The film follows four girls who rob a restaurant to fund their spring break trip. When they're bailed out by Alien, a drug and arms dealer, they find themselves seduced into plotting and helping him with a murder. Gomez recently told Interview magazine that leaving behind her stereotypical good-girl characters is what attracted her to this role. "I was getting kind of repetitive in terms of the roles I was picking, and I really wanted to do something completely different," she said. "I want to be taking myself seriously as an actress, and this was definitely a stretch. I mean, I'd never smoked a cigarette before in my entire life. It was really funny — they had to show me how to do it."

Franco — whose usual attire doesn't include cornrows — also noticed how the character came to life with the help of Korine's direction and the small details to which he paid close attention.

"I can say this: As soon as the woman in Florida put [the cornrows] in, the character was alive. We both knew. We looked in the mirror and it was like, 'Oh my, God. He's here.' "

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Hmm, that video played fine for me. Did you stay on the US site?

It says that billboard is up in Cannes at the moment, how awesome.

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Yep, still doesn't play.

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That's really fucking awesome.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edOiabHdpqE

I like this song

[JulienDonkeyHumpers]

https://twitter.com/#!/circafilm

[JulienDonkeyHumpers]

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118054398

looks like its found a distributor.. or something i'm not too up on industry lingo

Paris-based Kinology has closed more than 20 territories on helmer-scribe Harmony Korine's "Spring Breakers," after unveiling a five-minute promo reel of the pic.

The James Franco starrer, currently in post, was picked up by France's Mars Distribution, Wild Bunch Germany, Spain's Vertigo/Wild Bunch, Australia's Icon Film Distribution, Scandinavia's Svensk Filmindustri, Middle East's Gulf Film, South Korea's Noori Pictures, Taiwan's Studio Solutions Group, India's WEG, Turkey's Chantier Films, CIS' Cascade and Eastern Europe's Blue Sky Media.

Mixing comedy, adventure and drama, the pic toplines Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson and Korine's wife, Rachel, as four college girls whose Florida spring break gets completely out of control after an encounter with a rapper called "Alien" (Franco). "Harmony Korine had precisely the right profile to capture the atmosphere and youth of 'Spring Breakers' and make it feel totally real," said Kinology topper Gregoire Melin. "It's very colorful and the script that Korine wrote is accurate."

Korine's most notable filmmaking credits include "Gummo" and "Julien Donkey-Boy" and he also co-wrote the script of Larry Clarke's "Kids." "Spring Breakers" is produced by Chris Hanley, Jordan Gertner, Charles Marie Anthonioz and David Zander at Muse Prods. Lensing wrapped a month ago in Florida.

Melin said he's in advanced negotiations to close U.K., Italy, Japan, Latin America. U.S. rights are repped by the producers who said they've received offers from two U.S. studios and an independent distributor.

Kinology's Cannes slate of English-language indie pics includes Michel Gondry's Bronx-set drama "The We and the I," which opened Directors' Fortnight, and Gilles Paquet-Brenner's English-language mystery thriller "Dark Places," starring Amy Adams.

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Was just about to post that. Yeah it's been picked up by Icon in Australia, that's all I care about, heh. It's great that it's getting some solid distribution though. The article says they screened a 5 minute promo reel, would kill to see that.

[JulienDonkeyHumpers]

http://www.gq.com/entertainment/tv/blog ... orine.html

GQ: Is the movie close to finished?
Harmony Korine: Not even close. Well, it should be done in three or four months.

GQ: How did spring break become the focus of your film? Why did you decide to make a movie about spring break?
Harmony Korine: Well, I don't even know if that's what it's about. It's hard to say. I had this idea about girls in bikinis robbing people with ski masks on. Then I started to imagine where it could take place and then I started thinking about the idea of spring break. I don't know if it would be classified as a "spring break" film—I don't even know what that is.



GQ: Where do those ideas come from? Is there an evolution?


Harmony Korine: Ever since I was little, I would just make stories up in my mind. It was based on people I saw in the street or someone I would talk to or I would hear a specific voice. I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything. It usually comes from somewhere... I let myself dream.
GQ: You have so many different elements in this movie—James Franco, South Florida, Selena Gomez. It seems just like a great reason to throw all these things together. There's something inherently funny about that.
Harmony Korine: Yeah. Those are just things I love in life.

GQ: Something I've always found interesting about you is that you've always aspired to be a commercial filmmaker.
Harmony Korine: I just really hope that as many people see it as possible, and that it shatters records.

GQ: It's hard to say what about this movie has gotten the most attention. You've said that it's interesting the way that the media has dissected the movie.
Harmony Korine: It's a hard question to answer. Even doing an interview is bizarre, because I'm still formulating the ideas for the movie. It's hard for me to ever to say what a movie is about, even after it's done!

GQ: Does that make it hard to pitch the movie?
Harmony Korine: I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball [laughs].

GQ: What kind of emotional response are you hoping to get from audiences?
Harmony Korine: I want it to be a sensory thing, that it goes through you like a feeling or a rush more than anything else. The way that really hard repetitive bass feels in your gut, lke when you hear someone in a truck with bass just blaring and smashing, so smashing that it knocks your eyes out of your socket. That's all that I care about.

GQ: So you want a gut reaction?
Harmony Korine: Yeah, but beyond the gut. It's got to really rattle your insides. I'm trying to get to some place where the reaction is more physical than anything else. Something that exists within you—like bass [laughs].

GQ: Do you find that concept difficult to explain to actors?
Harmony Korine: I don't ever have to. I don't get into that. If an actor asked me, then I would. But usually our conversations are more character-oriented.

GQ: Speaking of actors, it's hard to avoid bringing up James Franco. We've learned so much about him the last few years, his eccentricities. What was it about him that appealed to you?
Harmony Korine: Oh, it was simple—he's a great actor and a real character. And he's bold. I like people that just go for it.

GQ: Much has been made about the guy he's playing, that there was this rapper Riff Raff who claimed to be the inspiration for the character. Where did the character come from?
Harmony Korine: I don't want to talk about it too much, but it's just an amalgamation of a lot of different people. There's the physical side. And a lot of it is just from kids I grew up with.

GQ: Were you guys listening to a lot of rap?
Harmony Korine: I don't listen to music made by white people. I especially hate anything where a guitar is used. I don't listen to white people and guitars.

GQ: Is there a reason?
Harmony Korine: I'm just opposed to it.

GQ: But you got him to rap in the movie, right?
Harmony Korine: Well. He does rap in it. I can't say too much about it [laughs].

GQ: You'd once said you'd love to have someone like Miley Cyrus to promote one of your movies. And you sort of did that here with Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez. Why did you think they'd fit into a Harmony Korine film?
Harmony Korine: I think they're great, terrific, awesome. I thought they'd be perfect. They're exactly who I wanted.

GQ: They're also incredibly young. Or at least they look that way. Does youth play a huge role in your movie?
Harmony Korine: I wouldn't say I'm especially interested in youth culture. I don't really care that much about hanging out with old people. I mean, I will hang out with an old person. It's not that I'm against it. You only have a short time on this planet, you might as well enjoy it. Hang out with a young person.

GQ: You tend to buckle down and immerse yourself in the editing process. Is that exhausting?
Harmony Korine: I like it. It's my favorite thing. It's one of my favorite times in life, to be able to disappear and make a movie. Most of my life is spent trying to get away from people so that I could make things.

GQ: What do you do in between?
Harmony Korine: Play with my daughter, basketball, or go to the firing range. Make paintings. Mow the yard.

GQ: Do you think having a daughter has changed the way you make films? Would you like her to watch your films? Do you feel obligated to make different films now?
Harmony Korine: No, not at all. I would actually make it mandatory for kids to watch my films. If it was up to me, I wouldn't give anyone a choice. You got to treat the kids well. You have to show them the light, the righteous path.

GQ: Were you watching a lot of experimental films when you were younger?
Harmony Korine: I watched all types. I'm not sure of the distinctions. I just loved movies. I still do, and they've always been a big part of my life. I watch movies as much as I watch clips on YouTube. It feels the same way as watching films.

GQ: Do you relate to modern movies?
Harmony Korine: Yeah. I do go to the theater and I want to more, but there don't seem to be too many interesting films. I saw 21 Jump Street! It's hard because it seems there are too many movies based on comic books. But sometimes I just go on to WorldStar Hip-Hop.

GQ: Maybe that's the future. A place where people just go online and watch slap boxing. There's just much more raw, weird shit online, compared to theaters.
Harmony Korine: You know that guy Walter Benjamin, the writer? He said the greatest novel would be a novel that consisted entirely of other people's quotations. Art in the age of mechanical reproduction.

GQ: You'd said something similar about filmmaking, the sort of filmmaking that's largely made up other films, as this hyper-referential collage. Like a Tarantino movie.
Harmony Korine: I think it's good if there's meaning behind references. Otherwise it can seem to just pass the time, you know what I mean?

GQ: Do you care how your work is interpreted? Or at least how critics interpret it?
Harmony Korine: You care as much as you want people to enjoy things. But honestly, I just do what I do. I don't even care. I just make things, there's a purpose to it. I don't sit around and I've never thought about things like that too deeply. Good or bad, it's just like whatever, what the fuck.

GQ: You'd said you don't watch your movies. Do you still do that?
Harmony Korine: Yeah, why would I watch them? I made them! There's so much other stuff to do. It's not important for me to be reminded of who I am. I've never felt the need to do those things. I don't understand people's compulsions to network, to be social, to be part of a group or join in. All I ever wanted to do was join out. It doesn't make sense to me.

GQ: But do you ever look back on it and think it should have been different?
Harmony Korine: No, I always think that it was perfect, even with all the mistakes. I never question it. It's exactly the way it should be. Once it's done, it's perfect, and it exists in its own world.

GQ: Do you feel unaffected by criticism?
Harmony Korine: Well, no. But do you get affected when your mother tells you you're a scumbag?

GQ: Um. Maybe.
Harmony Korine: You're affected by it for that afternoon, but then the next morning, you're out partying.

GQ: So there's no residual effect?
Harmony Korine: How can I say this? I've been making movies since I was a kid. I've heard everything. In the end, good or bad, it doesn't matter. I want people to enjoy it. But I make work because I have to, because I love it. I was never trying to create so that I would all of a sudden fall into some world. Basically what I'm trying to say is I really don't give a shit.

GQ: Do you see yourself making films for a long time? Are there other things you're equally passionate about?
Harmony Korine: Yeah, writing, playing with my daughter, living my life. But I imagine I'll just do it till I can't.

GQ: Would you consider yourself a demanding director?
Harmony Korine: [laughs] I don't really 'consider' myself. I don't think too much about myself. I can't say that I think too much about why I do things [laughs].

GQ: I feel required to ask these questions.
Harmony Korine: Hey, there's no shame in the game.

GQ: Since the majority of the ideas for your movies just come to you, how do you pick? I'm sure you think of a ton of different ideas everyday.
Harmony Korine: The ideas are more like photographs, like pictures in my mind, like sentences jotted down somewhere, something lost. I just guess that I know when one of them seems electric, and it's on fire, then I go with it. Something is best left a photograph or as a paragraph or sentence, but other things I immediately think—'wow, that's a movie right there.'

GQ: How do you decide how to spread the ideas around?
Harmony Korine: I never know. It's a bit like wondering why a painter picks a specific coat of paint? It's just something you know inside.

GQ: For a long time, people have associated you with New York. And then I read that you hated it. Are you driven by place? Florida seems like it's own country.
Harmony Korine: Yeah. It definitely felt like that. I travel to mostly shitty places, I try not to travel anywhere too nice. I almost never go anywhere nice, but I go lots of places that are horrible.

GQ: Like where?
Harmony Korine: Like everywhere in America.

GQ: Do you have anything coming up in the future?
Harmony Korine: So much stuff that it's hard to contain. Some times it feels like it never stops.

Favourite bit:

GQ: Were you guys listening to a lot of rap?
Harmony Korine: I don't listen to music made by white people. I especially hate anything where a guitar is used. I don't listen to white people and guitars.

Stupid questions but Harm does well to give decent answers. Funny he should mention WSHH I was just browsing that site less than two hours ago. Haven't seen 21 Jump Street yet... lol

[JulienDonkeyHumpers]

http://www.glamour.co.za/2012/05/24/fas ... sa-hudgens

Hudgens interview.


http://www.wetpaint.com/pretty-little-l ... -exclusive
Benson:

It was amazing, it was one of the best experiences I’ve had. Working with Harmony Korine [the director], it was so cool. It’s very different from this show, I play this crazy girl, psychopath, trailer trash wild person and I played opposite James Franco, which was really cool. Being in the presence of him and Harmony, I learned so much. It was eye opening. There are some previews in Cannes, then we go to festivals later this year. It will come out in theaters March of next year.

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March makes sense because that's when spring break would be. Rachel Korine posted this the other day:


"Getting close to finishing spring breakers!"
http://instagr.am/p/K-78xIPcsJ/

Looking real fucking good for Venice/Telluride/TIFF.

I like this part of the interview with Hudgens:

Not only the film is very explicit but also the costumes. I hear you barely ever wear more than a bikini…

It’s really like pop art. All our costumes are so bright and in-your-face with a lot of fun graphics that contradict the way that we act. It’s a funny spin on how youth nowadays can be doing things that are really crazy, but yet they are so pure. It’s such a present-mind frame to just not think about the future and this is how our characters act. They just don’t think about the future – they are just doing what they feel is right.

Korine has really impressed himself upon them.

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how youth nowadays can be doing things that are really crazy, but yet they are so pure.

Reading this I think Hudgens really get something essential about the works of korine.

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Few minutes were screened at cannes (with the Winding Refn & Wong Kar-wai's new films) showing franco mostly.
The sceening was for distributors, i think that's where they get the 20 country.