![]() Other than Gomez's questioning Bible student, the girls are spiritually vacant. These are people who have learned everything they know about the world from MTV. ![]() But the film does hold its characters' pop-culture values up for ridicule. Spring Breakers is not a condemnation of a culture, he says. It was calm, so I finished writing it there." At night I'd go swimming and there would be all these dwarfs sitting at the edge of the pool smoking cigars. I asked the receptionist and she said Hulk Hogan was filming a reality show. The hotel would just be shaking the whole time, and I couldn't deal with it, so I drove 20 minutes away and checked into a Marriott on a golf course. It was cool, but it was really hard to write in that environment. Kids just destroying shit, fucking in the hallways, setting golf carts on fire, blasting Taylor Swift 24 hours a day. "I checked into Holiday Inn, and I was at ground zero," he says. Korine gifted Alien to James Franco, who immediately agreed to do it, and the director drove to Panama City to write a draft in the midst of authentic spring-break pandemonium. Korine's "beach noir", as he calls it, involves four girls fleeing to Florida for a spring break blowout, before meeting Alien, a white, cornrowed, teeth-grilled gangsta rapper who takes them under his unscrupulous wing. "Also, just in metaphorical terms, even the phrase 'Spring Break' and what it represents, what it can be, the idea of a destruction of innocence and disappearing into the night." "There was something hyper-impressionistic and wild about the whole idea of it, and I'd never seen it done in an interesting way," he says, on the phone from his home in Nashville. Korine – writer of Larry Clark's Kids, director of Gummo and Trash Humpers – began amassing research to make paintings, attracted to the contrast between the violent, sexual content and childlike, poppy colours and images. Spring Breakers uses this annual ritual as a springboard into darker territory, filtering the neon debauchery through a fantastical looking-glass, infusing it with dread. Cover your eyes, littles.Įvery March, for a week, US college kids descend on a beach resort of their choice and proceed to wreck the place, and themselves. In Gomez World, it is very much off-message. Substances are abused, humans are murdered. Spring Breakers is a glorious beast of a film, a morally ambiguous piece of pop art, a lurid trip with hallucinatory highs and ugly comedowns. She's heavily promoting Spring Breakers on her page, among the fashion line plugs ("My favorites the yellow with the hearts what's yours?") and Disney show ads. Gomez, 20, Disney starlet, singer of songs, breaker of Bieber's heart, is followed by 41 million people on Facebook, the vast majority of whom you'd hope are indeed "littles". "N ote: this movie is not for my littles," wrote Selena Gomez on her Facebook page recently. ![]()
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