Harmony Korine is difficult to determine: Stylistically, ideologically and even rhetorically. While leading one Questions and answers with him before a mostly teenage and 20-something audience At Ringling College of Art and Design at Sarasota Film Festival On April 12, it quickly became apparent.
As if he again appeared on the “The Late Show with David Letterman”, which he often did in the 1990s, Korine gave some entertaining response-Kanian non-response.
What inspired his latest film“Baby invasion“?” I had seen this Phil Collins video, and I just remember looking at it, and I had been drinking Mountain Dew and eating Skittles, and I played a lot of Tetris, and the movie just came to me. ”
What made him fall in love with Florida, where he has made his latest films and has the head office his company Edglrd? “Strip Galleria. I invested in this company that only builds strip malls, and this condition has the best, plus the best massage chairs and palms.”
But get him to talk about the movie state, and he becomes thought -provoking, if it is still playful. When he called Ron Howard’s “cocoon” filmed in Florida- “one of the biggest films ever”, this writer pushed him if he sees a lot of difference between that film, quite conventional of any standard and his own work, which is often considered tasty, cross-border provocations.
“I’ve never seen a town Brakhage movie ever,” Korine said. “I never want to watch a movie where someone tips a moth for a movie. I don’t really know anything about it. I just like what I like. I really tried to make blockbuster. For most things just the biggest movies that can be imagined, but it doesn’t work.”
Stop and watch some of his latest movies, and you can see a bit of a blockbuster -etos. “Spring switch“Be really the definition of an indie blockbuster, all except putting A24 on the map when it hit theaters in 2013. His follow-up,” The beach bum “, shares some DNA with two other movies Korine Name Drops in our interview as personal favorites:” Porky’s “and” Caddyshack. “Even his latest,”Baby invasion“Draws vigorously from video game aesthetics – and Biggest video games hits Dwarf gross tones for Hollywood’s largest blockbuster of a mile.
Perhaps Korine is secretly a popular – or populist – filmmaker in disguise. He really has thoughts on the existential crisis that hits Hollywood: Why it is simply that so few movies seem to break through and dominate the Zeitgeist as they once did.
“I think it’s just because they suck,” Korine said. “Yes, most of them are just not good. And movies were the dominant art form for so long, and for better and worse, I don’t think they are the dominant art form anymore.”
Why?
“I think life happened,” Korine said. “Radio was the dominant form, then television and movies. I think you have a time where things are the dominant, perfect art, and then something comes with it. And it is not only technology, but it is people, syntax, how they look at things they feel for the world, their inner rhythms and cadenses and the warnacular.
Just as the language itself develops, so does film grammar. Is the linguistic that Hollywood uses in line with a cinematic grammar that children relate to? Looking at the effect that Korine has on this crowd of young people in the College Age demonstration who everyone from politics to Hollywood is really trying to reach-is really something. It is a niche mass, but one he owns. Two children present him with a skeleton rygy that they have designed and hopes he “throws” into a movie. (“It even has a huge Weiner,” Korine says about the mannequin.) Another participant has dressed as Matthew McConaughey in “The Beach Bum.” A barely drinking age says, “I don’t usually fuck with movies, but you are my fucking hero.”
The last 15 years or more of Hollywood has been defined by 40 or 50-something white guys trying to impose their favorite things from when they were children (Marvel, DC, “Star Wars,” Transformers) on today’s children and dig 40-year-old IP in the process. Korine meets today’s children where they are: “Baby Invasion” Draws from Video Games -Aesthetics just like “A Minecraft movie” has, a smash hit that is almost shaken Hollywood to its grounds with a “oh, this is what children really are in” type of revelation.
Movies will continue to develop, and Korine plans to keep up with them. What is the next one coming?
“What comes after conventional films is for me something that is closer to an experience or a trance or something that is outside a simple articulation,” Korine said. “But it’s also me just having fun, enjoying the medium, playing with things. There’s people who get really upset. Hated what in Made 10 years ago. So people are Always Trying to Tell You What To Make, What They Think That You Should Make, and So this is what I Want to make. “
