Just for starters, I understand this film hasn't even come out yet and I haven't seen it but here's my hopes and dreams for Spring Breakers:
I am incredibly excited for this film. I love that Harmony Korine is doing something that seems really different aesthetically to everything he's done before but he's stuck to it so strongly. The neon, drunken, teenage, hip hop, bikini, disney star world combined with Korine's dark style will (hopefully, I don't want to get ahead of myself) be exciting to watch... there is also James Franco with cornrows. I think there's a resurgence of interest in looking at pop culture artistically, in a non-ironic way. Even personally, I've gotten over the cringey disdain I used to have for pop music and even popular things in general. (Yes, I listen to Justin Beiber on occasion, I LOVE a bit of Rihanna and I have been into Supré at least twice this month.) There's no shame in liking what everyone else likes if you genuinely like it too. I think I'm getting off track a bit, but my point is, I am drooling over the trashy/gangster/skrillex vibes in Spring Breakers because it's so now. How many films made now reflect such a present time with such unashamed passion for being so pop and fake? When we look back on past decades we remember the popular culture at that time and I wonder if this will be what our popular culture looks like to people looking back in the future...
Some quotes I found interesting/inspiring from the press conference:
James Franco described the characters as "gangsters and mystics"and makes an interesting point about the mysticism of materiality.
Korine calls the process as making "A story from the outside in."
You can watch the full 45 minute press conference here (I can't believe I hadn't seen it earlier)
