Before that, I had noticed that Harmony had a growing fascination with spring break. Rachel Korine: He wrote the script two years ago. WWD: Harmony wrote and directed this film, so I imagine this project has been in both of your lives for quite some time now. Here, Korine talks about the film and more: Also unlike her costars, Korine hasn’t hit megastardom yet. Korine is the only non-Disney Channel, non-ABC Family alum among the four lead women - Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez and Ashley Benson are the other leads. Her parents may not be too pleased with some of the more explicit scenes (the bare breasts shown in the film are innumerable), but at least she doesn’t have “Corporation Innocence” to answer to. I couldn’t even see rated-R movies growing up.” I wanted to so badly, but I had very strict parents. In fact, Korine’s never even been on spring break. “Cotty, my character, is nothing like myself, but sometimes the more uncomfortable and distant the character is, the more I enjoy exploring it,” she says. Shirking all sense of foresight, the girls get engulfed in Alien’s crime spree, and the film takes a much more sinister, albeit entertaining, turn.Īccording to Korine, the film is a social commentary, a reflection of the go-with-the-flow tenor of today’s American youth culture. The girls get bailed out courtesy of the largesse of Alien, a corn-rowed, Kevin-Federline-resembling drug dealer-cum-rapper with a grilled up Cheshire-cat smile, played to mesmerizing effect by James Franco. They steal a car (their professor’s, no less), hightail it down to Florida, get pinched for underage drinking, ending up in a cell in only their bikinis and sneakers. Korine plays Cotty, a pink-haired wild child who, along with a trio of similarly impulsive stoners, robs a local diner to obtain the funds needed to join the spring break melee. The hyper-sensory film follows a quartet of disenchanted college girls down a drug-fueled, AK-47-accessorized rabbit hole where common sense is frittered away for the sake of escapist splendor.

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