I lit the yard on fire using a magnifying glass, and that album was playing while the yard was going up in smoke. One time, when my parents went to the shopping mall down the road, I listened to that for a couple of hours, and it messed with my head. He had a song called “ My Name Is Larry ” that was just him going, “My name is Larry,” over and over again. I loved trying to imagine the type of person that would even buy that record. He was just the ultimate outsider banging against the walls. They were almost like perverse nursery rhymes, but he sounded so happy to be yelling. It was just a lot of Wild Man Fischer screaming over instrumental tracks-some of them didn’t even have instruments. I couldn’t believe how it even existed, that people would pay money to record something like this. My dad had Wild Man Fischer’s Wildmania, which looked like a novelty record, but then when you put it on, it was so much more. Though little is known about the film thus far, it seems safe to guess it’ll feature a soundtrack filled with songs that could lovingly be described as “completely fucked up”-the same sorts of sounds that have made an impression of Korine through his entire life. This month, he’s reportedly set to begin shooting a stoner comedy called The Beach Bum starring Matthew McConaughey as a man named Moondog. Once a memorably wild-eyed recurring guest on “Late Show With David Letterman”-where the host happily mocked him as evidence for “why they invented childproof caps”-Korine now lives with his wife and daughter in Nashville, where he himself was raised by parents immersed in the counterculture. Given this history, it should come as little surprise that the 44-year-old’s most beloved music includes a litany of “parental advisory” touchstones, one-of-a-kind outsiders, and profane geniuses. Even Korine’s 2016 video for Rihanna’s “ Needed Me ” lingers shamelessly on strip-club flesh and bloody gun violence. The film, which critics described as both “loathsome” and “dazzling,” stars James Franco doing his best impression of oddball rapper RiFF RAFF alongside Gucci Mane in an unforgettable role. His biggest hit thus far, 2012’s Spring Breakers, drops wubby Skrillex beats while leering at bikini-strewn depravity. In his 1997 directorial debut Gummo, the antagonistic sounds of grindcore and black metal are every bit as much a part of the film’s small-town milieu as kids huffing glue and killing cats. And he’s often used extreme music, the type that would gleefully piss off parents, to help his graphic images rip through the screen. For the past two decades, Harmony Korine has made a career out of writing and directing films that confound and offend-surreal and often violent excursions through the forever-teenage American id that explode the holy values so many (supposedly) hold so dear. Spring Breakers The Bottom Line One-time Disney girls go wild, along with a more than typically outré James Franco, in Harmony Korines stylish but shallow take on late-teen malaise run.
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