![]() There are moments when Alien speaks with the accent of Benoit Blanc on codeine, and moments when he. He’s got Scarface, on repeat! Though we can debate if CK Be actually pairs well with Escape.Ĭalise: I’d give the soundtrack an Oscar if that was a category. Spata: Best Actor for James Franco: The “Look at all my s-t” monologue is high art. Everything tells us something, from cheap Target bikinis to the matching “DTF” sweatpants easily purchased at a touristy gift shop. Yes, there’s a ton of nudity, but the outfits that do make it in are so spot-on for the era and that age group. Benoit Debie’s camerawork, unsettled and unsettlingly intimate, sets the tone. Which?Įvans: Cinematography, right? The most enduring aspect of “Spring Breakers” is color - all rainbow pool lights, water-damaged-postcard sunsets and airbrushed booty shorts. And every Floridian knows these sun-beaten little stores playing party music and selling a dream in the form of 12-packs - the dream that tonight will be the best night ever. Remember that sensation? More than beach sand, spring break for me conjures the feel of dirty linoleum, gritty sidewalk and hot asphalt under bare feet. Spata: The girls hanging out bikini’ed and barefoot in the parking lot of a quickie mart on St. “Spring Breakers” carjacks a souped-up, late-model crime drama, drives it onto the beach, lights it on fire and spends the rest of the night getting loaded and staring at the flames. Plot points are few and mysteriously passive. Any feelings that the magic has worn off may be a sign of just how influential it was: The drug-cocktail pacing and saturated, hazy visuals established something of a house style for A24 as a studio, and its acolytes the casting seemed subversive, but wouldn’t surprise now. Jack Evans, Pinellas County reporter: It holds up. ![]() The film is a smorgasbord of every imaginable taboo (drugs, violence, money, sex). There was no way we were asking a parent to escort us. My friends and I had to buy tickets to a different movie and switch theaters. Rebecca Liebson, real estate reporter: I was 15 when “Spring Breakers” came out. ( Editor’s note: Calise edited a book about Florida for A24, the film company behind “Spring Breakers.”) The glowing masks and neon bikinis made me feel like I was back in my high school bedroom scrolling Tumblr (RIP). Gabrielle Calise, culture reporter: What surprised me was how I felt super nostalgic for the early 2010s, which is not a period of time I had previously felt strongly about. You rewatched ‘Spring Breakers.’ How do you feel? Pete Beach and Tampa, “Spring Breakers” briefly consumed local culture.Ī group of Tampa Bay Times staffers recently rewatched the movie for its 10th anniversary and pondered questions modeled after the podcast The Rewatchables, which we’re fairly sure will never be doing a “Spring Breakers” episode.
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