3/10/2024 0 Comments Little girls gone wild![]() ![]() Despite the millions of reasons a child should NOT do this, none of this was a problem to my wild, untamed 3 year old self. My idea, my drive, my dream….it was all completely possible in my mind. I knew what I wanted and I went right out there to get it, and I felt I was free to do so. Firstly, why on earth was I wearing nothing but a teapot cosy on my head!? And more worryingly how had my mum not noticed I’d gone!? But what I find curious is that I must have been absolutely fearless. But there are dual layers to this story that have both unsettled and inspired me for many years. Now, although this story is always told in jest. The sweet shop owner, on being offered foreign coins by a cute tea pot cosy wearing toddler had obligingly given me a bag of lemon sherbet for free. I’d taken the money, let myself out of the house and toddled off down the street into town to buy myself some sweets from the local sweet shop. It transpired, that while my mum had been having a bath, I’d found some money in the house left over from a recent tour my father (a jazz musician) had returned from. My Grandmother who’d been walking down the street was astonished to find me there and promptly escorted me home. When I was around 3 years old I was discovered unaccompanied on the high street wearing a teapot cosy on my head, and holding a fistful of foreign coins. Let me tell you a story that has been retold in my family ever since I can remember. We, as human beings have been wild for centuries before now. Before we became aware of what other’s think of us, before we became self-conscious, we were wild, and free to just “be”. We were born wild”.Ī miracle of nature, we were born into this world untamed and unadulterated. If they just want to vamp for some dude’s pervy camera, they’ve got that down pat.“ The truth is that we are wild. If acting is really what they want to do. They may have made a bold career move, but they still have to prove that they can act. It’ll be even more interesting to see where Gomez and Hudgens’ careers go after the party’s over. It will be interesting to see what real people – not critics – have to say about Spring Breakers. As far as they’re concerned they probably made the world’s first art film about American Spring Break debauchery. The filmmakers and the cast probably don’t care about all that though. It’s definitely not superb performances that drag you in maybe it's a combination of all that neon and James Franco's annoying but mesmerizing repetition of the phrase "Spraaaang Breaaaak."ĭavid Edelstein at Vulture asks if Spring Breakers is “one of the perviest movies you’ve ever seen,” and takes a moment in his review to worry about the sicko guys who will grab their trench coats and head to the theater for a few cheap thrills. For all the shots of naked college chicks rolling around in piles of cocaine, there’s also something about the movie that gets under your skin. Deadspin’s Will Leitch called Spring Breakers “The kind of trash you love,” and took the Switzerland approach of saying, “You're probably gonna hate Spring Breakers, but I bet you love it, too.” It sounds like a cop out, but it’s also kind of true. It’s too bad David Lynch didn’t have a part for them in the pipeline. They couldn’t have picked a more divisive filmmaker to pair up with post-Disney. MTV Movie Awards are a possibility though – go figure. If these women are hoping to get Oscar nominations, they might need to check their expectations. The performances in Spring Breakers (except for a solid Benson and a creepy but excellent James Franco as the cornrow-wearing gangster “Alien,” who has a mouth full of metal and a house full of weapons) are just plain bad. I’d love to think it’s the former, but it’s definitely the latter - and here’s why: If Hudgens and Gomez wanted to further their acting careers so they could break out into better roles, they should have chosen a film that had a good script so they could show off their acting chops, instead of their asses. If it wasn’t an “art film” it would be “misogynist.” The question is, was this a shrewd career move for these women, or are they just letting some pervy male filmmaker exploit them? ![]() The way the camera lingers on college girls’ bare bouncing boobs and dancing, shaking asses, you would think you’re watching an episode of Girls Gone Wild – or soft-core porn. Beer, bikinis, cocaine, sex, murder – they definitely didn’t choose the safe route for a career transition. The big story is that Gomez and Hudgens (along with Pretty Little Liars actor Ashley Benson and Korine’s real-life wife Rachel Korine) have taken their squeaky clean images and obliterated them with a hit off a bong and a shake of their ass in this flick. Critics can’t seem to slam the movie, but they can’t seem to fully embrace it either. ![]()
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