Get ready to feel dirty!

Harmony Korine is either a brilliant genius or insane or both. Not that these are new opinions about the director of Trash Humpers, but still ... teaming up with James Franco to make a movie about four teenagers who lose their innocence and become dirty little freaks over the course of one Spring Break is dark enough. Having the teenagers played by formerly squeaky-clean tween stars like Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson and Selena Gomez (well, she's less clean now) and Korine's own daughter wife(!!!), Rachel Korine? That's bordering on distasteful.

The trailer for Spring Breakers has just hit the net, giving us first glimpse into this sordid tale, which looks like it will give Tony Kushner's Lincoln script a run for its money.


You know you're going to see Spring Breakers, so let's not play games here. This has too many awesome/potentially horrific ingredients that there's no way you wouldn't buy tickets to the train wreck. Also: why should we wait till tween stars explode under the pressure of fame and spiral out into Lindsay Lohan territory, when we could just pay them to act that way in a movie?

Maybe if they just stick to saying the phrase "Spring Break" a bunch, we can cover our eyes when the inevitable AIDS-rape occurs.

So, what's the relation between celebrity impersonators and sky-diving nuns?

The nuns were first. I just started imagining nuns jumping out of airplanes without parachutes and riding bicycles in the sky and doing tricks in the clouds. Then I started imagining that they would survive, like it was a test of faith or something, that if they believed strongly enough, then they could survive. Then I thought that was similar to the impersonators who kind of build their own society.

Why celebrity impersonators?

I thought they were interesting-looking and I just liked the idea of characters, people who try to create their own reality and their own language. Like the nuns that kind of just brought these obsessive characters.

Is there a celebrity impersonator you saw in real life that stands out?

I saw this Michael Jackson impersonator who had one leg and was German on the streets of Paris, and I just thought it was an interesting way to live.

How did you decide to give the role of Little Red Riding Hood to your wife?

I did a little research and I found out that there was an abnormal amount of Little Red Riding Hoods. I guess maybe doing children’s parties or something. So it just made sense—my wife: Little Red Riding Hood. It was a fetish thing. I’m joking! It just made sense somehow.

What was the film set like?

It was like waking up and seeing James Dean tending the sheep or seeing Sammy Davis Jr. smoking a joint or the Three Stooges riding a pig. Every day I had that to look forward to. It was something beautiful.