...but I honestly think that is exactly what Harmony Korine makes his films to be. With his newest film, Trash Humpers, being filmed as part improv/part 'what would happen if a buncha old people seriously filmed their own J@ckA$$ and then left it at Goodwill for someone to find', it really brings even more light to why Korine has his style. I'd explain his style any day as Home Funniest (And Most Autistic) Videos. His films are random clips throw together for the most part, and he wrote a book like that too. It's just a style you have to accept and get over it.
But the magic is really in those clips. Sometimes Korine misses, sometimes he creates a scene that reaches out to you in a special way that is unique to every person watching. I personally love Korine's work because I was born with a mild mental/physical syndrome, I have a billion weird fetishes, I had a very strange mind as I child, I had extremely domineering parents, etc etc. Since Korine grew up an hour from me, he knows the culture in the South very well, and this reflects in all his films. In all, I think I actually connect with his films out of experience, not because I'm looking for something artistic. Korine is just a factor in my life who happened to pop up because of a bunch of extremely strange coincidences, and it's also in that coincidence that I like his work. If someone told me about him before I discovered the magic myself, I'd have been like 'Wtfcat'.
And that's how I'd describe Julien, as well as Gummo and Trash Humpers. Either Korine has, out of fate, woven himself into your life, or he hasn't. He's created films that are supposed to be thrown into 50 cent sale bins so that people can pick up his mess for cheap, watch it, and laugh at it, make fun of it, destroy it afterward, set it on fire, love it, or just whatever they want. He's never made a film to make money, he makes films that are made to look like trash, and then he thinks people actually want to watch it. And well, he happens to be right, no matter what he does, he happens to make clips that make me smile.
So at the end of the day, his Youtube previews are the best (someone else usually edits the Official Previews, as Korine usually does not pick great editors for the final film, and so the previews always cheer me up better). But besides them, it's also fun just to scour around Youtube and see what secret scene I can find from Donkey-boy. My favorite so far is the scene where he's washing the girl's feet, and Herzog pwns (did you know he just directed Bad Cop: Port Call? weird :P).
Idk, I like HK's films, I think anyone who gets complex about him either; a. is fooling themselves, or b. hasn't been through the things he portrays in his films. I do think HK makes these films for autistic people to relate to, rather than giving a normal person a view of their world. At least thats what I think.
But the magic is really in those clips. Sometimes Korine misses, sometimes he creates a scene that reaches out to you in a special way that is unique to every person watching. I personally love Korine's work because I was born with a mild mental/physical syndrome, I have a billion weird fetishes, I had a very strange mind as I child, I had extremely domineering parents, etc etc. Since Korine grew up an hour from me, he knows the culture in the South very well, and this reflects in all his films. In all, I think I actually connect with his films out of experience, not because I'm looking for something artistic. Korine is just a factor in my life who happened to pop up because of a bunch of extremely strange coincidences, and it's also in that coincidence that I like his work. If someone told me about him before I discovered the magic myself, I'd have been like 'Wtfcat'.
And that's how I'd describe Julien, as well as Gummo and Trash Humpers. Either Korine has, out of fate, woven himself into your life, or he hasn't. He's created films that are supposed to be thrown into 50 cent sale bins so that people can pick up his mess for cheap, watch it, and laugh at it, make fun of it, destroy it afterward, set it on fire, love it, or just whatever they want. He's never made a film to make money, he makes films that are made to look like trash, and then he thinks people actually want to watch it. And well, he happens to be right, no matter what he does, he happens to make clips that make me smile.
So at the end of the day, his Youtube previews are the best (someone else usually edits the Official Previews, as Korine usually does not pick great editors for the final film, and so the previews always cheer me up better). But besides them, it's also fun just to scour around Youtube and see what secret scene I can find from Donkey-boy. My favorite so far is the scene where he's washing the girl's feet, and Herzog pwns (did you know he just directed Bad Cop: Port Call? weird :P).
Idk, I like HK's films, I think anyone who gets complex about him either; a. is fooling themselves, or b. hasn't been through the things he portrays in his films. I do think HK makes these films for autistic people to relate to, rather than giving a normal person a view of their world. At least thats what I think.