Harmony Korine is one of the most controversial filmmakers. With his new movie, Beach Bum, he made his leap into the mainstream!
So let’s find out some more things about this movie!
- The Beach Bum is a 2019 American comedy film
- It is written and directed by Harmony Korine
- The plot follows the misadventures of Moondog
- Played be Matthew McConaughey
- He is a rebellious burnout who only knows how to live life by his own rules
- Snoop Dogg, Isla Fisher, Zac Efron, Jimmy Buffett, Martin Lawrence and Jonah Hill also sta
- It had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 9, 2019
- It is scheduled to be released in the United States on March 29, 2019
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- Following the release of Spring Breakers and a stint of Florida life, writer Director Harmony Korine penned The Beach Bum
- It is based loosely on a set of characters he was hanging out with in the Keys
- Journalist Zach Baron noted Korine wrote the film swiftly
- And then, as he did with Spring Breakers, Korine cast a mix of well-known actors and real-life Florida denizens
- McConaughey described the character of Moondog as a verb
- A folk poet
- A character in a Bob Dylan song dancing through life’s pleasure and pain knowing every interaction is another ‘note’ in the tune of his life
- Similarly, Korine described the protagonist as a man that lives for the second
- There’s no self-censor
- He’s just a sensualist
- Whatever feels good, he just acts on it. So he does good, and he does bad
- John Lesher, Steve Golin, Charles-Marie Anthonioz, Mourad Belkeddar and Nicholas Lhermitte produced the film under LeGrisbi Productions, Anonymous Content and Iconoclast banners, respectively
- Principal photography began in November 2017
- Throughout the filming process, the cast brought their own creative direction to their characters
- Snoop Dogg decided that rather than play himself as written in Korine’s script that he needed to take on a completely new character
- Additional strange inspiration came to Korine while eating a panini sandwich
- The director thought that the pattern would “look good on Zac’s face.”
- The quote later went viral
- When New Yorker columnist Lauren Leibowitz tweeted about the design for Efron’s iconic beard
- While appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live, McConaughey recounted how Snoop Dogg swapped out fake prop marijuana
- In the United States and Canada, The Beach Bum will be released alongside Dumbo and Unplanned
- And is projected to gross $2-4 million from 750 theaters in its opening weekend
- On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 50%, based on 30 reviews
- With an average rating of 5.62/10
- The website’s critical consensus reads, “The role of a lifetime for Matthew McConaughey, The Beach Bum is set apart by Harmony Korine’s distinctive style, but that isn’t always enough to offset the unfocused story.”
- On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 53 out of 100, based on 12 critics, indicating “mixed or average”
