Harmony Korine is a famous filmmaker, actor, photographer, artist, and author. Some of his popular films include Spring Breakers, Manglehorn, Gummo, The Beach Bum, and others. He is known for making films that showcase his erratic and transgressive aesthetics. He likes to incorporate experimental techniques and work with art and music. The director also holds an interest in futuristic and advancement in gaming technology.
However, his recent comment on Steven Spielberg’s directed movies has attracted lots of trolling. He compared a video game trailer to a legendary director’s movie.
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Harmony Korine compared the Call of Duty game trailer to Steven Spielberg’s films
Harmony Korine opened up on his creative collective and design studio Edgard, in an interview with GQ. They are working on films, video games, and more that can be experienced like a video game. He called it the future of entertainment.
Korine shared,
“We’re trying to gamify movies. What we’re trying to do is to build some mechanism that allows people to interface with the footage and basically remix, or make their own, films.”
The Gummo director added that gaming systems have advanced extensively and they are better than Steven Spielberg movies. He said,
“You could look at the Call of Duty trailer now, and it looks better than anything that [Steven] Spielberg’s ever done.”
The director added that he was bored of normal films, hence he set out on the path to find other ways of presenting entertainment. He shared,
“The way it used to be was that movies would come out, films would come out, games would come out, music would come out, and everyone knew about it. Now, not only do you not know what’s out there, you don’t even know the channels that exist that it’s out there on.”
He shared his ideas on the thermal imaging, animation and AI technology, that he used to create the studio’s first project, Aggro Dr1ft. It features rapper Travis Scott and Jordi Mollà.
Harmony Korine receives backlash from Steven Spielberg fans
Once the article was published by GQ, it has gone viral on social media. The director is getting a lot of flak for disrespecting legendary director Steven Spielberg.
A user wrote, “Respect Steven Spielberg.”
While another shared, “Not sure what Spielberg films he’s been watching, but he’s so wrong.”
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On being asked if the director would ever return to working on real movies, Korine said,
“It’s possible. Terrence Malick wrote a script that he wanted me to direct. It’s a really, really beautiful script. And that’s maybe one of the only things that I could imagine pulling me back into actual, traditional moviemaking. But even then, the hard part now is just the idea of looking through a viewfinder and filming, like, people speaking at a table. All this dialogue always gets in the way. All these things that you don’t really care about. I don’t know. That would be a special case. I always loved him, and his movies were such a big deal for me as a kid, and even still now. But that would maybe be the one thing.”
Aggro Dr1ft is set to premiere at the 80th Venice International Film Festival on 2nd September.
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