Gummo is one of the strangest movies I've ever seen.It was even weirder for me considering I was probably 8 when I seen it haha.But it's a hidden gem from underground cult director Harmony Korine.
Now while this movie doesn't have the strongest story, the weirdness alone sells it.It basically shows the lives of the poor, challenged & twisted minds.You get some disturbing stuff, sad things & even comedy at times throughout this film.Here, I give you one of the funnier scenes.
Harmony is pretty out there haha & perhaps a bit crazy.To give you a little example, here's a piece of an article I found about the filming process.
After filming his drunken cameo he threw his sister through a window.
Korine was wasted IRL in the scene where he chats to a dwarf and spills his beer all over the place. "I needed to be in a certain state and it's hard to direct in that state so we saved that for last," he says. It was right before the film's wrap party at a local Nashville strip club. But Korine didn't make it to that. "I was out of it and I was really excited," he continues. "It was like four in the morning, and I think my sister went up to give me a hug, to congratulate me on finishing the film, and something happened and I threw her through a window. And this grip who looked like Mr Clean, this bald guy, he took a pocket knife and stabbed me … And that was the way it ended."
Also, here's how the filming conditions were & how Korine went about it.
Korine wore speedos and flip-flops in a bug-infested house to piss the "pussy" crew off.
The crew shot in some scummy places in Nashville. The worst were the bug-infested houses where people lived like rats. "In one of the houses, I found a piece of a guy's shoulder in a pillowcase," Korine told Herzog. "At times the crew would refuse to film in those conditions. We had to buy them those white suits like people wear in a nuclear fallout. I got angry with them because I thought they were pussies. I mean, all we're talking about is bugs and a disgusting rotting smell." But Korine's cinematographer Jean Yves Escoffier, like Korine, was fearless. They rebelled together. "When the others were wearing their toxic outfits, he and I wore Speedos and flip-flops just to piss them off."
Anyways, it's cool to return to steem! I've been a little absent lately due to work & Monster Hunter haha.But please, give Gummo a view!
(Some scenes in this movie are real while others are not.No cats were actually harmed.)
