list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around Gummo on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/Gummo/114538/default.aspx Title: Gummo
Year: 1997
Director: Harmony Korine
Plot: In this elliptical ensemble piece, which marks the directorial debut of indie bad boy Harmony Korine, the teens of tornado-scarred Xenia, OH, kill cats, tape their boobies, arm-wrestle, bathe, cross-dress, huff glue, avoid perverts, pay to have sex with retarded girls, lift makeshift dumbbells to the strains of Madonna's "Like a Prayer," fight, cuss, shave their eyebrows, undergo cancer treatment, euthanize senior citizens, and pee on passing cars. A hallucinatory barrage of images and scenarios with little in the way of traditional plot, Gummo has been variously described as a surrealist joke, a visual poem, and a worm's-eye view of white-trash suffering. The main characters include Solomon (Jacob Reynolds), who sells cat carcasses to a middleman who procures them for use at a local Chinese restaurant; his mother (Linda Manz), who teaches him to tap dance while reminiscing about her dead husband; Tummler (Nick Sutton), a mullet-haired local sex symbol; a midget (Bryant L. Crenshaw); a pair of boy-crazy, bleach-blond sisters named Dot (Chloe Sevigny) and Helen (Carisa Bara); a slut with a lump in her breast (Lara Tosh); a group of drunken louts; and Bunny Boy (Jacob Sewell), who wanders the town enigmatically in a pair of long pink ears. In between scenes of these characters enacting their bizarre routines, Korine intersperses impressionistic and quasi-documentary scenes with voice-over narration that ranges from incest memoirs to arty dialogue along the lines of "He's got what it takes to be a legend: He's got a marvelous persona." Shot just outside Nashville, TN, Gummo includes costume designs by Korine's then-girlfriend, Chloe Sevigny, who also plays Dot and who previously starred in the Korine-scipted, Larry Clark-directed Kids. Jacob Reynolds would go on to appear in Getting to Know You, though few of the director's other discoveries have appeared on film since. ~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide
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]]>Tue, 12 May 2009 01:56:49 GMTGummo1997Harmony KorineIn this elliptical ensemble piece, which marks the directorial debut of indie bad boy <a href="/players/P___231470/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Harmony Korine</a>, the teens of tornado-scarred Xenia, OH, kill cats, tape their boobies, arm-wrestle, bathe, cross-dress, huff glue, avoid perverts, pay to have sex with retarded girls, lift makeshift dumbbells to the strains of <a href="/players/P___100711/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Madonna</a>'s "Like a Prayer," fight, cuss, shave their eyebrows, undergo cancer treatment, euthanize senior citizens, and pee on passing cars. A hallucinatory barrage of images and scenarios with little in the way of traditional plot, Gummo has been variously described as a surrealist joke, a visual poem, and a worm's-eye view of white-trash suffering. The main characters include Solomon (Jacob Reynolds), who sells cat carcasses to a middleman who procures them for use at a local Chinese restaurant; his mother (<a href="/players/P____45228/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Linda Manz</a>), who teaches him to tap dance while reminiscing about her dead husband; Tummler (Nick Sutton), a mullet-haired local sex symbol; a midget (Bryant L. Crenshaw); a pair of boy-crazy, bleach-blond sisters named Dot (Chloe Sevigny) and Helen (Carisa Bara); a slut with a lump in her breast (Lara Tosh); a group of drunken louts; and Bunny Boy (Jacob Sewell), who wanders the town enigmatically in a pair of long pink ears. In between scenes of these characters enacting their bizarre routines, Korine intersperses impressionistic and quasi-documentary scenes with voice-over narration that ranges from incest memoirs to arty dialogue along the lines of "He's got what it takes to be a legend: He's got a marvelous persona." Shot just outside Nashville, TN, Gummo includes costume designs by Korine's then-girlfriend, Chloe Sevigny, who also plays Dot and who previously starred in the Korine-scipted, <a href="/players/P___177545/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Larry Clark</a>-directed <a href=/films/92128/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>Kids</a>. Jacob Reynolds would go on to appear in <a href=/films/130800/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>Getting to Know You</a>, though few of the director's other discoveries have appeared on film since. ~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide8Taggedy Taggged (6-10)22113http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t10243p8ti6.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Gummo/114538/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/groups/Top_5/Re_Top_5_weirdest_movies/190/39189/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: Risselada
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Body: [quote user="tmoney"] Weird movies huh? I must be so desenitized to weird films because all the time i recommend movies to people that i think are fantastic and they say "um it was weird." So some genuinely strange films: 1. Julien Donkey Boy - A Dogme 95 film by Harmony Korine (sp?). Really strange. 2. Grey Gardens - A great cinema verite documentary about a mother and daughter who live alone as recluses in a crumbling mansion in the hamptons. I almost couldn't believe what i was seeing was real. Very eerie and bizzarre lives. Not a strange movie i guess just a bizzare story? 3. Un Chien Andalou - already mentioned 4. Meet The Feebles - Peter Jackson's R Rated muppets movie. A bunny with aids, a coke snorting walrus boss, a whore siamese kitten, a rat porn director (staring pornographic insects, etc), and hippopotamus nudity. Weird. 5. Palindromes - What? Todd Solandz making a wierd movie? Its phenomenal though. [/quote] Hey tmoney! Long time no see. Good to hear from you. If you think Julian Donkey-Boy is strange I'm wondering if you've seen Korine's Gummo. I think that one is even a bit stranger.
]]>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:54:03 GMTRisseladaTop 51/7/2009 9:54:03 AM[quote user="tmoney"] Weird movies huh? I must be so desenitized to weird films because all the time i recommend movies to people that i think are fantastic and they say "um it was weird." So some genuinely strange films: 1. Julien Donkey Boy - A Dogme 95 film by Harmony Korine (sp?). Really strange. 2. Grey Gardens - A great cinema verite documentary about a mother and daughter who live alone as recluses in a crumbling mansion in the hamptons. I almost couldn't believe what i was seeing was real. Very eerie and bizzarre lives. Not a strange movie i guess just a bizzare story? 3. Un Chien Andalou - already mentioned 4. Meet The Feebles - Peter Jackson's R Rated muppets movie. A bunny with aids, a coke snorting walrus boss, a whore siamese kitten, a rat porn director (staring pornographic insects, etc), and hippopotamus nudity. Weird. 5. Palindromes - What? Todd Solandz making a wierd movie? Its phenomenal though. [/quote] Hey tmoney! Long time no see. Good to hear from you. If you think Julian Donkey-Boy is strange I'm wondering if you've seen Korine's Gummo. I think that one is even a bit stranger. http://www.spout.com/blogs/spiritstereo/archive/2007/6/11/10848.aspx Post By: spiritstereo
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Post Date: 6/11/2007 11:44:39 PM
Body: Although this certainly isn't for everyone, Gummo is one of my all-time favorites and grows in my estimation every time I watch it. Especially as most "indie" films these days are merely mainstream family flicks with a few quirks tossed in and Futura font, this is truly provocative cinema, a movie that stirs the emotion and offers a thought-provokingly nihilist worldview that is a complete 180 from the bland, "life-affirming" fare that passes not only for mainstream but also for avant garde these days. In the strange, vulgar lives of these real Ohio townspeople, we find a strange, true beauty that is utterly lacking from most Hollywood actors and actresses or their unreal realms.
]]>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:44:39 GMTspiritstereospiritstereo Blog6/11/2007 11:44:39 PMAlthough this certainly isn&#39;t for everyone, Gummo is one of my all-time favorites and grows in my estimation every time I watch it. Especially as most &quot;indie&quot; films these days are merely mainstream family flicks with a few quirks tossed in and Futura font, this is truly provocative cinema, a movie that stirs the emotion and offers a thought-provokingly nihilist worldview that is a complete 180 from the bland, &quot;life-affirming&quot; fare that passes not only for mainstream but also for avant garde these days. In the strange, vulgar lives of these real Ohio townspeople, we find a strange, true beauty that is utterly lacking from most Hollywood actors and actresses or their unreal realms. http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/sex/MemberTagFilms.aspxsex
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