2017年8月7日 · “When I was making Gummo I was really obsessed with bacon,” the director says. And no, he’s not talking about the painter Francis Bacon; he’s talking about actual bacon -bacon. “I would stare at these strips of bacon and I started to feel this kind of rapport.”

Gummo is a 1997 American experimental drama film [4] written and directed by Harmony Korine (in his directorial debut), and stars Linda Manz, Max Perlich, Jacob Reynolds, Chloë Sevigny, Jacob Sewell, and Nick Sutton. The film is set in Xenia, Ohio, a Midwestern American town that had been previously struck by a devastating tornado.

2022年2月25日 · Upon its release in 1997, Harmony Korine’s bizarre directorial debut, Gummo, was considered as something of a misfire, particularly after the success Korine had penning the script for the culturally pertinent 1995 film Kids.

2017年2月15日 · Harmony Korine's Gummo has no plot: A bunch of kids in the tornado-stricken town of Xenia, Ohio try to fill their empty and depressingly boring life. They kill cats for both the money and the sake of it, they ride on their bikes, they meet bizarre characters...

2024年11月3日 · Some of these, like the memorable shots of “Bunny Boy” – a shirtless boy in a pink bunny hat crouched on a litter-strewn overpass – or Solomon, played by Jacob Reynolds, eating dinner in a bathtub with bacon taped to the wall, have become almost iconic.

2024年9月25日 · Anya Somwaiya reviews Korine’s debut feature, Gummo, a mood board for the decades that followed. Scotch taped wall bacon. Albinos and drunkards. Girls with no eyebrows and titty lumps. Cat killing tween hooligans nourished solely on a diet of spaghetti and frozen pizza. Obsessive vignettes of middle American nihilism, or life as it is. Clean

2023年6月1日 · Perhaps the most recognizable images to emerge from the film are that of bunny boy, a shirtless boy in a pink bunny-eared hat played by Jacob Sewell, hunched on a littered overpass, and that of Reynolds eating dinner in a filthy bathtub with a piece of bacon taped on the bathroom wall behind him.

2021年2月28日 · Extensive Gummo Talk With Jacob Reynolds. Gummo is the ultimate cult movie. Everyone has seen the image of the kid eating spaghetti in the bathtub somewhere on the internet, if they haven’t seen the movie. I met Jacob Reynolds in 2019 after driving to Ohio with Jacob Sewell to attend the first reunion since the movie was released in 1997 ...

2019年4月4日 · "In the scene where Solomon's eating spagetti in the bath, there's a piece of bacon taped to the wall behind him. Says Werner Herzog: "When I saw a piece of fried bacon fixed to the bathroom wall in Gummo, it knocked me off my chair. [Korine's] a very clear voice of a generation of filmmakers that is taking a new position.

2015年3月13日 · 3) The bathtub scene features a piece of bacon taped to the tile wall behind Solomon. Werner Herzog claims that this detail is what made him fall in love with the film. 2) Linda Manz, who plays Solomon’s mother, hadn’t been onscreen for almost sixteen years.