Month: June 2013

Live Fast, Die Young, Bad Girls Do it Well: ‘The Bling Ring’ and ‘Spring Breakers’

The comparisons between Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers and Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring have been completely inevitable; as both are the new offerings from Gen X auteurs dealing with “bad girls” and their pursuit of a dream based on materialism and ergo celebrity culture. Though in putting each side-by-side brings up specificities as to why exactly each director chose their subject; that of the successive generation....