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AfterSpring Breakers game-changing success, Korine set his sights onThe Trap, a gritty Jamie Foxx/Benicio Del Toro project.
Tragically, it fell apart after years in development at Annapurna Films.
And thats whenThe Beach Bumwas born.
Snoop Dogg portrays her lover, a slick R&B singer named Lingerie.
Oh, and Jimmy Buffett and Martin Lawrence show up, too.
Thats where I was like, I want to make something thats the opposite.
Something thats more of a Jimmy Buffett ballad gone bad.
Like a Jimmy Buffett ballad thats derailed.
Buffett serves as more than just tonal inspiration forTheBeach Bum.
I just love him, Korine says of Buffett, who ends up playing himself in the film.
Hes a good friend of mine.
I love that hes a guy thats created an entire world based on some music.
Hes created this fantasy, this beautiful fantasy for people … Im going to enjoy the sunset.
Im here for a microsecond and Im not going to give in to it.
Im not going to give in to the machine.
Among the mythic stoners is another familiar musician: Snoop Dogg.
The rapper was originally cast to play himself, but he had other ideas.
I dont want to play Snoop.
I want to play a guy named Lingerie, Korine recalls Snoop Dogg telling him.
Because Im smooth and silky as a motherfucker, Snoop Dogg replied.
Lookin for the Moondog / Lookin through the moon fog, they alternate crooning to McConaugheys eternally chill-with-it character.
Then when we got there, they had already been working on their own version of it.
It became their thing.
Its like, the script is written up to a certain point, he says.
One such place was between Isla Fishers toes.
The choreography wasnt exactly planned.
I think that was just like … it happened very naturally, Korine remembers.
We were just filming, and her feet were up in his face.
When everyone starts cracking up, you know its good.
Yeah, I dont think she was ready for it, Korine guesses of Fishers reaction.
Toe joints or not, almost every scene inTheBeach Bumis clouded in some degree of smoke.
Or have to be, to some degree,there.
Buzz is on in some way.
In other words, Korines production team had to order a lot of prop weed.
I just knew that it was a lot of smoke.
There were some scenes when they go in the weed room the hydroponic room.
We were shooting there all night and Snoop was just going at it.
At one point I did feel myself like … my soul coming out of my body.
I looked at the [cinematographer] and was like, Are you floating?
And hes like, Yeah, I think Im floating.
I just loved him, Korine says.
I used to love that showMartin.
Loved him inBad Boys, and I was an even bigger fan of his stand-up.
So it was like a dream.
If I could get anyone to play this, who would it be?
I really didnt know him.
It was a shot in the dark.
We reached out and he read it, and then I got a call: He was down.
Originally, he was supposed to have a live parrot on his shoulder the whole time.
Lawrences scene involved zero live parrots on his shoulder and zero live sharks in the water.
We spent all day my daughter was in that scene.
I knew he wasnt looking forward to it, but he was so committed to it.
He did a bunch for us because obviously that scene has a lot of special effects.
That sequence is so amazing and Martin is so great, Korine says.
I have already thought it up.
I have already, like, a movie about the worlds worst dolphin-tour guide.
A guy, Captain Wack, a man who lives on a houseboat and has a coke-addicted parrot.
I had played around with things.
Not like that but maybe things in it.
When Ive been advertising there are certain things that Ive done, more like, Ahhh!
I feel like I can do this, in a way, incorporated into a film technically.
Then you just work with good people, effects guys.
I storyboard the whole sequence so we kind of like … you know, we knew.
So you really blew up a boat?
Blew the shit out of that bitch, Korine confirms.
