Who is gummo

See more gaps ». Create a list ». Eye Candy Watclist. Drama to Watch. See all related lists ». They rebelled together. He flew pro-skater Mark Gonzales in to shoot the chair-wrestling scene Pro-skater Mark Gonzales, aka The Gonz, is the dude who wrestles the chair while bare-chested rednecks cheer him on.

The director's ties to the skate community go back to the days before Kids , when he was a skater in Washington Square Park. He remains friends with The Gonz to this day, having recently shot him for a Supreme ad. Apparently that sole review hurt the film's distribution. Part of the reason was the argument that the director exploited his cast, a cast of "freakish individuals," as the Times review puts it. Korine has confronted this before. Referring to the girl with Down's Syndrome, he says: "her beauty is obvious and transcendent to me.

And the idea of exploitation means absolutely nothing to me, because I show what I want to see and I don't exploit people, I don't make people do things that they don't want to [do].

It's not directly about Gummo , but this absolutely has to be mentioned here because it's so very, very strange. Basically, in the Hype Williams movie Belly there's a scene where DMX and Nas get blazed in a mansion and watch the "kill-the-rabbit" scene from Gummo. Their reaction to Korine's film? Gummo is a painstakingly creatively! This strategy in itself is what great art should do — dismantle its true identity, or at least coquettishly obscure it from outsiders.

And then it laughs when they do so. The unyielding and uncomfortable manner in which Gummo grapples with human diversity has also allowed it to linger long in the memory. And just to confuse matters further, Korine leans on the redoubtable and classically-inclined talent of the late cinematographer Jean-Yves Escoffier who captures all the rasping degradation on show by mixing ghostly, gliding pans with fuggy, close-quarters hand-held techniques.

Janet Maslin of the New York Times brassily announced in the opening line of her hard takedown that Gummo was the worst film of the year. Mia British. Karen Australian. Hayley Australian. Natasha Australian. Veena Indian. Priya Indian. Neerja Indian. Zira US English. Oliver British. Wendy British. Fred US English. Tessa South African.