Writer-director Harmony Korine talked to Business Insider about his new movie,"The Beach Bum."
At 46, it's not that Korine has finally succumbed to mainstream moviemaking, it's that the industry have finally caught up to his style of storytelling. Guerrasio: In regards to"The Beach Bum," how do you get someone like Matthew McConaughey to get interested in a movie you're doing? What's the starting point?We sent him the script and I think I just flew to wherever he was and we sat down. It was obvious he knew the character and he knew people like that. He knew some pirates and some smugglers and I think we were on the same page. Moondog is a composite of a certain archetype. Once he was tapped in it was all systems go.
Guerrasio: The people that show up in Moondog's orbit throughout the film just get better and better as the movie goes on. Did you already know a lot of the supporting cast you wanted to use?Some of them I knew, but mostly in some ways they all had an iconic stoner quality to them. I was trying to imagine who would be in Moondog's orbit in South Florida and you have to have Jimmy Buffett, and Snoop is just part of the world.
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