“Spring Breakers” and “The Beach Bum” director Harmony Korine has used an analogy featuring both Steven Spielberg and “Call of Duty” that has left the “Jaws” filmmaker on the losing side.
Out promoting his new creative collective/design studio EDGLRD, Korine spoke with GQ (via EW) and says recent advances in gaming technology means that videogames now look better than movies visually.
Korine recently used gaming tech to make his new indie film “AGGRO DR1FT” starring rapper Travis Scott and shot entirely in infrared and thermal imaging. Also earlier this week, a new trailer for the game campaign from “Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare III” was released and featured some astonishing graphics.
In the interview with the outlet, the cult filmmaker says: “It’s almost gone 360. You could look at the Call of Duty trailer now, and it looks better than anything that Spielberg’s ever done.”
He adds that EDGLRD aims to push the limits of filmmaking in a new direction and the company’s mission statement is:
“We’re trying to gamify movies. What we’re trying to do is to build some mechanism that allows people to interface with the footage and basically remix, or make their own, films.”
Korine adds he’s not interested in returning to more traditional filmmaking anytime soon, though one thing has tempted him:
“Terrence Malick wrote a script that he wants me to direct. It’s a really, really beautiful script. And that’s maybe one of the only things that I could imagine pulling me back into like actual, traditional moviemaking.
But even then, the hard part now is just the idea of looking through a viewfinder and filming, like, people speaking at a table. All this dialogue always gets in the way. All these things that you don’t really care about. I don’t know. That would be a special case. I always loved him, and his movies were such a big deal for me as a kid, and even still now. But that would maybe be the one thing.”
“AGGRO DR1FT” will be released on September 2nd.
