Slowly but surely, Harmony Korine has become a chief chronicler of the American fascination with firearms. This trait allies him with certain other cinematic blowhards without taking away from the specific present-day difficulties his story foregrounds. Alien’s credentials in this regard have to do not only with his love for guns, but the fact that he loves them in a near-biblical sense. I want to suggest that, beneath all else James Franco’s Alien tells his spectators in Harmony Korine’s 2013 film Spring Breakers –beneath his many exhortations to “look at my sheeyit!” – he has something to say about attachments to guns, something that prompted me to revisit the film a presidential term after its release. The standoff underscored the extent to which American intimacies and weaponry are entwined, but beyond the occasional statement that “Americans love guns” (an ahistorical shoulder-shrug of a phrase), American culture currently suffers from a poverty of language with which to address this entwinement. In the Oregon standoff, as elsewhere in American politics, affection for guns was not only integral to the making of mischief but also to making mischief stop.
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She shared that vision with the militants themselves their leader, Ammon Bundy, had trained for rebellion under his father, Cliven Bundy, who is at the time of writing currently incarcerated and awaiting trial for an earlier standoff. After one death and many attempts at negotiation, the standoff was finally brought to a peaceful halt by a Nevada assemblywoman, Michele Fiore, who herself had made headlines a few weeks prior for sending a Christmas card that leaned heavily on a gun-toting vision of familial affection. public government’s management of federal lands, began an occupation of Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. In 2016, armed libertarians, disgruntled by the U.S.
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