This is likely true whether you want it to be or not. Spring Breakers is an incessantly quotable movie. Part of this is owing to the droning voiceovers that are repeated again and again, characters saying these lines that we hear in different ways and in different contexts with different intonations throughout. Basically anything Alien says is memorable, but the principal voiceover is delivered in the latter half of the movie a few times. Anyone who has seen the movie can hear Franco saying it in their heads. “Spraangggg braaaaaake.”
Some have gone as far as to liken Alien’s bizarre monologue, imploring his new soulmates to “look at ma’ sh*t” as he tours them around his crib. It’s a crazy scene, and he delivers it with such energy and exuberance that we are really close to getting sucked into his strange world. But again, we’re not allowed to revel. This is punctuated by the messed up scene that follows, involving a gun and somebody’s mouth. It’s such a striking contrast and eerie echo that makes it hard to forget. As hard as I may like, I can’t stop myself from saying “Spring break forever, bitches!” at every opportunity and I’m not at all proud of it. I shouldn’t even be admitting this in print. I ought to delete this whole thing right now.
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