The Craziest Things We Learned About "Spring Breakers" From Its DVD Special Features

Cliff notes, unless you'd like to keep the DVD on constant.

July 8, 2013

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If you've been religiously reading everything you can get your hands on about Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers, you've already got a few go-to pieces of trivia to throw around at the bar. Number 1, Gucci Mane fell asleep during his sex scene in the film. Number 2, the line repetition in the film is meant to mirror EDM music. And Number 3, James Franco's character Alien is inspired by Dangeruss, not Riff Raff. You've probably overused those by now.

Fortunately, just in time for summer rooftop BBQs, the Spring Breakers DVD and Blu-Ray is dropping tomorrow, and it's ripe with deleted scenes, audio commentary, outtakes and behind-the-scenes featurettes. But who actually watches those extras? Well, we do. Here are the craziest things we learned about the movie from its DVD special features.

Also, check out more on Spring Breakers on Complex TV's The Lego Stories below.

While collecting research for the film, Korine looked at co-ed adult films. He described the way he asked his characters to kiss as "porn kissing."

Harmony Korine had the girls blow up their getaway car, an El Camino, for real.

In the classroom scene toward the beginning of the film, the teacher is giving a lesson on Jim Crow laws and race relations, which Korine says is a theme of the movie.

The bible study leader, played by pro wrestler Jeff Jarrett, was supposed to be played by Val Kilmer, who dropped out due to illness.

Hudgens' line, "Seeing all this money makes my pussy wet," was taken from a Gucci Mane video where he says, "Seeing all this money makes my dick hard."

According to Korine, Britney Spears is the girls' "pop culture umbilical cord."

Korine asked Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Benson to suck Franco's nipples in one scene because he figured Alien was the kind of guy who'd like that.

Franco got sick because he was smoking so many blunts in the stripper scene. It's not mentioned whether or not he was smoking real weed.

In the scene at the park, where the girls are first talking to Alien, the production crew found a dead body a few days before filming. During the shoot, someone on set found a finger.

Harmony told Gucci Mane that if he stayed out of jail he had a role for him.

Gucci Mane came to florida with 30 to 40 of his entourage. They stayed with him at all times.

Franco suggested that he should get turned on by the gun in his mouth. He wanted to suck the gun himself.

In one of the outtakes, Franco's character Alien explicitly says the N word and discusses turning Archie's (Gucci Mane) crew into "black sushi."

The dollar sign rims Alien has on his car was inspired by a guy Korine saw at a Three 6 Mafia show as a kid.

Paintings of sunsets and palm tress done by Florida artists known as "The Highwaymen" were used as references for many of the beach scenes.

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