ARNOLD: Yeah. An additional accomplice might be the films director, in that it appears her fascination with such disreputable characters as Star and Jake borders on outright sympathy and misguided approbation. American Honey is a 2016 road drama film written and directed by Andrea Arnold. American Honeys ending is ambiguous. [8][9] Arnold has said the movie was inspired[10][11] by an investigative piece she read in The New York Times about mag crews. It's complicated. ARNOLD: (Laughter) I just want to get one of your facts straight. [35] On 9 June, production was taking place in Omaha, Nebraska and Grand Island, Nebraska. All rights reserved. Arnold began writing the screenplay in 2013 and it was first announced under the pre-production title Mag Crew at Film4's 2013 Cannes Film Festival party. In a parking lot, Star catches the eye of Jake (Shia LaBeouf), a bearded glamour-puss whos like a cocky, rat-tailed James Dean, and moments later, when she follows him into a Wal-Mart, and Jake and the other kids break into dance moves near the checkout counter to the synth-throb of Rihanna and Calvin Harris We Found Love (its blaring over the stores speaker system), and Jake jumps up on the counter, which is enough to get a cashier to call security, the scene looks like a pop-renegade epiphany to place alongside every moviefrom Jailhouse Rock to 8 Mile.. Arnolds American Honey its name: Steady as a preacher/Free as a weed/Couldnt And, you know, they have sex together. It's about a group of teenagers who are abandoned, are homeless and have become something of a family traveling together by van from town to town, state to state selling magazine subscriptions door to door, making up different explanations depending on who opens the door. So it was tremendous training and a very good kind of - it was home for me for a long time. And I think wow that's - I wish I was like that. (Hustling, it turns out, really is harder than making an honest living.) And she was always, you know, practicing her moves and everything. They - they're both broke. For me, the space and the, you know - if people go see "Fish Tank," I would love them to not know - I wouldn't want to explain to them what I kind of intended or what I felt were the intentions of each of those characters. Honey (Jessica Alba from Fantastic Four and Valentine's Day) takes Raymond (Zachary Isaiah Williams) to a barbershop. It's so clever. Jake does his magazine spiel, which involves reeling off a dozen lies with the speed of an unflappable executive. "American Honey" is a coming-of-age drama film directed by Andrea Arnold and written by Arnold, from a story by photographer and writer Larry Clark. The film stars newcomer Sasha Lane as Star, a young woman who joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and follows her journey as she navigates the challenges of life on the road. The films allure is that its not just a story, its an immersion,a verit rhapsody about the live pulse of kids in the age of corporate nihilism. Oh, she's like putting fake tan on and just thought, oh, Crystal's been to the shop. I don't know how the hell you do that. And I feel like we overexplain everything in life, and I am desperate to leave a mystery in what I do. So it's, you know - it's a really different way of casting (laughter). It is Arnold's first film to be set and fil that hes worked with a few Stars along the way, and while Arnold never explicitly So Wal-Mart car lot in spring break down in Panama City Beach is just rocking. ARNOLD: One of the - the one I did mostly, for a long time, I was very young when I started it. But its a big experience, and youll probably learn a lot. I definitely said to her, Youll get mad at me. (0:28) The crew arrive at Kansas City. Im a really uncomfortable person. [But] she explained to me why she wanted me to do it, which was because of everything that I am, and that she just wanted me to be me. The trio bring her to their home and offer to buy several subscriptions if she eats the worm at the bottom of a bottle of mezcal. The soundtrack of "American Honey" is an eclectic mix of popular songs, indie rock, and hip-hop, reflecting the eclectic tastes of the film's young characters. And I'm trying to unravel it and work it out. Quickly, she encounters a group of teenagers in a nearby mega-store and sees a (1:48) Star spots Jake on the road. But its heartbreaking, because even though theres an element of grown-up desire to that scenario, the way Star voices it shes like a little girl talking about what she wants to be when she grows up. Then you've got to be that person, you know? GROSS: Now, I read that you hosted a couple of teen shows in England. wait to get goin/But wasnt quite ready to leave. This brilliant European GROSS: Are not professional actors. And what I read is that there was no one going to miss them, and they were not leaving very much behind. Normally, music comes at the end, she says. And I think a lot of the people I met who had met the mag crews, when they bought the magazines, they were really trying to help the person that was in front of them. 2022 WhatSong Soundtracks. And I actually - I remember going for an audition for "Cats," which I thought, maybe all we have to do is go around the stage like a cat, you know, be like a cat. But she has to report to Krystal, who's really hardened, tough woman who runs the crew. We get the sense For a while, things between Jake and Star are tense, and Krystal threatens to drop her on the side of the road if she keeps causing trouble. People ask me that all the time, like - I always think every time I work on a project I've kind of got to work something out for myself. (2:01) Krystal plays this song as the girls exit the car and start dancing along to the song. Andrea Arnolds Learn More{{/message}}. They dont sell their bodies, but in a way they do: Most of them are striking-looking in a trashed-runaway vagabond skate-punk way, and they use their pierced-and-tattooed street charisma to evoke pity and awe. A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest wit Read allA teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits.A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits. The music serves as an essential component of the film and adds to its impact, helping to bring its themes to life. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. The crew leave the new house as Star introduces herself to the new girl, Drema. He knows she'll go down to the water and let it out and while she does that they leave him. She wants to become a professional dancer. The film was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Jury Prize. It must have been hilarious to watch. The characters in American Honey have cut themselves loose from their parents (the implication is that they probably had good reason to i.e., they came from She's trying things on. Please contact the developer of this form processor to improve this message. exaggerated imagery of the heartland of the United Statesmen in cowboy hats I never know how they're going to work out. In the center of it all is Sasha Lane as Star, just as bright (if not brighter), and He's a skeleton. First song as Jake and his crew drive pass by Star. Rolling Stone is a part of Penske Media Corporation. want to do and what were ready for, as phrased in the song that gives Andrea "Copperhead Road" by Steve Earl is a classic country tune that speaks to the film's themes of youth, freedom, and the search for identity. Really, you know, my mom was a single mom. Honey Invert sugar Malt sugar Molasses Raw sugar Sugar Sugar molecules ending in ose (dextrose, fructose, glucose, lactose, maltose, sucrose) Syrup On some food products, you may see claims related to sugars. And Nadia was pretty good at that. Interestingly, I have met a bunch of people who come from Middle America, and they said, Oh, you really captured it for me. Pagan: You know what Darth Vader looks like beneath that mask? Whats wrong with the kids today? Sign in to rate and Watchlist for personalized recommendations. Guy Lodge of Variety was extremely positive, writing, "Part dreamy millennial picaresque, part distorted tapestry of Americana and part exquisitely illustrated iTunes musical, "Honey" daringly commits only to the loosest of narratives across its luxurious 162-minute running time. Something about that just calmed me. The truck guy plays this song in his truck as Star sings along to this song. One of the girls I met, she literally came out of jail. Star does, and makes the sale. Star is attracted to Jake, but really, what is she being lured into? Pretty raw at times. What do you tell them so that you don't sound totally crazy and that you don't sound like, you know, a pervert trying to get them into some kind of trap? Thats not my thing I want everyone to be really dancing, cause musics such a big part of my life and especially that crew., American Honeys brazen, propulsive tunes drive the film forward, but its the unexpected, tempestuous love story between Star and Jake that give the film its center. Instead, thanks to its commitment to- and obvious love for the subject, and its sometimes comedic, sometimes very raw and sensitive little beats, it was a thoroughly enjoyable experience. I wont tell you that American Honey is anything likea perfect movie; it goes on too long, falling off in the last act. Andrea Arnolds American Honey features numerous mise-en-scnes in which the American flag is billowing in the wind. So she's got Jake doing it. Breaks Down His Killer White House Correspondents Dinner Set, New Jeans, Rina Sawayama, Saweetie Among Gold House A100 Honorees, Newsmax Accuses Murdochs of Designing a New-World-Order Globalist Kill List Against Tucker Carlson, DeSantis' Disney Board Will Countersue the Mouse, 'Redfall' is a Decent Looter Shooter With an Identity Crisis. Jake, however, fearing the worst, arrives and threatens the men with a gun before stealing their car. the country. And so the head of the crew says, OK, you're hired. So tell us a little bit about what your home was like. around the next corner kept us unsettled and needing to move. WebAmerican Honey streaming: where to watch online? And in "Fish Tank," what she thinks is going to be her way out is dancing. And ARNOLD: Yeah. Andrea Arnold also directed "Fish Tank" and "Wuthering Heights" as well as several episodes of the series "Transparent.". Echoing the scene with the cowboys, Star is off again on her own, but this time earning extracurricular cash prostituting herself to an oil worker. of community they have created and that they need so badly. So I went to an audition just out of the blue. Krystal pairs Star up with her best salesperson, Jake, entrusting him with showing her the ropes as they go door to door. LaBeoufs all-in performance as the scroungy, fast-talking Jake has deservedly received plenty of attention since the movie premiered at Cannes, where it won the Jury Prize. "American Honey" explores themes of youth, freedom, and the search for identity, and is a visually stunning and emotionally charged film. GROSS: So since I don't have the answer to that, let me ask you another question. [29][30][31] In late May 2015, production was reported in Mission Hills, Kansas and areas of Kansas City, Missouri,[32][33] as well as Missouri Valley, Iowa. Is the whole thing a scam, or is there actually a magazine that's delivered in the end? I'm interested in your approach to casting especially the casting of the teenagers who were not professional actors. They have great taste in pop culture, and guess what? I don't want them to feel kind of weirded out by us, you know. And there are quite a few kind of people going around looking for girls to be in porn films. [34] The pool scene was filmed at a private residence in Bennington, Nebraska. This is how I do things I'm always casting a mixture of actors and non-actors. So I never really asked her that much about it before we started, and then we're all filming. So she knocks on Krystal's motel room door, and Krystal starts, like, telling her what to do. After a break, we'll hear from the creator of the FXX comedy series "You're The Worst," Stephen Falk and the series co-star Aya Cash. And she's kind of got a thing for him now. I had this feeling something just told me to go with it. Principal photography began in May 2015 with filming taking place in several states across America. In the 163-minute movie that follows, a lot more of the latter gets done than the former. Jake returns to the crew as they sing along to this song. GROSS: Yes, right. Sometimes I don't go out in the very beginning. Thats at the very end of the film when people sort of bittersweetly know its going to end and theyve been on this journey together, says Oh. And that is the thing that I think made her leave in the end is that - she turned into something she didn't - she wasn't happy about. And she plays a teenager whose mother is an alcoholic and pays little attention to her, and the mother has a new boyfriend played by Michael Fassbender. American Honey follows Star (Lane), a young girl from a troubled home, who runs away with a traveling sales crew who drive across the American Midwest selling magazine subscriptions door to door. And Star says no. But I never got one. Its hard to be out 10, 12, 18 hours a day, trying to get people to buy things. 2023 Variety Media, LLC. I saw a lot of vulnerability, she says. Star is picked up by three strangers in cowboy hats who offer to help her, thinking she is being harassed by Jake. Theyre living day to daypartying, drinking, and singing their way across I work with casting directors, and they kind of - people who have done this before and they will go out to, like, places where the kind of people we're looking for might hang out. Why is this movie in 1.37:1 (4:3)? You know, I got a little lost there in my teens, and I'm really working on myself, man. Its the virus of freedom without a dream. One of the first flavored whiskeys on the market, Wild Turkey American Honey is an affordable yet well-made liqueur with a strong honey flavor. Any sad spiel, and they'll just say it over and over and over again 'til it's meaningless. Lane plays Star, a rebellious teenager residing in the aforementioned Muskogee, who is taking care of two children when she runs into Jake (Shia LaBeouof) at a local K-Mart parking lot. And then as Krystal's kind of ordering - you know, like, telling Star what she has to do, she basically tells Jake that she wants him to do her legs. I think that that has to unravel in the film, and I leave room for people to put themselves - or to work it out or to go argue in the bar afterwards. It's about a group of teenagers who are abandoned, are homeless and have become something of a family traveling together by van from town to town, state to That night, Krystal calls Star in and tells her that Jake has posted his lowest sales ever. The website's critical consensus reads, "American Honey offers a refreshingly unconventional take on the coming-of-age drama whose narrative risks add up to a rewarding experience even if they don't all pay off. And John Powers will review the new HBO series "Westworld" which premieres Sunday. When they sing along, theyre expressing the feeling Both are guilty of armed robbery (I wonder why the police werent looking for both of them after the cowboy caper) and Jake is certainly guilty of assaulting the oil worker. Even though the movie has ended it is made clear that the events going on in the Get Access Of Mice And Men Suspense The filmed opened up with a flashback of a girl in a red dress. And she wants to look brown all the time (laughter). makes her feature debut confidently, never feeling like shes performing as Still, she wastes too much time (the film clocks in at around a lugubrious two and a half hours)covering her mindless magazine subscription agents as they boorishly interact inside their van heading to one city after another. One might think I'm always impressed when filmmakers know exactly what they're doing. In the car on the way to Kansas, Star meets the other members of the crew. Brian Tallerico is the Managing Editor of RogerEbert.com, and also covers television, film, Blu-ray, and video games. When they return to the hotel for the evening, Jake tells her not to mention their relationship, and he gives the money Star earned to Krystal. One of our casting directors suggested him, she says, and I thought, Oh, thats a really interesting idea. So I met with him, and he has a huge energy. It had a lot of resonance for me just the world and what it involved, and all these kids coming from quite difficult places where they dont have too much family. I've always found ways to dance, however, you know, wherever life has taken me. We all remember those years when we So walk me through this. grilling meat by a pool, oil fields blazing at night, a trucker listening to eventually Star as he probably senses his youthful days are coming to an end. WebThere is little chance that she is just going to settle down and hold a 9-5 job. All right, let's go. GROSS: Who need a way out of the situation that they're in. With all of my scenes, I don't want to go into them. WebThat's the genius and pain of American Honey: the depiction of a world that seems unlimited but which offers no sense at all of how to take advantage of that GROSS: If you're just joining us, my guest is Andrea Arnold. For the 70th BAFTA Awards, American Honey received a nomination for Best British Film. GROSS: Oh, OK. [19] Arnold discovered Sasha Lane while she was on spring break with her friends; Lane decided to audition for the film and was cast in the lead role. - in England? Im not trying to do a whole thing about America that is everybodys idea about America, she admits. The crew ends up living temporarily in a rundown house, and Jake and Star renew their relationship. You've got to read them. Just like the rest of us. ARNOLD: You didn't wash your hands because Jake has, like, fake tan on - you know, orange hands. GROSS: This is FRESH AIR, and if you're just joining us, my guest is Andrea Arnold. Star declines but Jake nevertheless tells her to meet them in the parking lot of the local Motel 6 the next morning. We got them all together, we sent them out. For a moment, youre high on the moment. Lanes innate depth and charisma carries American Honey, and explodes in the hormonal throes of first love when her Star meets Jake (Shia LeBeouf), the number 2 For decades, teen rebellion has been the cutting edgeof sexual revolution (how to dress, dance, hook up),and who wants to take a stand against that? Star has a dream too, of sorts: She fantasizes that she can be with Jake, that theyll move to a shack somewhere and have lots of kids. ARNOLD: I still can't twerk I've been trying. I dance just basically all the time now. LABEOUF: (As Jake) That's a bunch of [expletive], all that. 7 snazzgasm 6 yr. ago Jake plays this song as they leave the cowboy's house. And what her fellow travelers keep telling her, with the dissolve-on-contact sensuality of their live-for-the-moment life, is that dreams arent for them. And so, you know, I wouldn't want to talk about those things. So this movie is inspired by real magazine crews, like mag crews. But I had chatted a lot to people who had done it before, so I heard a lot of things. WebAmerican Honey (2016) Full Cast & Crew See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro Directed by Andrea Arnold Writing Credits (in alphabetical order) Cast (in credits order) Produced by Cinematography by Robbie Ryan Film Editing by Joe Bini Casting By Lucy Pardee Jennifer Venditti Production Design by Kelly McGehee Art Direction by Lance GROSS: Andrea Arnold, thank you so much for talking with us. [46] In May 2016, Universal Pictures and Focus Features acquired international distribution rights to the film. The 50 Worst Decisions in Music History He is also a writer for Vulture, The Playlist,The New York Times, and GQ,and the President of the Chicago Film Critics Association. [5][6][7] American Honey received positive reviews, with Lane's performance receiving critical praise and accolades along with those of LaBeouf and Keough. Theres a key It felt like a real dysfunctional road trip with some interesting characters. That's the make-or-break moment 'cause in that second, you've got to work them. [18], Arnold "street cast" by searching beaches, streets, and approaching drunk teenagers. Yet when you see American Honey, you may feel that teenage rebellion, for the first time, has gone about as far as it can go that its reached a point where its consuming itself. And then the head of the crew, a woman who is played by Riley Keough, who is Elvis Presley's granddaughter - and she's terrific in this - she says to Star, you've got anyone who'll miss you? creates a privacy, a sense that were in the van with Star and the rest of the "Recharge and Revolt" by The Raveonettes and "Dream Big Baby" by Bruce Springsteen add an element of defiance and rebelliousness, reflecting the film's themes of youthful rebellion. Jake, in a fit of jealousy, attacks the oil worker (off screen) and is eventually let go by Krystal, who informs Star that hes been sleeping with all the girls hes recruited for her.Despite all of the negativity, director Arnold attempts to make her protagonist more sympathetic when she shows Star buying groceries for a bunch of kids in a rundown area in Rapid City, South Dakota. The main character (Finn Whitrock) was dead by the midway point eaten by Alma (Ryan Kiera Armstrong), who gets away in the end. Lil Wayne & Natasha Mosley), Jeremih, Lil Wayne, Jeremy Felton, Matthew O'brien, Natasha Mosley, Tricon Markous Roberts & Dwayne Carter. GROSS: Oh, it's fake tan. All rights reserved. And we do something called - we call it street casting, where we just go out. tomorrow. A long time ago, teenagers were seen as delinquent destroyers of the status quo, but we now tend to assume that theyre simply leading the way. magazine sales group who collects the cash and makes the assignments. The following morning, the crew get in the car and there is a new girl there, while Jake is missing. Like for this film, they went out to like county fairs or they go to Wal-Mart, and they would just sit around and like look for people that might be the right kind of people for the film. They both give terrific performances, but most of the cast is comprised of teenagers with no acting experience, including the lead Sasha Lane, who plays a girl who runs away and joins the mag crew. The server responded with {{status_text}} (code {{status_code}}). And when I'm writing them - I mean, when I was writing that scene, I didn't kind of expect that to happen. 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A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest wit A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits. And it was a great thing for me because I had money for the first time. You ain't got to listen to all that. Arnold first learned about magazine crews - or mag crews as they're called - from a New York Times article about them. It is an amazing place to be where you can show something that perhaps doesnt get seen.. motion toward an uncertain future. ARNOLD: A little bit. GROSS: So what stories did you hear from the one person who you cast who had actually done this sort of work? They want something from me. [13][14][15] In researching for the film, Arnold embarked on a road trip from California to Miami, Florida. The breed of amoral nihilists that Arnold finds so fascinating here certainly dont deserve our commendation. ARNOLD: Some people get a magazine, some people don't. And I didn't know how I was going to, like, you know, live my life, what I was going to do. During this time, she worked on the second draft of the script and used the opportunity to meet with potential casting directors. Jake ARNOLD: I mean, I do this pretty much on almost all my films. WhatSong is the worlds largest collection of movie & tv show soundtracks and playlists. Learn More{{/message}}, {{#message}}{{{message}}}{{/message}}{{^message}}It appears your submission was successful. Over the past 10 years, the United States has gone from producing more than half of all the honey it consumes to importing the vast majority, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This vibrant road-trip movie follows a directionless teen named Star (played by luminous first-timer Sasha Lane) who gets involved with a crew of fellow lost souls selling magazines door-to-door.
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