TAMPA, Fla. — When “Spring Breakers” released in theaters, the nation had just reinaugurated Barack Obama. “Argo” had just won best picture, and its director, Ben Affleck, was not yet “sad Ben Affleck.” Months later, Miley Cyrus twerked at the MTV Video Music Awards, which we still really cared about.
Cyrus may have overshadowed the other innocence-annihilating moment of 2013. That was, of course, the appearance of Disney’s Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens raging and rampaging alongside Ashley Benson of “Pretty Little Liars” in “Spring Breakers.” Yet it feels like the movie’s pop cultural boom echoed longer (spring break, forever, y’all).
Filmed around St. Petersburg, St. Pete Beach and Tampa, “Spring Breakers” briefly consumed local culture.
