Natural Born Killers 2
Natural Born Killers 2
Natural Born Killers is a story by Quentin Tarantino who sold the screenplay to a friend who latter sold it to Oliver Stone. Stone and his fellow screenwriters rewrote the original script. This doing horrified Tarantino, so with a private meeting they both met and resolved the conflict to the two scripts. In there finial edit they wrote the characters to fit certain movie stars. Natural Born Killers stars Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis, with Robert Downey Jr., Tommy Lee Jones, Tom Sizemore, and Rodney Dangerfield.
Woody Harrelson stars as Mickey Knox, a self-proclaimed Natural Born Killer. His girlfriend is Mallory, played by Juliette Lewis. Over the period of the film, Mickey and Mallory get married and go on a killing spree, starting with Mallory's parents (played by Rodney Dangerfield and Edie McClurg). The film revolves around these two "mass murderers" as they go through many changes and many killings. We don't see them all, but we get the idea that they have killed many people. However, the second part of the movie collides with the first segment as soon as the media shows up. The media is represented in one main figure, and some other smaller parts. The main representation is Wayne Gale (Robert Downey Jr.), a talk show host who is obsessed with serial killers, especially Mickey and Mallory. This talk show host along with other forms of the media has made Mickey and Mallory stars. It shows that serial killers can become as famous as movie stars and sports stars. In fact, this film is about so many things that it' s hard to explain in a review.
The Motion Picture Association edited 32 minutes during its review prior to the release of the censored version, they were latter edited back in on the directors cut version of Natural Born Killers. The movie starts out with various different shots in a diner out in the desert, where the film transfers from black and white to color shots. There are also many parts of the film that is edited from 35 mm, 16 mm, 8 mm shots, to video tape to super red tape
As the introduction of the film roles it shows background scenes of different symbolism of who they are and different chaos they have created to their victims. In the second scene there is a small episode of, "I Love Mallory" with the background of a live audience. This is where Mickey and Mallory meet and fall in love. Mallory falls in love with Mickey upon first sight, Mallory's dad who is the father from hell played by Rodney Dangerfield who has been raping Mallory since she was about twelve has Mickey arrested and put to jail. After Mickey was released from being incarcerated he goes and reclaims Mallory from the father from hell by killing...
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