SectionC Natural Born Killers

Section C Natural Born Killers

Natural Born Killers

Directed by: Oliver Stone


Budget: $34million


Box Office: $61,615,296


Natural Born Killers is a 1994 American crime-action film about two victims of traumatic childhoods who became lovers and mass murderers, and are irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.

Stars

Woody Harrelson

Woody Harrelson is an American actor and activist. His breakout role came in the television sitcomCheers as bartender Woody Boyd. Some notable film characters include basketball hustler Billy Hoyle in White Men Can't Jump, a crippled bowler in Kingpin, serial killer Mickey Knox in Natural Born Killers,Haymitch Abernathy in The Hunger Games, and Merritt McKinney in Now You See Me. 

Juliette Lewis

Juliette Lewis is an American actress and singer. She gained fame for her role in Martin Scorsese's 1991 remake of the thriller Cape Fear for which she was nominated for both an Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress. This followed with major roles in What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Natural Born Killers, Strange Days, The Evening Star, Kalifornia, From Dusk Till Dawn, andThe Other Sister. Her work in television has resulted in two Emmy nominations.


Lewis launched a career as a singer and musician, leading the American rock band, Juliette and the Licks, until 2009 when she launched a solo career


  

The film is based on a screenplay by Quentin Tarantino that was heavily revised by Stone with writer Dave Veloz and associate producer Richard Rutowski. Notorious for its violent content, the film was named the eighth most controversial film of all time by Entertainment Weekly in 2006.

• Natural Born Killers was promoted with such taglines as: "A bold new film that takes a look at a country seduced by fame, obsessed by crime and consumed by the media" and "In the media circus of life, they were the main attraction." It was released theatrically in the United States on August 26, 1994.

Studio

• Regency Enterprises
• Alcor Films
• New Regency

Distributed by

• Warner Bros Pictures
• Lionsgate Films

    

Introduction

Mickey Knox (Woody Harrelson) and his wife Mallory (Juliette Lewis) stop at a roadside café in the New Mexico desert. A group of rednecks  arrive and one begins sexually harassing Mallory. She briefly encourages him before beating him to a pulp. Mickey and Mallory then murder all but one of the diner's patrons, culminating in a morbid game of Eeny meeny, miny, moe to decide who lives and who dies. After executing the waitress Mabel, the couple ensures that the only survivor remembers their names (which is their modus operandi) before they embrace and declare their undying love. Note that Owen Traft, participant in later scenes and an alternative ending to the movie, is in the roadside café and fades out before the "action" occurs.