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  NATURAL BORN KILLERS (1994), ChildCare Action Project (CAP) Media Analysis Report Report MAR05599
The bottom line: "Natural Born Killers" is a movie with all manner of corruptive influence right out of the smoking pits of Hell.
"Natural Born Killers" required 10, four more than even "The Basketball Diaries." Recall if you will that "The Basketball Diaries" (R, 1994) was a movie suspected of having an influence on the decision of a young student to shoot several classmates.
The theme of "Natural Born Killers" might be invisible to some.
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 Amazon.com: Natural Born Killers: DVD: Woody Harrelson,Juliette Lewis,Tom Sizemore,Rodney Dangerfield,Everett ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
"Natural Born Killers" is a brilliant, disturbing depiction of the shallowness of American culture at the end of the 20th century.
NBK is a film that has a lot of twists to it when it comes to direction and overall approach.
"Natural Born Killers" is Oliver Stone's "take-no-prisoners" assault on the media that is cinematic eye-candy to the teeth.
www.amazon.com /Natural-Born-Killers-Woody-Harrelson/dp/B00003BDXG   (1889 words)

  
  Natural Born Killers (1994)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
What 'Natural Born Killers' plays on is the question - 'why did we, the people, turn on to CNN and watch a white bronco cruising through the streets of Los Angeles one day in 1994?'.
So there are 3 questions that 'Natural Born Killers' raises without a lot of people really understanding them.
'Natural Born Killers' subversively explains this, that THEY are the problem, and many members of the mainstream media didn't like because they were what the film was about.
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  Natural born killers
Born to kill, natural killer cells are constantly on the prowl for potentially dangerous invaders, ready to unleash their deadly arsenal at a moment's notice.
Natural killer cells are armed with enzyme-filled sacs that spill their deadly contents when infected or cancerous cells cross the killer's path.
For natural killer cells those signals - two well-established ligands of Tyro3 proteins called Gas6 and protein S - are secreted by bone marrow stromal cells, which form the local support network for natural killer cell precursors constantly generated in the bone marrow.
www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2006-06/si-nbk060506.php   (662 words)

  
 EUFS: Natural Born Killers
Thought-provoking, violent, sarcastic and incredibly intense, Natural Born Killers is a disturbingly accurate and explicit satire on the media and modern society.
Natural Born Killers is no exception, riding on a wave of media hype with the BBFC delaying its release and reports of copycat killings preceding it into the UK.
NBK draws upon the visual imagery of Stone's previous work: the dreamlike quality of "the Doors", the brutality of "Platoon" and "Salvador" and the harsh, detached observation of "JFK".
www.eufs.org.uk /films/natural_born_killers.html   (1144 words)

  
 Natural Born Killers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Natural Born Killers is a 1994 motion picture directed by Oliver Stone and starring Juliette Lewis and Woody Harrelson.
The phrase "natural born killer" was actually used in Truman Capote's nonfiction novel In Cold Blood, allegedly said by Lowell Lee Andrews, who murdered his family and was hanged in the Kansas State Penitentiary; whether Tarantino took the phrase from him or it is coincidental is unclear
The character of Mickey was inspired by real-life spree killer Charles Starkweather.
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 DVD Verdict Review - Natural Born Killers
Natural Born Killers is presented with a 1.85:1 non-anamorphic transfer.
The animal nature of man is being highlighted, and oftentimes the killers themselves are shown to be as human as the people they kill.
Natural Born Killers is, above all else, a commentary on how, as a society we condemn violence, while hypocritically glorifying it in the media.
www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/nbk.php   (1968 words)

  
 ScienceDaily: Natural Born Killers
Born to kill, natural killer cells are constantly on the prowl for potentially dangerous invaders, ready to unleash their deadly arsenal at a moment's notice.
Natural killer cells are armed with enzyme-filled sacs that spill their deadly contents when infected or cancerous cells cross the killer's path.
For natural killer cells those signals - two well-established ligands of Tyro3 proteins called Gas6 and protein S - are secreted by bone marrow stromal cells, which form the local support network for natural killer cell precursors constantly generated in the bone marrow.
www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2006/06/060605115713.htm   (768 words)

  
 NATURAL BORN KILLERS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
"Natural Born Killers" details the lives of two serial killers, Mickey and Mallory Knox (Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis) as they kill a bunch of assorted innocent civilians.
When, at fifteen years of age, I first saw "Natural Born Killers" I was in love with the film, but for the wrong reasons.
In "Natural Born Killers," he goes WAY over the top, but for good reasons, and the results are effective.
www.naturalbornviewers.com /archive/n/naturalbornkillers/review.htm   (500 words)

  
 Natural Born Killers
But with Natural Born Killers, Stone revealed his true nature -- not just in his relentlessly pandering and derivative "stylistic" doodling, but in the way he took all the satirical energy and purpose out of Quentin Tarantino's original script.
In claiming that NBK is but a mirror, simply reflecting the violence in the media and society at large, Stone is virtually admitting that his movie has no point of view that would give satirical context to the violence it portrays.
Why are the killings presented from the killers’ point of view, and the victims always made comically loathsome and somehow "deserving" of their deaths -- oh, except for the racist stereotype of The Indian, that is.
cinepad.com /reviews/nbk.htm   (1586 words)

  
 Natural Born Killers
It is still cited in murder cases as the trigger for teenage killing sprees, and is mentioned in dispatches whenever Hollywood is criticised for its levels of violence.
However, NBK is a satire, with its lairy soundtrack, hack'n'slash editing and appropriation of then-youth icon Tarantino's script, it seems aimed squarely at the 15-25 year old butt-rock-kick-ass-we-need-more-guns market, who whooped and cheered Mickey and Mallory's antics and missed the point completely.
Stone has always aimed for originality in his work, and NBK is the very unoriginal remake of the seminal Badlands (1973).
www.mediaknowall.com /violence/nbknotes.html   (1522 words)

  
 Gene Expression: Natural Born Killers
In general, the natural killer found in the US Army lacks social emotions, is a later son (not first-born), got into frequent fights as a child, enjoys contact sports, is from a middle or upper class background, is an extrovert, has above-average intelligence and a caustic sense of humor.
Natural killers are motivated by competition and excitement, not a sense of sacrifice—they are not the kind of soldiers who will leap on a grenade to protect others.
Another characteristic of the natural killer is to usurp authority in a crisis to turn the tide of battle.
www.gnxp.com /MT2/archives/000854.html   (3328 words)

  
 Natural Born Killers St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles
The $34 million film Natural Born Killers, directed by Oliver Stone,; was released in August of 1994 amidst expectations that its storyline, about a serial-killing young couple named Mickey and Mallory Knox, would create another media furor similar to or even greater than the one that centered around Stone's 1991 conspiracy epic, JFK.
Though not as overtly political as most of Stone's work, Natural Born Killers does illustrate once more that Stone, unlike many of his big-name Hollywood contemporaries, is more interested in antagonizing his mainstream audiences than comforting them.
Part one of the film opens in a southwestern diner, where Mickey and Mallory Knox, in the midst of a cross-country murder spree, massacre all of the employees and patrons except one, who is left behind "to tell the tale of Mickey and Mallory" to investigators.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419100873   (995 words)

  
 Natural Born Killers review
Natural Born Killers is the most brain-dead and cowardly film I've seen in a very long time.
So, if Natural Born Killers has become "the most controversial movie of the year" or "the most talked about movie of the season" or "the most argued-about movie of the month," it's not because it makes any sort of bold political, sociological or aesthetic statement.
Stone has also said that Natural Born Killers is a condemnation of the way our crazy culture, and the media in particular, glorify and exploit violence (some ads use the laughably hypocritical line: "The Media Made them Superstars!").
cinepad.com /reviews/nbkreview.htm   (1437 words)

  
 Natural Born Killers: The Director's Cut
Natural Born Killers is a hard movie to classify, genre-wise, and one with an interesting history where censorship and press reaction is concerned.
Before we begin analysing the video transfer, it has to be borne in mind that this film was deliberately shot in a number of different ways for artistic reasons.
Natural Born Killers is a piece of entertainment that somehow fails as social commentary because it fails to dig past the surface of its topic, but it also forms a good argument that Quentin Tarantino is nothing more than an overrated sulk.
www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/NaturalBornKillersDC.html   (2476 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Film | Interviews | Natural born copycats
After their arrest, it was revealed that they had prepared for the trip by dropping acid and screening Natural Born Killers on a continuous loop throughout the night.
According to the suit, the makers of Natural Born Killers were "distributing a film they knew, or should have known would cause and inspire people to commit crimes".
Violence is in us - it's a natural state of man. What I was doing was pointing the finger at the system that feeds off thatviolence, and at the media that package it for mass consumption.
film.guardian.co.uk /interview/interviewpages/0,6737,862931,00.html   (1452 words)

  
 sbbfc - Student Resources - Case Studies - Natural Born Killers
The idea that ordinary people had been turned into killers by being exposed to a particular film was not one with which the FBI or local police forces in America had any sympathy.
The one case in France turned out to have been politically motivated, the killers having formed their own anarchist group well in advance of the crime and having been supplied with a pump-action shotgun by two other anarchists who have been imprisoned for complicity in the offence.
Having satisfied itself that the film Natural Born Killers has not had the pernicious effect it was reported as having, the Board finally awarded a cinema certificate on 19th December 1994.
www.sbbfc.co.uk /NBK.asp   (771 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Natural Born Killers - Box Set [1995]: DVD: Woody Harrelson,Juliette Lewis,Oliver Stone,Robert Downey ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Much has been written about Natural Born Killers since its release, with widely differing viewpoints and focuses ranging from its effect on the audience to its use of the 'MTV generation' style (a description which is fast-becoming more of a cliché than the style itself).
How each individual will respond to Natural Born Killers cannot be predicted, but what is certain is that no matter what you think of it, you'll never forget it.
Yes, it's very controversial, one cannot help siding with the killers but it is still oen hell of a trip through the fled out heart of youth and the flipside of the American dream.
www.amazon.co.uk /Natural-Born-Killers-Box-Set/dp/B00005R1K6   (906 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Natural Born Killers - Director's Cut [1995]: DVD: Woody Harrelson,Juliette Lewis,Tom Sizemore,Rodney ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
I wanted to see Natural Born Killers for ages, but as it wasnt available in the UK, I couldnt buy it (I only had a r2 dvd player at the time and PAL video).
From a screenplay by Quentin Tarantino, Natural Born Killers tells the story of Mickey and Mallory: their obsessive and wildly romantic relationship and their brutal, indiscriminate killing spree.
Natural Born Killers is not for the squeamish, but it is a truly outstanding and groundbreaking film.
www.amazon.co.uk /Natural-Born-Killers-Directors-Cut/dp/B00008V6WF   (1364 words)

  
 Natural Born Killers
Born on the Fourth of July, the biopic of Ron Kovic, was vilified for inventing scenes meant to give more punch to an already hard-hitting story.
The director’s most controversial feature is Natural Born Killers, a hyper, hypnotic collage of sound and image in which Stone points his self-righteous camera at the media, especially television news.
Natural Born Killers is an anomoly in Stone’s career: it’s behind, rather than in tune with, the times.
www.angelfire.com /oh2/writer/naturalbornkillers.html   (857 words)

  
 NaturalBornKillers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Natural Born Killers, directed by Oliver Stone, has been critiqued as a satire of America's glorification of violence.
Mickey and Mallory Knox are in love and consider themselves to be natural born killers who have evolved by giving into their instinct to kill.
Stone does not allow the viewer to be able to form a relationship with the victims in order to create that death of affect.
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 Natural Born Killers - Rotten Tomatoes
NBK brilliantly leaves the attentive viewer with more questions as to whether they’re part of the solution or the problem itself.
Natural Born Killers is exactly the kind of bullying, mindless assault that Stone excoriates the media for perpetrating.
Natural Born Killers is basically a flawed masterpiece, but at least gives its message across.
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/natural_born_killers   (822 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Natural Born Killers (Widescreen): DVD: Oliver Stone,Woody Harrelson,Juliette Lewis,Robert Downey Jr.,Tommy ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The whole theme of Natural Born Killers is that the media is obsessive over violence and brutality; therefore, the extreme violence in the movie is used as a satire, not as entertainment.
There's nothing gratifying in Natural Born Killers but there is an important message on how the media nowadays glorifies violence, creating cult followers for mass murderers - what Oliver Stone manages to do is portray the negative in the 90's, particularly American pseudo-culture.
NATURAL BORN KILLERS is an aggressive, in-your-face, timeless bloodsoaked masterpiece.
www.amazon.ca /Natural-Killers-Widescreen-Woody-Harrelson/dp/B00003BDXG   (2137 words)

  
 "Natural Born Killers", early, by Quentin Tarantino
We're gonna have the first sit down, in depth interview with the most charismatic serial killer ever, one day before he's being shipped to a mental hospital for the rest of his life.
STEVE But...if I was a serial killer, which I'm not, but if I was, I'd be like Mickey.
A what I tried to do with 'Thrill Killers' was trace the root of the problem all the way down the vine to the original bad seed.
www.dailyscript.com /scripts/natural-born-killers_early.html   (13036 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Natural Born Killers at Epinions.com
At least with Born on the 4th of July, JFK, Platoon, etc., there was a hint of a message, an ideal, thoughts to be explored.
With Natural Born Killers there is absolutely no value to the film at all.
I didn't think 'Natural Born Killers' was any satire at all, I thought it was a tragic and horrible exercise in making money by Oliver Stone and his cronies.
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 BBC News | ENTERTAINMENT | Natural Born Killers lawsuit dropped   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit against director Oliver Stone claiming his movie Natural Born Killers prompted a young couple's violent crime spree.
The case was brought by the family of Louisiana store clerk Patsy Byers who was shot and paralysed in 1995 in a rampage by Sarah Edmondson and her boyfriend Ben Darras.
Edmondson and Darras told investigators they were inspired by Natural Born Killers, which they had watched repeatedly.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/1217642.stm   (350 words)

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