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They drive to a drugstore to find snakebite antidote, but the pharmacist sets off the silent alarm before Mickey kills him. Soon police cars arrive and Mallory is captured and subsequently beaten by the police. A gunfight breaks out between Mickey and the others. Scagnetti arrives and tells Mickey that unless he surrenders, he will cut off Mallory's breasts.

Mickey gives up his guns, but attacks Scagnetti with a knife. The police taser him and the scene ends with Mickey and Mallory being beaten by a group of vengeful policemen as a Japanese news crew fronted by a female reporter films the action. The story picks up one year later: the homicidal couple have been imprisoned, and are due to be moved to a mental hospital after being declared insane. Scagnetti arrives at the prison and encounters Warden Dwight McClusky, with whom he plans to murder the two criminals.

McClusky will arrange for Scagnetti to be the driver for the Knoxes' transfer. Alone with the pair, Scagnetti will murder them, then claim that they tried to escape. Meanwhile, Gale has persuaded Mickey to agree to a live interview that will air immediately after the Super Bowl. Mallory is held in solitary confinement elsewhere in the prison, awaiting her transport to the mental hospital. During the interview, Mickey gives a speech about how murder provides enlightenment and declares himself a "natural born killer".

His words inspire the other inmates who are watching the interview on TV in the recreation room and incite them to riot. McClusky, upon learning of the riot, orders the interview terminated despite Gale's vehement protests. Mickey is left alone with Gale, the film crew and several guards. Using a lengthy joke as a diversion, Mickey overpowers a guard and grabs his shotgun. He kills most of the guards with it and takes the survivors hostage, leading them through the prison riot.

So where films really intersect with life, and really help or hurt us, is in how they teach us what is behavior, and how to interact, and they make judgments of that.

So movies always move, the subversive movies always allow for freakier and freakier, wilder and more amoral behavior. And that behavior inevitably shocks those people who have not moved their behavior in that manner. I think sometimes, it's a question of style, how you do it. If you make the right announcement with the right PR, or whatever it is, if you just do it, you risk being castigated as a provocateur or as a person who does not have the interests of society at heart.

It's a comic love story. The two characters are fated to be together, as they complete one another. Mallory teaches Mickey how to love, and he teaches her how to feel good about herself. Mickey wants to see Hollywood movies about love, she wants a one to one relationship; she wants him to find her sexy; "The real story all along has been the deepening of the love between Mickey and Mallory.

Oliver Stone: I do believe there's love at the end, and as Mickey says, I do believe love beats the demon. And I find it ironic that it is Mickey and Mallory who are the ones who escape the "great yawn", the great boredom of being a spectator, always trapped in a spectacle.

You sense that they have broken through this cycle of violence, that it will not be part of their lives anymore, and they don't need it. Their consciousness has elevated. And I think that that's good; the chain from Rodney Dangerfield and Mickey's father is now broken.

It's about freedom, and the ability of every human being to get it. Fuck it. On March 5th, , Sarah Edmondson and her boyfriend Benjamin Darras both 18 spent the night at his family's cabin in Oklahoma, dropping acid and watching Natural Born Killers. The following morning, they left the cabin armed with a. On March 7th, they arrived at Hernando, Mississippi, where Darras shot and killed cotton-mill manager William Savage by shooting him twice in the head at point blank range.

They then travelled to Ponchatoula, Louisiana, where Edmondson shot Patsy Byers, a convenient store cashier. Byers survived the attack, but was rendered paraplegic. It subsequently transpired that Savage was a friend of popular author John Grisham , who publicly accused Oliver Stone of being irresponsible in making the film, claiming that filmmakers should be held accountable for their work when it incites viewers to commit violent acts.

In July , Byers took legal actions against Edmondson and Darras, but in March, , she amended her lawsuit to include Stone and the Time Warner company. With the advice of Grisham, Byers' lawyers used a "product liability" claim, stating that the filmmakers "knew or should have known that the film would cause and inspire people to commit crimes such as the shooting of Patsy Ann Byers.

A case can be made that there exists a direct causal link between Natural Born Killers and the death of Bill Savage. It will take only one large verdict against the likes of Oliver Stone, and then the party will be over.

On January 23rd, , on the grounds that filmmakers and production companies are protected by the First Amendment, the case was dismissed, but Byers immediately appealed the decision, and on May 15th, , the Intermediate Louisiana Court of Appeals overturned the initial dismissal, claiming that Byers did indeed have a valid case against the filmmakers Byers herself had died of cancer in late As such, all of Hollywood eagerly awaited the outcome of the trial, because if Stone was found guilty, it would mean a drastic re-examination of industry practices and would carry all kinds of far reaching implications regarding the content of movies.

However, on March 12th, , in a landmark decision, Judge Robert Morrison dismissed the case on the grounds that there was no evidence that either Time Warner or Oliver Stone intended to incite violence. In June , the Louisiana Court of Appeal turned down an appeal from Byers attorneys, and the suit officially ended.

For John Grisham's "Unnatural Killers" article in its entirety, see here. For an article about the case being thrown out of court, see here. For a detailed article written during the case, see here. The filmmakers themselves have never really commented directly on the incident or on any of the murders which have been linked to the film [see below] , but several of them do make oblique references to it in Chaos Rising: The Storm Around 'Natural Born Killers' Oliver Stone for example says, "the reality is really surreality, it's not realistic to me [ This is an art film.

No, they bear little resemblance to one another, which is why Tarantino is credited with "Story by" and not as a screenwriter.

His original script was heavily rewritten by writer David Veloz , associate producer Richard Rutowski and director Oliver Stone. Whilst much of the dialogue is the same, the basic plot is completely different, as is the thematic focus of the movie. One of the primary differences between the script and the finished film is that in the screenplay, the central character is Wayne Gale, whereas in the film, the protagonists are Mickey and Mallory.

In Tarantino's script, Mickey and Mallory are arrested much earlier than in the film, and most of the narrative details Gale's attempts to put together his American Maniacs episode about the pair. Mickey and Mallory spend much less time onscreen, and there is significantly less time spent developing their characters. The ending is also slightly different insofar as in the film, there is a degree of ambiguity as to whether Mickey and Mallory will continue killing, but in the script there is little doubt that they will.

You can find the fifth draft of the shooting script here. The Byers' case is by far the most famous "copycat" case concerning the film probably due to the involvement of John Grisham , but it is certainly not the only one. Here are a selection of other cases in which NBK has been implicated. Texas decapitation: In , a year-old boy from Dallas, Texas decapitated a year-old girl from his class in school. When asked why he did it, he allegedly said it was because he "wanted to be famous.

Like the Natural Born Killers. Florence Rey and Audry Maupin: On October 4th, , an incident took place in Paris, France which resulted in the deaths of five people and stunned the entire country. Philosophy student Florence Rey 19 and her medical school drop-out boyfriend Audry Maupin 22 broke into a police impound, sprayed the two policemen on duty with tear gas and stole their handguns.

Upon arriving, Dialoo noticed a nearby police car, and in an attempt to alert them to the situation, he rammed the taxi into the car. Rey and Maupin then hijacked a passing car driven by Jacky Bensimon, ordering him to drive them to the Bois de Vincennes. Police gave chase, and during the pursuit, Maupin shot and killed motorcycle patrolman Guy Jacob.

Upon approaching the Vincennes, Rey and Maupin saw a roadblock had been set up and ordered Bensimon to drive through it. Bensimon however pulled the handbrake on the car, causing it to spin out of control. As it spun, he lept from the car, and as soon as he was clear, the police opened fire, killing Maupin and injuring Rey. During the subsequent trial, Rey refused to discuss or even acknowledge the incident, even to her own lawyers.

In early , her sentence was remitted, and she was discreetly released from prison on May 3rd. After the incident, when the police stormed the squat in which Rey and Maupin lived, they found a great deal of anarchist literature, and it was also discovered that the couple had already been under observation by the French secret police for their involvement in an underground anarchist movement. The NBK connection with this case is tenuous at best, and seems to be entirely media created.

Apart from a poster of the film on the wall of the building in which they lived although the poster was not in their room , no evidence has ever come to light that they were fans of or had even seen the film, and NBK was not even mentioned in the case until local tabloids began to compare Rey and Maupin to Mickey and Mallory. In a bizarre twist of life mirroring art, Rey became something of a folk hero amongst young people in Paris, appearing on T-shirts and posters and being celebrated as one half of a Bonnie and Clyde duo who dared stand up against an oppressive hegemony.

There is a great deal of information about this incident online see The New York Times article here for example , but very little about the NBK connection. For an excellent article from The Independent about the incident and the possible connection to the film see "The girl who said, Go on - plug him", by John Lichfield. Nathan Martinez: In October , year-old Nathan Martinez from Bluffdale, Utah, shot and killed his stepmother and year-old half-sister while they slept.

He was apprehended several days later in O'Neill, Nebraska, following a nationwide manhunt. Martinez was allegedly obsessed with the film and claims to have seen it at least 10 times in the days prior to the murders. He had even shaved his head the way Mickey does at the end of the movie, and he had taken to wearing the same style of round sunglasses as Mickey. There isn't a huge amount of detail about this case online, with most sites just giving the basic facts.

The BBC investigative documentary series Panorama also aired an episode about the links between violence in society and violence in entertainment in which the Martinez case was discussed. Truck driver: In after allegedly watching the movie 19 times, a gang of four people in their twenties killed a truck driver and made their getaway in his rig.

There is virtually no information on this case whatsoever. See here for a very brief mention, and here for the legal reference for the case go to page , n Lewis was on the phone to a friend discussing how he was planning on killing his mother and father and taking off for the road, when he suddenly announced, "I'm going to do it. He grabbed his father's gauge shotgun, and shot his mother who was sitting in a recliner watching television.

The shot didn't kill her, and as she screamed, he fired again, hitting his father, who was lying on a nearby couch. A third shot to his mothers face killed her, and a fourth shot to his father's head killed him.

According to Lewis' friend, Lewis then calmly returned to the phone and announced "I did it. It's done. All four boys were arrested. During interrogation, when asked why he did it, Lewis told investigators that it was because his parents had imposed a midnight curfew on him.

For more information on this case, see Charles M. Stabbing: In Avon, Massachusetts, June , three men, aged 18 to 20 killed a physically handicapped year-old man by stabbing him 27 times with a Bowie knife whilst he lay in bed. The attack was so ferocious that both of the man's wrists were broken due to the force of the attacks, and his body was split open from clavicle to spine.

After the incident, the ringleader bragged to his girlfriend about the murder. When she expressed horror at his actions, he asked her, "Haven't you ever seen Natural Born Killers before? It is also briefly mentioned along with many of the cases discussed here , in Peter Schweizer's article for the National Review "Bad Imitation".

Sodders had purchased a 9mm pistol and he and his friend Eric Calvin, had gone to the track to practice shooting. When they got there, Sodders encountered Halverson. He went out onto the track, and bent over pretending to tie his show laces. As Halverson approached, Sodders stood up and shot him at point black range.

He also shot and killed Halverson's dog. The next day, Sodder's father, Patrick, turned him into police, after William's girlfriend, Nicole, told Patrick that she thought William had something to do with the killing. Indeed, ever since seeing the film, Patrick claimed that Sodders had begun to act like Mickey. Sodders was sentenced to life in prison. For some details on this case see James M. Upon arriving at the school, he put in a pair of earplugs and opened fire with the handgun at a prayer meeting, killing three of his classmates and wounding five others.

After he was finished shooting, Carneal calmly dropped the gun and surrendered to the school principal. He was charged with murder and attempted murder and sentenced to three life sentences for murder, plus years for five counts of attempted murder.

Following appeal, this was reduced to life in prison with no possibility of parole. Thompson argued that the films and games had encouraged Carneal to act the way he did, and Doom provided him with excellent target practice. There is a great deal of information online about this case online. The Wikipedia article here covers the basics pretty well. Prior to the massacre, they had used the initials "NBK," as their code. Wrong, only science and math are true, everything, and I mean every fucking thing else is Man made.

Before I leave this worthless place, I will kill whoever I deem unfit for anything at all, especially life. Harris also referred to April 20th as "the holy April morning of NBK", and in an undated journal entry, Klebold wrote "I'm stuck in humanity.

Maybe going NBK w. Eric is the way to break free". There is no end of information on this incident online. The Wikipedia entry, here, provides a good overview of the incident as well as a decent further reading section. A good article about the connections between film and videogame violence is "Columbine High School massacre: Aftershock and the search for reasons".

Angus Wallen and Kara Winn: On December 23rd, , in Jacksonville, Florida, Angus Wallen and Kara Winn, both 27, shot and killed their roommate Brandon Murphy 22 before setting him and the apartment on fire in an attempt to cover up the crime. Wallen and Winn had only recently moved in with Murphy, and had decided to steal his debit card.

When he resisted, Winn shot him in this shoulder, and Wallen shot him in the head, killing him. They had allegedly watched NBK the night before the murder and prosecutors pointed out that the crime resembled a similar crime in the film where a couple kill a man, lit his remains on fire, and then escape together of course, the prosecutors are wrong here; it's a woman they kill, not a man, and they don't shoot her and set her remains on fire, they burn her alive, so the real life murder is in fact completely different from the scene in the film which supposedly inspired it.

They were arrested the next day in Biloxi, Mississippi, and during the subsequent trial, they turned on one another, each saying the murder was the other's idea.

They were both sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. See here for some basic information about the incident. Jeremy Steinke and Jasmine Richardson: On April 23rd, , Jeremy Allan Steinke, 23 and his year-old girlfriend Jasmine Richardson, murdered her parents, Marc and Debra Richardson, as well as her 8-year-old brother, Jacob, in Medicine Hat, Alberta, in an incident which has become known as the Richardson family murders.

Steinke and Richardson were arrested the next day in Leader, Saskatchewan, and were charged with three counts of first-degree murder. Apparently, just prior to the incident, Jasmine's parents had forbidden her from seeing Steinke. On July 9th, , Richardson was found guilty of three counts of first-degree murder and was sentenced to ten years in prison, which is the maximum penalty for a person under 14 years of age.

On December 5th, , Steinke was also found guilty of three counts of first-degree murder. On December 15th, he was sentence to life in prison with no possibility for parole for at least 25 years. The NBK connection is to be found in the fact that Steinke had allegedly watched the film the night before the incident. However Steinke's mental state was questionable for some time prior to the murders, often telling friends he was a year-old werewolf.

See here and here for two articles about the incident. Tavulares and Aljubouri, both 18, had been watching the movie, and stopped it about half way through before going to bed. According to Tavulares, he and Aljubouri were lying in bed talking, when he "switched mentally" and began strangling her. Upon arriving at the scene, Tavulares told police "I did it, I can't believe it. I did it. On January 31st, , Tavulares who pleaded guilty during the trial was sentenced to a minimum of 40 years in prison.

There is a great deal of online information about this incident. See here for the actual police report; see here for an archive of articles; and see here for an excellent article about the possibility of the film's involvement in the crime. In his DVD introduction to the alternative ending for the film, Stone says, Mickey and Mallory have gone through quite a few changes in the course of the movie and they're really moved on.

They're anti-heroes in the sense that they do go underground now, they fought the media, they destroyed the media. They sound like they're going to go straight right now. On the other hand, you never know, they might come back for more. So keep watching for Natural Born Killers 2. Stone was clearly joking when he said this. There is not going to be a sequel. At that time in particular [he was making] things that make you think, and really pack a punch, and were really intelligent.

I was 19, going through my nihilistic rite of passage phase [ laughs ], so it was really a perfect project for me. They were looking at every possible actress at that time. So, there was this infamous audition that I had with Oliver where I was going to make him believe that I could kill him.

How did you do that? I just talked to him! Is it true, did you jump on the desk and threaten Oliver with your bare hands? Maybe that came off as a threat. Was there instant chemistry between you and Woody when you started working together? Yeah, yeah. So, in Woody, I had just an incredible scene partner. It was like we were family from another time.

Violence begets fame, which begets violence, which begets fame, and on and on. America is a sick place, Stone suggests, with maniacs like Mickey and Mallory as the symptom of illness.

On paper, his vision should seem more prescient now than ever.