ipl-logo

Natural Born Killers Film Analysis

972 Words4 Pages

Directed by Oliver Stone and story by Quentin Tarantino, Natural Born Killers is an amazing film that caught the world by surprise in August of 1994. This drama/thriller was very unique, “the way it shuffles from tone to tone – animated music video one second, unforgettably dark pastiche of a cheesy TV sitcom the next (featuring one of the greatest cameos in movie history by Rodney Dangerfield)” caught the attention of American popular culture. It also caught some unwanted attention as Oliver Stone was blamed for some copycat killers in the real world. Woody Harrelson fills the role of a delivery boy named Mickey Knox who falls in love with a customer, Mallory Wilson, played by Juliette Lewis. The couple hit the open road after Mickey helps Mallory kill her abusive parents. As they travel down Route 666 they develop a frequent tendency to attack innocent people as they cross paths but always leave one person unharmed to tell the story of the encounter. Through a dishonest, unfair, and possibly unstable reporter named Wayne Gale, the couple become famous as Wayne tracks their every move while also being pursued by Detective Jack Scagnetti and conveying these stories to the world. Ultimately becoming imprisoned, Mickey is interviewed live by that same reporter and …show more content…

This drama/thriller was very unique, “the way it shuffles from tone to tone – animated music video one second, unforgettably dark pastiche of a cheesy TV sitcom the next”. (Parker) It was probably the most controversial film of the 1990’s and one of the most underrated as well. This film has actually received more credit as time has passed. Oliver Stone’s message and overall theme was heard loud and clear after viewing this film. The movie was so powerful it even drove two men to kill and was caught up in a very controversial legal debate for many

Show More
Related

The Assassination Of Carrie Mae Weems 'Democratic Nomination'

290 Words | 2 Pages

explaining that what she had gone through is something they may have to go through now. The movie continues by showing an artistic reenactment of the horrendous tragedy that was Hiroshima. From there she reenacts the assassination of JFK, Medgar, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcom X. Moving forward she broadcast the civil rights movement from the style to the deep depression that followed. The video revisits it’s opening shot by discussing the 2008 debate between President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, in which Obama had won the Democratic Nomination.

Read More

Assat Vs Socrates Compare And Contrast

991 Words | 4 Pages

Staring with Assata Shakur, who is a very smart and courageous woman. Being a part of Black Panther Party group and standing for equal rights retaliating with the same force the oppressive system gave. Assata unknowingly joined the Black Liberation Group in hopes of change for black Americans, but instead received tremendous amount of hate from the white society. Being targeted by the FBI and a secret counterintelligence agency called CoIntelPro. After the infamous 1973 shootout in New Jersey where she was shot twice and captured, Assata tried reasoning with the officials but they wouldn’t budge.

Read More

Blood Simple Editing Analysis

933 Words | 4 Pages

The audience knows that the shooter is going to kill Ray and through the use of cutting between the gun and inside the apartment the audience is left on edge until the very end of the move. The Coen were able to make an amazingly tense film with very little budget though their great use of

Read More

Why Do Genocides More Likely To Occur During Wartime?

1585 Words | 7 Pages

The uniqueness that this movie provides is that we can actually see the aggressors and how they act when talking about the events that took place and it gives the aggressors a way to show the world how they felt and how their actions were affect their

Read More

Slaughterhouse Five Analysis

726 Words | 3 Pages

What was the message of Vonnegut in Slaughterhouse Through The Theme of War. In Slaughterhouse five, Kurt Vonnegut uses the theme of war though the character of Billy, to show how war can desensitized one’s emotion, how it is senseless and immoral. Through the violence and death of war, Kurt Vonnegut shows the reader how the innocence of Billy is lost.

Read More

Research Paper On Boyz N The Hood

967 Words | 4 Pages

This film is a great image of how American pop culture was consumed in the early 90s. This film focuses on the relationship and interactions between three African American males

Read More

Goodnight And Good Luck Film Analysis

794 Words | 4 Pages

In simplistic terms this film depicts the war between the media and a politician seeking to destroy the rights and values of the American people by masking it as patriotism. One will analyse the various themes, major scenes, techniques and the impact

Read More

Undefeated Film Analysis

1098 Words | 5 Pages

My own experience of the film was obviously influenced by filmic techniques, but also by personal factors unique to me. In particular my family experiences, training in media literacy and attitude towards American Films influenced my unique response to Undefeated. Furthermore, those factors are the reasons I believe, under the guise of telling the truth, documentaries only entertain us with lies. My family experiences had a significant influence on my experience of Undefeated.

Read More

Why Do Cops Use Excessive Force

966 Words | 4 Pages

The movie was based off a true story and was talking about a man named Oscar Grant III. They showed his lifestyle and how on New Year’s he was on a train hanging out with his girlfriend and friends but he had got into a fight with someone he he use to know. The cops drug him off the train put him in in handcuffs, turned him over and shot him because they said he was resisting arrest. This incident was recorded by some of the passengers on the train where he was at. Although the cop was charged with first degree murder, he only served 11 months in jail and then was released on probation.

Read More

Film Analysis Of The Movie North By Northwest

791 Words | 4 Pages

Madison Avenue advertising executive Roger Thornhill’s (Cary Grant) life changes drastically after he is kidnapped and mistaken for a spy named George Kaplan. After a successful escape from attempted murder by Phillip Vandamm (James Mason), Roger Thornhill begins a journey to search for George Kaplan. On his itinerary, he meets the beautiful Eve Kendall (Eva Marie Saint). A romantic relationship is started between the two, leaving Thornhill to believe that Even Kendall would cooperate and help him to meet Kaplan.

Read More

Film Analysis: No Country For Old Men

142 Words | 1 Pages

No Country for Old Men (2007) is an American film based on a novel written by Cormac McCarthy. No Country for Old Men is a Crime Thriller that will leave you on the edge of your seat from the beginning to end of the film, the climax of the film will make you want more of the mysterious assassin, Anton Chigurh. Javier Bardem’s performance of Anton Chigurh in this film is excellent, every scene he is in is suspenseful and will leave you with a sense of dread. The way that the movie does not use music gives you the sense of the eerie silence of the desert. This is a movie that was interesting from the beginning to the end and it did not lose me, it held me tight, and in fact kept me on the edge of my seat.

Read More

Pulp Fiction Film Analysis

1690 Words | 7 Pages

Pulp Fiction, a gangster film centred around crime and drama, was directed and written by Quentin Tarantino, staring John Travolta, Uma Thurman and Samuel Jackson. The Oscar award winning film details the lives of two hitmen, a gangster, and the gangster’s wife Jules Winnfield (Samuel Jackson) and Vincent Vega (John Travolta), are on a mission to retrieve a stolen briefcase from their employer, and mob boss, Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames). Mia, (Uma Thurman) plays the role as Wallace’s wife, who is spends some time with Vincent, while Wallace leaves town for business purposes. Even though the lives of these individuals seem interesting enough, each of them wove together to create a film involving a series of funny, bizarre, and suspenseful

Read More

American Horror Story Film Analysis

847 Words | 4 Pages

American Horror Story: Coven is undoubtely a controversial TV series, as it is at the same time both chauvinist and feminist. The show clearly adopts the male gaze and is limited by chauvinist stereotypes, but it simultaneously challenges the tropes it relies upon. The concept of the male gaze, theorised by Laura Mulvey in the 70s, suggests that we tend to see media products from a male perspective, as most of the producers are male and heterosexual. Therefore, the female characters are sexualized and objectified, in order to appeal to the audience.

Read More

Dangerous Liaisons Movie Analysis

1405 Words | 6 Pages

Dangerous Liaisons is an American-British film, directed by Stephen Frears, released in 1988. It is adapted from Christopher Hampton's play, itself adapted from Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's famous epistolary novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses. He has won three Oscars, including Christopher Hampton's Best Adaptation Screenplay. The film and the play change the original ending of the novel, in which Madame de Merteuil remains alone forever disfigured by her illness. In scene 43, the Marquise de Merteuil, jealous of Valmont's love of Tourvel, tells him the story of a man who, for fear of ridicule, had left his mistress, by saying: "It's not my fault."

Read More

Natural Born Killer Symbolism Analysis

861 Words | 4 Pages

There is a combination of colour and black and white images which feature rapidly throughout the film (Hersey, 2002). The colour images which represent a perfectly normal and happier environment rapidly move to black and white, which is usually associated to threating events, highlighting the bleakness of the expected outcome of the scene (lburgess3, 2013 and Natural Born Killers, 1994). There is animalistic reference with the rattle snake symbolising poison and death and the wolf symbolising the hunt for prey, both symbolising the outcomes of the subjects within the scene. There is also a man holding a newspaper with the headline “666 Death” before he dissolves away from the scene and for most of the scene being black and white because of the murders that are committed by Mickey and Mallory. The end of the scene is in colour with the pair celebrating their victory in dance and a projector displaying fireworks in the background

Read More

More about Natural Born Killers Film Analysis

Related Topics

Open Document