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Considered to be one of the most controversial films of the 1990s, ''Natural Born Killers'' is a film by [[Oliver Stone]]. It derives from a screenplay written by [[Quentin Tarantino]], who conceived it as an exploitation thriller, but Stone extensively rewrote it to the point where Tarantino had his name taken off the credits. Stone turned the story into a satire of [[If It Bleeds, It Leads|the incestuous relationship between crime, the media and pop culture]], and how the latter two glorify the former and turn mass murderers into cult heroes. The film tells the tale of Mickey (Woody Harrelson) and Mallory Knox ([[Juliette Lewis]]), who captivate the world with a cross-country murder spree. Despite being sadistic and largely unrepentant murderers, the media (led by a tabloid journalist played by [[Robert Downey Jr]]) turns them into pop culture icons.
While the equally corrupt detective who arrested them (Tom Sizemore) and the warden ([[Tommy Lee Jones]]) at the prison holding the two plot to have Mickey and Mallory killed while transporting them to a mental institution for psychiatric testing, Mickey uses a post-Super Bowl special interview to stage a riot in the prison and escapes with his bride to freedom, leaving a trail of carnage in their wake as the entire prison goes up in flames and the staff is savagely slaughtered by the prisoners.
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* [[Hilariously Abusive Childhood]]: [[Subverted Trope|Subverted HARD]], possibly in staunch defiance of the trope played straight. {{spoiler|The scene showing Mallory's family life is done in the style of a 90's sitcom, complete with canned laughter, exaggerated set design, and sitcom-styled joke script... which informs the viewer that Mallory's father has been raping her for longer than her brother has been alive (because the only reason Kevin was born is because Dad didn't realize he was in his own bedroom and not Mallory's) and her mother doesn't object because he beats her.}}
* [[Hollywood Healing]]: For someone who has just bitten by a rattle snake, Mickey didn't have a problem engaging in a shootout.
* [[If It Bleeds, It Leads]]: A ruthless satire of this trope.
* [[I'll Kill You!]]: Everyone. Yes, everyone.
* [[Important Haircut]]: Mickey, right before his interview.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: {{spoiler|The two run away and spend their days in an RV, raising their kids and being normal. Oliver Stone was actually aiming for this trope - they're heroic, in a twisted sort of way, because they killed the mass media figure that propagated their doings, the corrupt cop and the warden.}}
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* [[Throw It In]]: Wayne Gale's Australian accent. [[Robert Downey Jr]]. observed and spent time with Steve Dunleavy, an Australian shock-TV host, and returned to filming with the accent. [[Tropic Thunder|Not the last time he would use this accent, by the way.]]
* [[Title Drop]]: "Shit, man. I'm a Natural Born Killer."
* [[What the Hell, Hero?|What The Hell, Villain?]]: {{spoiler|When Mickey accidentally kills the Indian, Mallory really lays into him.}}
* [[Villain Protagonist|Villain Protagonists]]
* [[Wag the Director]]: Very little of this film is derived from Tarantino's screenplay. Tarantino says that the only aspect of the film he'll acknowledge as being his are the character names Mickey and Mallory.
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