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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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* [[Broken Aesop]]: Debatable, but Stone does make the life of crime seem pretty attractive at times...
* [[Chewing the Scenery]]: Wayne Gale, of course, and Mc Cluskey, with his [[Signature Laugh|"horrific fucking laugh"]]
* [[Cult Soundtrack]]: The [[Nine Inch Nails
* [[Deranged Animation]]: During some of the more psychedelic scenes, we're treated to random frames of Mickey running down a hallway and a perverse [[Felix the Cat]] attacking Mallory and getting shot.
* [[Diner Brawl]]: Or a Diner Massacre anyway.
* [[Dirty Cop]]: Jack Scagnetti and the prison warden.
* [[Do Not Do This Cool Thing]]: Arguably the whole point of the movie, and a vicious satire of it.
* [[Fake Nationality]]: Australian reporter Wayne Gale is played by American [[Robert Downey, Jr.]]
* [[The Family That Slays Together]]: {{spoiler|[[Subverted Trope|Subverted]]. Mickey and Mallory end their killing sprees after they decide to settle down and have kids.}}
* [[The Farmer and
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Mickey and Mallory both had abusive fathers, with Mallory's dad molesting her and Mickey's dad killing himself in front of his son.
** Scagnetti had a similar excuse, as his mother was killed by a spree killer.
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* [[The Plan]]: [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] in that Mickey and Mallory didn't actually plan the riot. They instead attribute their miraculous escape to "fate."
* [[Playing Against Type]]: Rodney Dangerfield as the sexually abusive father.
** This film also kept Woody Harrelson from being typecast as "That idiot from ''[[Cheers]]''," and instead started his current typecasting as [[The People vs. Larry Flynt
* [[Revival
* [[Scary Shiny Glasses]]: Mickey's glasses.
* [[Slasher Smile]]
* [[Strawman News Media]]: Type 4.
* [[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.}}
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* [[X Meets Y]]: ''[[Kalifornia]]'' meets ''[[Network]]''
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Mallory's mother has purple hair, mostly a [[Shout
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