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* [[What the Hell, Hero?|What The Hell, Villain?]]: {{spoiler|When Mickey accidentally kills the Indian, Mallory really lays into him.}}
* [[What the Hell, Hero?|What The Hell, Villain?]]: {{spoiler|When Mickey accidentally kills the Indian, Mallory really lays into him.}}
* [[Villain Protagonist|Villain Protagonists]]
* [[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.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: As [http://www.cracked.com/article_18455_5-movies-that-were-one-flaw-away-from-being-classics.html this Cracked article] points out, had Tarantino directed, using his orignal script, the film would have been a phenomenal success, in the style of ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'' or ''[[Reservoir Dogs]]'', along with launching his career a few years early.
** Michael Madsen has commented that, had Tarantino retained ownership of the project, he would likely have starred as Mickey.
* [[X Meets Y]]: ''[[Kalifornia]]'' meets ''[[Network]]''
* [[X Meets Y]]: ''[[Kalifornia]]'' meets ''[[Network]]''

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Mallory's mother has purple hair, mostly a [[Shout-Out]] to Alex's mother in ''[[A Clockwork Orange (film)|A Clockwork Orange]]''.
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Mallory's mother has purple hair, mostly a [[Shout-Out]] to Alex's mother in ''[[A Clockwork Orange (film)|A Clockwork Orange]]''.


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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 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.

A psychedelic and surrealistic film (one that has been called "The Most Expensive Student Film Ever Made") the film sadly fell victim to Misaimed Fandom as some fans actually ended up liking Mickey and Mallory and their ultra-violent killing spree, which was what Stone was condemning. Similarly, quite a few critics failed to see the condemnation of media hype, instead fixating on the perceived glorification of violence.

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