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Natural Born Killers And The Film Stars Woody Harrelson And Juliette Lewis

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For my film project I chose, Natural Born Killers, (1994) the film stars Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis as the notorious couple Mickey and Mallory Knox. The film follows Knox’s on their cross-country murder spree that captivates the world as the media glorifies their crimes making them the most infamous serial killers since Manson. Natural Born Killers starts out in a small diner in the middle of the desert, Mickey is ordering pie and Mallory is dancing to a jukebox, a couple of locals enter and one starts flirting with Mallory causing her to kick the crap out of him. Its when his friend jumps in that Mickey springs into action killing him and everybody else in the restaurant along with them. After the gruesome killings the Knox’s …show more content…

Mallory joins and the two manage to kill him, and then precede to lite her mother on fire for not helping her all these years. The couple makes their escape and starts their cross-country massacre, but not before getting married on the side of the road. The film moves on to media style coverage of the carnage the Knox’s are causing, and the public loves it. Crowds scream their names and idolize them; the Knox’s have reached star status. The Knox’s are finally caught after they get bit my rattlesnakes and try to get the antidote after Mickey kills a Native American who shelters them. The two are arrested after a shoot out and sent to federal penitentiary, where their fame, fueled by the media continues to grow. The film reaches its climax as Mickey and Mallory are being held in the same prison and their presence has put the entire prison on edge. The warden calls in the officer (Scagnetti) who caught the infamous couple to transfer them to a insane asylum and kill them on the way. Media personality Wayne Gale, talked himself into a one-on-one interview with Mickey the day before the transfer is to happen and it is during this interview the prisoners watching start a riot, giving Mickey the opportunity to escape and rescue Mallory to. With a surprising amount of help by Gale, who actually kills some officers himself. Ultimately the film ends with the Knox’s escaping and killing Gale after finishing the

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