Thursday, 7 March 2013

Max's Fan Fiction draft/plan

I've had some trouble thinking about what I'm going to do for this assessment. Most of my ideas have been written on my hand and random pieces of plastic and paper i've managed to find. So now that I have all my ideas bunched together in my head, I've decided that I'm going to re-write a particular scene of the movie Natural Born Killers. Natural Born Killers was released in 1994, the screenplay was written by Quentin Tarantino (you can't go wrong) and the film was directed by Oliver Stone. It's pretty out-there in terms of content, it's almost as if Pulp Fiction meets The Wall.

The basic plot is two psychopathic lovers on a killing spree and the media's irresponsible portrayal and glorification of them. Visually the film is pretty insane, aside from the violence there is a strong focus on the psychotic nature of this pair (Mickey and Mallory) which is shown during scenes in which there appears to be no 'background' or 'setting' except for flashes of seemingly random images. This is also due to the fact that more than once throughout the film they both take mushrooms. The scene I will be focusing on is not actually shown in the film which is why it is of interest to me, but to set the scene, basically Mickey steals a car that belongs to Mallory's abusive father, is imprisoned and then escapes to take Mallory from her parents and kill them. He succeeds and takes off with Mallory, stealing again her now dead father's car to go off on this spree that makes up the basis of the movie. The next scene shown in the movie is Mickey and  Mallory on a bridge marrying themselves. I won't give away too much because the climax is pretty fucking climatic, but I will be focusing on the in-between of that little bit. What happens after he rescues her, but before they're on the bridge? I imagine for the first time they'd seen each other in months, these two psychos could have brewed a pretty 'fun' idea as to what to do in celebration so that's what I'm going to explore.

Here is the trailer if anyone wanted to have a look.

The major themes within the film include:
Angels/Demons within and around us
Alternate Reality(ies)
Institutional Evil e.g prisons, cycles of abuse etc.
Fate
and The Media in general as not an information tool, but something put there to deliberately make us crazy.

I've re-watched the movie so everything is fresh in my brain, especially the characters as there are only two, or two that I will be dealing with at least. I  also looked for some other fan fiction for this movie but honestly couldn't find any past the first 3 pages of google search so if anyone does happen to find any please let me know!

5 comments:

  1. Are you there Max??...Still with us??...

    :)

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  2. yes yes I'm just slow and lazy!

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  3. Whoa! that's awesome Max, There's a promising ensemble of cast members so, I definitely need to find time to watch this. I'm also a follower of Quentin Tarantino but I haven't come across his work with Oliver Stone.
    Yeah I'm having a similar problem with my FF links as well.
    The last theme would probably drive me crazy haha..This should be an interesting read.
    Cheers

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  4. Hey! I haven't actually seen the movie, but from your description I'm sort of imagining Bonnie and Clyde crossed with Easy Rider, except with killers. I look forward to reading it!

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  5. Yep that's actually a pretty good way of describing it to be honest, it shares a few similar themes with easy rider

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