Natural Born Killers | film by Stone [1994] | Britannica (original) (raw)
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In Oliver Stone Stone again courted controversy with Natural Born Killers (1994), a film, written by Quentin Tarantino, about the savagely violent exploits of a married couple, played by Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis. While Stone claimed that the film was meant to be critical of sensationalized violence, some critics found it guilty… Read More
history of film
In history of film: United States …and Snowden (2016), also made Natural Born Killers (1994), U-Turn (1997), Any Given Sunday (1999), and Savages (2012). Cameron’s Titanic (1997), re-creating the 1912 sinking of an ocean liner on its maiden voyage after striking an iceberg, won an Academy Award for best picture and broke domestic and worldwide box-office… Read More
screenplay by Tarantino
In Quentin Tarantino …Romance (1993) and Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers (1994). In 1992 he made his directing debut with Reservoir Dogs, a violent film about a failed jewelry store robbery. Two years later he established himself as a leading director with Pulp Fiction. The provocative film, which featured intersecting crime stories, won… Read More
In Robert Downey, Jr.: Chaplin, drug addiction, and comeback …from the violent media satire Natural Born Killers (1994) to the costume drama Restoration (1995), his frequent skirmishes with the law and his public struggle with drug addiction often overshadowed his on-screen successes. He reached a low point in 1999, when he was sentenced to three years in prison for… Read More
Harrelson
In Woody Harrelson …menacing performance in Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers (1994). After appearing in a few more comedies, Harrelson starred as the title pornographer in Miloš Forman’s The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), a surprise critical hit that earned Harrelson an Academy Award nomination for best actor. He had a major role… Read More
Jones
In Tommy Lee Jones …hyperbolically nasty prison warden in Natural Born Killers (1994), and baseball player Ty Cobb in Cobb (1994). Jones deviated from his characteristic flinty inscrutability with his turn as the deranged villain Two-Face in Batman Forever (1995) before playing straight man to Will Smith in the alien comedy _Men in Black_… Read More
