Talk:Natural Born Killers/Archive 1

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Redirect
Could we create a disambiguous page for the article "NBK" and "nbk"? there are other words out there with those letters, including the National Bank of Kuwait. Zer0fighta 01:18, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Plot Summary
The plot summary section is, forgive me, ridiculous. Phrases like "gets his butt kicked" are hardly encyclopedia-worthy, and who really cares if the bullet slowdown was "shot five years before The Matrix. Could someone who knows the movie and knows to to write in Wikipedia format rewrite or at least tweak this section? Escheffel 21:24, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Altering bit about Kevin
I've changed several things in the plot summary, but thought I should mention this one.

This part is incorrect:


 * After the titles, there is a flashback sequence to how the murderous pair met up. Mickey was a delivery man who turned up at the house where Mallory lived with her abusive father (Rodney Dangerfield), her mother, and Kevin, who lives the role of her younger brother, but is actually her child with her father.

When Mallory's mother complains about her husbands lack of sexual appetite, he asks "How about him?" She then responds "You were drunk and you thought you were in Mallory's room, that's why we have Kevin!", indicating that Kevin is their child, but was conceived as an accident when Rodney Dangerfeild's character thought he was raping Mallory.

Kevin then exclaims "What, you mean Mallory is my mom?!" This is intended as a joke, and not as an actual indication that Kevin was born of incest.

At any rate, the age difference between Kevin and Mallory is far too small for this to be a feasible notion anyway. Rodeosmurf 03:53, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

CLEANUP
See WikiProject Films/Style guidelines. Cbrown1023 20:29, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

relations to X files episode.
this 1993 x-files episode features a couple who robs places together. Quotes: he: no matter what happens, whenever I look up at the stars, I know you could be looking up at the same ones. she: the same ones baby.

he: even ugliness is beautiful, because of her.

The guy in the episode also tells how when they married he cut open their hands and put them together, and the blood dripped down to the water, so it would make them married in all the oceans in the world.

I couldn't find any relations between the writers of the episode and the movie. does anyone knows if there is any? or maybe those two are references to another, earlier source? I'd be happy to find any explanation which will show it's not a Tarantino rip off. 1ooooo3 13:07, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Needs more screenshots
I can't think of any other film article that needs images to illustrate its unique visual techniques than this one. --SeizureDog 23:42, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Categories
Somehow, this film wound up in the category "Films Directed by Quentin Tarantino". I can't figure out how to remove it, but somebody ought to. ThatGuamGuy 21:25, 28 September 2007 (UTC)sean

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Film poster
Hi,

I only rephrased the lead sentence and removed the period from the caption in the infobox (since it's not a complete sentence). So could anybody explain to me why the image has disappeared? Perhaps I missed something. Since I don't know how to fix that, I'll have to apply to someone else. Sorry for having caused incovenience and thanks for the help. Dutzi (talk) 21:56, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Tidy up
Hi all. I don't edit here much, but as this is one of my all time favouritre films, I was disappointed to find the page wasn't particularly impressive, and as such, I've done a general tidy up and added a little bit of material. I've fixed numerous grammatical errors all over the page, I've completed the deleted scenes section (which only included 5 of the 8 scenes on the DVD), and I've moved the 'Style' section from within the 'Controversies' section (where it was totally out of place) to the pointless 'Effects' section and renamed that section 'Style'. I believe the article reads much better for last edit in particular. Hope it's to everyone's approval. Bertaut (talk) 03:12, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

plot tag
I added this because it is an arguable breach of copyright for a plot section to be merely a "blow-by blow" account of the movie; hence, it needed copyediting, in my opinion. The movie itself is the source for the events depicted in it, hence we do not need to replicate the movie; we need to give an encyclopedic overview of the main events in it, and the characters involved in those events. Simple example: our article on The Bible does not merely reproduce the text thereof. In this article, there is just too much plot detail; there are two ways of approaching this: synopsis, which encapsulates the plot in very basic terms, and diegesis, which is a more detailed description but which does so structurally and thematically without being a mere recitation of the events in the movie. I've seen both, but currently, I am of opinion that the plot section goes too far into detail setting out what the movie is. The movie itself fulfills that function. Rodhull andemu  03:20, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

Deleted scenes
The deleted scenes should be trimmed, if not removed all together. Lots42 (talk) 00:21, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Original research
The whole 'Recurring Images' section, while compelling, is original research. Can anyone source this? 209.196.230.72 (talk) 03:57, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Recurring themes
None of the astrological aspects of this film appear to have been discussed.

The astrological sign of Scorpio is considered to be a natural born killer.

Its symbol, an M with a tail, matches the first initial of the names of the two protagonists. Scorpios are considered dark, emotional and yet emotionless and represent the cycle of life and death (related to sex but not just about sex). They also tend to extremes. Revenge is a common negative personality trait.

Scorpio is the only sign of the zodiac with more than one motif. It commonly has 3, in fact - a scorpion, a snake and an eagle. Scorpions and snakes feature throughout the film but it is only at the end of the film that an eagle is shown. Eagle Scorpios are considered more evolved, which relates to the evolved protagonists by the end of the film.

For these reasons, I consider the film to be a visual treatise of the Scorpio personality type. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.44.180.23 (talk) 14:56, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

You're fuckin' nuts, man.

Woody's father
I cant think of any place to put this, so: Trivia vs Fact. Woody's father is a killer. Well documented in Texas papers and Texas Monthly Magazine. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.179.22.36 (talk) 07:37, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

In France a couple went on killing spree and police linked movie posters as having influenced the behaviour.


 * I could not find references to that on Google. If anybody can confirm it, just add it back to the nbk page. MikeCapone Jan 21, 2004, 17:14 (UTC)


 * I found this on imdb though: . BloodyLoony 00:05, Mar 8, 2004 (UTC)


 * It is the Rey-Maupin case (October 1994). A poster of the film was found in their "home". Not similar actually. Macaldo (talk) 07:55, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

Missing information
This article doesn't mention anything to do with how successful the film was. The sort of financial assesment that comes with many of the other film-related articles on here seems non-existant. I think it would be nice to know, if anyone can help. 88.107.239.216 04:55, 16 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I've added a section about its box office receipts... could only find North American and not worldwide and what some of the major critics thought of it at the time. Count Ringworm 20:20, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

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The Ebert quote given is extremely misleading. On the tv show Siskel and Ebert he went on to say "I guess it's *some* kind of masterpiece." PD

No mention is found on the couple of killers consumption of hallucinogenic mushrooms, ones that Mickey picks up for them in the desert (strange, can deserts really hold mushrooms at all??) Rafael Roldan - 09th April 2011 (Brazil) (talk) 04:14, 9 April 2011 (UTC) ˜˜˜˜

Plot Summary
The part where Mikey and Malory meet, is a TV show, It says I love Mallory right on the screen, and there is a laugh track. So the whole movie is a tv show? If not when does the show end and the reality start? Or is this a reality show? If it's not a show, then who's laughing? --24.94.251.19 (talk) 02:58, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Under references in popular culture
Grant Morrison's The Invisibles is of absolutely no relation to this movie: King Mob is bald because Grant Morrison is bald. Grant has stated several times that King Mob is him. He even gave a long speech on this issue at a Disinformation Conference where he discussed Sigil Magick. Grant is a practicing Chaos magician. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.210.60.28 (talk) 14:47, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

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Badlands / Starkweather / Fugate
Charles Starkweather's and Caril Ann Fugate's articles say their spree killing story was an inspiration for NBK. The movie Badlands, preceding NBK by 20 years, has this story. Seems strange that they are not mentioned at all in this article. --Nanite (talk) 19:43, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

Agreed, especially since at the time the movie came out, everyone assumed it was based on Starkweather and Fugate. I remember Time magazine stated it. Back then, everybody knew the story of Starkweather and Fugate. Problem is, Wikipedia is written by a bunch of ignorant young punks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.215.115.31 (talk) 17:52, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

I’ll be removing ‘satirical’ from the lede and clearing the Hollywood.com reference
the latter because the link is dead. A look at many reliable sources online including reviews on RT show that the satire elements have been disputed and divisive in opinion. The critical reception section even mentions it briefly. Hence, it wouldn’t likely qualify according to the guidelines in WP:FILMLEAD. Barely made one (talk) 23:17, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Spelling error
Can't edit due to lock. Production>concept, 2/3 way through 3rd paragraph, "dilm" instead of "film" TimPPreston (talk) 21:12, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 18 October 2019
Online Petition For Quentin Tarantino Screenplay Remake of "Natural Born Killers"

An online petition has been created for a Quentin Tarantino remake of "Natural Born Killers". Wikipedia won't let me publish the link directly so you'll have to google it under produce Quentin Tarantino's remake of "Natural Born Killers" Garnet Benzie (talk) 02:03, 18 October 2019 (UTC)


 * ❌. It's not clear what changes you want to make.  Please make a precise request.  –Deacon Vorbis (carbon &bull; videos) 02:20, 18 October 2019 (UTC)

Error in synopsis
There is an error "Scagnetti orders Warden Dwight McClusky to kill the Knoxes during their transfer" is just the reverse: Warden Dwight McClusky orders Scagnetti to kill the Knoxes during their transfer (in fact, not order, but suggests, and two guards delegated by Dwight are ready to carry out the task. It is easy to check. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Frederic Y Bois (talk • contribs) 20:23, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 3 April 2021
In the Plot section, change "Scagnetti orders Warden Dwight McClusky to kill the Knoxes during their transfer" to "Warden Dwight McClusky orders Scagnetti to kill the Knoxes during their transfer" Technoriker (talk) 18:01, 3 April 2021 (UTC)
 * that is a good catch! Thank you very much!  P.I. Ellsworth   ed.  put'r there 02:51, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 16 July 2022
Undo revision by Mr. G. Price, WP:BANREVERT 181.12.111.26 (talk) 22:54, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 22:58, 16 July 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 22 June 2023
"NBK" is an initialism, not an acronym. An acronym must be able to be pronounced phonetically as a singular word. 2A02:C7E:4CB8:B200:ED70:A616:896C:6ED5 (talk) 15:57, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ Cannolis (talk) 19:38, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

"Natural Born Crullers" (comedy sketch)
I want to say it was a sketch on MADtv, but I could be wrong (if I am, I'd be hard-pressed to recall which other show it could have been on) Shotguntony (talk) 16:37, 29 June 2023 (UTC)