{"id":402,"date":"2020-07-20T20:26:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T20:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/?p=402"},"modified":"2020-07-20T20:26:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T20:26:20","slug":"103-natural-born-killers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/2020\/07\/20\/103-natural-born-killers\/","title":{"rendered":"103 – Natural Born Killers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This week, we\u2019re going back to the mid-90s to visit Oliver Stone\u2019s highly controversial skewering of the muckraking, blood-thirsty media landscape.\u00a0Natural Born Killers<\/i>\u00a0arrived in late summer 1994 and immediately started a firestorm of outraged Republicans and a number of copycat killings. While an audacious and uncompromising satire, the violence of its central Mickey and Mallory paired with the bombast of Stone\u2019s vision proved to be too daring for the Academy that previously couldn\u2019t resist the filmmaker.<\/p>\n

But the film also debuted in the year of\u00a0Pulp Fiction<\/i>, and inspired a major grudge toward Stone from original\u00a0Killers\u00a0<\/i>screenwriter Quentin Tarantino. This episode, we praise the performances of stars Juliette Lewis and Woody Harrelson, and look at supporting player Robert Downey Jr.\u2019s much-storied addiction issues during the decade.<\/p>\n

Topics also include the 1994 Best Actress race, other movies drunk on dutch angles, and Tori Amos.<\/p>\n

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