Natural born killers have linked to news articles about real life killings. The film has been used as an inspiration for many killings around America.
This is a news article that was published on August 26th 2015.
"NATURAL BORN KILLERS
The 1994 movie has been named as inspiration for an unprecedented number of murders.
The two students responsible for the 1999 Columbine high school massacre were fans, and used the film’s acronym, NBK, as a code in their home videos and journals.
Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, murdered 12 students and one teacher, injuring 24 others, before taking their own lives. Harris had referred to the day of the killing as “the holy April morning of NBK”, and in an undated journal entry, Klebold wrote, “I’m stuck in humanity. Maybe going NBK w. Eric is the way to break free”.
High school shooter Michael Carneal, who killed three classmates in Kentucky in 1997, also cited NBK as inspiration, along with Leonardo Di Caprio movie The Basketball Diaries and video games Doom and Mortal Kombat.
Teenagers Sarah Edmonson and Benjamin Darras watched the Oliver Stone movie repeatedly in 1995 before going on an LSD-fuelled crime spree, killing William Savage and leaving convenience store clerk Patsy Byers a quadriplegic. John Grisham, a friend of Savage, accused Stone of being irresponsible in making the film. In 1994, a 14-year-old boy from Texas decapitated a 13-year-old classmate because he “wanted to be famous. Like the Natural Born Killers.” In 2008, 18-year-old Eric Tavulares strangled his girlfriend, Lauren Aljubouri, to death. Tavulares and Aljubouri in Wisconsin after watching the movies between 10 and 20 times.
The list goes on."
Source: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/08/26/434944064/in-wake-of-journalist-murders-media-consider-the-graphic-footage
It's all too raw: the grieving of survivors, the images of carnage, the way we learn of events and the way we consume them.
Viewers of the morning show for WDBJ-TV in Roanoke, Va., actually watched the deadly shootings of reporter Alison Parker and videographer Adam Ward. And they watched it live, unexpectedly, without warning. So did the program's anchors, who were themselves shocked, initially uncomprehending, appalled.
Others quickly grabbed that footage from WDBJ-TV and posted it online and on the air. CNN, for example, rebroadcast a portion of the station's video, including the shootings and a fleeting glimpse of the shooter. Anchors told viewers the network would only show it once an hour. MSNBC and Fox News do not appear to have aired the actual shots. By the middle of the day, CNN said it would hold off on showing the footage again.
The decision to air or share such material has to be a conscious choice. Often it is not. So do we, as viewers, have to think hard about what we choose to consume.
The Roanoke station where Parker and Ward worked has decided not to rebroadcast it.
"We are choosing not to run the video of that right now because, frankly, we don't need to see it again," Jeffrey Marks, WDBJ's station manager, said on the air Wednesday morning. Marks' rending observations, and those of his colleagues processing the deaths in public view, admirably sought to present well-rounded pictures of the two journalists. The station and its staffers tweeted out tributes, even as they continued to report the story.
But social media were also employed to try to immortalize the killings, apparently by the chief suspect, Vester Lee Flanagan, who once worked at WDBJ under the name Bryce Williams.
On Facebook and Twitter, accounts with that name and image posted chilling video clips filmed from the point of view of the killer as he stalked his victims, the muzzle of the gun visible throughout in the center of the frame. And then the shots rang out and viewers could clearly see the results.
After an online outcry, Facebook and Twitter pulled those accounts down. The status on a LinkedIn account bearing his professional name simply carried a smiley face.
The two clips evoked something of Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers. But they aren't fiction. Nor are they the archival reels of Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald on live television after the assassination of President Kennedy a half-century ago. This was a targeted killing on social media, a 21st century killing intended to be witnessed, as I did (unexpectedly, since Twitter's live-roll process prompts automatic play of any video embedded in a tweet).
Digital technologies enable us all to document the stories of our lives. And reaching a massive audience has never been easier for anyone with an Internet connection — including, apparently, a killer.
Character Representation
Mickey Knox: Mickeys character can be shown as the Hero in the viewing from Mallory as he shows her love and affection when no one else was. However in realistic terms he is the Villian as he murders many innocent civilians.
Mallory Knox: Mallory can be represented through Propps character 'Princess' this is because she was abused verbally and physically as a child by her father which is portrayed when she meets Mickey and sees him as her 'Hero'. She has an aggressive side to her as she is letting her victims feel the pain she has been through.
Wayne Gayle: Gayle can be represented as the stereotype as very feminine due to his love of his appearance and the attention on himself. He stimulates a very negative atmosphere when interviewing Mickey and Mallory. He is represented as 'The Helper' when they break out of prison however it is subverted when he becomes the victim (the hostage).
Scagnetti: The detective is portrayed as the villain as we get to know the character. He is represented as the False hero, his obsession with taking revenge against criminals makes him seem like a public hero for his actions, however Scagnetti is just like Mickey and Mallory. His psychopathic personality is also later revealed that he has also murdered people in his lifetime. He is also portrayed as a sexual character when he attempts to seduce Mallory in prison.
Themes
The on going themes of Natural born Killers is the ideas of abuse. Mallory was abused when she was growing up by her aggressive father. This causes her to loath many men who attempt to seduce her however subverted ideas of love change Mallory's ideas. When Mickey comes to her house and shows kindness and attention to her she finds the emotion of love to build trust with her future husband.
