s what keeps us as a society hooked, especially in the few years prior to and surrounding Stone's film Natural Born Killers. How about these movie ideas: Two young, wealthy, handsome brothers in Beverly Hills slaying their parents in a bloody massacre, a black man being beaten by white police officers cries out for help, an Olympic hopeful so obsessed with winning the gold medal hires a hit man to destroy the competition, a cult in a small southern town is brainwashed by one man and make the ultimate sacrifice of suicide at his request, and last but not least the story of a football hero being the number one and only suspect in his ex-wife's gruesome murder. These all sound like great ideas for blockbuster movies, but we've all seen them before for free, in much detail, right in our very own living rooms. The stories of the Menendez brothers, the Rodney King beating, Tonya Harding, David Koresch's cult in Waco, Texas, and the O.J. Simpson trial were all still vivid in our heads during the release of Natural Born Killers. All of these crimes or murders happened in different parts of the country, but were made local to anybody in any city or state by the news media. Footage from each of these trials compose the ending scene of the movie.2 Stone was quoted as saying: "When
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