How Quentin Tarantino and Oliver Stone use technical aspects of filmmaking to create and disseminate meaning in the film “Natural Born Killers”. “Natural Born Killers is an overblown and fantastically creative commentary on violence and the complicity of the media and the public”. This is how the film critic Brian Webster described one of the most contraversual films of the 1990’s. In this essay I will be looking at how and why Quentin Tarantino (who …showed first 75 words of 901 total…

…showed last 75 words of 901 total…is hilarious as Mickey and Mallory’s prison warden. Stone is on the mark in pointing out the incongruity of killers becoming media stars, and the movie has a terrifically creative way of making this point. But despite its success, I can’t shake my discomfort with the fact that, in his effort to make the film entertaining, Stone has crossed the line and is committing the same sin that the film purports to condemn.