Natural Born Killers Page #20

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The poster lists the credits: "Starring Jessie Alexander

Warwick and Buffy St. McQueen." "Written and Directed by

Neil Pope."

WAYNE (V.O.)

The movie Thrill Killers proved to

be a tremendous box office success,

making stars out of the before then

unknown -

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STILLS:

of Movie Mickey and Movie Mallory holding weapons,

posing together, creating mayhem.

WAYNE (V.O.)

--actors Jessie Alexander Warwick

and Buffy St. McQueen.

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MOVIE TRAILER FOR THRILL KILLERS -SHOT OF MOVIE MICKEY

dressed in a fast-food uniform.

ANNOUNCER (V.O.)

Meet Mickey Knox!

MOVIE MICKEY:

I'm gettin' off this minimum wage

train. Break my back for you and

throw away my youth for nothing.

When I'm thirty, have a big wall

drop down in front of me called

the future. Realize I've been

doin' time in a burger flippin'

jail.

He rips off his uniform.

MOVIE MICKEY:

Listen to me, Jimmy-dick, I want

cash, lots of it, cars, fast cars!

And I want it now! Not later, now!

I wanna wail, baby, wail!

SHOT OF MOVIE MALLORY

on her hands and knees crawling TOWARD CAMERA.

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46.

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ANNOUNCER (V.O.)

And his lovely wife Mallory.

MOVIE MALLORY:

I need ya, Mickey. I gotta have

ya. I'm no good for no one else.

When I'm with you, I burn, baby.

Burn like blue flame.

SHOT OF MOVIE MICKEY AND MOVIE MALLORY

driving fast and laughing their heads off.

ANNOUNCER (V.O.)

Together they're the thrill

killers. The true story of the

couple that shocked the world...

SHOT OF MOVIE KNOXS

FIRING GUNS.

ANNOUNCER (V.O.)

... with a bloodlust of violence...

SHOT OF MOVIE MICKEY AND MOVIE MALLORY

kissing.

ANNOUNCER (V.O.)

... and unbridled passion.

SHOT OF MOVIE MALLORY

with a knife to a COP'S throat. Movie Mickey holds a

shotgun.

MOVIE COP:

When society catches up with you,

I'd hate to be in your boots.

MOVIE MICKEY:

Let me tell ya about society and

its boots. It uses those boots

for steppin' on people like me

and her!

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47.

INT. EDITING ROOM -DAY

Wayne enters an editing room where filmmaker NEIL POPE

is working at a movieola.

WAYNE (V.O.)

We talked with Neil Pope, writer

and director of Thrill Killers

for his take on the Mickey and

Mallory phenomena.

Pope stops the movieola, turns TOWARD the CAMERA, and

greets Wayne MOS.

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INTERVIEW:

NEIL POPE:

It is my belief that Mickey and

Mallory Knox are a cultural

phenomena that could only exist

in our sexually-repressed society.

A flower that could only bloom

amidst a grotesque fast food

culture. And what I tried to do

with Thrill Killers was trace the

root of the problem all the way

down the vine to the original

bad seed. Yet amidst the violence

and murder and carnage, you've got

the structure of a Wagnerian love

story.

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