Natural Born Killers.

Natural born killers was made in 1994 directed by Oliver Stone, the story was written by Quentin Tarantino. The film is about two victims of traumatized childhoods which consisted of beatings and abuse; they meet and become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media and become celebrities and portrayed like the modern day Bonnie and Clyde.

The opening sequence to this movie mainly shows the audience the chaotic life that the two characters are living which is very deranged but romantic in their traumatized way. At the beginning of the sequence it shows the couple dancing to classical music very romantically surrounded in fireworks. This shows the important relationship between the characters and connotes celebration and romance which has cross faded from the opening scene. Green scene is important in this sequence; the camera is mainly placed in the back of the car as a POV that seemingly takes its cue from brash noir “Gun Crazy. This is hermenuetic code as the audience doesn't know whats entirely going on on the screen.

The green screen is used to show scenario’s that the couple are driving though, these places are very unpredictable but mainly show cities in the US, old footage that is black and white and news paper articles that headline the criminal offenses that they have done. This connotes to the audience that the couple’s activity’s and it has an insight into their imagination. But mainly I think these green screen backgrounds show the unrealism of the movie as it skips though history randomly and the places that they are driving though.

The only other prop seen in the sequence is the car that the couple are driving, and the images that are been portrayed though the green screen. Two creatures are mainly shown on the screen and these are horses and dragons. These two creatures are metaphors of the couple, they portray them self as a horse to represent their movement in the car though the desert (strong and powerful). The dragon connotes there ferocious and fierce personality and mentality, this is also backed up by the flames that cut certain scenes over people and things they detest. Also many other images highly connote there psychopathic mentality’s such as bombs exploding and blood stained shadows, the blood is proairetic code and it suggests these characters are going to implode.


The music is very variable in this clip, all of the music is non-diegtic bar the “woo” said going through a tunnel in excitement. The music changes from classical music, to dialog, to rock and roll track. This is because in scenes change so rapidly. The classic music is perfect to connote and romantic effect however the dialog used in the speech is very interesting. It’s a very sleazy speech but very powerful. You can relate the characters with the speech in your own way, it has no real purpose but it can easily be related to the couple. The last track used in called “Rock N Roll Nigger" (Flood Remix) - Patti Smith” this is a very upbeat track and connotes the mayhem that is their life, it also gives the rebellious and criminal effect that they are.

The cinematography is very basic in the clip but very effective, at the beginning the a medium shot is used to show the couple dancing, however the rest of the clips in this sequence are high angle shots and point of view shot’s from the back of the car. The high and low angle shots are with a canted angle, this demonstrates that the car driving upwards or downwards. This connotes that the couple has highs and lows and the relationship between them and the audience is very clear all of these shots are in the semantic theory as the audience doesnt really know what to think of them but can only have there own idea.