Natural Born Killers - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[kenzi]

Oliver Stone's least favorite scene in the film is when Mickey overpowers the prison guards after the interview with Wayne Gale is terminated. Stone feels that the device of having Mickey distract the guards by telling a joke is too unrealistic.

[kylie]

The prison riot was filmed at Stateville Correctional Center in Joliet, Illinois. Eighty percent of the prisoners there are incarcerated for violent crimes. For the first two of four weeks on-location the extras were actual inmates with rubber weapons. For the other two weeks over two hundred extras had to be brought in because the penitentiary was placed on lockdown.

[kenzi]

For the numerous scenes involving rear projection, the projected footage was shot prior to principal photography, then edited together, and projected live onto the stage, behind the live actors and actresses. For example, when Mallory drives past a building and flames are projected onto the wall, this was shot live using footage projected onto the façade of a real building.

[kristina]

Deputy Sheriff Duncan Homolka's (Joe Grifasi's) name is a reference to Karla Homolka who, with her husband Paul Bernardo, murdered two teenage girls and her own sister.

[kyle]

The bridge where Mickey and Mallory get married is the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge over the Rio Grande Gorge, outside of Taos, New Mexico.

[ken]

Oliver Stone met with singer Tori Amos and openly offered her the part of Mallory. Early in her career, Amos had been pursing acting as well as singing. She was interested, until he explained he also wanted to have her song "Me and a Gun" play during each scene where Mallory kills someone. The song is an a capella account of Amos' real-life rape. In response, Amos slapped him across the face and stormed out. Amos details this story in her autobiography "All These Years". She also references the incident in her hit song "A Sorta Fairytale", with the lyrics: "Feel better with Oliver Stone until I almost smacked him; it seemed right that night."

[bernard]

The drugstore scene was filmed in an Albuquerque building that was a real drugstore that had closed just prior to filming. The original fixtures and pharmacy area were still in the store, making set-up very easy. The sign above the door was added for the movie, and was still there several months after filming ended. The building is now a Hobby Lobby. One thousand green fluorescent bulbs were used to light the scene.

[tom]

The car featured in the film is a 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T convertible.

[christina]

Mickey Knox is named after actor Mickey Knox, who wrote the English dialogue for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) and Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), Quentin Tarantino's favorite westerns.

[jessica]

In real life Woody Harrelson is the son of Charles Harrelson a hit man who has the distinction of being the first person to murder a federal judge in the 20th century.

[manuel]

Richard Rutowski: A demon during the prison riot.

[chris]

Gary Oldman and James Woods were considered for the role of Jack Scagnetti.

[jessica]

Eighteen different film formats are seen in the finished film.

[carl]

Whilst shooting the POV scene, wherein Mallory runs into the wire mesh, Robert Richardson broke his finger, and the replacement cameraman cut his eye. According to Oliver Stone, he wasn't too popular with the camera department that day.

[ronnie]

Oliver Stone considered this to be his road film, specifically naming Bonnie and Clyde (1967) as a source of inspiration.

[kristina]

Robert Downey Jr., Tommy Lee Jones, and Woody Harrelson, are in Marvel films, Downey Jr. and Jones as Tony Stark aka Iron Man and Col. Chester Jones in the MCU, and Harrelson as Cletus Kassidy "Red", aka Carnage in Venom (2018).

[tamara]

The interview between Wayne Gale (Robert Downey, Jr.) and Mickey (Woody Harrelson) was based upon Geraldo Rivera's interviews with Charles Manson and the infamous Mike Wallace interview with Manuel Noriega.

[bessie]

NBK was Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold's, the Columbine shooters code name for the coming massacre. It stands for Natural Born Killer, a movie they both admire.

[jesus]

Robert Downey, Jr. and Tom Sizemore served time in prison for drug-related offenses.