"It will never be night again and they will not need lamplight or sunlight, because the Lord God will be shining on them. The reasons for this are never really explained, but Caleb is the child of Tawna and Rick McBride, a couple in Palmdale, Calif. Caleb does not produce bowel movements, but when he farts, the Earth shakes. The other main reference points are T.S. Kelly said: "[Southland Tales] will only be a musical in a post-modern sense of the word in that it is a hybrid of several genres. Starla is in love with Boxer and, in a fit of delusion, has assumed the role of Dr. Muriel Fox, a character from the screenplay. "Three Days [Live Version]" by Jane's Addiction15. Two witnesses appear in Jerusalem to speak out against the sins of mankind. Muriel and Jericho take the child after its parents are killed, and, under Muriel's guidance, drive to a farmhouse, where they are met by Serpentine, the Baron's mistress. Dragon from Revelation 12 and 13 (Puppet of the Anti-Christ)Pilot Abeline: There is no real-life equivalent to the movie's "organic compound" which grants people telepathy etc. On his way to meet Krysta, Fortunio discovered Boxer Santaros in the desert, stricken with amnesia. Walter Mung recognizes him and quickly sedates him with an injection of fluid karma. Once Krysta departs, Boxer receives a phone call from Starla instructing him to go to the Santa Monica pier. Does "Southland Tales: The Prequel Saga" explain what this fluid karma stuff is? In addition to her reality show, Krysta has launched an energy drink and recorded a hit single called "Teen Horniness Is Not a Crime." . In near-future 2008, Los Angeles (referred to as "The Southland" by locals) is a dystopian[8] city on the brink of chaos overshadowed by the growth of an underground neo-Marxist organization. For "Southland Tales," he loosely adapted the plot of the Book of Revelation and set it in an alternate version of the present day. The final chapter of the film ("VI: Wave of Mutilation") begins. "The Power" is a pretty hilarious piece of work. Roger Ebert called it "the most disastrous Cannes press screening since, yes, 'The Brown Bunny.'" After the attacks, Kelly revised the script. In Southland Tales we have a movie whose frenetic, all-American surrealism - its blend of censorship and sexuality, commerce and violence - spookily pre-empted the prevailing culture under Donald Trump a decade before he was elected president. Associated Press articles: Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. When cops arrive on the scene, he still doesn't stop,. Edit, Fortunio found Boxer lying on a road in Nevada, so he saved him and both of them try and figure out a way to get across the Nevada border back into California. Edit, Moments before the whole Fallujah incident, when Pilot and Roland were roping down their helicopter, Pilot is nervous so Roland gives him his iPod to listen to. When they join hands, a bond is formed and the rule of singular existence is completely broken. The other characters have all played their part and are redeemed in the end to enjoy eternal life. How meta. Which quotes from the Books of Revelation are used in the film? It's. Edit, According to The Prequel Saga, "The Power" was written entirely by Krysta Now, who is apparently psychic. He called it a "strange hybrid of the sensibilities of Andy Warhol and Philip K. He wakes up in a bed in his apartment in Treer Plaza. What's the deal with this screenplay-within-the-movie that all the characters keep referring to? At a beachside restaurant, Krysta Now meets Cyndi Pinziki (Nora Dunn), a porn producer with ties to the Neo-Marxist movement, to discuss Krysta's marketing plan. [4][5], Along with two other American filmmakers (Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette and Richard Linklater's Fast Food Nation), Kelly's follow-up to Donnie Darko was in competition for the coveted Palme d'Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival[32] and was screened on May 21 at the Grand Lumiere Theater. Not really, but it explains why the tattoo of Jesus on the back of Boxer's neck starts bleeding at the end of the film. It stinks and we have to accept it. [16] Kelly consciously sought out actors that he felt had been pigeonholed and wanted to showcase their "undiscovered talents."[14]. "Memory Gospel" by MobySongs Not Featured in on the soundtrackFrom the album Hotel by Moby (2-CD Deluxe Edition): "Snowball (played in opening sequence before opening title) "Blue Paper" (played when Dion and Dream are having discussion about bowel movements, also in trailer) "Overland" (heard before and after Pilot's dream sequence) "Aerial" "Hotel Intro" (featured in Cannes cut, not in theatrical cut) "Live Forever" (featured in Cannes cut, not in theatrical cut)Other songs not featured: Water Pistol" by Moby "If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)" by Louis Armstrong "All These Things That I've Done" by The Killers "Planet Telex (Live in San Francisco)" by Radiohead Symphony No. Three days later, he is discovered in the desert near Lake Mead. Edit, Richard Kelly envisioned the story as being told across multiple formats. She tells him that he must board the mega-zeppelin and what he is looking for is in the Baron's private chamber. As the movie suggests, the Baron conducted secret experiments, headed by Simon Theory, with soldiers in Iraq. Messiah = high spirituality. Reproduction of material from any Salon pages without written permission is strictly prohibited. Cane loses consciousness. They claim to have read his screenplay. When Boxer and Taverner went through the space-time rift, they traveled 69 minutes back in timecreating duplicate versions of themselves. This is because, at the end of the day, Southland Tales is a very indulgent, very silly and weirdly endearing film that all manages to come together in a near indescribable sweet spot. The release of Kellys first film, Donnie Darko, more or less coincided with the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers. One moment, for example, is during Cyndi's meeting where she asks Krysta how much of her own money is she putting into her career makeover. Filming was slated to begin in July 2004, but after a year, it had not begun. Kelly's previous cult masterpiece Donnie Darko (2001) and the . It's too bad, because "Southland Tales" is one of the more interesting and ambitious American films in recent memory. They are the two witnesses.Krysta Now: This means that Christianity has won the "contest" for Earth and is the one true faith. Roland, a Hermosa Beach police officer, became involved in a "deep conspiracy" and he would be in grave danger if anyone found out that he was alive. It's OK to be confused by Richard Kelly's "Southland Tales.". He climbs out and walks up to the nearby ice cream truck. [30] The film was originally scheduled to be released in the United States on November 9, 2007, in partnership with Destination Films and Samuel Goldwyn Films,[31] but in eventually opened in limited release in California on November 14, 2007. On September 8, 2008, it was announced that it would be one of the five films being released on Blu-ray on November 18, 2008. She would, I think, make a good president. The false prophet and the Antichrist will create a dominating world system. Kelly has said that this idea was inspired by a real U.S. Army project. According to their plan, Boxer is to videotape their faked murder. The reason for the exclusion of some of these tracks, like the song by The Killers was as a result of a dispute with the record label. Zora abruptly pushes Ronald from the car, and runs over Bing. Edit, After Roland Taverner came back from Iraq, he got a job as a police officer in Hermosa Beach, thanks to his father. On edge after being put on desk duty and forced to see a shrink, a neighbor's crap generator sets Cooper off and leads to a bloody altercation. Southland Tales encapsulates these anxieties in the form of US-IDent, a state agency that can hear and see everyone in America at all times. He stopped editing the film and was also unable to complete all of the visual effects in time for the screening. "[12] He described the film as a "tapestry of ideas all related to some of the biggest issues that I think we're facing right now . 125, Second Movement "Molto Vivace", by Ludwig van Beethoven "Tender" by Blur "It Looks Down" by Moby "Ceanograph" by Moby (featured in Cannes cut, not in theatrical cut) "The Real Thing" by The Shakers "Blackout" by Muse By the time the film reaches its climax -- which somehow manages to combine modern dance, a floating ice cream truck and the resurrection of Christ -- all semblance of logic has long since evaporated. Boxer's original self was incinerated in a car bomb triggered by Serpentine, while the duplicate Boxer is still roaming. What's the relation between Walter Mung and Veronica "Dream" Mung? These are all references to the seven plagues that precede the destruction of Babylon. Directed by Richard Kelly, a guy who can only make cult classics . Scientists are saying the futures going to be far more futuristic than they originally predicted, Krysta suggests, as if this helped to explain anything. Set in the then-near future of 2008, the film is a portrait of Los Angeles, and a satiric commentary on the militaryindustrial complex and the infotainment industry. They are available together in the one graphic novel as Southland Tales: The Prequel Saga. Filmed in 2005, it was produced on a reasonable budget of under 20 million and had a hip as hell cast including Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Amy Poehler, Jon Lovitz, Kevin Smith, Mandy Moore and Wallace Shawn. Dick". During their discussion, they learn that Ronald has been dreaming of Boxer. Metacritic Reviews. The first chapter in the film ("IV: Temptation Waits") begins. How would that work? He's the best friend of Seann William Scott's character (Roland Taverner), so he's witness to the resurrection. After losing a game of cards, Fortunio needed to make his way back into California, and Krysta offered to set him up with a visa. HitFix's Alan Sepinwall reviews "Reckoning," the season finale of the TNT cop drama "Southland," and says it worked as a perfect series-ender in the event of cancellation. On this occasion the beginning of the end is predicted not by a high-schooler but by an adult performer: Krysta Now (Sarah Michelle Gellar), a former porn star, has shrugged off the bangs and whimpers of her previous employment with a new career as a Kardashian-style mogul, and a seer. Does Sarah Michelle Gellar have a sex scene in this movie? [14] With the film's premise of a nuclear attack on Texas, Kelly wanted to take a look at how the United States would respond and survive while constructing a "great black comedy. Why is 'Kiss Me Deadly' featured numerous times in the film? Kelly wrote Southland Tales shortly before the September 11 attacks. The Book of Revelation, or the Revelation of John, was written by an unknown person in the first century. Boxer and Roland run out in a panic. Edit, Richard Kelly stated in his interview with Empire, She was designed as a sort of Arianna Huffington meets Jenna Jameson. "[40] David Edelstein's review in New York magazine criticized the film's writing, "Kelly aims high and must have shot off his own ear, which is the only way to account for the dialogue. Kids are shooting home video of their Independence Day barbecue. If you replace the Antichrist with the bourgeoisie, and the kingdom of God with a communist utopia, you've got the same basic narrative. Boxer diverts the attention away from the real messiah, who almost gets killed. His follow-up is a decidedly post-9/11 story, haunted by the Iraq War. We quickly learn that the United States is running low on gas and has cut a deal with a "renegade scientist" named Baron Von Westphalen (Wallace Shawn) and his company, Treer. [12] Editorial changes were made to restructure the order of the film's scenes, including re-recording all of Timberlake's voice-over. Bing is freaked out by the murders, and decides that he no longer wants to be part of the group. [18] Much to his surprise, they loved it and wanted the film entered in competition for the Palme d'Or. Background newscasts in "Southland Tales" are also constantly referring to earthquakes, wild fires and "red tides." But now it's about, I hope, creating a piece of science fiction that's about a really important problem we're facing, about civil liberties and homeland security and needing to sustain both those things and balance them. Krysta says she's putting it all in, Cyndi asks why she would do something that stupid, and that's what causes her to tell Cyndi she's sleeping with "a large and powerful man." And "pimp?" The baby, she explains, is the Messiah, and Jericho is his guardian. As he waves at himself in the mirror, he notices that his reflection's movements don't match his own. What is the glowing orb carried around by Dr. Kuntzler? Then, a mushroom cloud appears on the horizon, and history jumps the tracks. The film features an ensemble cast including Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Mandy Moore, and Justin Timberlake. Movie star Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson) plans his next film with the . It features 3 tracks by Moby that have not been released commercially: "Water Pistol", "It Looks Down" and "Ceanograph".Southland Tales OST Tracklist1. Why does the messiah (e.g. What does the name "Vaughn Smallhouse" refer to? They will reign forever and ever." No one really knows (except Richard Kelly, of course) but the glow could be to establish a connection between the two Taverners, that they are two identical souls walking on the same plane. Edit, The term fluid karma is used to refer to two things in the movie. Amongst the songs not available on the soundtrack but featured in the film are Muse's "Blackout", The Killers' "All These Things That I've Done", and Blur's "Tender". Amy Poehler and Wood Harris appear as Neo-Marxist activists. . This assertion seems to be based upon a flawed understanding of the the particular Law. Why would Martin let himself die after he killed everyone on the Mega-Zeppelin? The mega-zeppelin explodes, and its pieces scatter across L.A. I also watched it because at present there is something satisfying about an apocalypse story that suggests humanity may be too dumb, too self-interested and too naturally violent to survive. The 2008 election, which is being fought between Clinton-Lieberman (Democrats) and Eliot-Frost (Republicans), hinges on the electoral votes of the state of California. The name Treer is a reference to Trier, Marx's birthplace. It's filled with so many references and so much self-conscious irony that it's nearly impossible to make sense of it all. Elsewhere, in a luxurious apartment, Boxer crawls into bed with Krysta Now (Sarah Michelle Gellar), a former porn star with a reality television show. She is pursued by Zora and Bart, who have discovered that Krysta has taken Dion and Dream's murder tape by mistake. "[5], In January 2021, Richard Kelly announced that developments are underway to expand the film into a franchise with intention being that the original cast return. Above him, Pilot Abilene (Justin Timberlake) sits in a gun turret and recites from the Book of Revelation, Robert Frost's poem "The Two Roads" and an inverted version of T.S. Roland runs to meet him inside the ice cream truck. Certainly, the future as depicted here is deeply complex. Additionally, tracks from Radiohead, Louis Armstrong, Beethoven, Kris Kristofferson, and several tracks from Moby's Hotel:Ambient are likewise absent from the album. A white light emerges from their hands and the ice cream truck starts floating. The current world ends, the joined souls become the new messiah, a new world begins. Boxer appears at the Santa Monica pier to meet Starla Von Luft. Richard Kelly's science-fiction comedy was widely derided on release in 2006, but it has since found a cult audience. Is the soundtrack availiable for the film? (Krystas pop album is called Teen Horniness is Not a Crime.) This release will include both the original theatrical cut and the Cannes cut. The Anti-ChristSerpentine: "And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death"Revelation 11: Ten years ago, a critical audience at Cannes sealed 'Southland Tales' fate. In fact, Marx was indirectly influenced by the Book of Revelation in his writing. All rights reserved. Then, after several detours, Krysta and Boxer made their way to Los Angeles, where Boxer went on a nighttime stroll on the beach, injected himself with fluid karma and passed out. Edit, It is a mechanical ball (built by Treer) which acts as remote antennas for the wireless electricity energy fields powered by Fluid Karma. As part of his job, Jericho must tattoo a symbol from every world religion onto his body and, when the Messiah reaches maturity, the "winning" religion's symbol will bleed snake blood. Edit, Richard Kelly stated in his interview with Empire, He is the doomsday prophet, the witness of everything. When he first discovered the rift, we learn, the Baron decided that the first human to travel through the rift would be a movie star and that movie star would be Boxer Santaros. It was first released in 2006 to almost uniformly terrible reviews, and has since found an audience with fans who love it for its great ambition, its disdain for common sense, and its prescient use of neo-Marxism, internet censorship and celebrity sex-tapes as harbingers of the future. but those who do not but still feel the effects of Fluid Karma are known as "Natural Bleeders" (e.g. In a 2011 interview, Justin Timberlake himself said, "To me, Southland Tales is performance art. Her new screenplay, co-written with an amnesiac movie star with the extremely macho name Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson), outlines the apocalypse as she is certain it will happen. Singer Rebekah Del Rio, who (as herself) performs the "Star Spangled Banner" onboard the mega-zeppelin, is also featured in David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive." As in "Southland Tales," a character in "Kiss Me Deadly" picks up a stranger in the desert, and one of the main characters in the film is named after a poet. The purpose of these novels is to explain much of the back-story and set the viewer up for parts IV, V and VI in the movie itself.An article titled Everything you were afraid to ask about Southland Tales. Treer knew of these effects and decided to use it to their advantage in the war. But they're in there. Its depiction of an American teenager experiencing premonitions about doomsday clocks and jet crashes suddenly became more piquant in light of such astounding tragedy. What happens in the screenplay? alternative fuel or the increasing obsession with celebrity and how celebrity now intertwines with politics". If these scenes are anything to go by, very minuscule moments in them that were cut can be noticed and they are now more compact and give the bare essentials in the theatrical cut. "In its willful, self-involved eccentricity, Southland Tales is really something else. "[29], The film remains enigmatic to many viewers and even some of its makers. "Lucky Me" by Roger Webb8. Muriel and Jericho take the child after its parents are killed, and, under Muriel's guidance, drive to a farmhouse, where they are met by Serpentine, the Baron's mistress. Two months before Southland Tales was released, he announced the launch of Darko Entertainment.[15]. "Samuel Goldwyn to handle US distribution of Southland Tales", "Universal, Wild Bunch board Southland Tales", This Maligned 2006 Movie About Dystopian L.A. Is Too Real at This Point. In particular, Southland Tales apes his Four Lines, All Waiting style of plotting, his sci-fi meets religion Mind Screw nuttiness, his themes of identity and counterfeits, his gratuitous mixing of high literature and pop culture references, his Medium Awareness twists about characters believing fiction is secretly communicating to them, and an The feature film comprises the final three parts of the experience. [19] Kelly describes the negative reaction at Cannes as a "very painful experience on a lot of levels" but ultimately felt that the film "was better off because of it". Thomas Rogers is Salon's former Arts Editor. Donnie Darko had just debuted there in January of 2001 and as soon as he got back, Richard. Before Edward Snowden released information to the public about the NSA's numerous global surveillance programs, many people joked about the government spying on us through simple technology like our phones. Presumably, Tab was afraid that the Baron's people would find out that Roland had survived the trip through the time rift. On his way to meet Krysta, Fortunio discovered Boxer Santaros in the desert, stricken with amnesia. Violence has erupted throughout the city. It has a similar plot to "Southland Tales," but with different characters and more gratuitous product placement. When Southland Tales was released in 2006, it confounded filmgoers.A dense, sprawling science-fiction tale, Southland Tales throws the war on terror, the surveillance state, Hollywood, and the Book of Revelation into a blender and purees that unlikely mix into a stylish, acerbic film that we're still trying to figure out. If you replace the Antichrist with the bourgeoisie, and the kingdom of God with a communist utopia, you've got the same basic narrative. In the graphic novels, Krysta says it's Boxer's favourite film. The film also evokes Kurt Vonnegut's sci-fi absurdism, Philip K. Dick's philosophical approach to time travel, and Thomas Pynchon's sprawling narratives.The film that is most obviously referenced is "Kiss Me Deadly," a 1955 film noir about a private detective who uncovers a plot to detonate a nuclear device. This has opened up a rift in the space-time continuum on the outskirts of Lake Mead. So it's trying to say that our veterans are the biggest badasses that we have. 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