Their hands begin to glow. If you replace the Antichrist with the bourgeoisie, and the kingdom of God with a communist utopia, you've got the same basic narrative. 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. Through voiceover, we learn that Pilot Abilene was injected with fluid karma in Iraq, as part of an experiment by the Baron, and in his quest for global domination, the Baron has negotiated an agreement with the prime minister of Japan, Hideo Takahashi, for fluid karma. Holmes Osborne plays conservative Senator Bobby Frost, Will Sasso plays Fortunio Balducci and Christopher Lambert plays Walter Mung. Several days before the movie starts, on the same houseboat on Lake Mead, Tab Taverner, Ronald/Roland's father, told Ronald -- who has amnesia -- that he must kidnap his brother in order to protect him. Metacritic Reviews. The name may also reference the actor Fortunio Bonanova who starred as Carmen Trivago in the film Kiss Me Deadly, itself a considerable influence on Southland Tales. Ronald and Roland Taverner, furthermore, are not twins, but copies of the same person. Southland Tales begins on Independence Day 2005 in an eminently recognizable Bush-era Texas. Things certainly ended on a dark note for many of the characters on the "Southland" season finale, but the final moments left fans' jaws on the ground in a cliffhanger that may never be resolved. That's why. Lukas Dhonts Close explores the abrupt end of boyhood, Martin McDonaghs The Banshees of Inisherin: a brilliantly nasty Irish fable, Universal Credit falls short of covering the bare essentials. But they're in there. Many people think wireless electricity is the thing that could rescue us from our dilemma as we reach the end of the petroleum era. Director: Richard Kelly. | Zelda Rubinstein and Beth Grant portray Dr. Katarina Kuntzler and Dr. Inga Von Westphalen, members of the baron's entourage. As Treer employees were interviewing the plane's passengers, they noticed that she was the only passenger who didn't suffer from amnesia and that she could see into the future. The film features an ensemble cast including Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Mandy Moore, and Justin Timberlake. 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. What was in the 20 to 25 minutes cut out of the original version showed at Cannes? "[34] A handful of the American and European critics, however, were more positive. The Grey Horseman. "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. The name of Dr. Severin Exx is a reference to the name of an evil doctor in the movie "Kiss Me Deadly," and Boxer Santaros' convertible is the same car driven by Ralph Meeker in the 1955 film. He stopped editing the film and was also unable to complete all of the visual effects in time for the screening. The anagram of his name, FREAK MAN VIRTUE is most important, foreshadowing the ultimate destiny of Martin in the film. The first time Fortunio appears in the film, he quotes Karl Marx ("Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval"), and several characters quote the song "Three Days" by Jane's Addiction ("We saw the shadows of the morning light/ The shadows of the evening sun/ Until the shadows and the light were one"). On October 26, 2020 Arrow Video announced a Remastered version approved by Richard Kelly will be released on Blu-ray on January 26, 2021. Second, fluid karma is the name used by Treer for the "hydroelectric energy field" produced by the their Utopia tidal generators. He then asked her to forecast the last three days on Earth, and she made her prediction in the form of a screenplay: "The Power." According to Serpentine, "The future is just as [he] imagined.". They will reign forever and ever"Revelation 12 and 13: She says "The religion that is the winner of the contest will bleed" When Boxer and Taverner went through the space-time rift, they traveled 69 minutes back in timecreating duplicate versions of themselves. Once there, Boxer meets Simon Theory, one of the Baron's employees. He wakes up in a bed in his apartment in Treer Plaza. Suddenly, a bright light appears through windows and a mushroom cloud rises in the distance: Abilene has been nuked. Despite being critically and commercially unsuccessful, the film has developed a cult following in later years. 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." It foretells the end of the world and the Second Coming of Christ (Pilot Abilene keeps reading it on the soundtrack). Or, maybe it's just an hallucination from Fluid Karma that only the two of them can see (since Martin doesn't actually notice the light from his hands in the Hummer). The name of Dr. Severin Exx is a reference to the name of an evil doctor in the movie "Kiss Me Deadly," and Boxer Santaros' convertible is the same car driven by Ralph Meeker in the 1955 film. Southland Tales had a rough go of it. But once they went through the rift, the car's self-destruct mechanism was activated, killing the copy of Boxer that did not travel back in time. Protector of the Messiah/False ProphetRoland Taverner: Because of this rift the world is essentially going mad.remember when I said there's a reason why everything seems so crazy in this movie ? The Baron admits that he has been paying Krysta to deceive Boxer, but also mentions that Madeline is pregnant with the child of Brandt Huntington (Joe Campana), one of her father's assistants. 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. The novel has obvious links in its plot with Southland Tales, and the story's main character is named Jason Taverner. Southland Tales is dizzyingly maximalist, never happy with one set-piece if it can introduce five. This release will include both the original theatrical cut and the Cannes cut. Published May 20, 2016. Edit, The name does not refer to anything other than the anagram and the late U.S. Pimp is American slang for badass. Edit, It is implied that they are either divorced or brother and sister. Jericho Cane is the name of Arnold Schwarzenegger's character in "End of Days." 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. What is the glowing orb carried around by Dr. Kuntzler? You know those overlooked classics that are critically ignored only to blossom into beautiful definitive works over time.like "Pinkerton" or "Starship Troo. 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. Director Richard Kelly Writer Richard Kelly Stars Dwayne Johnson Sarah Michelle Gellar 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". [12] Editorial changes were made to restructure the order of the film's scenes, including re-recording all of Timberlake's voice-over. So the parallels with the Bible are kind of buried. Why does Pilot dream about the song "All These Things I've Done" by The Killers? Boxer meets Fortunio on the beach after his rendezvous with Starla. Roland manages to escape, climb onto the roof, and fall into a dumpster. The film was released on Region 4 DVD in Australia on April 30, 2008. There is no real-life equivalent to the movie's "organic compound" which grants people telepathy etc. Edit, Richard Kelly stated in his interview with Empire, Whenever Boxer becomes scared or agitated or paranoid, as a defence mechanism, Jericho Kane, the character he is playing (in the film "The Power" he is making), takes over. And "pimp?" They are the two witnesses.Krysta Now: 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. The other main reference points are T.S. The soundtrack does not feature all the music from the film, probably due to rights/royalties issues. The only new special feature announced was an audio commentary by Kelly. It may seem really amateurish at first, letting things like that "this is the way the world ends" quote fly from all directions throughout the film. Your body would learn to how to absorb all nutrients into the body, making defecation unnecessary.RONALD: "Hmmm. Sign up to receive information regarding NS events, subscription offers & product updates. It's filled with so many references and so much self-conscious irony that it's nearly impossible to make sense of it all. Is it just me, or did that make no sense? Nowadays, the debate surrounding freedom, privacy,. When it premiered in its original three-hour form at Cannes, last year, the response was acidic. Boxer gets into a convertible and drives off. Blue, in an hour you feel new, and you can forget about Mellow yellow or Agent Orange, 'cause hey, I'm giving you blood red." The Region 1 DVD was released on March 18, 2008, in North America and the Region 2 release was on March 31, 2008, in the United Kingdom. A tide-powered generator, however, relies on an external source of power, the tides, and would not fall under that definition. Ronald and Martin Kefauver pull up to the Rove Credit Union where Kefauver tries to withdraw his savings. What does the phrase "Do You Bleed" mean? For . This soundtrack has 41 tracks, 9 of which are sound bytes taken from the film. [26], Southland Tales was initially planned to be a nine-part "interactive experience", with the first six parts published in six 100-page graphic novels that would be released in a six-month period up to the film's release. The generators depicted in the film, and similar real-life power sources, are not closed systems but open ones. Due to the poor reception they received at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and still without a distributor, Richard Kelly went back and re-edited the film, trimming out 20-25 minutes worth of footage and adding approximately a hundred or so extra visual effects shots. In the "Southland Tales" universe, when war broke out following the nuclear attacks in Texas, Treer was contracted to build several mega-zeppelins to ferry troops and equipment across the world. 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. Edit, Richard Kelly stated in his interview with Empire, He is the doomsday prophet, the witness of everything. Is Krysta Now (Sarah Michelle Gellar) based on anyone? Edit, After Roland Taverner came back from Iraq, he got a job as a police officer in Hermosa Beach, thanks to his father. "[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 . He played a character named "Donnie" in a movie with Boxer Santaros (in an obvious allusion to "Donnie Darko"). Back in the dumpster, Roland Taverner wakes up as his hands begins to glow. A closed system that defies the Law would be along the lines of, for example, an electric car which completely recharges itself via the process of driving it around, requiring no external power once it's been turned on. Abilene injects himself with fluid karma, collapses, and, in a dream sequence, dances a routine to the Killers' "All The Things You've Done," while nurses twirl around him. We learn that July 4 will be the launch date for the new Treer mega-zeppelin (the "Jenny Von Westphalen"). Dwayne Johnson joined the cast in April 2005, and principal photography was slated to begin August 1, 2005 in Los Angeles. In response to the recent fuel shortage in the wake of global warfare, the German company Treer designs a generator of inexhaustible energy, which is propelled by the perpetual motion of ocean currents, called "Fluid Karma". In the hopes of helping you make sense of the movie, we've decided to unravel "Southland Tales" as we've done for "Mulholland Drive," "The Wire" and, of course, "Donnie Darko." What's the deal with the "I'm a pimp, and pimps don't commit suicide" motto? 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. "Three Days [Live Version]" by Jane's Addiction15. In June 2008, Boxer Santaros (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson), an action movie star with ties to the Republican Party, disappears. If you read the graphic novel, you'll find the legend which is spoken by Bai Ling's character Serpentine. So it's trying to say that our veterans are the biggest badasses that we have. He climbs out and walks up to the nearby ice cream truck. On the mega-zeppelin, Krysta Now performs a dance number. 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. 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. Much of Pilot Abilene's voiceover consists of direct quotations from the Book of Revelation. Dr. Severin Exx read Krysta the Book of Revelation while she was under hypnosis. This is where "Operation Dream Theory" came into play. Senator. [9] Filming began on August 15, 2005, with a budget of around US$1517 million. Edit, No one really knows, it's never implied in the film who was behind it-Richard Kelly did mention he was given an article called "American Hiroshima" which revolved this plan of Al-Qaeda's to buy nuclear weapons off Russian mobsters and smuggle them into Texas over the Mexican border and detonate them in mid-sized cities. 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. Inside the levitating ice cream truck, the two Taverners continue to hold hands. 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. Southland Tales is an ensemble piece set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. I think defecation is the result of an inferior food supply and spiritual weakness. Starla Von Luft, the double-crossing USIDent employee, is reading a copy of "The Power" at work. "[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. Unfortunately for the Neo-Marxists, their operative in USIDent, Kenny Chan, has been compromised. Kelly has said that this idea was inspired by a real U.S. Army project. They claim to have read his screenplay. [17] The film often references religious and literary works; a policeman says, "Flow my tears," in reference to a Philip K. Dick novel of that name. Edit, Fred Zinnemann, the well-known movie director of the 1950s and 60s, maybe? If "Southland Tales" is a semi-straightforward reinterpretation of the Book of Revelation, then Baron Von Westphalen is the Antichrist, Sen. Bobby Frost is probably his false prophet, Krysta Now is the Whore of Babylon, the two witnesses are probably Boxer Santaros and Roland Taverner, the white horse is the levitating ice cream truck, and Christ is Ronald and Roland Taverner. These are (Book 1) Two Roads Diverge, (Book 2) Fingerprints and (Book 3) The Mechanicals. Elsewhere, in a luxurious apartment, Boxer crawls into bed with Krysta Now (Sarah Michelle Gellar), a former porn star with a reality television show. The word of God or the Apostle John. As a tie-in, Kelly has also produced three graphic novels ("Two Roads Diverge," "Fingerprints" and "The Mechanicals" -- now available as "Southland Tales: The Prequel Saga") that explain the film's back story. Edit, No. [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". Edit, Richard Kelly stated in his interview with Empire, If Roland Taverner pulls the trigger and kills himself, the ice-cream truck will fall and the gateway it opens will close, and it's that gateway that may be humankind's salvation, so suicide represents surrendering to defeat. What follows is a hyperkinetic Fox News-style summary of the following three years in the "Southland Tales'" alternate universe: After the nuclear attacks in Texas, the United States reinstates the draft, and by October 2005, war (sponsored by Hustler and Bud Light) breaks out with Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, North Korea and Iraq -- where Pilot Abilene, the film's narrator, is injured in a friendly-fire accident. Three days before the movie starts, Krysta Now was vacationing on a houseboat on Lake Mead with Ronald Taverner, Tab Taverner (Ronald's father) and Fortunio Balducci. What's the deal with this screenplay-within-the-movie that all the characters keep referring to? Both vehicles come to a rest in the middle of a shootout and Walter Mung is killed. Kelly has claimed on his MySpace blog that he had very little time for the DVD as he was starting shooting on his next feature, The Box. As Treer employees were interviewing the plane's passengers, they noticed that she was the only passenger who didn't suffer from amnesia and that she could see into the future. Defecation is a part of life. Our weekly culture newsletter from books and art to pop culture and memes sent every Friday. They also added in a newly animated opening prologue called the Doomsday Scenario Interface. Edit, Much of Pilot Abilene's voiceover consists of direct quotations from the Book of Revelation. So if that's anything to go by, it may have been Al-Qaeda. Reading the graphic novels shows that she had the revelation of the screenplay, which happened (more or less) as she said it would, much as the book of revelation was occurring (more or less) as John had proposed it. The name Treer is a reference to Trier, Marx's birthplace. Its story overlaps with the movie, so it explains some of the back story. Certainly, the future as depicted here is deeply complex. For reasons that never become entirely clear, he was hired by the Baron to kidnap Boxer Santaros from a charity scavenger hunt and drive him to Lake Mead. Edit, Richard Kelly stated in his interview with Empire, She was designed as a sort of Arianna Huffington meets Jenna Jameson. Associated Press articles: Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. On his way to meet Krysta, Fortunio discovered Boxer Santaros in the desert, stricken with amnesia. Liberal extremist cells start to emerge, including a group called the Neo-Marxists. Why would Martin let himself die after he killed everyone on the Mega-Zeppelin? 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. What's the relation between Walter Mung and Veronica "Dream" Mung? It's not exactly easy to follow, and its meaning is still heavily debated, but if you read it as a prophecy, this is one way of interpreting it: In the future, the world will be a miserable place filled with war, famine and disease. Shortly after they received their first injection of fluid karma, however, Taverner and Abilene were sent on a mission to Fallujah, and Taverner accidentally injured Abilene with a grenadedisfiguring him. Likewise, Kellys casting is not simply of the period, but inspired by its teenybopper culture: Dwayne The Rock Johnson, fresh from working as a wrestler; the singer and sometime actress Mandy Moore; Seann William Scott, an American Pie alumnus; Sarah Michelle Gellar, star of Cruel Intentions and Buffy the Vampire Slayer; and the pop star Justin Timberlake. Fluid karma also makes telepathy possible between those that are using it. [9] The idea of six graphic novels was later cut down to three. This is the way the world ends not with a bang, but with a fascinating near three-hour disaster of a movie, as deranged as Heavens Gate and as distinctively mid-Noughties as a Juicy Couture tracksuit. The first chapter in the film ("IV: Temptation Waits") begins. Two souls join into one, the forth dimension collapses. When a confrontation erupts near the Neo-Marxist drop box, Zora and Bart are both killed by a soldier. Kelly's previous cult masterpiece Donnie Darko (2001) and the . This means that Christianity has won the "contest" for Earth and is the one true faith. The Taverner twins are revealed to be the same person by the engineers of Treer, duplicated when Roland traveled through a rift in space-time, while Boxer has become the most wanted man in the world despite his political ties and his having the fate of the future, in the form of a prophetic screenplay foretelling the end of the world, in his hands. Back at USIDent headquarters, we learn that Boxer was kidnapped at a charity scavenger hunt several days earlier, and a charred body, presumed to be his, has been found in the desert near Lake Mead. She would, I think, make a good president. The release of Kellys first film, Donnie Darko, more or less coincided with the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers. | In this article, Kelly is interviewed about some of the less straightforward aspects of Southland Tales. Southland Tales is streaming now on Mubi, This article appears in the 03 Jun 2020 issue of the New Statesman, We can't breathe. The film was released in the UK on December 7, 2007, exclusively to UK cinema chain Cineworld in a limited number of locations. Richard Kelly's science-fiction comedy was widely derided on release in 2006, but it has since found a cult audience. Edit, Richard Kelly stated in his interview with Empire, They're representations of every major religion on Earth. Its plot hinges on a barely explained back story involving rifts in the fourth dimension. What does the name Martin Kefauver refer to, other than to its anagram "Freak Man Virtue" and the late U.S. senator? Dick". Edit, The Treer company is a German defense contractor that employs Dr. Inga Von Westphalen, a zeppelin designer and the Baron's mother. That's why Taverner always feels so guilty. [45], Kelly later expressed regret in releasing the latter chapters first through the original film, stating that this placed the audience at a disadvantage. "Chord Sounds" by Moby7. Pregnant woman from Revelation 12 and 13 (Puppet of the Anti-Christ)Bobby Frost and Vaughn Smallhouse: They are available together in the one graphic novel as Southland Tales: The Prequel Saga. 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. Kelly has said in interviews that the film was partially made in response to the rise of apocalyptic evangelism in the United States. The New Statesmans global affairs newsletter, every Monday and Friday. One copy of Boxer traveled 69 minutes back in time, while the other copy was killed by an explosive charge in the car. "[44], In a 2013 interview, Kelly said he considered this work as "the thing that I'm most proud of, and I feel like it's sort of the misunderstood child or the banished child. I still don't know what that movie is about. Edit, The film was originally meant to be released in the autumn of 2006 but was pushed back a year to a limited release in the winter of 2007. "Teen Horniness is Not a Crime" by Sarah Michelle Gellar, Abbey McBride, ClarKent11. According to their plan, Boxer is to videotape their faked murder. "RONALD: "Sounds neat. [7] The title refers to the Southland, a name used by locals to refer to Southern California and the Greater Los Angeles area. Edit, "The Power" is a pretty hilarious piece of work. "Southland Tales" opens on July 4, 2005, in Abilene, Texas. In 2021, Kelly announced that there are developments to expand the film into a franchise. With the help of Dion and Dream, Roland will then help stage a double murder that, caught on tape, will incriminate Boxer and destroy the Republican campaign. [28][29] After significant edits, the final version premiered at Fantastic Fest on September 22, 2007. For half of Kelly's epic film about the end of the world, characters are quoting T.S. After the attacks, Kelly revised the script. A pregnant woman, a dragon and two beasts; They are the puppets of the Anti-ChristRevelation 22:12: "Yes They Can! the Indian chief Boxer encounters in the graphic novels). These are all references to the seven plagues that precede the destruction of Babylon. 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