You know those overlooked classics that are critically ignored only to blossom into beautiful definitive works over time.like "Pinkerton" or "Starship Troo. [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. Lots of scary apocalyptic stuff will happen (judgment, plagues and the like), before Jesus Christ will ride in on a white horse and establish the new kingdom of God. Fortunio's goons inject Boxer with fluid karma and load him into an ambulance. Presumably, Tab was afraid that the Baron's people would find out that Roland had survived the trip through the time rift. These are all references to the seven plagues that precede the destruction of Babylon. Madeline walks in and tells him that he has been speaking in his sleep. But despite the reaction, Kelly managed to secure a distribution deal and, on Nov. 14, released a shortened version of the film in U.S. theaters. "RONALD: "Its a physiological requirement of the body. In the midst of the action, Ronald is shot in the eye but survives. A tide-powered generator, however, relies on an external source of power, the tides, and would not fall under that definition. 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. (This explains the final scene where "Ronald" tells Roland he forgives himhe is actually Pilot Abilene talking, explaining that he forgives him for what happened in Fallujah.) 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. They claim to have read his screenplay. ", "This is the way the world ends, This is the way the world ends, This is the way the world ends, Not with a whimper, but with a bang.". It tells the story of Jericho Cane, a renegade Los Angeles police officer (and Boxer Santaros doppelgnger), who teams up with Dr. Muriel Fox, a psychic stripper (and Krysta Now doppelgnger), to protect a baby named Caleb. With the United States under the threat of nuclear attack, the lives of several people converge in a dystopian Los Angeles. She tells him that he must board the mega-zeppelin and what he is looking for is in the Baron's private chamber. 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. 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. 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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. Two of the solders that participated in the experiment were Roland Taverner and Pilot Abilene. It's OK to be confused by Richard Kelly's "Southland Tales.". The Tangent Universe is an alternate reality to our own. Is it just me, or did that make no sense? 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"). What is the glowing orb carried around by Dr. Kuntzler? Why would Martin let himself die after he killed everyone on the Mega-Zeppelin? This is where "Operation Dream Theory" came into play. Edit, Yes, there is a soundtrack available to buy, from Amazon.com or any other retailer that specializes in music. The movie begins in earnest when Boxer wakes up on a beach near the Santa Monica pier. 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. Unfortunately for the Neo-Marxists, their operative in USIDent, Kenny Chan, has been compromised. When Boxer and Taverner went through the space-time rift, they traveled 69 minutes back in time -- creating duplicate versions of themselves. That's why he wakes up on the beach at the start of the movie. After Roland Taverner came back from Iraq, he got a job as a police officer in Hermosa Beach, thanks to his father. It features 3 tracks by Moby that have not been released commercially: "Water Pistol", "It Looks Down" and "Ceanograph".Southland Tales OST Tracklist1. Once Krysta departs, Boxer receives a phone call from Starla instructing him to go to the Santa Monica pier. It tells the story of Jericho Cane, a renegade Los Angeles police officer (and Boxer Santaros doppelgnger), who teams up with Dr. Muriel Fox, a psychic stripper (and Krysta Now doppelgnger), to protect a baby named Caleb. 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. [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. Our weekly culture newsletter from books and art to pop culture and memes sent every Friday. These are (Book 1) Two Roads Diverge, (Book 2) Fingerprints and (Book 3) The Mechanicals. Kids are shooting home video of their Independence Day barbecue. If Proposition 69 passes, US-IDent will essentially be shut down or have its powers severely restricted. What's the deal with the Treer company, and why are there all these references to Karl Marx? When Boxer and Taverner went through the space-time rift, they traveled 69 minutes back in timecreating duplicate versions of themselves. 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. 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. 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. [35] The Village Voice critic J. Hoberman, for example, called Southland Tales "a visionary film about the end of times" comparable in recent American film only to David Lynch's Mulholland Drive. "[28] Salon.com critic Andrew O'Hehir called the Cannes cut "about the biggest, ugliest mess I've ever seen. You could argue that all of Southland Tales occurs in the Tangent Universehence the film's alternate history of the past three years, and its weird mishmash of pop culture. Directed by Richard Kelly, a guy who can only make cult classics . It opened in Canada, as well as nationwide in the United States, in just 63 theaters,[6] on November 16, 2007. Pilot Abilene (Justin Timberlake) quotes Biblical scripture from the Book of Revelation in narrating the film and allusion is made both to Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening and an altered version of T. S. Eliot's The Hollow Men. Southland Tales premiered at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and received so much negative feedback that the studio reworked the film. 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. During their discussion, they learn that Ronald has been dreaming of Boxer. Before being drafted, Pilot Abilene was also a movie star. Ronald Taverner, meanwhile, has picked up Zora and Bing Zinneman, a new member of the Neo-Marxists. He climbs out and walks up to the nearby ice cream truck. First, it refers to an "organic compound" that the Treer company discovered while drilling off the coast of Israel, which exists under the Earth's mantle, and circles the world like a "serpent." Amy Poehler and Wood Harris appear as Neo-Marxist activists. The project was named "Serpentine Dream Theory." Like its contemporary David Lynchs Inland Empire (which used the then modern aesthetic of digital video to emphasise the way technology allowed the user to be present in two places, and therefore exist in two different states) it exaggerates the ugliness of 2006 the tribal tattoos and the awful CGI, the typefaces that look like something from a bitchin Geocities website until what was merely bad taste looks absurd, a dark dream that takes place in a strip mall food court. The release of Kellys first film, Donnie Darko, more or less coincided with the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers. As they hold hands, the truck begins to float into the sky with Martin Kefauver on board. An audacious near-future pop fever dream under the guise of blockbuster aesthetics, "Southland Tales" starred Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as a movie star who keeps forgetting his past, Sarah. Tab wanted Ronald to help the Neo-Marxists destroy US-IDent, so he entrusted Roland and Ronald to Zora Carmichaels, who then drove them to Venice Beach. 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. ------------------------------------------. Jericho Cane is the name of Arnold Schwarzenegger's character in "End of Days.". etc., although it bears a resemblence to Eastern religious concepts such as Qi and Ki. Cane loses consciousness. When Boxer and Fortunio met up with Krysta, she recognized Boxer and managed to convince him that she was an actress researching a role in his new movie, "The Power." Which quotes from the Books of Revelation are used in the film? . Serpentine explains that the world is coming to an end; the rotation of the Earth is slowing at a rate of .000000006 miles per hour every day. Edit, After Roland Taverner came back from Iraq, he got a job as a police officer in Hermosa Beach, thanks to his father. Tab wanted Ronald to help the Neo-Marxists destroy USIDent, so he entrusted Roland and Ronald to Zora Carmichaels, who then drove them to Venice Beach. They will reign forever and ever"Revelation 12 and 13: SOUTHLAND TALES is an ensemble piece set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. I still don't know what that movie is about. This has opened up a rift in the space-time continuum on the outskirts of Lake Mead. The director also added 90 new visual effects shots to the film and removed 20 to 25 minutes of footage from his initial cut. Ronald persuades him not to commit suicide, and the two decide to go to Mexico. We'll begin with a recap of the film. He called it a "strange hybrid of the sensibilities of Andy Warhol and Philip K. [36], 41% of 106 reviews compiled by review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes are positive, and the average rating is 4.9 out of 10. 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. Ronald and Roland Taverner, furthermore, are not twins, but copies of the same person. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Martin has just learned that he's been drafted to go to Iraq and is about to shoot himself in the head. 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." The film was released in the UK on December 7, 2007, exclusively to UK cinema chain Cineworld in a limited number of locations. Published May 20, 2016. On his way to meet Krysta, Fortunio discovered Boxer Santaros in the desert, stricken with amnesia. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Starla Von Luft, the double-crossing USIDent employee, is reading a copy of "The Power" at work. "Martin Kefauver: He is the angel of death that rides on the horse (the ice cream truck) How did the Taverners end up with the Neo-Marxists in Venice Beach? No, it's not just you. It is unhinged, and occasionally exhilarating, and quite often funny. Bing is freaked out by the murders, and decides that he no longer wants to be part of the group. Once there, Boxer meets Simon Theory, one of the Baron's employees. It's easy to empathize with his position, not so easy to remain engrossed in a film that's occasionally inspired but ultimately manic and scattered. As a result, Boxer was duplicated. Initial release: May 21, 2006. Elsewhere, in a luxurious apartment, Boxer crawls into bed with Krysta Now (Sarah Michelle Gellar), a former porn star with a reality television show. [22], Kelly edited the film down to the basic storylines of the characters portrayed by Scott, Gellar, and Johnson. As the party in the Mega-Zeppelin kicks off, Boxer heads upstairs to the Baron's secret chamber. At their Venice Beach headquarters, we meet the rest of the Neo-Marxists, including Veronica "Dream" Mung (Amy Poehler) and Dion Element (Wood Harris). 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 The Baron phones Simon Theory (Kevin Smith), an old bearded man, and instructs him to "remove the body from Utopia Three.". Most of the information in this FAQ can be attributed to three main sources:The three graphic novels that serve as a precursor to Southland Tales. Boxer Santaros is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. "Yes They Can! The current world ends, the joined souls become the new messiah, a new world begins. "[29], The film remains enigmatic to many viewers and even some of its makers. 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 ? How did the Taverners end up with the Neo-Marxists in Venice Beach? [24][25], The soundtrack for Southland Tales was released in stores and online on November 6, 2007. [7] The title refers to the Southland, a name used by locals to refer to Southern California and the Greater Los Angeles area. 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. Scientists are saying the futures going to be far more futuristic than they originally predicted, Krysta suggests, as if this helped to explain anything. Boxer walks up to the Frost mansion, where his wife, Madeline Frost (Mandy Moore), and the Frost team are waiting for him. Boxer, although he does not remember it, is married to the daughter of a Republican senator who is in turn the brains behind an agency called US-IDent, which controls what citizens can and cannot see on the internet. 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". So if that's anything to go by, it may have been Al-Qaeda. The Grey Horseman. She became psychic when a plane she was onUnited 23flew through the rift in space-time above Lake Mead. Krysta is brought to the Frost mansion, where she is confronted by Madeline. It's also symbolism for the above quote: almost a foreboding for the ending of the film where Roland turns out to be the Messiah. Feb. 7, 2021. What does the name Martin Kefauver refer to, other than to its anagram "Freak Man Virtue" and the late U.S. senator? That's why Taverner always feels so guilty.The Baron used the drug to keep everyone under control and on a leash but did not realise that each person under the influence of Fluid Karma can communicate with one another. Edit, Most of the footage was a subplot between Kevin Smith's and Janeane Garofalo's characters (Simon Theory and General Teena MacArthur) where they discussed Operation Serpentine Dream Theory. He wakes up in a bed in his apartment in Treer Plaza. 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. Somehow I doubt that will ever happen. Krysta Now stops by Zora's place to buy some drugs, when she notices the tape of Dream and Dion's murder on a chair. Also, a very subtle reference took place when Bart Bookman (Jon Lovitz) had just killed Dream and Dion: he said "Flow my tears". It's filled with so many references and so much self-conscious irony that it's nearly impossible to make sense of it all. 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. In June 2008, Boxer Santaros (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson), an action movie star with ties to the Republican Party, disappears. [9] The idea of six graphic novels was later cut down to three. Although it's part of a different section in the book, Revelation also refers to the Whore of Babylon -- dressed in scarlet and covered in gold -- as a symbol of Babylon's corruption. He played a character named "Donnie" in a movie with Boxer Santaros (in an obvious allusion to "Donnie Darko"). Y'know, the way porn stars are exploited is not that far off from the way actors are exploited. Edit, Operation Dream Theory was an experiment created by Treer. Comedy Drama Mystery During a three-day heat wave just before a huge 4th of July celebration, an action star stricken with amnesia meets up with a porn star who is developing her own reality TV project, and a policeman who holds the key to a vast conspiracy. "Southland Tales" also borrows from "Repo Man," which ends with a flying car. On his way to meet Krysta, Fortunio discovered Boxer Santaros in the desert, stricken with amnesia. 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. Unfortunately, Kefauver and Ronald's Hummer soon collides with the ice cream truck carrying Roland. In this article, Kelly is interviewed about some of the less straightforward aspects of Southland Tales. The PATRIOT Act has extended authority to a new agency known as US-IDent, which keeps constant surveillance on citizenseven to the extent of censoring the Internet and requiring fingerprints to access computers and bank accounts. Many of his answers are contained in this FAQ. "The Power" is a pretty hilarious piece of work. Among his accomplices will be a "false prophet" -- a deceitful ruler. Edit, 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. A website was also developed to intertwine with the graphic novels and the film itself. It has a similar plot to "Southland Tales," but with different characters and more gratuitous product placement. Why that happens when the Taverners touch, only Richard Kelly knows. 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. His follow-up is a decidedly post-9/11 story, haunted by the Iraq War. All three graphic novels were written by Richard Kelly, with artwork by Brett Weldele. 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. 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. And why is he having an affair with Krysta Now? What's the deal with this screenplay-within-the-movie that all the characters keep referring to? Chemical Bleeders can see back in time while Natural Bleeders can see back and forward in time. She says "The religion that is the winner of the contest will bleed" Back when the film was released in Cannes, three scenes were released on YouTube (which have long since been rendered unavailable): Boxer and Krysta talking with Roland about their film, Fortunio watching Krysta's show "Now", and Krysta's meeting with Cyndi Pinziki. In Donnie Darko, the world ends when the Tangent Universe collapses, which may also be what happens at the end of Southland Tales. Director Richard Kelly Writer Richard Kelly Stars Dwayne Johnson Sarah Michelle Gellar "In its willful, self-involved eccentricity, Southland Tales is really something else. He has written for the Globe & Mail, the Village Voice and other publications. 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. 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. Boxer's original self was incinerated in a car bomb triggered by Serpentine, while the duplicate Boxer is still roaming. . Messiah = high spirituality. We zoom out to a satellite view, revealing that another nuclear bomb has been detonated in El Paso. 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. The song he listens to is "All These Things I've Done" by The Killers, while he was listening to the song, the "friendly fire" incident occurs. The only new special feature announced was an audio commentary by Kelly. But even with the changes, the film is still almost impossible to understand, a trait that probably hasn't helped its box office. He had Roland Taverner kidnap Boxer and drive him through the rift. Both vehicles come to a rest in the middle of a shootout and Walter Mung is killed. The restaurant starts floating into space. but those who do not but still feel the effects of Fluid Karma are known as "Natural Bleeders" (e.g. 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. Senator. You could argue that all of "Southland Tales" occurs in the Tangent Universe -- hence the film's alternate history of the past three years, and its weird mishmash of pop culture. Since then, Kelly has released prequel comics to coincide with the film. : If the two Taverners were to touch, Theory warns, the fourth dimension would collapse onto itself and the world would come to an end. Most of the screenplay is included in the "Prequel Saga.". "[33] Jason Solomons, in The Observer (UK), said that "Southland Tales was so bad it made me wonder if [Kelly] had ever met a human being" and that ten minutes of the "sprawling, plotless, post-apocalyptic farrago" gave him the "sinking feeling that this may be one of the worst films ever presented in [Cannes] competition. As part of his participation in the Neo-Marxists' plot, Ronald must pretend to be his brother Roland and accompany Boxer during his movie research. 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