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. Reproduction of material from any Salon pages without written permission is strictly prohibited. He has written for the Globe & Mail, the Village Voice and other publications. He has the solution to the energy crisis and becomes the most powerful man on earth. The final chapter of the film ("VI: Wave of Mutilation") begins. . "3 Steps" by Moby9. Musician Moby was approached on composing and performing the film's score. However, there are several in the graphic novel "The Prequel Saga." Edit, Richard Kelly stated in his interview with Empire magazine; that the irony is, he's sort of the decoy messiah, and it ends up that Seann William Scott (Roland Taverner) is the true one. Meanwhile, Martin Kefauver (Lou Pucci), a young man dressed in hip-hop gear, meets Pilot Abilene at the "Fire" Arcade, where he exchanges pot for fluid karma. The anagram of his name, FREAK MAN VIRTUE is most important, foreshadowing the ultimate destiny of Martin in the film. Southland Tales grossed $275,380 in limited release at the North American box office and $99,363 in Turkey and United Kingdom for a worldwide total of $374,743,[6] against a production budget of $17 million. Many people think wireless electricity is the thing that could rescue us from our dilemma as we reach the end of the petroleum era. [It] restores an uncanny to American culture, she wrote in Fetishism and Curiosity, that the uncanny president disavows. 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. Roger Ebert described the Cannes screening as "The most disastrous since, yes, The Brown Bunny. Original music was provided by Moby . They are eventually killed by those who are tormented by their prophecies.Revelation 22:5: Additionally, tracks from Radiohead, Louis Armstrong, Beethoven, Kris Kristofferson, and several tracks from Moby's Hotel:Ambient are likewise absent from the album. 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. "Kelly launches Darko Entertainment", by Dade Hayes, "How The World Ends: Conversation With Richard Kelly", "Anatomy of a Cannes Disaster: What Happened After 'Southland Tales' Was Booed", "Exclusive Interview: Richard Kelly (Southland Tales)", Southland Tales - Music From The Motion Picture, "Apocalypse Soon: A Mushroom Cloud Doesn't Stall 2008 Electioneering". Dragon from Revelation 12 and 13 (Puppet of the Anti-Christ)Pilot Abeline: "[39] In her review for the Los Angeles Times, Carina Chocano wrote, "You get the sense that Kelly is too angry to really find any of it funny. This means that Christianity has won the "contest" for Earth and is the one true faith. A weekly round-up of some of the best articles featured in the most recent issue of the New Statesman, sent each Saturday. Also, a very subtle reference took place when Bart Bookman (Jon Lovitz) had just killed Dream and Dion: he said "Flow my tears". The film was released on Region 4 DVD in Australia on April 30, 2008. Nowadays, the debate surrounding freedom, privacy,. In fact, Marx was indirectly influenced by the Book of Revelation in his writing. Ambitious and arresting to the eye -- the gray palette serves the film well -- it's too bad that Southland Tales is also pretentious, chaotic, and tries too hard. Dick". alternative fuel or the increasing obsession with celebrity and how celebrity now intertwines with politics". 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. Since then, Kelly has released prequel comics to coincide with the film. He wakes up in a bed in his apartment in Treer Plaza. While Ronald is briefly distracted, Boxer is beckoned over by Serpentine, who has been hovering nearby. On his way to meet Krysta, Fortunio discovered Boxer Santaros in the desert, stricken with amnesia. I still don't know what that movie is about. Kelly sent the organizers of the 2006 Cannes Film Festival a rough cut of Southland Tales on DVD assuming that it would not be accepted. Many of his answers are contained in this FAQ. Edit, Those who use Fluid Karma are "Chemical Bleeders" (e.g. No idea. ZORA: "You know there's this theory that humans will evolve to a state of existence where bowel movements are no longer necessary. This has opened up a rift in the space-time continuum on the outskirts of Lake Mead. 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. If the two Taverners were to touch, Theory warns, the fourth dimension would collapse onto itself and the world would come to an end. Why does Boxer keep twiddling his fingers? Back in the dumpster, Roland Taverner wakes up as his hands begins to glow. [16] Kelly consciously sought out actors that he felt had been pigeonholed and wanted to showcase their "undiscovered talents."[14]. One of these was a rift created in the fourth dimensionthe fourth dimension being time itselfat Lake Meade, which was discovered when an airplane flew through it and had all its passengers left with amnesia (bar oneKrysta Now, who gained psychic abilities from it). Also, they had sex. Roland runs to meet him inside the ice cream truck. Edit, In the 1980s British TV comedy 'Allo 'Allo!, the right-hand man of Herr Flick of the Gestapo is called "von Smallhausen", so maybe that's where Kelly drew his inspiration from. The Anti-ChristSerpentine: Why did Roland Taverner end up driving Boxer Santaros through the space-time rift? He learns that his account has been blocked, so Kefauver and Ronald use the Hummer to rip the ATM from the wall. Pimp is American slang for badass. Boxer and Ronald have stopped for some lunch. When Boxer and Taverner went through the space-time rift, they traveled 69 minutes back in time -- creating duplicate versions of themselves. In the universe of the film, Dr. Inga Von Westphalen is also the granddaughter of Jenny Von Westphalen, Karl Marx's wife. Surrounded by his entourage, which includes Serpentine (Bai Ling); the Baron's mother, Dr. Inga Von Westphalen (Marion Card); Dr. Katarina Kuntzler (Zelda Rubinstein) and Dr. Soberin Exx (Curtis Armstrong) -- all dressed like a Cirque du Soleil troupe -- the Baron explains how fluid karma works: by "quantum entanglement.". 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. This soundtrack has 41 tracks, 9 of which are sound bytes taken from the film. When it premiered in its original three-hour form at Cannes, last year, the response was acidic. Eventually, the Antichrist will show up and take over the world. In a 2011 interview, Justin Timberlake himself said, "To me, Southland Tales is performance art. 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. 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. But if "Southland Tales" follows the same logic as "Donnie Darko," as laid out in that film's DVD extras, when the fourth dimension is corrupted, it causes the creation of two parallel universes: the Tangent Universe and the Primary Universe. In June 2008, Boxer Santaros (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson), an action movie star with ties to the Republican Party, disappears. The project was named "Serpentine Dream Theory.," which aimed to use the telepathic effect of the drug as an advantage for the soldiers on the battlefield.Two of the solders that participated in the experiment were Roland Taverner and Pilot Abilene. 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." If you haven't seen the movie and don't want to have it -- or the graphic novels -- spoiled, you should stop reading this right now. In 2016, I implore you to give it a shot. Edit, Revelation 6:8: 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"). There will be some dancing and singing, but it will be incorporated into the story in very logical scenarios as well as fantasy dream environments. All of these references to Marxism aren't entirely unconnected to the film's biblical references. How Kelly persuaded the likes of Wallace Shawn, Amy Poehler, Justin Timberlake, Cheri Oteri, and Mandy Moore to go along for the ride is confounding. It's a schizophrenic break. Kids are shooting home video of their Independence Day barbecue. 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." Is "The Power" important for understanding "Southland Tales"? Before Fortunio encountered Boxer, he was introduced to Krysta, who promised him that she would get him an "interstate travel visa" to get him back into California. 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. Meanwhile, using a sex tape given to her by Krysta Now, Cyndi Pinziki is blackmailing Frost for money and demanding the passage of Proposition 69 (a bill that restricts USIDent's powers). The filmmaker stated that discussions are ongoing as to whether the projects should be released as films or in a long-form format through a streaming service.[46]. The screenplay ends at a McDonald's restaurant, when Caleb starts belching noxious gas and launching fireballs. Edit, It is a mechanical ball (built by Treer) which acts as remote antennas for the wireless electricity energy fields powered by Fluid Karma. "ZORA: "You just wait and see." . 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. Martin climbs on top of the truck and launches a missile at the mega-zeppelin. "The Star Spangled Banner" by Rebekah del Rio & The Section Quartet14. (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.) 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." Edit, Richard Kelly stated in his interview with Empire film magazine, The idea of wireless electricity and tides being a source of energy, and there being a potentially world-altering energy source under the ocean, is based on real scientific theory. In "Donnie Darko," the world ends when the Tangent Universe collapses, which may also be what happens at the end of "Southland Tales." These are all references to the seven plagues that precede the destruction of Babylon. Edit, "The Power" is a pretty hilarious piece of work. Kelly's previous cult masterpiece Donnie Darko (2001) and the . Once Krysta departs, Boxer receives a phone call from Starla instructing him to go to the Santa Monica pier. Boxer gets into a convertible and drives off. She cuts the ribbon as USIDent employees -- dressed in windbreakers -- applaud. 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. It's a sign that he is at the edge of uncertainty as to who he is. Unfortunately for the Neo-Marxists, their operative in USIDent, Kenny Chan, has been compromised. [24][25], The soundtrack for Southland Tales was released in stores and online on November 6, 2007. Much of Pilot Abilene's voiceover consists of direct quotations from the Book of Revelation. 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. The Book of Revelation is the last book in the New Testament. 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. But they're in there. "RONALD: "Sounds neat. The film is an international co-production of the United States, Germany and France. Outside, the ice cream truck levitates upward. If Proposition 69 passes, US-IDent will essentially be shut down or have its powers severely restricted. What does the name Martin Kefauver refer to, other than to its anagram "Freak Man Virtue" and the late U.S. senator? 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. What's the relation between Walter Mung and Veronica "Dream" Mung? He called it a "strange hybrid of the sensibilities of Andy Warhol and Philip K. 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. Boxer's original self was incinerated in a car bomb triggered by Serpentine, while the duplicate Boxer is still roaming. "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. There are now two versions of each co-existing in the same universetwo Boxer Santaros and two Roland Taverners. Boxer diverts the attention away from the real messiah, who almost gets killed. Although he recognizes Madeline as his wife, she remains unimpressed and demands to know why he disappeared. This would be a perpetual motion machine, and could not work. The restaurant starts floating into space. 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. Most of the screenplay is included in The Prequel Saga. What If He Is Dead, But He Is Not? Southland Tales is unashamedly maximalist, rushing through as many set pieces as Kelly can conjure whilst simultaneously touching upon practically every theme a work of art can contain. 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. What does the name "Vaughn Smallhouse" refer to? Southland Tales After twin terrorist attacks in Texas, the Republican party grabs the overwhelming majority of Congressional seats in the 2006 midterm elections by stoking public fear and claiming that America is living though the end times. The theatrical cut of "Southland Tales" has been extensively reedited -- a subplot has been excised, additional special effects shots have been inserted, a new explanatory sequence opens the movie -- and critics have been considerably kinder to it. The film follows the criss-crossed destinies of Boxer Santaros, an action film actor stricken with amnesia; Krysta Now, a psychic exporn star in the midst of creating a reality TV show; and twin brothers Roland and Ronald Taverner, whose destinies become intertwined with that of all mankind. A website was also developed to intertwine with the graphic novels and the film itself. 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." If you replace the Antichrist with the bourgeoisie, and the kingdom of God with a communist utopia, you've got the same basic narrative. It turns out that Fortunio has been on the Baron's payroll all along. 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. The restaurant starts floating into space. Why does the movie start with Boxer Santaros asleep on a beach? He climbs out and walks up to the nearby ice cream truck. Richard Kellys Southland Tales, a science-fiction comedy about the aftermath of the Third World War, is set in Los Angeles circa 2008, roughly three years after a sudden nuclear attack on Texas. In this article, Kelly is interviewed about some of the less straightforward aspects of Southland Tales. When Krysta mentions that she is sleeping with Boxer Santaros, Cyndi decides to use this information to blackmail Boxer's father-in-law: Republican candidate Bobby Frost. the Indian chief Boxer encounters in the graphic novels). The director also sought to keep the musical number performed by Timberlake, based on "All These Things That I've Done" by The Killers which he felt was the heart and soul of the film. Suddenly, a bright light appears through windows and a mushroom cloud rises in the distance: Abilene has been nuked. When Boxer (and Roland) traveled through the rift, it created duplicate versions of bothone set of duplicates traveled 69 minutes back in time, while the "originals" stayed in their original time. [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. 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. "[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 . One critic wondered if Kelly had ever met another human being. Kelly has said in interviews that the film was partially made in response to the rise of apocalyptic evangelism in the United States. [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. 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". Is the screenplay important for understanding the movie? They are the two witnesses.Krysta Now: So if that's anything to go by, it may have been Al-Qaeda. Roland and Ronald (Seann William Scott) meet and shake hands. He says, "It all ends tonight.". One theory is that duplicate souls from alternate timelines are not meant to exist together in a single timeline. What do all the characters in the film keep on quoting from? Edit, Richard Kelly stated in his interview with Empire, He is the doomsday prophet, the witness of everything. 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. Its depiction of an American teenager experiencing premonitions about doomsday clocks and jet crashes suddenly became more piquant in light of such astounding tragedy. She tells him that he must board the mega-zeppelin and what he is looking for is in the Baron's private chamber. When a confrontation erupts near the Neo-Marxist drop box, Zora and Bart are both killed by a soldier. We may have to wait for the DVD commentary to figure that one out. Scientists are saying the futures going to be far more futuristic than they originally predicted, Krysta suggests, as if this helped to explain anything. The other main reference points are T.S. Southland Tales is a 2006 American dystopian comedy thriller film written and directed by Richard Kelly. Its story overlaps with the movie, so it explains some of the back story. 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. As Andrew O'Hehir put it, the recut film "transcends its adolescent awkwardness and approaches being magnificent." However, there was a promotional soundtrack that was given to members of the press when the film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006. But if Southland Tales follows the same logic as Donnie Darko, as laid out in that film's DVD extras, when the fourth dimension is corrupted, it causes the creation of two parallel universes: the Tangent Universe and the Primary Universe. 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. Why does Pilot dream about the song "All These Things I've Done" by The Killers? Its a film that is also smart enough to know that if a member of any profession were to guide us through the end of days, it might as well be a sex worker: practical, skilled in persuasion, as adept at reading minds as any psychic. Jericho Cane is the name of Arnold Schwarzenegger's character in "End of Days.". If you'd like to skip directly to our question-and-answer section, click here. Boxer joins her on the stage, followed by Madeline. When cops arrive on the scene, he still doesn't stop,. This release will include both the original theatrical cut and the Cannes cut. [19], Many critics responded unfavorably to the film's long running time and sprawling nature. Associated Press articles: Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. Ben's path down the dark side finally caught up to him when Sammy put the pieces together. After Roland Taverner came back from Iraq, he got a job as a police officer in Hermosa Beach, thanks to his father. He can be reached at @thomasmaxrogers. Edit, Boxer Santaros: "Teen Horniness is Not a Crime" by Sarah Michelle Gellar, Abbey McBride, ClarKent11. In March 2004, Kelly and Cherry Road Films began development of Southland Tales. It never becomes clear what exactly happened in the desert. [42], J. Hoberman defended the film, yet again, in his review for the theatrical cut. 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. As the movie suggests, the Baron conducted secret experiments, headed by Simon Theory, with soldiers in Iraq. Presumably, Tab was afraid that the Baron's people would find out that Roland had survived the trip through the time rift. The Baron has built an enormous machine off the coast of California that generates an electromagnetic energy field called fluid karma. Why that happens when the Taverners touch, only Richard Kelly knows. On July 4th, 2005, in a fictionalized United States alternate history reality, two towns in Texas (El Paso and Abilene) were destroyed by twin nuclear attacks, killing thousands and triggering a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions, sending America into a state of chaos and hysteria, as well as a Third World War (a fictionalized version of what the nation may have become under the War on Terror), with the US government re-introducing the draft. 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. Bing is freaked out by the murders, and decides that he no longer wants to be part of the group. The first three chapters of the story are told in a graphic novel called Southland Tales: The Prequel Saga, which among other things explains Roland Traveler's back story, Boxer's journey from the desert back to Los Angeles, and the true origin of Krysta and Boxer's screenplay. 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