Ronald agrees to take Boxer for a ride-along so he can research his role. 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. [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. 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 you'd like to skip directly to our question-and-answer section, click here. "[28] Salon.com critic Andrew O'Hehir called the Cannes cut "about the biggest, ugliest mess I've ever seen. The critic Laura Mulvey once suggested Blue Velvet, having been released in 1986, was the ideal film for the mood of the Reagan era. "[14], Kelly's breakthrough film, Donnie Darko, was released in the United States on October 26, 2001, the same day the PATRIOT Act was signed. The baby, she explains, is the Messiah, and Jericho is his guardian. Quick and essential guide to domestic and global politics from the New Statesman's politics team. 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. 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. 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. Ronald and Roland Taverner, furthermore, are not twins, but copies of the same person. The Book of Revelation is the last book in the New Testament. Certainly, the future as depicted here is deeply complex. Zora abruptly pushes Ronald from the car, and runs over Bing. Once Krysta departs, Boxer receives a phone call from Starla instructing him to go to the Santa Monica pier. Eliot's "Hollow Man" ("This is the way the world ends/ Not with a bang but with a whimper") and Robert Frost's "The Two Roads" ("Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-/ I took the one less traveled by"). If that wasnt enough, a German company whose CEO is played by Wallace Shawn has invented an infinite energy source called fluid karma. [citation needed]. 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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. Why does Pilot dream about the song "All These Things I've Done" by The Killers? What does the Latin inscription "oderint dum metuant" on the UPU cars mean? After much trial and error with monkeys, Baron decided to send Boxer through itchosen because of his political ties and his celebrity persona. In this article, Kelly is interviewed about some of the less straightforward aspects of Southland Tales. 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. Spirituality has nothing to do with it. 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. 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. Presumably, Tab was afraid that the Baron's people would find out that Roland had survived the trip through the time rift. Its story overlaps with the movie, so it explains some of the back story. According to the "Prequel Saga," "The Power" was written entirely by Krysta Now, who is apparently psychic. The Book of Revelation, or the Revelation of John, was written by an unknown person in the first century. Why that happens when the Taverners touch, only Richard Kelly knows. Boxer gets into a convertible and drives off. [18] After the film's festival release, Southland Tales was purchased by Sony Pictures (via their label Destination Films) and Samuel Goldwyn Films, originally Sony Pictures Classics, Screen Gems and TriStar Pictures were up for US distribution rights. He climbs out and walks up to the nearby ice cream truck. Since then, Kelly has released prequel comics to coincide with the film. For half of Kelly's epic film about the end of the world, characters are quoting T.S. There are now two versions of each co-existing in the same universetwo Boxer Santaros and two Roland Taverners. 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. "ZORA: "You just wait and see." The Baron phones Simon Theory (Kevin Smith), an old bearded man, and instructs him to "remove the body from Utopia Three.". As part of the deal, the Baron has Serpentine cut off the prime minister's left hand. 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. "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. 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). What does the name "Vaughn Smallhouse" refer to? 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. 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. [20][21], Universal Studios had originally optioned the U.S. rights, but after the Cannes screening, it was sold to Sony, although Universal still retained some international rights. Is the soundtrack availiable for the film? It features 3 tracks by Moby that have not been released commercially: "Water Pistol", "It Looks Down" and "Ceanograph".Southland Tales OST Tracklist1. Krysta has decided to make her sex tape public by placing it into a Neo-Marxist drop box. Kelly's previous cult masterpiece Donnie Darko (2001) and the . Ronald persuades him not to commit suicide, and the two decide to go to Mexico. 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. Boxer and Ronald have stopped for some lunch. Southland Tales EXPLAINED - Breakdown & Heavy Analysis - YouTube FOR MORE MOVIE EXPLANATION VIDEOS PLEASE LIKE AND COMMENT THIS VIDEO! While Ronald is briefly distracted, Boxer is beckoned over by Serpentine, who has been hovering nearby. Happily, it never does, which allows you to share in his unabashed joy in filmmaking as well as in his fury about the times. Eliot's "Hollow Men. Boxer meets Fortunio on the beach after his rendezvous with Starla. On October 26, 2020 Arrow Video announced a Remastered version approved by Richard Kelly will be released on Blu-ray on January 26, 2021. "Look Back In" by Moby5. He can be reached at @thomasmaxrogers. He follows her to the back of a bookstore, where the rest of the baron's entourage is waiting. 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. 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. And why is he having an affair with Krysta Now? Southland Tales is dizzyingly maximalist, never happy with one set-piece if it can introduce five. [9] Filming began on August 15, 2005, with a budget of around US$1517 million. Serpentine explains that the world is coming to an end; the rotation of the Earth is slowing at a rate of .000000006 mile per hour every day. Neo-Marxist cells have begun to converge on central Los Angeles. Once it was discovered, they sent monkeys through it, which failed (Boxer claims that only a human soul could survive the trip). The movie begins in earnest when Boxer wakes up on a beach near the Santa Monica pier. 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. They are available together in the one graphic novel as Southland Tales: The Prequel Saga. "The Power" is a pretty hilarious piece of work. Jericho Cane is the name of Arnold Schwarzenegger's character in "End of Days.". 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. Edit, Boxer Santaros: Jericho Crane is a "John the Baptist" style prophet, Krysta is the "Whore of Babylon" (and her energy drink the "Cup of Abominations"), the Baron is the "Antichrist" etc Ronald Taverner, meanwhile, has picked up Zora and Bing Zinneman, a new member of the Neo-Marxists. Boxer appears at the Santa Monica pier to meet Starla Von Luft. The soundtrack does not feature all the music from the film, probably due to rights/royalties issues. The screenplay ends at a McDonald's restaurant, when Caleb starts belching noxious gas and launching fireballs. 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. Anything important or cool? Cane loses consciousness. 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 fact, Marx was indirectly influenced by the Book of Revelation in his writing. 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. Zora Carmichaels and Bart Buchman return to the Neo-Marxist headquarters, where we learn that the two are lovers and have planned the murder of Dion and Dream. 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. Who was behind the attacks in Abilene and El Paso? If this is a parallel with the Book of Revelation, then who's whom? 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. "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". Janeane Garofalo appears as General Teena MacArthur. Is Krysta Now (Sarah Michelle Gellar) based on anyone? Chemical Bleeders can see back in time while Natural Bleeders can see back and forward in time. If you read the graphic novel, you'll find the legend which is spoken by Bai Ling's character Serpentine. "Southland Tales" feels insane because it tells a truth that most of us would rather ignore: that faced with the chaos of what feels like a disintegrating society and imperiled world, we would . 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. It is unhinged, and occasionally exhilarating, and quite often funny. They are eventually killed by those who are tormented by their prophecies.Revelation 22:5: 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. 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. Support 100 years of independent journalism. "ZORA: "A modified organic diet and transcendental meditation. 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". They will reign forever and ever"Revelation 12 and 13: Edit, The Treer company is a German defense contractor that employs Dr. Inga Von Westphalen, a zeppelin designer and the Baron's mother. 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. 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. Much of Pilot Abilene's voiceover consists of direct quotations from the Book of Revelation. . "Southland Tales" also borrows from "Repo Man," which ends with a flying car. Elsewhere in the building, Ronald Taverner (Seann William Scott) is in the bathroom, looking at his reflection. Edit, Those who use Fluid Karma are "Chemical Bleeders" (e.g. Director: Richard Kelly. What exactly happens at the end of the movie? The restaurant starts floating into space. The Tangent Universe is an alternate reality to our own. What's Justin Timberlake doing in all of this? Fortunio and his buddies break into USIDent, killing all of the employees, including Nana Mae Frost. 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. Liberal extremist cells start to emerge, including a group called the Neo-Marxists. The name Treer is a reference to Trier, Marx's birthplace. Thomas Rogers is Salon's former Arts Editor. When Fortunio and Boxer arrive at the rendezvous point, this is where the two are introduced to one another Pilot Abilene, who has been watching the scene from his gun turret, shoots and kills Starla. Southland Tales (2007) Rated R for language, violence, sexual material and some drug content 160 minutes Cast Dwayne Johnson as Boxer Seann William Scott as Roland/Ronald Sarah Michelle Gellar as Krysta Kapowski/Krysta Now Curtis Armstrong as Dr. Soberin Exx Mandy Moore as Madeline Kevin Smith as Simon Theory Justin Timberlake as Abilene Once there, Boxer meets Simon Theory, one of the Baron's employees. The mega-zeppelin explodes, and its pieces scatter across L.A. What was in the 20 to 25 minutes cut out of the original version showed at Cannes? But, then again, you probably shouldn't try to interpret "Southland Tales" too literally. 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. When it premiered in its original three-hour form at Cannes, last year, the response was acidic. The only new special feature announced was an audio commentary by Kelly. Messiah = high spirituality. [18], The track "Memory Gospel" was used from time to time by the CBC Radio One program Q in the background of an opening monologue given by host Jian Ghomeshi. "[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. Fluid karma is an "organic compound" that the Treer company discovered while drilling off the coast of Israel. Protector of the Messiah/False ProphetRoland Taverner: 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. "Lucky Me" by Roger Webb8. One critic wondered if Kelly had ever met another human being. Director Richard Kelly Writer Richard Kelly Stars Dwayne Johnson Sarah Michelle Gellar 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. Vaughn sends a car to pick up Boxer and bring him back to the Frost mansion. As the movie explains, the compound is being used by the Baron to power his energy plants, hence the energy field produced is named after it.The compound also works as a drug, which comes in several forms with different effects, as mentioned by Pilot Abilene: "Green, you dream. The screenplay ends at a McDonald's restaurant, when Caleb starts belching noxious gas and launching fireballs. The truck is his horse and the rocket launcher his sword.Dream and Dion: 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. Initial release: May 21, 2006. 9 in D Minor, op. The Baron has built an enormous machine off the coast of California that generates an electromagnetic energy field called fluid karma. "Southland Tales" opens on July 4, 2005, in Abilene, Texas. Donnie Darko had just debuted there in January of 2001 and as soon as he got back, Richard. 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. What is the glowing orb carried around by Dr. Kuntzler? Additionally, tracks from Radiohead, Louis Armstrong, Beethoven, Kris Kristofferson, and several tracks from Moby's Hotel:Ambient are likewise absent from the album. Does "Southland Tales: The Prequel Saga" explain what this fluid karma stuff is? This release will include both the original theatrical cut and the Cannes cut. 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. Kids are shooting home video of their Independence Day barbecue. I ended up watching it in lockdown because the film streaming service Mubi, which has released its library in full online, called it breathtaking, exuberant, and Pynchon-esque. In a 2011 interview, Justin Timberlake himself said, "To me, Southland Tales is performance art. It's. The other main reference points are T.S. "Martin Kefauver: He is the angel of death that rides on the horse (the ice cream truck) This means that Christianity has won the "contest" for Earth and is the one true faith. In 2021, Kelly announced that there are developments to expand the film into a franchise. 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. Roland, a Hermosa Beach police officer, had gotten involved in a "deep conspiracy" and would be in danger if anybody found out that he was alive. 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