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Southland Tales is a 2007 science fiction/drama/black comedy film, written and directed by Richard Kelly. The title refers to the Southland, a name used by locals to refer to Southern California and Greater Los Angeles. Set in the then near future of an alternate history, the film is a portrait of Los Angeles and a comment on the military-industrial news-tainment complex. The film features an ensemble cast. Original music for the film was provided by Moby. Samuel Goldwyn Films in partnership with Destination Films and Sony Pictures released Southland Tales .

The film premiered May 21, 2006 at the Cannes Film Festival, where it received a largely negative reception. After significant edits, the final version premiered at Fantastic Fest on September 22, 2007. It opened in limited release in California on November 14, 2007 and in Canada as well as nationwide in United States, in just 63 theaters, on November 16, 2007. The film opened in the United Kingdom on December 7, 2007.

Plot

El Paso and Abilene, Texas have fallen victim to twin nuclear attacks on July 4, 2005 – a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions which has sent America into World War III. The PATRIOT Act has extended authority to a new agency known as US-IDent, which keeps constant tabs on citizens – even to the extent of censoring the internet and using fingerprints in order to access computers and bank accounts. In order to be able to respond to a newfound fuel shortage in the wake of global warfare, the German company Treer designs a generator of inexhaustible energy which is propelled by ocean currents, called "Fluid Karma". Unbeknownst to anyone but its inventor Baron Westphalen and his closest associates, the generators alter the currents and cause the Earth to slow its rotation, and the transmission of the energy to portable receivers (via quantum entanglement) is ripping holes in the fabric of space and time.

In Los Angeles, a city on the brink of chaos overshadowed by the growth of the underground neo-Marxist movement, the film follows the criss-crossed destinies of Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson), an action film actor stricken with amnesia; Krysta Now (Sarah Michelle Gellar), ex-porn star in the midst of creating a reality TV show; and twin brothers Roland and Ronald Taverner (both played by Seann William Scott), whose destinies – on one evening – become intertwined with that of all mankind.

Cast

Principal cast

• Dwayne Johnson as Boxer Santaros / Jericho Cane: An amnesiac action star whose life crosses paths with Krysta Now. Santaros is married to Madeline Frost Santaros.
• Seann William Scott as Private / Officer Roland Taverner / Ronald Taverner: Identical twin brothers, one who is a kidnapped U.P.U.2 officer in Hermosa Beach, California, the other who is working for the neo-Marxist group who have told him he kidnapped and drugged his brother..
• Sarah Michelle Gellar as Krysta Now aka Krysta Lynn Kapowski: An adult film star who is working on creating a reality TV show. Gellar met with Kelly and was drawn to the original ideas in his script for Southland Tales .
• Mandy Moore as Madeline Frost Santaros: Wife of Boxer Santaros and daughter of Senator Bobby Frost.
• Justin Timberlake as Private Pilot Abilene: An Iraq War veteran. He narrates the film and also performs a musical number.
• Nora Dunn as Cyndi Pinziki: A porn director and principal member of USIDeath, an organization with plans to destroy US-IDent.
• John Larroquette as Vaughn Smallhouse: An advisor to Senator Bobby Frost.
• Miranda Richardson as Nana Mae Frost: The ambitious antagonist of the film, Boxer's mother-in-law is the head of US-IDent.
• Wallace Shawn as Baron von Westphalen: A villain who utilizes ocean waves to create a source of power.
• Kevin Smith as Simon Theory: A legless Iraq War veteran who works for Baron von Westphalen.
• Bai Ling as Serpentine: The Baron's Sultry girlfriend who is seen quite often through the film, she serves as an ambiguious character that knows more than she lets on.

Supporting cast

• Holmes Osborne as Senator Bobby Frost
• Wood Harris as Dion Element
• Cheri Oteri as Zora Carmichaels
• Jon Lovitz as Bart Bookman
• Amy Poehler as Veronica "Dream" Mung
• Lou Taylor Pucci as Martin Kefauver
• Janeane Garofalo as Lieutenant General Teena MacArthur (cut from theatrical release)
• Beth Grant as Dr. Inga von Westphalen
• Christopher Lambert as Walter Mung
• Zelda Rubinstein as Katarina Kuntzler
• Will Sasso as Fortunio Balducci

Production

Richard Kelly wrote Southland Tales shortly before the September 11, 2001 attacks. The original script involved blackmail, a porn star, and two cops. After the attacks, Kelly revised the script. He said, " was more about making fun of Hollywood. But now it's about, I hope, creating a piece of science fiction that's about a really important problem we're facing, about civil liberties and homeland security and needing to sustain both those things and balance them." 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 . . . alternative fuel or the increasing obsession with celebrity and how celebrity now intertwines with politics". With the film's premise of a nuclear attack on Texas, Kelly wanted to take a look at how the United States would respond and survive while constructing a "great black comedy."

Kelly said: " will only be a musical in a post-modern sense of the word in that it is a hybrid of several genres. 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." Kelly said the film's biggest influences are Kiss Me Deadly , Pulp Fiction , Brazil and Dr. Strangelove . He called it a "strange hybrid of the sensibilities of Andy Warhol and Philip K. Dick". 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. ("Taverner" is the name of the main character in the same book and suffers identity problems of his own.) 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 .

In March 2004, Kelly and Cherry Road Films began development of Southland Tales . Filmmakers entered negotiations with actors Seann William Scott, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Lee, Janeane Garofalo, Tim Blake Nelson, Amy Poehler, Kevin Smith and Ali Larter. Musician Moby was approached on composing and performing the film's score. Kelly consciously sought out actors that he felt had been pigeonholed and wanted to showcase their "undiscovered talents."

Filming was slated to begin in July 2004, but after a year, it had not begun. Dwayne Johnson joined the cast in April 2005, and principal photography was slated to begin August 1, 2005 in Los Angeles. Filming for Southland Tales began on August 15, 2005, with a budget of around US$15–17 million.

Kelly sent the organizers of the Cannes Film Festival a rough cut of Southland Tales on DVD assuming that it would not be accepted. Much to his surprise, they loved it and wanted the film entered in competition for the Palme d'Or. He stopped editing the film and was also unable to complete all of the visual effects in time for the screening. Kelly's film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2006 with a length of 160 minutes. 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". After the film's festival release, Southland Tales was purchased by Sony Pictures. Universal Pictures had originally optioned the U.S. rights, but after the Cannes screening, it was sold to Sony, although Universal still retained some international rights. Kelly sought more financing to finish visual effects for the film, and he negotiated a deal with Sony to cut down on the film's length in exchange for funds to complete the visual effects. Kelly edited the film down to the basic storylines of the characters portrayed by Scott, Gellar, and Johnson. 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. Editorial changes were made to restructure the order of the film's scenes, including re-recording all of Timberlake's voice-over. The director also added 90 new visual effects shots to the film and removed 20 to 25 minutes of footage from his initial cut.

Soundtrack

Main article: Southland Tales: Music From The Motion Picture

The soundtrack for Southland Tales was released in stores and online on November 6, 2007. 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". Additionally, tracks from Radiohead, Louis Armstrong, Beethoven, Kris Kristofferson and several tracks from Moby's Hotel:Ambient are likewise absent from the album. 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.

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