Also, they had sex. . "[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 . "Oh My Angel" by Bertha Tillman3. "It will never be night again and they will not need lamplight or sunlight, because the Lord God will be shining on them. It's. 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. 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. Ronald walks up to Martin Kefauver's Hummer, which is parked near the ocean. This article is viewable at Salon.com here and is intended to give to viewer a better perception of the movie itself and answer questions not cleared up in the movie.An interview with Richard Kelly from the February issue of the film magazine Empire. but those who do not but still feel the effects of Fluid Karma are known as "Natural Bleeders" (e.g. The final chapter of the film ("VI: Wave of Mutilation") begins. And, of course, gets corrupted and goes mad. Ronald and Martin Kefauver pull up to the Rove Credit Union where Kefauver tries to withdraw his savings. Southland Tales premiered at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and received so much negative feedback that the studio reworked the film. If this is a parallel with the Book of Revelation, then who's whom? Why does Boxer keep twiddling his fingers? Edit, The term fluid karma is used to refer to two things in the movie. User Ratings "[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. His colleague, Starla Von Luft (Michelle Durrett), has planted a bug on his jacket and is leading the police forces to their hideout. Pregnant woman from Revelation 12 and 13 (Puppet of the Anti-Christ)Bobby Frost and Vaughn Smallhouse: Edit, Their role is explained a lot better in the graphic novels: they are the heads of the Neo-Marxists and are also street poets who have released several albums. Before being drafted, Pilot Abilene was also a movie star. The movie plays in the background in several scenes, and in the "Prequel Saga," Krysta tells Boxer it is his favorite movie. "Tiny Elephants" by Moby12. "Me & Bobby McGee" by Waylon Jennings6. 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. Roger Ebert described the Cannes screening as "The most disastrous since, yes, The Brown Bunny. ("Taverner" is the name of the main character in the same book and suffers identity problems of his own.) 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. Holmes Osborne plays conservative Senator Bobby Frost, Will Sasso plays Fortunio Balducci and Christopher Lambert plays Walter Mung. Thomas Rogers is Salon's former Arts Editor. Southland Tales is a 2006 American dystopian comedy thriller film written and directed by Richard Kelly. What happens in the screenplay? 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). If you'd like to skip directly to our question-and-answer section, click here. Janeane Garofalo appears as General Teena MacArthur. Metacritic Reviews. 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. [45], Kelly later expressed regret in releasing the latter chapters first through the original film, stating that this placed the audience at a disadvantage. 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 Donnie Darko, the world ends when the Tangent Universe collapses, which may also be what happens at the end of Southland Tales. She may also be representative of the Whore of Babylon (ancient Babylon situated in what is now Iraq) and her energy drink the "Cup of Abominations".Madeline Frost Santaros: In Donnie Darko, the world ends when the Tangent Universe collapses, which may also be what happens at the end of Southland Tales. As Andrew O'Hehir put it, the recut film "transcends its adolescent awkwardness and approaches being magnificent." She cuts the ribbon as USIDent employees -- dressed in windbreakers -- applaud. Fortunio and his buddies break into USIDent, killing all of the employees, including Nana Mae Frost. What's the deal with this screenplay-within-the-movie that all the characters keep referring to? Richard Kelly's science-fiction comedy was widely derided on release in 2006, but it has since found a cult audience. 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. The mega-zeppelin launch is at hand. 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 grenade -- disfiguring him. [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. Zelda Rubinstein and Beth Grant portray Dr. Katarina Kuntzler and Dr. Inga Von Westphalen, members of the baron's entourage. According to Serpentine, "The future is just as [he] imagined.". According to their plan, Boxer is to videotape their faked murder. The novel has obvious links in its plot with Southland Tales, and the story's main character is named Jason Taverner. "Southland Tales" also borrows from "Repo Man," which ends with a flying car. "In its willful, self-involved eccentricity, Southland Tales is really something else. When Boxer and Taverner went through the space-time rift, they traveled 69 minutes back in time -- creating duplicate versions of themselves. When cops arrive on the scene, he still doesn't stop,. 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). The Baron phones Simon Theory (Kevin Smith), an old bearded man, and instructs him to "remove the body from Utopia Three.". 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." 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. He played a character named "Donnie" in a movie with Boxer Santaros. [16] Kelly consciously sought out actors that he felt had been pigeonholed and wanted to showcase their "undiscovered talents."[14]. In fact, Marx was indirectly influenced by the Book of Revelation in his writing. Does Sarah Michelle Gellar have a sex scene in this movie? It has a similar plot to Southland Tales, but with different characters and more gratuitous product placement. 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. Who does the name "Bing Zinneman" refer to. etc., although it bears a resemblence to Eastern religious concepts such as Qi and Ki. Much of Pilot Abilene's voiceover consists of direct quotations from the Book of Revelation. Boxer Santaros (Dwayne "The Rock". Neo-Marxist cells have begun to converge on central Los Angeles. 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. 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. 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. The project was named "Serpentine Dream Theory." Presumably, Tab was afraid that the Baron's people would find out that Roland had survived the trip through the time rift. Taverner reveals that he hasn't produced a bowel movement in six days. Director: Richard Kelly. While Ronald is briefly distracted, Boxer is beckoned over by Serpentine, who has been hovering nearby. Shown with white shirt flecked with blood as Revelation describes the white horseman as wearing "A white robe flecked with blood." Roland and Ronald are the Messiah and in the end they find each other and save humanity through the power of forgiveness. Boxer appears at the Santa Monica pier to meet Starla Von Luft. The baby, she explains, is the Messiah, and Jericho is his guardian. 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. After much trial and error with monkeys, Baron decided to send Boxer through itchosen because of his political ties and his celebrity persona. They are the two witnesses.Krysta Now: The White Horseman, with his rifle post being his horse and his rifle his bow. One critic wondered if Kelly had ever met another human being. "Martin Kefauver: He is the angel of death that rides on the horse (the ice cream truck) The original script was written 6 years ago just after Richard and his team returned from Sundance. It also works as a drug. [28][29] After significant edits, the final version premiered at Fantastic Fest on September 22, 2007. Martin has just learned that he's been drafted to go to Iraq and is about to shoot himself in the head. So the parallels with the Bible are kind of buried. As they hold hands, the truck begins to float into the sky with Martin Kefauver on board. That would be Fluid Karma. 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. Donnie Darko had just debuted there in January of 2001 and as soon as he got back, Richard. Edit, Awards This is because, at the end of the day, Southland Tales is a very indulgent, very silly and weirdly endearing film that all manages to come together in a near indescribable sweet spot. Copyright 2023 Salon.com, LLC. [38], Glenn Kenny, in his review for Premiere criticized the film's style, "Kelly's camera placement and framing are at best textbook and at worst calamitously mediocre. What's the deal with the Treer company, and why are there all these references to Karl Marx? The world ends. A conversation between Zora and Ronald in "Fingerprints" (Book 2 of the graphic novels) sheds some light on this: This would be a perpetual motion machine, and could not work. All three graphic novels were written by Richard Kelly, with artwork by Brett Weldele. The feature film comprises the final three parts of the experience. Unfortunately, Kefauver and Ronald's Hummer soon collides with the ice cream truck carrying Roland. | In "Donnie Darko," the world ends when the Tangent Universe collapses, which may also be what happens at the end of "Southland Tales." 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. Original music was provided by Moby. That's why. 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. When Vaughn threatens her, she tells him that she has multiple copies, then Tasers him in the balls. 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. 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. 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. A website was also developed to intertwine with the graphic novels and the film itself. Boxer joins her on the stage, followed by Madeline. The Baron has built an enormous machine off the coast of California that generates an electromagnetic energy field called fluid karma. What does the name "Vaughn Smallhouse" refer to? [19], Many critics responded unfavorably to the film's long running time and sprawling nature. What's the deal with the "I'm a pimp, and pimps don't commit suicide" motto? 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." [18] Much to his surprise, they loved it and wanted the film entered in competition for the Palme d'Or. The screenplay ends at a McDonald's restaurant, when Caleb starts belching noxious gas and launching fireballs. Madeline walks in and tells him that he has been speaking in his sleep. Nowadays, the debate surrounding freedom, privacy,. Thinking it's her sex tape with Boxer, she takes it with her. The name Treer is a reference to Trier, Marx's birthplace. 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. "[29], The film remains enigmatic to many viewers and even some of its makers. On March 25, 2009, the R2 DVD was released in France. 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. Ronald Taverner, meanwhile, has picked up Zora and Bing Zinneman, a new member of the Neo-Marxists. No idea. Boxer meets Fortunio on the beach after his rendezvous with Starla. "ZORA: "You just wait and see." Then, after several detours, Krysta and Boxer made their way to Los Angeles, where Boxer went on a nighttime stroll on the beach, injected himself with fluid karma and passed out. Boxer walks up to the Frost mansion, where his wife, Madeline Frost (Mandy Moore), and the Frost team are waiting for him. Eventually, the Antichrist will show up and take over the world. 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. She says "The religion that is the winner of the contest will bleed" The soundtrack does not feature all the music from the film, probably due to rights/royalties issues. 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. Feb. 7, 2021. He can be reached at @thomasmaxrogers. Kelly's previous cult masterpiece Donnie Darko (2001) and the . 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 "Southland Tales" the Earth's rotation IS actually slowing down BECAUSE of an inter-dimensional rift above Lake Meade. Then, a mushroom cloud appears on the horizon, and history jumps the tracks. Their hands begin to glow. Cheri Oteri plays Zora Carmichaels, while Jon Lovitz plays violent police officer Bart Bookman who is in love with Zora. In 2016, I implore you to give it a shot. 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 word of God or the Apostle John. "Chord Sounds" by Moby7. She is pursued by Zora and Bart, who have discovered that Krysta has taken Dion and Dream's murder tape by mistake. Is the soundtrack availiable for the film? Suddenly, a bright light appears through windows and a mushroom cloud rises in the distance: Abilene has been nuked. All of these references to Marxism aren't entirely unconnected to the film's biblical references. The Tangent Universe is an alternate reality to our own. 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. Elsewhere in the building, Ronald Taverner (Seann William Scott) is in the bathroom, looking at his reflection. 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. 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 agrees to take Boxer for a ride-along so he can research his role. His musical dream sequence, which is actually a drug-induced telepathic thing, is the emotional center of the whole piece, since he was accidentally disfigured by his friend. 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 "Teen Horniness is Not a Crime" by Sarah Michelle Gellar, Abbey McBride, ClarKent11. 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"). "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. Why would Martin let himself die after he killed everyone on the Mega-Zeppelin? Once there, Boxer meets Simon Theory, one of the Baron's employees. 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 current world ends, the joined souls become the new messiah, a new world begins. Using the graphic novels, the Book of Revelation, friends and whatever else we could find, we've pieced together everything you need to know (or at least everything we've been able to figure out) about "Southland Tales.". He wakes up in a bed in his apartment in Treer Plaza. This assertion seems to be based upon a flawed understanding of the the particular Law. Associated Press articles: Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. Cane loses consciousness. The movie and prequel saga focus a lot on the "blood red" version of the drug which gives the person using the drug ability to see, or "bleed", into the past, and with repeated use, the future. In this article, Kelly is interviewed about some of the less straightforward aspects of Southland Tales. It's OK to be confused by Richard Kelly's "Southland Tales.". The first chapter in the film ("IV: Temptation Waits") begins. She became psychic when a plane she was on -- United 23 -- flew through the rift in space-time above Lake Mead. The release of Kellys first film, Donnie Darko, more or less coincided with the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers. In the universe of the film, Dr. Inga Von Westphalen is also the granddaughter of Jenny Von Westphalen, Karl Marx's wife. Walter Mung recognizes him and quickly sedates him with an injection of fluid karma. A white light emerges from their hands and the ice cream truck starts floating. There already exist generators powered by rivers or by wind, which clearly do not contravene physical law. Edit, It means "let them hate, so long as they fear", Caligula's favorite saying, attributed originally to Lucius Accius, Roman tragic poet (170 BC). Why that happens when the Taverners touch, only Richard Kelly knows. 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. I think defecation is the result of an inferior food supply and spiritual weakness. The Book of Revelation, or the Revelation of John, was written by an unknown person in the first century. 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 Book of Revelation and Marxism have been connected by academicsboth advocate the overthrow of tyranny. It's too bad, because "Southland Tales" is one of the more interesting and ambitious American films in recent memory. I still don't know what that movie is about. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Where does that qualifying characteristic for a messiah come from? Why that happens when the Taverners touch, only Richard Kelly knows. This is the way the world ends, its characters intone, in an admittedly inane twist on TS Eliot, not with a whimper, but with a bang.. . We zoom out to a satellite view, revealing that another nuclear bomb has been detonated in El Paso. Both vehicles come to a rest in the middle of a shootout and Walter Mung is killed. 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. Since then, Kelly has released prequel comics to coincide with the film. Bing is freaked out by the murders, and decides that he no longer wants to be part of the group. Edit, Boxer Santaros: 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. On his way to meet Krysta, Fortunio discovered Boxer Santaros in the desert, stricken with amnesia. 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. The other main reference points are T.S. He played a character named "Donnie" in a movie with Boxer Santaros (in an obvious allusion to "Donnie Darko"). Fortunio's goons inject Boxer with fluid karma and load him into an ambulance. This is where "Operation Dream Theory" came into play. 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." 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." Edit, It is a mechanical ball (built by Treer) which acts as remote antennas for the wireless electricity energy fields powered by Fluid Karma. Our weekly culture newsletter from books and art to pop culture and memes sent every Friday. What is the glowing orb carried around by Dr. Kuntzler? They are eventually killed by those who are tormented by their prophecies.Revelation 22:5: But, then again, you probably shouldn't try to interpret "Southland Tales" too literally. [42], J. Hoberman defended the film, yet again, in his review for the theatrical cut. He says, "It all ends tonight.". 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 Star Spangled Banner" by Rebekah del Rio & The Section Quartet14. 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. Unfortunately, the reworked film was received just as poorly, seen as an unfinished version of something much bigger. 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. [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. 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 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. 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. Boxer and Ronald have stopped for some lunch. Three days later, he is discovered in the desert near Lake Mead. As they drive, Boxer continues to talk about his screenplay, explaining a subplot involving a miracle baby that doesn't produce bowel movements. 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. 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. The critic Laura Mulvey once suggested Blue Velvet, having been released in 1986, was the ideal film for the mood of the Reagan era. 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. Why did Roland Taverner end up driving Boxer Santaros through the space-time rift? | 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. Its story overlaps with the movie, so it explains some of the back story. That's why he wakes up on the beach at the start of the movie. The quick and essential guide to domestic and global politics from the New Statesman's politics team. 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. They decided to take advantage of her powers. "[28] Salon.com critic Andrew O'Hehir called the Cannes cut "about the biggest, ugliest mess I've ever seen. 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. The other main reference points are T.S. If that wasnt enough, a German company whose CEO is played by Wallace Shawn has invented an infinite energy source called fluid karma. Directed by Richard Kelly, a guy who can only make cult classics . Pilot Abilene, who has been watching the scene from his gun turret, shoots and kills Starla. 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