The Doom Generation

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The Doom Generation
Directed by Gregg Araki
Produced by Gregg Araki
Andrea Sperling
Written by Gregg Araki
Starring James Duval
Rose McGowan
Johnathon Schaech
Music by Dan Gatto
Cinematography Jim Fealy
Editing by Gregg Araki
Kate McGowan
Distributed by Trimark Pictures
Release date(s) Flag of the United States 27 October 1995
Running time 85 minutes
Country Flag of the United States United States
Language English
Preceded by Totally Fucked Up
Followed by Nowhere
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The Doom Generation is a film by director Gregg Araki. Released in 1995, it stars Rose McGowan, Johnathon Schaech and James Duval as two teenagers and a 20-something punk drifter who get involved in a ménage à trois. It is the second of a trilogy of films known as the Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy, the first being Totally Fucked Up and the last Nowhere. It was Araki's first movie to deal with heterosexual relationships.

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[edit] Synopsis

Industrial rock lovers Jordan White (Duval) and Amy Blue (McGowan) pick up a handsome drifter named Xavier Red (Schaech) while driving home from a club. Jordan gives Xavier the nickname "X." A late night stop at a convenience store leaves the three on the run when X accidentally kills the store's owner (Dustin Nguyen). The trio hides in a motel to avoid arrest. While Jordan and Amy have sex in the bath tub, X learns from the local television news program that the store owner's wife (Margaret Cho) disemboweled her children with a machete before taking her own life, thus, he concedes, removing any possibility of the trio being caught by the police.

Later that evening, Amy has sex with X, even though she and X do not get along. Eventually Jordan finds out, and things become tense as the two men develop a lingering sexual attraction for one another. As the trio journeys across small town USA, they continue to get into violent situations due to people either claiming to be Amy's previous lovers or mistaking her for such.

Jordan, Amy and X spend the night in an abandoned barn, where they engage in a threesome before going to sleep. Later in the evening, they are attacked by a trio of Neo-Nazis, who beat up X and then hold Jordan against his will, making him unable to take any sort of action as one of the Neo-Nazis ties up and rapes Amy. The group finally castrates Jordan with pruning shears and feeds him his genitals. After Amy breaks free, she kills the Neo-Nazis with the shears and escapes with X, leaving Jordan for dead. The film ends with Amy and X driving aimlessly on the road. X is eating Doritos and offers Amy for some, but receives no response. Amy simply sits thinking deeply, smoking a Cigarette and continues driving as it fades to the end credits.

[edit] Response

The Doom Generation received mixed reviews, with critics often comparing the film both favorably and unfavorably to Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers. Film website Rotten Tomatoes, which compiles reviews from a wide range of critics, gives the film a score of 50%.[1]

[edit] Trivia

  • The gang of goons in the beginning of the movie is played by the Vancouver based industrial group, Skinny Puppy. cEvin Key, who falls off the car, broke his arm during the shooting of this scene.
  • Jordan Ladd was originally cast as Amy Blue, but her mother, Cheryl Ladd, vetoed her playing the role at the last minute.
  • Every time one of the characters buys something, the total comes to $6.66. The address of the first hotel they stay at is 666. Amy's combined SAT score is 666.
  • Dan Gatto, from the band Babyland, did extra score-like music for the film.
  • In all the publicity pictures for the film, Rose is wearing a bobbed black wig. The pictures were taken after the film was made, and her hair had since grown. Also, Johnathan's characters tattoo isn't in any publicity pictures (ex. movie cover and soundtrack).
  • During the end credits it says a "big thanks to":which was a numerous amount of people including Jordan Ladd,then a "big no thanks to":Cheryl Ladd(those who had no faith).

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Tomatometer for The Doom Generation. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved on 2007-06-06.

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Films directed by Gregg Araki

Three Bewildered People in the Night (1987) • The Long Weekend (1989) • The Living End (1992) • Totally Fucked Up (1993) • The Doom Generation (1995) • Nowhere (1997) • Splendor (1999) • Mysterious Skin (2004) • Smiley Face (2007)