How far do the American films you have studied for this topic depend on well established narrative and genre conventions?
Badlands and Natural Born Killers are both films that fall into the 'Lovers on the lam' genre, which includes the genres, Romance, Crime and a 'on the road' film. Both show the genres through the genre conventions, which can be seen in the film narrative, such as the amount of time in both movies spent in a car driving away from police, on the run.
Badlands is a film based on the true story of Charles Starkweather and Caril Annfuggate, and their killing spree in 1958 - they killed 10 people over a period of 8 days. In 1958 in America, where the film was based, people were poor and in a time of depression, and the 'American Dream' was big, everyone strived for fame. As the film clearly portrays Kip, who acts as Charles Starkweather was self obsessed and egoistic which you can see
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