| Figure 7: The Road
If we have to select a road movie that most closely fits the kinds of encounters featured in Generation Kill, perhaps the closest is Oliver Stone's Natural born Killers in which Mickey (Woody Harrelson) and Mallory (Juliet Lewis) go on a killing rampage in which "the surface of the screen seethes with a veritable jouissance of killing..."38 Like Generation Kill, The film explores details about the protagonists while providing mere caricatures of their victims. The latter “are extra people - there to be killed."39 Moreover, in both the film and the television series, those “extra people” become present as a result of the contingencies of encounter. They are those who reside in the particular landscapes of the routes taken by the protagonists. In this respect, images of maps are ominous preludes to some peoples’ deaths (Figures 8 and 9).
Figure 8: Mallory Tracing the Route
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