During the casting call tryouts, the chorus dames are reated like cattle.As the camera pans down the line of hopefuls, he males in charge command the girls to show off the attractiveness of their legs - the explicit criteria for their selection:Andy: Lift your skirts up a little higher, come on, come on.During dinner at Springwood""s only Thai restaurant, Nancy told Dr.Gordon that his patients were in "real physical danger from their dreams." She suggested "dream deprivation" by having the doctor prescribe an experimental psychoactive drug, Hypnocil, for the suicidal, surviving teenagers so that their nightmares would disappear, just until things were "under control.[Malick""s first scripted filmPocket Money (1972)was just a year earlier.]Malick""s independent film""s engaging story about a delinquent duo was loosely based and inspired by the Charles Starkweather-Caril Ann Fugate mass murders (eleven in total, including his accomplice girlfriend""s mother, stepfather and 2 year-old sister) of 1958 in Lincoln, Nebraska and Colorado.Although Spock wanted to rendezvous with the Starfleet Federation, Kirk demanded immediate action against Nero, or otherwise it would be too late: "What we need to do is catch up to that ship, disable it, take it over, and get Pike back.