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mix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-09-09 10:32 PM
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Poll question: Favorite Terrence Malick film.
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Starbucks Anarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-09-09 10:59 PM
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1. Days of Heaven.
Stunning cinematography and one of the most "pure" films I've ever seen.
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Schema Thing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-09-09 11:06 PM
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2. The Beautiful Country

Not really a Malick film per se, but he was an executive producer. I'm biased because I worked on it and even got a tiny bit of dialogue inserted on-the-fly into the film.
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cemaphonic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-09-09 11:45 PM
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3. Days of Heaven
Not entirely sure why. The subject matter in Badlands is more interesting, and the plot (of Days of Heaven) is nothing special. But there is ultimately something very compelling about it (and I don't think it's just the cinematography - Barry Lyndon is among my least favorite of Kubrick's films).

I really love the bit in the narration where the girl is going on about having fun when the air circus comes to visit, and then it takes an odd turn where she starts talking about snakes eating peoples eyes.
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kwassa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-09-09 11:47 PM
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4. I don't like Malick, got totally sucked into New World
on cable one afternoon.

Elegiac.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-10-09 08:53 AM
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5. Some days it's Badlands and some days it's Days of Heaven...
one is a haunting American myth and the other is a haunring biblical myth.
Don't make me choose!
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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-10-09 09:04 AM
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6. Never seen any of his films.
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mix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-10-09 10:23 AM
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9. There aren't many of them.
Start with Badlands...
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Paladin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-10-09 10:09 AM
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7. "Days Of Heaven" Is Exquisite.

It confirms Malick as this country's Bergman.......
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LibDemAlways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-10-09 10:19 AM
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8. I can't think of a more visually stunning film than
Days of Heaven. A cinematic gem.
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-10-09 10:29 AM
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10. Quotes from Thin Red Line are used in this song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqZtWzPNEJw&feature=related



Even now in heaven there were angels carrying savage weapons

An eye for an eye
A tooth for a tooth

Run, run, run, but you sure can't hide

An eye for an eye
A tooth for a tooth

Run, run, run, but you sure can't hide

Does our rule benefit the earth?
Does it help the grass to grow? The sun to shine?
Is this darkness in you too?
Have you passed through this Night?

Run, run, run, but you sure can't hide

Where you're going you're not coming back from

Run, run, run, but you sure can't hide

An eye for an eye
A tooth for a tooth

Run, run, run, but you sure can't hide

An eye for an eye
A tooth for a tooth

Run, run, run, but you sure can't hide

This great Evil...
Where's it coming from?
How'd it steal into the world?
Who's doing this?
Who's killing us?
Mocking us with the sight of what we might have known

Run, run, run...
Run, run, run...

An eye for an eye...
A tooth for a tooth...
Run, run, run, but you sure can't hide

An eye for an eye...
A tooth for a tooth...
Run, run, run, but you sure can't hide

(An eye for an eye...)
Are you righteous?
(A tooth for a tooth...)
Kind?
(Run, run, run but you sure can't hide...)
Does your confidence lie in this?
(An eye for an eye...)
Are you loved by god?
(A tooth for a tooth...)
Do you imagine your sufferings will be lost?
(Run, run, run, but you sure can't hide...)
Because you loved goodness, truth?

An eye for an eye...
A tooth for a tooth...
Run, run, run, but you sure can't hide...
Run, run, run, but you sure can't hide...

What are you to me?
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