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Terrence Malick: Thin Red Line
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Reclusive filmmaker Terrence Malick may be starting to pick up the pace. Although 20 years passed between his 1978 film "Days of Heaven" and 1998's war film "The Thin Red Line," he's already contemplating another stint in the director's chair. The director is attached to direct Benicio Del Toro in "Che," an epic about the life and death of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara that Laura Bickford is producing.
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IT HAS BECOME A mantra: Terrence Malick is the J. D. Salinger of movies. Like that legendary recluse, Malick is largely invisible. The 20 years between his film ""Days of Heaven'' and now ""The Thin Red Line'' has got to be a record. He hasn't given an interview since 1974. He avoids being photographed. The guy doesn't even have a Web site!
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Directed by Terrence Malick ("The Thin Red Line"), this atmospheric historical epic examines the founding of the Jamestown colony in 1607 and the resulting conflict between Native Americans and the European settlers. Despite the turmoil that surrounds them, a romance develops between English pioneer John Smith (Colin Farrell) and young Indian princess Pocahontas (Q'Orianka Kilcher). But when Smith returns to England, the beauty marries tobacco farmer John Rolfe (Christian Bale) and becomes assimilated into British society. With Christopher Plummer, David Thewlis, Jonathan Pryce. 135 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital stereo Surround; Subtitles: English, Spanish; "making of" documentary.
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Malick based his screenplay on James Jones's 500 page, 1963 novel, _The Thin Red Line_. [4] Jones served as an infantryman in the US Army in the South Pacific, and _The Thin Red Line_, though fictional, is extensively based on Jones's wartime experiences. Jones was following the formula he established in his first book, the 900 page, 1952 raw blockbuster, _From Here to Eternity_, which deals with events surrounding the bombing of Pearl Harbor. [5] A highly expurgated film version of the book, starring Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Montgomery Clift and Frank Sinatra, won the Academy Award for Best Motion Picture in 1953. Malick's movie won just one Oscar, to Hans Zimmer, for best original score.
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Numerous critics consider Malick's films to be masterpieces, in particular Badlands and Days of Heaven.[1][2] Malick was nominated for an Academy Award for both Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Director for The Thin Red Line. His work is often characterized by naturalist cinematography and a meditative directorial and editing style; his films are full of rich, lingering, repetitive images of natural beauty. He makes extensive use of off-screen narration by his characters, as well as music, to illuminate, heighten and counterpoint the action on screen.
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Malick's unique cinematic style has produced many admirers, but not many acknowledged disciples. One recent exception is a young director called David Gordon Green, who admitted Malick's influence in his film George Washington (2001). Since The Thin Red Line, it looks like the director has entered another period of inactivity (there were twenty years separating it and Days of Heaven), at least in terms of directing. It is hard to say what further course Malick's career will take, but undeniably, the three films he has made so far are sources of much beauty and provocation.
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