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Synopsis: An early-1900s Chicago steel mill worker (Richard Gere) flees town after accidentally killing a man. He is accompanied by his girlfriend (Brooke Adams) and younger sister (the latter provides some narration), and his search for a better life/new start takes them to . . .
Don't want to give away too much plot!
Ever since The Thin Red Line (YMMV), I've been a Terrence Malik fan. I've seen four of his movies. The New World was a disappointment to me (relations between Europeans and native Americans is far better portrayed in Black Robe). Badlands (w/ Sissy Spacek and Martin Sheen) is quirkly and interesting.
I think Days of Heaven is one of his best. It's cinematography earned an Oscar, and I can clearly see why (pun intended). It portrays how difficult life was for many at that time who essentially were migrant workers with no home. Of course, Gere is too good looking to be a steel mill worker, but let's not hold that against him. I think his performance is fine. Highly recommended.
Malik is an cinema artiste and has a vision not really found in Hollywood any more...Days of Heaven IMHO is a cinematic masterpiece of film making and I'm sure is required study in film school. I loved The New World as well and thought it would have been a better film had it had a better lead than Colin Farrell who fucks up everything he is in...I have yet to see The Thin Red Line...I always forget to pick it up when I'm at the video store...Maybe someday I'll remember!!!
"Of course, Gere is too good looking to be a steel mill worker,"
Substitute "Negro" for "steel mill worker", how's that sound?
Bigotry based on class is as ugly as any other kind and in the end far deadlier. Just ask the Romanovs.
"Days..." was shot in 70 mm and is one of the most beautiful films I have seen. Mosst of it was photographed in "magic hour".
Malick's first two films were and are so loved that the queue of actors for TTRL must have gone round the block.
Malick, of course, hated the closed in way that he was offered endless variations on these stories and, as far as I know, left for Paris where he occasionally emerged to rewrite scripts as long as his name never appeared. I was told this by writer Robert Shelton who interestingly wrote the famous first New York review of a young Bob Dylan that lead to him getting a recording contract.
If he has a fault it's that he has an almost mescaline view of the natural world (and its people) and that can take over as it may do in The New World, although I enjoyed that film a lot as I do, say, House Of Flying Daggers, by letting it wash over me.
In The New World, his subject is that "natural" world and the meeting of that with his obsession seems to detract from the effect.
Maybe it's his blind spot.
I find that these films stand repeated viewing and am about ready to give TNW another go...
I may have to give TNW a second try.
But have you seen Black Robe? An unheralded movie from director Bruce Beresford, who directed Driving Miss Daisy, Tender Mercies and Breaker Morant (a big two-thumbs up for Breaker, and the newest DVD release dramatically improves the picture).
BR set in the rugged 17the century Canadian wilderness, where Father Laforgne (Lothaire Bluteau), a young Jesuit priest, is assigned to go up river into the wilderness to convert Huron Indians.
Bruce (what other name would be possible) has been a famous Aussie film maker since the days of Barry Mckenzie.
I haven't seen or even heard of The Black Robe but I will hunt it out.
loijaxdfg
to people with good taste that is!
;-)
Don't piss on my shoe and tell me it's raining.
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