Badlands

Badlands

  • Director: Terrence Malick
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English, Spanish
  • Release date: January 5, 1974
  • Sound mix: Mono
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Badlands - Zerschossene Träume
  • "Badlands" is an action crime film directed by Terrence Malick , starring Martin Sheen , Sissy Spacek , and Warren Mercer Oates . It was released in the United States on October 15, 1973.
    The film tells the story of a juvenile scavenger and his girlfriend. Because her father disapproved, they mistakenly killed him, arranged for him to die unexpectedly, and began to flee after being panicked.

    Details

    • Release date January 5, 1974
    • Filming locations Rocky Ford, Colorado, USA
    • Production companies Warner Bros., Pressman-Williams, Jill Jakes Production

    Box office

    Budget

    $450,000 (estimated)

    Gross worldwide

    $54,396

    Movie reviews

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    • By Turner 2022-03-24 09:02:12

      Violent Pastoral Prose Poem

      In fact, to be honest, the movie didn't immerse me very much, and I felt that my emotions were just floating on the surface.
            But when I think about it, I actually feel that there are several places that are vaguely beautiful/pity.
            I like the part of them in the woods, the tree house, self-sufficient, like a paradise, I especially hope that the bounty hunters don't come, it breaks the peace all of a sudden; when Kit killed Holly's father, it was a pity; I saw Kit killed...

    • By Frank 2022-03-23 09:02:11

      How To Exercise Writing Movie Reviews

      While watching How to Write a Film Review, there is an exercise in discussing a movie in pros and cons. Borrow this method to analyze the role of "movie narration" in this film.
      Fang Fang:
          Compared with "Bonnie and Clyde" and "Born to Kill", which impressed me a lot, this movie is slightly inferior to the above. One of the reasons is the abuse of "movie narration". Next to it, in the genre of road movies, it undoubtedly weakens the plot of the movie, making the "happening"...

    • By Jacinto 2022-03-22 09:02:02

      No matter how perfect the technique is, the theme is so fucking pissing me off!

      A good director expresses a completely wrong outlook on life and values ​​in a powerful way, which makes me fear that if young people living in the world do this, will good people still live? ? ? This is an extremely ugly selfishness! Why this director loves trees but not people is just bullshit! A man like him is just rubbish to survive in this world. If he thinks that human nature is what he describes, his life is really fucking painful. The best way for him should be suicide, because he is...

    • By Bridie 2022-03-22 09:02:02

      My Criticism on Badlands

      It is the first film Terrence Malick directed, released in 1973 based on the 1950s Charles Starkweather & Caril Fugate murders. The film tells the whole story in a poetic way, which replaces the impression of inhuman, coldblooded and antisocial that a murder spree always gives , with an innocent explanation. Although it is just a story rather than the truth, and if a murdering story described as a poetry which calls out the selfishness deeply and naturally within everyone's blood, than the...

    • By Mylene 2022-03-22 09:02:02

      Criticism and Defense

      Poor Mountains and Bad Waters
      1 Everyone is supported by a value, and every movie also has a value that belongs to it. During the screening process, the film is conveying its values ​​to the audience. What gives a film its values ​​is largely the director. As far as the poor mountains are concerned, it is even more so, from the screenwriter to the director to the producer is the same person - Terence Malik. The story of this film is born out of reality, and the actions of the protagonist...

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    • By Israel 2022-04-23 07:02:34

      A fake James Dean kills his girlfriend's father and takes his girlfriend (crazy Piero-Bonny Clyde style) for his life and kills all the way until he is chased by the police before crossing the border to "impossible" Canada(?) The Great Man Memorial Mark) was subsequently received by the military and police like a TV idol star. The combination of murderers and unruly youths washed the public's three views in the way of an idol of the era. This is probably also the so-called American spirit of...

    • By Freddy 2022-04-23 07:02:34

      There is always a strange feeling to watch the debut, because it contains all the values ​​and elements after Malick. Knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, there is no one in the world who prefers to travel in the mountains, dares to make fun of traditional values ​​and succeeds in playing! One sentence summary: no one is lonely, some people are desolate, it is a bad...

    • By Deontae 2022-04-23 07:02:34

      Malick's first film, unpretentious and unobtrusive in its naturalistic style, is more relaxed and spontaneous than his later...

    • By Lyda 2022-04-23 07:02:34

      Sissy Spacek is also the kind of woman who looks...

    • By Shaina 2022-04-23 07:02:34

      Horse God's debut ~ very romantic. Shadows in many later works, poetic narratives and breathtakingly beautiful photography. The heroine's narration is still amazing. Sissy is so pretty. And because the honey of the country knelt down and licked it again, the rewatch felt better~ Sweetheart is basically this movie, the Midwest is such a Badlands, and evil is the eternal motif in this...

    Movie plot

    Version one:
    The juvenile scavenger and his girlfriend, because her father disapproved, they killed him by mistake, arranged for him to die unexpectedly, and began to flee after being panicked.
    Version two:
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    Movie quotes

    • Kit Carruthers: I always wanted to be a criminal, I guess. Just not this big of a one.

    • Kit Carruthers: Hi, I'm Kit. I'm not keeping you from anything important, am I?

      Holly Sargis: No.

      Kit Carruthers: Well, I was just messing around over there, thought I'd come over and say hello to you.

      [smiling]

      Kit Carruthers: I'll try anything once.

      [pause]

      Kit Carruthers: What's your name? I said mine.

      Holly Sargis: Holly.

      Kit Carruthers: Listen, Holly, you want to take a walk with me?

      Holly Sargis: What for?

      Kit Carruthers: Well. I got some stuff to say. Guess I'm kind of lucky that way. Most people don't have anything on their minds, do they? Oh incidentally, my last name is Carruthers. Sounds a little too much like "druthers," doesn't it?

      Holly Sargis: It's okay.

      Kit Carruthers: Well, nobody asked me what I thought. They just hung it on me.

    • Holly Sargis: [voiceover] In the stench and slime of the feedlot he'd remember how I'd looked the night before. How I ran my hand through his hair and traced the outline of his lips with my fingertip. He wanted to die with me, and I dreamed of being lost forever in his arms.