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Badlands (film)

May 13, 2023

This article is about the 1973 film. For other films, see Badlands (disambiguation) § Films.

Badlands is a 1973 American neo-noir[2] period crime drama film written, produced and directed by Terrence Malick, in his directorial debut. The film stars Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek, and follows Holly Sargis (Spacek), a 15-year old who goes on a killing spree with her partner, Kit Carruthers (Sheen); the film also stars Warren Oates and Ramon Bieri. While the story is fictional, it is loosely based on the real-life murder spree of Charles Starkweather and his girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, in 1958.[3]

Badlands
Theatrical release poster
Directed byTerrence Malick
Written byTerrence Malick
Produced byTerrence Malick
Starring
Cinematography
Edited byRobert Estrin
Music by
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • October 15, 1973 (1973-10-15)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$300,000 (estimated)

Badlands was released in 1973 to positive reviews from critics, who particularly praised its cinematography, soundtrack—which includes pieces by Carl Orff—and the lead performances. At the 49th British Academy Film Awards, Spacek was nominated for the Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles award; at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, Sheen won the Best Actor award.

In 1993, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[4][5][6]

Plot

Holly Sargis narrates the film as a 15-year-old living in Fort Dupree, a dead-end South Dakota town. She has a strained relationship with her father, a sign painter, since her mother's death from pneumonia years earlier. Holly meets Kit Carruthers, a 25-year-old garbage collector, troubled greaser and Korean War veteran. He resembles James Dean, an actor whom Holly admires. After Kit charms Holly, he takes her virginity. As they become closer, his violent and antisocial tendencies are gradually revealed.

Holly's father disapproves of Kit and kills her dog as punishment for spending time with him. Kit breaks into Holly's house and insists she run away with him. When her father protests and threatens to call the police, Kit shoots him dead. After Kit and Holly fake suicide by burning down the house, they head for the badlands of Montana. They build a treehouse in a remote area and live there, fishing and stealing chickens for food. They flee after being found by three men (who Kit later tells Holly were bounty hunters) whom Kit shoots dead. They seek refuge with Kit's former co-worker Cato, but when he attempts to summon help, Kit shoots him too. Kit forces a young couple who arrive to visit Cato into a storm cellar. He shoots into the closed cellar door and leaves without checking to see if they are dead.

Kit and Holly are pursued across the Midwest by law enforcement. They stop at a rich man's mansion and take supplies, clothing, and his Cadillac, sparing the lives of the man and his deaf housemaid. As they drive across Montana to Saskatchewan, the police find and chase them.

Holly, who has grown tired of Kit and life on the run, refuses to go with him and turns herself in. Kit leads the police on a car chase but is soon caught. He charms the arresting officers and National Guard troops, tossing them his personal belongings as souvenirs of his crime spree. Holly reveals at the end that she received probation and married her defense attorney's son, and Kit was executed for his crimes.

Cast

Director Terrence Malick makes a cameo as the man at the rich man's door, while Sheen's sons – Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez – appear briefly as two boys sitting under a lamppost outside Holly's house.

Production

Writing and casting

 
Sheen was chosen for the role of Kit Carruther, based on his immediate chemistry with co-star Spacek.

Malick, a protégé of Arthur Penn (whom he thanked in the film's end credits),[7] began work on Badlands after his second year attending the American Film Institute.[8] In 1970, Malick, at age 27, began working on the screenplay during a road trip.[9] "I wrote and, at the same time, developed a kind of sales kit with slides and video tape of actors, all with a view to presenting investors with something that would look ready to shoot," Malick said. "To my surprise, they didn't pay too much attention to it; they invested on faith. I raised about half the money and executive producer Edward Pressman the other half."[8] Malick paid $25,000 of his own funds. The remainder of his share was raised from professionals such as doctors and dentists. Badlands was the first feature film that Malick had written for himself to direct.[9]

Sissy Spacek, in only her second film, was the first actor cast. Malick found her small-town Texas roots and accent were perfect for the part of the naive impressionable high school girl. The director included her in his creative process, asking questions about her life "as if he were mining for gold." When he found out she had been a majorette, he worked a twirling routine into the script.[10] Several up-and-coming actors were auditioned for the part of Kit Carruthers. When Martin Sheen was suggested by the casting director, Malick was hesitant, thinking he was too old for the role. Spacek wrote in her autobiography that "the chemistry was immediate. He was Kit. And with him, I was Holly."[11] Sheen based his characterization of Kit on the actor James Dean.[12]

Filming and set design

Principal photography took place in Colorado starting in July 1972, with a non-union crew and a low budget of $300,000 (excluding some deferments to film labs and actors).[8] The film had a somewhat troubled production history: several members of the crew clashed with Malick, and another was severely injured when an explosion occurred while filming the fire scene.[13][14] The Frank G. Bloom House in Trinidad was used for the rich man's house. Malick himself had an uncredited cameo after the actor hired to play ‘Caller at Rich Man’s House’ failed to show up.[15] The script's beginning was mostly filmed in the southeastern Colorado towns of La Junta and Las Animas, including the scene in which Holly runs out of the latter town's Columbian Elementary School.[16] The closing credits thank the people of Otero County, Colorado "for their help and cooperation."

Jack Fisk served as art director for the film in his first of several collaborations with the director. During production, Sissy Spacek and Fisk fell in love [17] and were married on April 12, 1974. The film was originally set to be edited by Robert Estrin. When Malick saw Estrin's cut of the film, he disliked it and removed him from the production. Malick and Billy Weber recut the movie. Estrin remains credited as the sole editor, however, with Weber credited as associate editor.[13] Both Weber and art designer Jack Fisk worked on all of Malick's subsequent features through 2016 (The Tree of Life, To the Wonder, Knight of Cups).[18]

Though Malick paid close attention to period detail, he did not want it to overwhelm the picture. "I tried to keep the 1950s to a bare minimum," he said. "Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything. I wanted the picture to set up like a fairy tale, outside time."[8] At a news conference coinciding with the film's festival debut, Malick called Kit "so desensitized that [he] can regard the gun with which he shoots people as a kind of magic wand that eliminates small nuisances."[3] Malick also pointed out that "Kit and Holly even think of themselves as living in a fairy tale", and he felt was appropriate since "children's books like Treasure Island were often filled with violence." He also hoped a fairy tale tone would "take a little of the sharpness out of the violence but still keep its dreamy quality."[8]

Soundtrack

The film makes repeated use of the short composition Gassenhauer from Carl Orff's and Gunild Keetman's Schulwerk, and also uses other tunes by Erik Satie, Nat "King" Cole, Mickey & Sylvia and James Taylor.[19]

Release

Warner Bros. purchased and distributed the film for just under $1 million.[8] Warner Bros. initially previewed the film on a double bill with the Mel Brooks comedy Blazing Saddles, resulting in very negative audience response. The production team was forced to book the film into several other theaters, in locations such as Little Rock, Arkansas, to demonstrate that the film could make money.[13] The film has a 97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and an average score of 8.9/10 based on the reviews of 59 critics, with the general consensus being "Terrence Malick's debut is a masterful slice of American cinema, rife with the visual poetry and measured performances that would characterize his work."[20] On Metacritic, the film holds a weighted score of 93/100 based on 19 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[21] Variety stated that the film was an "impressive" debut.[18] Roger Ebert added it to his "Great Movies" list in 2011.[18][22]

 
Spacek, who plays Holly Sargis in the film, was lauded for her performance, and earned a BAFTA Award nomination.

Badlands was the closing feature film at the 1973 New York Film Festival,[3] reportedly "overshadowing even Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets."[23] Vincent Canby, who saw the film at the festival debut, called it a "cool, sometimes brilliant, always ferociously American film"; according to Canby, "Sheen and Miss Spacek are splendid as the self-absorbed, cruel, possibly psychotic children of our time, as are the members of the supporting cast, including Warren Oates as Holly's father. One may legitimately debate the validity of Malick's vision, but not, I think, his immense talent. Badlands is a most important and exciting film."[3]

In April 1974, Jay Cocks wrote that the film "might better be regarded less as a companion piece to Bonnie and Clyde than as an elaboration and reply. It is not loose and high-spirited. All its comedy has a frosty irony, and its violence, instead of being brutally balletic, is executed with a dry, remorseless drive."[7] According to executive producer Edward Pressman, apart from Canby's New York Times review, most initial reviews of the film were negative, but its reputation with critics improved over time.[13] David Thomson conversely reported that the work was "by common consent [...] one of the most remarkable first feature films made in America."[24] Writing years later for The Chicago Reader, Dave Kehr wrote: "Malick's 1973 first feature is a film so rich in ideas it hardly knows where to turn. Transcendent themes of love and death are fused with a pop-culture sensibility and played out against a midwestern background, which is breathtaking both in its sweep and in its banality."[25]

Spacek later said that Badlands changed the whole way she thought about filmmaking. "After working with Terry Malick, I was like, 'The artist rules. Nothing else matters.' My career would have been very different if I hadn't had that experience".[26] In 2003, Bill Paxton said: "It had a lyricism that films have only once in a while, moments of a transcendental nature.... There's this wonderful sequence where the couple have been cut adrift from civilisation. They know the noose is tightening and they've gone off the road, across the Badlands. You hear Sissy narrating various stories, and she's talking about visiting faraway places. There's this strange piece of classical music [an ethereal orchestration of Erik Satie's Trois Morceaux en forme de Poire], and a very long-lens shot. You see something in the distance – I think it's a train moving – and it looks like a shot of an Arabian caravan moving across the desert. These are moments that have nothing to do with the story, and yet everything to do with it. They're not plot-orientated, but they have to do with the longing or the dreams of these characters. And they're the kind of moments you never forget, a certain kind of lyricism that just strikes some deep part of you and that you hold on to."[27]

Martin Sheen commented in 1999 that Badlands "still is" the best script he had ever read.[9] He wrote that "It was mesmerising. It disarmed you. It was a period piece, and yet of all time. It was extremely American, it caught the spirit of the people, of the culture, in a way that was immediately identifiable."[9]

AFI lists

See also

References

  1. ^ "Badlands (1973)-Articles-TCM.com". tcm.com. Retrieved September 23, 2022.
  2. ^ Silver, Alain; Ward, Elizabeth; Ursini, James; Porfirio, Robert (2010). Film Noir: The Encyclopaedia. New York City: Overlook Duckworth. ISBN 978-1-59020-144-2.
  3. ^ a b c d Canby, Vincent (October 15, 1973). "Malick's Impressive 'Badlands' Screened at Festival". The New York Times. Retrieved August 25, 2022.
  4. ^ "U.S. National Film Registry – Titles". Clamen's Movie Information Collection. Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science. Retrieved July 12, 2011.
  5. ^ "Librarian Announces National Film Registry Selections (March 7, 1994) - Library of Congress Information Bulletin". www.loc.gov. Retrieved 2020-09-16.
  6. ^ "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-09-16.
  7. ^ a b Cocks, Jay (April 8, 1974). "Gun Crazy". Time. Archived from the original on February 4, 2013. Retrieved July 12, 2011.
  8. ^ a b c d e f Walker, Beverly (Spring 1973). "Malick on Badlands". Sight and Sound. from the original on October 14, 2008. Retrieved September 17, 2008.
  9. ^ a b c d Gilbey, Ryan (August 21, 2008). "The start of something beautiful". The Guardian. Retrieved November 13, 2013.
  10. ^ Spacek, Sissy (2012). My Extraordinary Ordinary Life. New York: Hyperion. pp. 133–134. ISBN 9781401304270.
  11. ^ Spacek, Sissy (2012). My Extraordinary Ordinary Life. New York: Hyperion. p. 134. ISBN 9781401304270.
  12. ^ "Badlands: An Oral History". gq.com.
  13. ^ a b c d Kim Hendrickson (producer) (2013). "Producer Edward Pressman on Badlands" (Blu-ray featurette). The Criterion Collection.
  14. ^ Almereyda, Michael (March 19, 2013). "Badlands: Misfits". Criterion.com. The Criterion Collection. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
  15. ^ "Terence Malick's cameo in Badlands". FILMdetail. 2010-08-14. Retrieved 2021-04-18.
  16. ^ "Endangered Places Archives: Columbian Elementary School". Colorado Preservation, Inc. Retrieved July 9, 2019.
  17. ^ Spacek, Sissy (2012). My Extraordinary Ordinary Life. New York: Hyperion. pp. 135–136. ISBN 9781401304270.
  18. ^ a b c "Badlands Facts". Badlands Facts. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  19. ^ Carl Orff Biography|Fandango
  20. ^ "Badlands". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved March 31, 2021.
  21. ^ "Badlands". Metacritic. Retrieved July 8, 2019.
  22. ^ Ebert, Roger (March 24, 2011). "A girl and a boy on the road to nowhere". RogerEbert.com.
  23. ^ Biskind, Peter (December 1998). "The Runaway Genius". Vanity Fair.
  24. ^ Thomson, David (September 1, 2011). "Is Days of Heaven the most beautiful film ever made?". The Guardian. Retrieved December 6, 2016.
  25. ^ Kehr, Dave. "Badlands review". Chicago Reader. Retrieved July 12, 2011.
  26. ^ Grant, Richard (January 26, 2002). "Lone star". The Guardian. Retrieved September 17, 2008.
  27. ^ Monahan, Mark (July 26, 2003). "Mark Monahan talks to Bill Paxton about Terrence Malick's Badlands". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved July 12, 2011.

Bibliography

  • Michel Chion, 1999. The Voice in Cinema, translated by Claudia Gorbman, New York & Chichester: Columbia University Press.
  • Michel Ciment, 1975. ‘Entretien avec Terrence Malick’, Positif, 170, Jun, 30–34.
  • G. Richardson Cook, 1974. ‘The Filming of Badlands: An Interview with Terry Malick’, Filmmakers Newsletter, 7:8, Jun, 30–32.
  • Charlotte Crofts, 2001.
  • Cameron Docherty, 1998. ‘Maverick Back from the Badlands’, The Sunday Times, Culture, 7 Jun, 4.
  • Brian Henderson, 1983. ‘Exploring Badlands’. Wide Angle: A Quarterly Journal of Film Theory, Criticism and Practice, 5:4, 38–51.
  • Les Keyser, 1981. Hollywood in the Seventies, London: Tantivy Press
  • Terrence Malick, 1973. Interview the morning after Badlands premiered at the New York Film Festival, American Film Institute Report, 4:4, Winter, 48.
  • James Monaco, 1972. ‘Badlands’, Take One, 4:1, Sept/Oct, 32.
  • J. P. Telotte, 1986. ‘Badlands and the Souvenir Drive’, Western Humanities Review, 40:2, Summer, 101–14.
  • Beverly Walker, 1975. ‘Malick on Badlands’, Sight and Sound, 44:2, Spring, 82–3.
  • Sissy Spacek, "My Extraordinary Ordinary Life", Hyperion, 2012, pages 133–147.

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This article is about the 1973 film For other films see Badlands disambiguation Films Badlands is a 1973 American neo noir 2 period crime drama film written produced and directed by Terrence Malick in his directorial debut The film stars Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek and follows Holly Sargis Spacek a 15 year old who goes on a killing spree with her partner Kit Carruthers Sheen the film also stars Warren Oates and Ramon Bieri While the story is fictional it is loosely based on the real life murder spree of Charles Starkweather and his girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate in 1958 3 BadlandsTheatrical release posterDirected byTerrence MalickWritten byTerrence MalickProduced byTerrence MalickStarringMartin Sheen Sissy Spacek Ramon Bieri Warren OatesCinematographyBrian Probyn Tak Fujimoto 1 Stevan LarnerEdited byRobert EstrinMusic byGeorge Tipton Carl Orff James Taylor theme Migration Distributed byWarner Bros Release dateOctober 15 1973 1973 10 15 Running time93 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget 300 000 estimated Badlands was released in 1973 to positive reviews from critics who particularly praised its cinematography soundtrack which includes pieces by Carl Orff and the lead performances At the 49th British Academy Film Awards Spacek was nominated for the Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival Sheen won the Best Actor award In 1993 the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally historically or aesthetically significant 4 5 6 Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production 3 1 Writing and casting 3 2 Filming and set design 3 3 Soundtrack 4 Release 4 1 AFI lists 5 See also 6 References 6 1 Bibliography 7 External linksPlot EditHolly Sargis narrates the film as a 15 year old living in Fort Dupree a dead end South Dakota town She has a strained relationship with her father a sign painter since her mother s death from pneumonia years earlier Holly meets Kit Carruthers a 25 year old garbage collector troubled greaser and Korean War veteran He resembles James Dean an actor whom Holly admires After Kit charms Holly he takes her virginity As they become closer his violent and antisocial tendencies are gradually revealed Holly s father disapproves of Kit and kills her dog as punishment for spending time with him Kit breaks into Holly s house and insists she run away with him When her father protests and threatens to call the police Kit shoots him dead After Kit and Holly fake suicide by burning down the house they head for the badlands of Montana They build a treehouse in a remote area and live there fishing and stealing chickens for food They flee after being found by three men who Kit later tells Holly were bounty hunters whom Kit shoots dead They seek refuge with Kit s former co worker Cato but when he attempts to summon help Kit shoots him too Kit forces a young couple who arrive to visit Cato into a storm cellar He shoots into the closed cellar door and leaves without checking to see if they are dead Kit and Holly are pursued across the Midwest by law enforcement They stop at a rich man s mansion and take supplies clothing and his Cadillac sparing the lives of the man and his deaf housemaid As they drive across Montana to Saskatchewan the police find and chase them Holly who has grown tired of Kit and life on the run refuses to go with him and turns herself in Kit leads the police on a car chase but is soon caught He charms the arresting officers and National Guard troops tossing them his personal belongings as souvenirs of his crime spree Holly reveals at the end that she received probation and married her defense attorney s son and Kit was executed for his crimes Cast EditMartin Sheen as Kit Sissy Spacek as Holly Warren Oates as Father Ramon Bieri as Cato Alan Vint as Deputy Tom Gary Littlejohn as Sheriff John Carter as Rich Man Bryan Montgomery as Boy Gail Threlkeld as Girl Charley Fitzpatrick as Clerk Howard Ragsdale as Boss John Womack Jr as Trooper Dona Baldwin as Maid Ben Bravo as Gas Attendant Director Terrence Malick makes a cameo as the man at the rich man s door while Sheen s sons Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez appear briefly as two boys sitting under a lamppost outside Holly s house Production EditWriting and casting Edit Sheen was chosen for the role of Kit Carruther based on his immediate chemistry with co star Spacek Malick a protege of Arthur Penn whom he thanked in the film s end credits 7 began work on Badlands after his second year attending the American Film Institute 8 In 1970 Malick at age 27 began working on the screenplay during a road trip 9 I wrote and at the same time developed a kind of sales kit with slides and video tape of actors all with a view to presenting investors with something that would look ready to shoot Malick said To my surprise they didn t pay too much attention to it they invested on faith I raised about half the money and executive producer Edward Pressman the other half 8 Malick paid 25 000 of his own funds The remainder of his share was raised from professionals such as doctors and dentists Badlands was the first feature film that Malick had written for himself to direct 9 Sissy Spacek in only her second film was the first actor cast Malick found her small town Texas roots and accent were perfect for the part of the naive impressionable high school girl The director included her in his creative process asking questions about her life as if he were mining for gold When he found out she had been a majorette he worked a twirling routine into the script 10 Several up and coming actors were auditioned for the part of Kit Carruthers When Martin Sheen was suggested by the casting director Malick was hesitant thinking he was too old for the role Spacek wrote in her autobiography that the chemistry was immediate He was Kit And with him I was Holly 11 Sheen based his characterization of Kit on the actor James Dean 12 Filming and set design Edit Principal photography took place in Colorado starting in July 1972 with a non union crew and a low budget of 300 000 excluding some deferments to film labs and actors 8 The film had a somewhat troubled production history several members of the crew clashed with Malick and another was severely injured when an explosion occurred while filming the fire scene 13 14 The Frank G Bloom House in Trinidad was used for the rich man s house Malick himself had an uncredited cameo after the actor hired to play Caller at Rich Man s House failed to show up 15 The script s beginning was mostly filmed in the southeastern Colorado towns of La Junta and Las Animas including the scene in which Holly runs out of the latter town s Columbian Elementary School 16 The closing credits thank the people of Otero County Colorado for their help and cooperation Jack Fisk served as art director for the film in his first of several collaborations with the director During production Sissy Spacek and Fisk fell in love 17 and were married on April 12 1974 The film was originally set to be edited by Robert Estrin When Malick saw Estrin s cut of the film he disliked it and removed him from the production Malick and Billy Weber recut the movie Estrin remains credited as the sole editor however with Weber credited as associate editor 13 Both Weber and art designer Jack Fisk worked on all of Malick s subsequent features through 2016 The Tree of Life To the Wonder Knight of Cups 18 Though Malick paid close attention to period detail he did not want it to overwhelm the picture I tried to keep the 1950s to a bare minimum he said Nostalgia is a powerful feeling it can drown out anything I wanted the picture to set up like a fairy tale outside time 8 At a news conference coinciding with the film s festival debut Malick called Kit so desensitized that he can regard the gun with which he shoots people as a kind of magic wand that eliminates small nuisances 3 Malick also pointed out that Kit and Holly even think of themselves as living in a fairy tale and he felt was appropriate since children s books like Treasure Island were often filled with violence He also hoped a fairy tale tone would take a little of the sharpness out of the violence but still keep its dreamy quality 8 Soundtrack Edit The film makes repeated use of the short composition Gassenhauer from Carl Orff s and Gunild Keetman s Schulwerk and also uses other tunes by Erik Satie Nat King Cole Mickey amp Sylvia and James Taylor 19 Release EditWarner Bros purchased and distributed the film for just under 1 million 8 Warner Bros initially previewed the film on a double bill with the Mel Brooks comedy Blazing Saddles resulting in very negative audience response The production team was forced to book the film into several other theaters in locations such as Little Rock Arkansas to demonstrate that the film could make money 13 The film has a 97 rating on Rotten Tomatoes and an average score of 8 9 10 based on the reviews of 59 critics with the general consensus being Terrence Malick s debut is a masterful slice of American cinema rife with the visual poetry and measured performances that would characterize his work 20 On Metacritic the film holds a weighted score of 93 100 based on 19 reviews indicating universal acclaim 21 Variety stated that the film was an impressive debut 18 Roger Ebert added it to his Great Movies list in 2011 18 22 Spacek who plays Holly Sargis in the film was lauded for her performance and earned a BAFTA Award nomination Badlands was the closing feature film at the 1973 New York Film Festival 3 reportedly overshadowing even Martin Scorsese s Mean Streets 23 Vincent Canby who saw the film at the festival debut called it a cool sometimes brilliant always ferociously American film according to Canby Sheen and Miss Spacek are splendid as the self absorbed cruel possibly psychotic children of our time as are the members of the supporting cast including Warren Oates as Holly s father One may legitimately debate the validity of Malick s vision but not I think his immense talent Badlands is a most important and exciting film 3 In April 1974 Jay Cocks wrote that the film might better be regarded less as a companion piece to Bonnie and Clyde than as an elaboration and reply It is not loose and high spirited All its comedy has a frosty irony and its violence instead of being brutally balletic is executed with a dry remorseless drive 7 According to executive producer Edward Pressman apart from Canby s New York Times review most initial reviews of the film were negative but its reputation with critics improved over time 13 David Thomson conversely reported that the work was by common consent one of the most remarkable first feature films made in America 24 Writing years later for The Chicago Reader Dave Kehr wrote Malick s 1973 first feature is a film so rich in ideas it hardly knows where to turn Transcendent themes of love and death are fused with a pop culture sensibility and played out against a midwestern background which is breathtaking both in its sweep and in its banality 25 Spacek later said that Badlands changed the whole way she thought about filmmaking After working with Terry Malick I was like The artist rules Nothing else matters My career would have been very different if I hadn t had that experience 26 In 2003 Bill Paxton said It had a lyricism that films have only once in a while moments of a transcendental nature There s this wonderful sequence where the couple have been cut adrift from civilisation They know the noose is tightening and they ve gone off the road across the Badlands You hear Sissy narrating various stories and she s talking about visiting faraway places There s this strange piece of classical music an ethereal orchestration of Erik Satie s Trois Morceaux en forme de Poire and a very long lens shot You see something in the distance I think it s a train moving and it looks like a shot of an Arabian caravan moving across the desert These are moments that have nothing to do with the story and yet everything to do with it They re not plot orientated but they have to do with the longing or the dreams of these characters And they re the kind of moments you never forget a certain kind of lyricism that just strikes some deep part of you and that you hold on to 27 Martin Sheen commented in 1999 that Badlands still is the best script he had ever read 9 He wrote that It was mesmerising It disarmed you It was a period piece and yet of all time It was extremely American it caught the spirit of the people of the culture in a way that was immediately identifiable 9 AFI lists Edit AFI s 100 Years 100 Movies Nominated AFI s 100 Years 100 Passions Nominated AFI s 100 Years 100 Heroes and Villains Kit and Holly Nominated Villains AFI s 100 Years 100 Movies 10th Anniversary Edition NominatedSee also EditList of American films of 1973 United States in the 1950s Natural Born Killers 1994 crime film by Oliver Stone telling the story of two lovers and mass murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass mediaReferences Edit Badlands 1973 Articles TCM com tcm com Retrieved September 23 2022 Silver Alain Ward Elizabeth Ursini James Porfirio Robert 2010 Film Noir The Encyclopaedia New York City Overlook Duckworth ISBN 978 1 59020 144 2 a b c d Canby Vincent October 15 1973 Malick s Impressive Badlands Screened at Festival The New York Times Retrieved August 25 2022 U S National Film Registry Titles Clamen s Movie Information Collection Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science Retrieved July 12 2011 Librarian Announces National Film Registry Selections March 7 1994 Library of Congress Information Bulletin www loc gov Retrieved 2020 09 16 Complete National Film Registry Listing Library of Congress Retrieved 2020 09 16 a b Cocks Jay April 8 1974 Gun Crazy Time Archived from the original on February 4 2013 Retrieved July 12 2011 a b c d e f Walker Beverly Spring 1973 Malick on Badlands Sight and Sound Archived from the original on October 14 2008 Retrieved September 17 2008 a b c d Gilbey Ryan August 21 2008 The start of something beautiful The Guardian Retrieved November 13 2013 Spacek Sissy 2012 My Extraordinary Ordinary Life New York Hyperion pp 133 134 ISBN 9781401304270 Spacek Sissy 2012 My Extraordinary Ordinary Life New York Hyperion p 134 ISBN 9781401304270 Badlands An Oral History gq com a b c d Kim Hendrickson producer 2013 Producer Edward Pressman onBadlands Blu ray featurette The Criterion Collection Almereyda Michael March 19 2013 Badlands Misfits Criterion com The Criterion Collection Retrieved December 10 2015 Terence Malick s cameo in Badlands FILMdetail 2010 08 14 Retrieved 2021 04 18 Endangered Places Archives Columbian Elementary School Colorado Preservation Inc Retrieved July 9 2019 Spacek Sissy 2012 My Extraordinary Ordinary Life New York Hyperion pp 135 136 ISBN 9781401304270 a b c Badlands Facts Badlands Facts Retrieved 18 April 2016 Carl Orff Biography Fandango Badlands Rotten Tomatoes Retrieved March 31 2021 Badlands Metacritic Retrieved July 8 2019 Ebert Roger March 24 2011 A girl and a boy on the road to nowhere RogerEbert com Biskind Peter December 1998 The Runaway Genius Vanity Fair Thomson David September 1 2011 Is Days of Heaven the most beautiful film ever made The Guardian Retrieved December 6 2016 Kehr Dave Badlands review Chicago Reader Retrieved July 12 2011 Grant Richard January 26 2002 Lone star The Guardian Retrieved September 17 2008 Monahan Mark July 26 2003 Mark Monahan talks to Bill Paxton about Terrence Malick s Badlands The Daily Telegraph Retrieved July 12 2011 Bibliography Edit Michel Chion 1999 The Voice in Cinema translated by Claudia Gorbman New York amp Chichester Columbia University Press Michel Ciment 1975 Entretien avec Terrence Malick Positif 170 Jun 30 34 G Richardson Cook 1974 The Filming of Badlands An Interview with Terry Malick Filmmakers Newsletter 7 8 Jun 30 32 Charlotte Crofts 2001 From the Hegemony of the Eye to the Hierarchy of Perception The Reconfiguration of Sound and Image in Terrence Malick s Days of Heaven Journal of Media Practice 2 1 19 29 Cameron Docherty 1998 Maverick Back from the Badlands The Sunday Times Culture 7 Jun 4 Brian Henderson 1983 Exploring Badlands Wide Angle A Quarterly Journal of Film Theory Criticism and Practice 5 4 38 51 Les Keyser 1981 Hollywood in the Seventies London Tantivy Press Terrence Malick 1973 Interview the morning after Badlands premiered at the New York Film Festival American Film Institute Report 4 4 Winter 48 James Monaco 1972 Badlands Take One 4 1 Sept Oct 32 J P Telotte 1986 Badlands and the Souvenir Drive Western Humanities Review 40 2 Summer 101 14 Beverly Walker 1975 Malick on Badlands Sight and Sound 44 2 Spring 82 3 Sissy Spacek My Extraordinary Ordinary Life Hyperion 2012 pages 133 147 External links EditBadlands at Wikipedia s sister projects Media from Commons Quotations from Wikiquote Data from 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