Badlands (1973)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.9/10   

Director:

Terrence Malick

Guionista:

Terrence Malick (written by)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

7 abril 1975 (Sweden)

Género:

Aventura | Crimen | Drama | Romance | Suspenso

Frase comercial:

He was 25 years old. He combed his hair like James Dean. She was 15. She took music lessons and could twirl a baton. For a while they lived together in a tree house. In 1959, she watched while he killed a lot of people.

Plot:

Dramatization of the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of the 1950's, in which a teenage girl and her twenty-something boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.

Plot Keywords:

Killing Spree | Murder | Badlands | Montana | 1950s

Premios:

Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 3 wins

Comentarios de los usuarios:

The voice of innocence whispers in our ears...

Reparto

Martin Sheen	...	Kit
Sissy Spacek	...	Holly
Warren Oates	...	Father
Ramon Bieri	...	Cato
Alan Vint	...	Deputy
Gary Littlejohn	...	Sheriff
John Carter	...	Rich Man
Bryan Montgomery	...	Boy
Gail Threlkeld	...	Girl
Charles Fitzpatrick	...	Clerk
Howard Ragsdale	...	Boss
John Womack Jr.	...	Trooper
Dona Baldwin	...	Maid
Ben Bravo	...	Gas attendant
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Terrence Malick	...	Caller at rich man's house (uncredited)

Dirigida por
Terrence Malick

Créditos del guión
Terrence Malick		(written by)

Producida por
Terrence Malick	....	producer
Edward R. Pressman	....	executive producer
Louis A. Stroller	....	associate producer (as Lou Stroller)
Jill Jakes	....	co-producer (uncredited)

Música original por
George Aliceson Tipton		(as George Tipton)

Fotografía por
Tak Fujimoto		(photography)
Stevan Larner		(photography)
Brian Probyn		(photography)

Montaje por
Robert Estrin

Casting
Dianne Crittenden		(as Diane Derfner)

Dirección artística
Jack Fisk

Diseño de vestuario por
Rosanna Norton		(uncredited)

Departamento de maquillaje
Dona Baldwin	....	hair stylist

Dirección de producción
Bill Scott	....	production manager (as William Scott)

Ayudante de dirección
John Broderick	....	assistant director
Carl Olsen	....	assistant director

Departamento de Arte
Ken Hilton	....	set dresser
Joan Mocine	....	art work
Edward Richardson	....	associate art director (as Ed Richardson)
Erik L. Nelson	....	property master (uncredited)

Departamento de sonido
Doug Crichton	....	boom operator
Maury Harris	....	production sound mixer
Sam F. Shaw	....	sound effects (as Sam Shaw)
John Wilkinson	....	sound re-recording mixer (as John Wilkenson)
Sharron Miller	....	sound editor (uncredited)

Especialistas
George Fisher	....	stunts

Cámara y Departamento Eléctrico
Jack English	....	gaffer
Douglas Knapp	....	best boy (as Doug Knapp)
Anthony R. Palmieri	....	assistant camera (as Tony Palmieri)

Departamento de vestuario
Dona Baldwin	....	wardrobe

Departamento de Edición
Marion Segal	....	assistant editor
Billy Weber	....	associate editor (as William Weber)

Departamento de Música
Erma E. Levin	....	music editor (as Erma Levin)
George Aliceson Tipton	....	conductor (as George Tipton)

Otros miembros del equipo
Rich Cook	....	production assistant
Gary Littlejohn	....	autos
Paul Marcus	....	production assistant
Penny Richardson	....	production secretary
Connie Lee Stone	....	production assistant

Gracias
Charlotte Jakes	....	thanks
Melvin James	....	thanks
Irvin Kershner	....	thanks
James Nelson	....	thanks
Arthur Penn	....	thanks
Bert Schneider	....	thanks
Wallace Wolf	....	thanks

Compañías Productores

• Badlands Company
• Jill Jakes Production
• Pressman-Williams

Distribuidores

• Warner Bros. Pictures (1973) (USA) (theatrical)
• Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) (1976) (USA) (TV) (original airing)
• Chapel Distribution (1997) (Australia) (theatrical)
• Warner Home Video (1995) (USA) (VHS)
• Warner Home Video (1998) (USA) (laserdisc)
• Warner Home Video (1999) (USA) (DVD)
• Warner Home Vídeo (Brazil) (DVD)
• Warner Home Vídeo (Brazil) (VHS)

Otras Compañías

• American Film Institute (AFI)  thanks
• Cinemobile System  location services
• Consolidated Film Industries (CFI)  processing
• Consolidated Film Industries (CFI)  titles and opticals
• Glen Glenn Sound  sound recording
• People of Otero County  thanks
• Pressman-Williams  presents (as Pressman Williams)
• Warner Communication Company  presents

También conocida como:

Malas tierras (Argentina) (Spain) [es]

Duración:

94 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés | Español

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

Singapore:PG | Australia:PG | UK:15 (re-rating) (2008) | UK:18 (video rating) | Australia:M (DVD rating) | New Zealand:R16 | Finland:K-15 (re-rating) (2003) | Finland:K-16 (re-rating) (1987) | Ireland:15 | Norway:15 | Sweden:15 | USA:PG | West Germany:16 | Finland:K-18 (1980) | Portugal:M/16 (DVD rating) | UK:X (original rating)

Locaciones de Filmación:

Colorado, USA

Compañía:

Badlands Company

Trivialidades:

Badlands (1973) received a place in the film reference book "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die".

Errores:

Anacronismos: Even though this film takes place in 1959 the soldiers at the end of the movie can be seen with M14 rifles, which replaced the M1, and M16 rifles which replace the M14. First deliveries of the M14 were made to the US Army in July of 1959 and were not in wide circulation until 1961. It is unlikely that National Guard units in Montana would have been among the first recipients. The M16 wasn't put into service until 1964, five whole years after this movie took place. Also, the rifles carried lack any magazines - meaning the troops are carrying unloaded weapons.

Citas:

Holly Sargis: [Last lines of the film]
[Voiceover]
Holly Sargis: Kit and I were taken back to South Dakota. They kept him in solitary, so he didn't have a chance to get acquainted with the other inmates, though he was sure they'd like him, especially the murderers. Myself, I got off with probation and a lot of nasty looks...
[...]

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Film Geek (2005)

Banda de Sonido:

Trois Morceaux en forme de Poire

The voice of innocence whispers in our ears...

What is totally special about 'Badlands' is the visual control that Terrence Malick applies to the story, and his use of fabulous music to embed his amazing images in our mind. The 'Bonnie & Clyde'-ish story could have been turgid, but Malick turns it into a mythic journey.

At the heart of Malick's method is the fabulous interior monologue by Holly explaining and ironically commenting on the story. "Kit made me take my schoolbooks so I wouldn't fall behind with my studies...". This has been characteristic of each of Malick's films - Linda in 'Days of Heaven' and Witt in 'The Thin Red Line' have somewhat similar monologues. Here it totally sucks the viewer into the story and makes the montages that it accompanies into, just about, the high-point of seventies cinema.

Alongside this, Malick uses some of the most haunting music in existence. Whether it is Carl Orff or Nat King Cole, Malick transports us with fabulous romantic imagery that perfectly balances it.

I started on this comment determined not to use the word 'poetry', but I just can't avoid it. With nearly all filmmakers, including very great ones, the style that they present is very much prose - great prose, perhaps, but firmly rooted on the ground. With Malick, we are taken, emotionally, to the stars by the lyric magnificence of the totality of his vision.

It is said that Welles learned cinema by watching John Ford's 'Stagecoach' before embarking on 'Citizen Kane'. Every young filmmaker should watch this amazing masterpiece again and again and again and inform their work with Malick's matchless sense of true cinema.