Badlands
Director: Terrence Malick
Genre: Crime Fiction, Existentialism, Road movie, New Hollywood, Period piece, Indie, Romance Film, Romantic drama, Thriller, Crime, Americana, Crime Drama, Drama
Year: 1973
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language, Spanish Language
Starring: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, Ramon Bieri, Terrence Malick, Alan Vint, Garry Littlejohn, Gail Threlkeld, John Carter, Bryan Montgomery
Badlands is a 1973 American crime drama film written and directed by Terrence Malick, starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek. Warren Oates and Ramon Bieri are also featured. Malick has a small speaking part although he does not receive an acting credit. The story, though fictional, is loosely based on the real-life murder spree of Charles Starkweather and his girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, in 1958, though such a basis was not acknowledged when the film was released.
In 1993, five years after the United States National Film Registry was established, Badlands was selected for preservation by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Badlands is narrated by Holly (Spacek), a teenage girl living in a dead-end South Dakota town. One day she meets Kit (Sheen), a rebellious young greaser who charms her and takes her as his accomplice on a cross-country killing spree. Holly's narration, describing her adventures with Kit with romantic clichés, is juxtaposed with the grim reality of Kit's sociopathic appetite for grisly violence. The two are eventually arrested; Kit is executed for his crimes, while Holly receives probation.
Malick, a protégé
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