Comments on: The 15 Best Shots In Terrence Malick’s Movies

By: Cat Stevens

Cat Stevens — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 14:06:00 +0000

Lightning over the shoulder of Pocohontas in The New World is his best and most powerful shot.

By: palefire

palefire — Sun, 07 Aug 2016 06:22:00 +0000

Badlands – flower in fire
Days of Heaven – scarecrow
Thin Red Line – upsidown swing
And the last show of the blooming coconut
The New World – Smith, after saving the boy, in the water and fog. Lightening in the distant.
TOL – upside down shadows, throwing the ball to himself, tub, toddler hitting the baby, the moving chair
TTW – the camera falls with the fair ride, the ending shot with the light on her face
KOC – reflections on a pool, walking on the backlot, the abstract model and paint changing on her.

By: allthedings

allthedings — Fri, 05 Aug 2016 16:02:00 +0000

I think there’s a split-second shot of Linda Manz, right when the gun fires at Richard Gere at the end of Days of Heaven, when she jolts in place, that always gets to me. I may be remembering it all wrong, but that’s how I remember it and I’ve seen DoH probably 20 times. In this wonderful interview with Sam Shepard he says that Malick’s movies are all intended to operate like memories, so I’m not sure if I have the exact moment of that jolted reaction right in my own memory, but I don’t feel too bad if I’m wrong. It’s still okay, even if I’m mis-remembering it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsC-dCcSB78

By: samplayspiano

samplayspiano — Fri, 05 Aug 2016 15:40:00 +0000

the shot of the shadows in Tree of Life

By: John

John — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 01:51:00 +0000

In The New World, after his life has been spared by Pocahontas, Smith undergoes what seems to be a sort of purification ritual at the hands of the village women. Interspersed with that sequence is a brief, almost jarring cutaway to the sails of a barque being filled by a gust of wind. That moment works as an astonishing, and deeply intuitive rendering of how Smith is conceptualizing what, for him, must be something akin to a religious experience.

By: Quiet Wyatt

Quiet Wyatt — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 20:17:00 +0000

I’m haunted by that shot of the dinner chair sliding away from the table on its own accord in ‘Tree of Life’. It’s a fast edit, but such an unusual piece of film inserted into this picture like a puzzle piece that doesn’t quite fit into the image as a whole. It’s still the image I think of when I think back on ‘Tree of Life’. That opening alligator shot also resonates from ‘Thin Red Line’.

By: Detroit Jeff

Detroit Jeff — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 19:40:00 +0000

Sorry, gotta add one more: the swing from Thin Red Line. How could I forget that swing shot??

By: Detroit Jeff

Detroit Jeff — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 19:38:00 +0000

A couple stand out off the top of my head: the alligator at the beginning of The Thin Red Line, and the upside-down shadows of the kids playing in Tree of Life. And one more, also from Thin Red Line: the shot of the trees extending to heaven as the doomed soldier stares upwards.