Comments on: 16 Things You Need To Know About Terrence Malick’s ‘The Thin Red Line’

By: Castor

Castor — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:21:21 +0000

Absolutely fascinating read. Don\’t let the naysayers convince you otherwise.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:21:21 +0000

Thank u criterion for all this info.

By: frantisk

frantisk — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:21:21 +0000

this would be a really interesting article, if it were 10 years ago, we didn\’t already have the criterion DVD, and the articles where you took all of your info hadn\’t already been published.

seriously, what is this?

By: Kevin Jagernauth

Kevin Jagernauth — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:21:21 +0000

Are you guys really so dense? Not everyone has time or even knows about this info. Congratulations, you guys are obsessive Malick nerds and you can now crow about it. But there are lots of people who haven\’t dug into the film or may not know some of this stuff (certainly some of this info was new to me). And we explain why we did the feature in the first place in the article.

So if you already know, don\’t read and stop getting your panties in a twist each week.

By: Edward Davis

Edward Davis — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:21:21 +0000

\”what is this?\” uhh, we\’re celebrating the release of Terrence Malick films — as stated in the intro you dummy. Put some fruitjuice in your milk.

\”In the lead up to the wide release of Malick’s latest film, “The Tree of Life” (July 8 is the date), week by week, we’ve been getting reacquainted with his body of films and the behind-the-scenes making of each picture.\”

By: frantisk

frantisk — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:21:21 +0000

Just saying…how many more \”Terrance Malick has unorthodox shooting methods and can be difficult to work with!\” posts do you guys really need?

that\’s literally the gist of every single Malick post you put up, why not try exploring something other than that?

By: Edward Davis

Edward Davis — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:21:21 +0000

There will be 12 more posts like this. Get ready.

By: frantisk

frantisk — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:21:21 +0000

I\’m just saying, Thin Red Line is a pretty interesting movie, you guys could probably do something cool exploring the actual movie, rather than just rehashing the same \”Terrence Malick is so eccentric…he shoots birds instead of actors!\” type stuff.

don\’t you think movie itself is a whole lot more interesting than casting gossip from 1999?

By: The Playlist

The Playlist — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:21:21 +0000

Well, we set out to do this: things you may or may not know about the MAKING of the film.

That was the idea. So that\’s what we did. I collected tons of stuff for this piece and then filtered what I personally found interesting.

Maybe on the frantisk blog you can discuss what you think is interesting?

Personally, i just find this stuff much more interesting than my take on \”movie itself\” which would amount to the same review that\’s been written 4,0000 times.

You sound like someone who knows this story well, so its probably dull for you, c\’est la vie?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:21:21 +0000

I enjoy reading these articles quite a bit so thank you Playlist. Looking forward to the New World\’s piece.

By: CC

CC — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:21:21 +0000

Great work. Especially for clarifying exactly which actors were cut out and that there weren\’t 125 famous actors edited out of the final film. That rumor has been getting more and more elaborate over the years, and with Tree Of Life\’s release reached absurd proportions.

Another superb Thin Red Line article fans of the film should seek out was in the January 1999 issue of \”Premiere\”, titled \”Welcome to The Jungle\”, by Rachel Abramowitz. She seems to have been one of the few journalists allowed to visit the set and actually be present during filming, and she qoutes Malick\’s directions to the actors several times.

By: Hanka

Hanka — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:21:21 +0000

As someone who\’s trying to make their way through the film production world, I really find all of these sort of posts to be absolutely fascinating. Behind the scenes production stories never cease to entertain me.

By: The Playlist

The Playlist — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:21:21 +0000

@CC

I read that back in the day and even emailed Rachel recent, but no luck. I can\’t find a copy of it online.

You don\’t happen to have, do you?

By: Mo patel

Mo patel — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:21:20 +0000

For me, thin red line is one of the best war films I\’ve seen. A rare film that deals more with life, than with death. Five times better than saving private Ryan.

By: K. Bowen

K. Bowen — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:21:20 +0000

I saw this recently as part of the Malick retrospectives, and while it has a few dips and Days of Heaven is smoother, The Thin Red Line has so many passages of sustained excellence it\’s freakish. I mean, like the whole first hour.

By: Nik Grape

Nik Grape — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:21:20 +0000

Yeah I knew most of this stuff too…but not all of it. And it was nicely written.

The New World one is definitely the one I\’m most anticipating though.

By: rodie

rodie — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:21:20 +0000

I thought this was a great read and look forward to more posts like this by other directors. I would consider myself a Malick fan, but by no means an obsessive one. And I don\’t own any Malick films on Criterion, so I was new to a lot of this information. I still haven\’t been able to see Tree of Life because it\’s not playing in my town, but this post gave me just the right Malick fix.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:21:20 +0000

I LOVE this article and enjoy reading it tremendously. Thank you so much. Great work!

By: Rufus

Rufus — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:21:20 +0000

What a great way to start off the weekend. Thank you for this great article. 🙂

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:21:20 +0000

Fantastic post about an incredible film guys, cheers.

By: hmm

hmm — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:21:20 +0000

\”His film was about the horrors of war, the fear and innocence lost that quaked through soldiers and the capacity for humanity that still existed amongst such insanity.\”

Have you even seen Saving Private Ryan? Did you miss the chapel scene? Most of the conversations walking? The movie was a lot more than the D day. The entire movie was about the search for decency within war.

By: Alonso

Alonso — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:21:20 +0000

Fascinating read. Thank you so much for this. I realize most of this is old, but I would have never come across ALL of this info without hunting the webs for days.

Great stuff.

By: Anuar

Anuar — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:21:20 +0000

Such a cool article. Great job!

By: joeyjojo

joeyjojo — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:21:20 +0000

You would think that, with all that research, you would\’ve found a source with the correct spelling of Kirk Acevedo.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:21:20 +0000

Terrence Malick is pretentious and by the sounds of it, a C**t!