Comments on: Plot Details Firmed Up For Terrence Malick’s Untitled Ben Affleck/Rachel McAdams Film

By: Styles

Styles — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:34:09 +0000

The report of \”a more straightforward narrative than usual\” is based on some random person reading the script. The Tree of Life script looks like a fairly normal script with tons of dialogue, too (compared to the final film). I will, however, take the word of Jack Fisk, who, as everyone knows, is close friends with Malick and has worked on every one of his films, including this one, when he says, \”it\’s in the style of Tree of Life, but on steroids.\”

By: Edward Davis

Edward Davis — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:34:09 +0000

Tree of Life had some autobiographical elements as well.

By: Paul Maher Jr.

Paul Maher Jr. — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:34:09 +0000

Good find! Very autobiographical too — “concerns a philanderer (Affleck) who, feeling at loose ends, travels to Paris, where he enters a hot-and-heavy affair with a European woman (Kurylenko). Said Lothario returns home to Oklahoma, where he marries the European woman (in part for visa reasons). When the relationship founders, he rekindles a romance with a hometown girl (McAdams) with whom he’s had a long history.”

I wouldn\’t regard the director as a philanderer but he did marry his second wife Michelle Morette from Paris in 1985, move to Austin, Texas with her and her daughter from her first husband and then split from her about the time The Thin Red Line began filming, to then take up with childhood friend Alexandra \”Ecky\” Wallace to whom he later married a year later in 1998. Or it\’s all a coincidence…

By: RNL

RNL — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:34:09 +0000

\”Supposedly the contemporary set film—the first in Malick’s career—is set to retain the director’s trademark distinctive visuals, while also being perhaps more commercial and upbeat than, say “The Tree of Life.”\”

Wasn\’t it suggested a few months ago that this film was \’even more experimental\’ than The Tree of Life?

By: RNL

RNL — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:34:09 +0000

\”the reclusive auteur looks likely to make more films in the space of this decade than he did in the previous 35 put together.\”

LOL

By: Glass

Glass — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:34:09 +0000

If Malick\’s work explained one thing about him, it\’s that he was a philandering, horny bastard. Shouts out.

By: Kevin Jagernauth

Kevin Jagernauth — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:34:09 +0000

Duh, good point Matt. Seems very much based on Malick\’s life/experience.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:34:09 +0000

So The Burial is about Malick\’s life? That\’s exciting. This is exactly what happened to Malick, isn\’t it? He moved to Paris, married a woman there, came back to the States, and divorced, before then marrying his high school sweetheart. Maybe that\’s all just legend.

By: Cde.

Cde. — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:34:09 +0000

I imagine he will begin production of his next two (or perhaps work on Voyage) shortly after he finishes editing this one. Production on this film started within weeks of the first screening to distributors of the final cut of Tree last year.

By: bunty

bunty — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:34:09 +0000

Didn\’t we hear that this film was \”more experimental\” than The Tree of Life, and contained ghosts and all sorts? Kind of contradicts the LA Times prediction of a more straightforward narrative than usual.

By: Christian

Christian — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:34:09 +0000

Too bad Christian Bale dropped out of this to do The Flowers of War and The Dark Knight Rises. This film was still shooting in May.

By: voss

voss — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:34:09 +0000

I still can\’t stand Ben Affleck. It\’s so weird – I never minded him until he \”rebooted\” his career and started wearing that pretentious \”I\’m an artist, guys\” demeanor in all of his interviews.

Armageddon, Changing Lanes? Cool, I\’ll take it. The Town, trying to talk shop with David Fincher and the Coen brothers in a roundtable discussion? Fuck off, broham.

By: Glass

Glass — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:34:09 +0000

I would still be surprised (pleasantly!) if this was released in 2012. I have no idea how much involvement he has in the day-to-day of his post-production processes, so who knows – he could screen cuts of it while he\’s off shooting the other two movies.