"Badlands" versus "True Romance"

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This paper reviews, discusses and compares the movie "Badlands" directed by Terrence Malick, and the movie "True Romance" directed by Tony Scott. According to the paper, both movies tell the story of outlaws that are bound together through the bonds of love and violence.

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"The great naivete in the perspective of Kit and Holly was deliberate upon director Terrence Malick's part. "My influences were books like The Hardy Boys, Swiss Family Robinson, Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn--all involving an innocent in a drama over his or her head. I didn't actually think about those books before I did the script, but it's obvious to me now. Nancy Drew, the children's story child detective--I did think about her," he said in a 1975 interview with Beverly Walker of Sight and Sound, shortly after the film's success at the box office. (Walker, 1975, pp. 82) The road provides them with a sense of freedom, a place where they can be free to be children, but also free to kill."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Danks, Adrian. "Death Comes as an End: Temporality, Domesticity and Photography in Terrence Malick's Badlands. 2000. Senses of Cinema. Issue 8, July-Aug 2000.
• Rafter, Nicole. Shots in the Mirror: Crime Films and Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
• Stam, Robert. Literature through Film: Realism, Magic and the Art of Adaptation. New York: Blackwell, 2004.
• Walker, Beverly. "Interview with Terence Malick." Sight and Sound .44:2:82-83. Spring 1975.
• Wilding, M. "Romantic Love and 'Getting Married': Narratives of the Wedding in and Out of Cinema." Journal of Sociology. 2003; 39: 373-389.

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