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Film of the Sixties & Seventies Jennifer Jones Spring 2013

The Sixties: The Years That Shaped a Generation (2005)

The Sixties: Film The Collapse of the Studio Era Production Code replaced by ratings system Rise of the suburban multi-plex cinema Rise of Independent Producers – Roger Corman Francis Ford Coppola Martin Scorsese James Cameron

The Sixties: Film Film becomes cynical, violent and sexually explicit as it reflects the changing values of American youth – The Apartment (1961) – Midnight Cowboy (1969) – The Wild Bunch (1969)

The Seventies: Film The Vietnam War dominates the evening news Violence, Sex & Cynicism are major themes – A Clockwork Orange (1971) – The Deer Hunter (1978) – Taxi Driver (1976)

Days of Heaven (1978)

Director & Screenplay : *Terrence Malick *Cannes Film Festival Best Director (1978) Cinematography: *Nestor Almendros & Haskell Wexler * Academy Award (1978) Actors: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard & Linda Mantz

Terrence Malick Filmography 1973 Badlands 1978 Days of Heaven 1998 The Thin Red Line 2005 The New World 2011 Tree of Life 2012 To the Wonder 2013 Knight of Cups (post production) 2014 Voyage of Time (post production) 2014 Untitled Production (post production) * IMDB

Terrence Malick - bio BA Philosophy - Harvard Rhodes Scholar (did not graduate from Oxford) Philosophy professor - MIT MFA - AFI in 1969

Malick Themes Violation of nature in the world & humanity The loss of paradise The search for redemption The emptiness of modern American life The invasion of the urban/industrial on the pastoral Violence The hero’s journey

Malick’s Signature Use of Voiceover Narration Archetypal Characters The Sublime Migration/The Open Road/The Journey Romanticism Symbolism of the 4 elements: earth, air, fire & water

Days of Heaven Characters & Archetypes The Farmer He is never given a name Represents The Western Man Capitalism Bill The Outlaw/Renegade Associated with the violence of urban life – Speed, Noise, Machinery & Fire Abby The Prostitute The Victim Oppression Linda The Child Innocence Truth

Days of Heaven Themes Religious – Apocalyptic fire & pestilence – Prophetic Banishment from Eden Deuteronomy 11:21 “That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the Lord swore unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon earth.” Loss of Paradise Urban vs. Pastoral Violence The Sacred Class conflict Sexual conflict

Terrence Malick Compared to Transcendentalist Poets – Ralph Waldo Emerson – Walt Whitman – Henry David Thoreau Philosopher Translated Heidegger’s The Essence of Reason Visionary & Poetic

Apocalyptic Imagery PestilenceFire/Four Horsemen

Visual Imagery Influenced by The Realist Movement The Gleaners Jules Breton Days of Heaven

Visual Imagery: Influenced by The Realist Mo Visual Imagery Influenced by The Realist Movement Blessing of the Wheat by Jules Breton 1857 Blessing of the Wheat Days of Heaven

Visual Imagery Influenced by The Realist Movement Millet The Sower

Visual Imagery Influenced by Caravaggio Caravaggio David and Goliath

Nestor Almendros

Shooting during the “Magic Hour”

Days of Heaven

The Gaze