Badlands (1973)

Note des utilisateurs:

7.9/10   

Réalisateur:

Terrence Malick

Scénariste:

Terrence Malick (written by)

Release Date:

7 avril 1975 (Sweden)

Genre:

Aventure | Crime | Drame | Romance | Thriller

Accroche:

He was 25 years old. He combed his hair like James Dean. She was 15. She took music lessons and could twirl a baton. For a while they lived together in a tree house. In 1959, she watched while he killed a lot of people.

Plot:

Dramatization of the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of the 1950's, in which a teenage girl and her twenty-something boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.

Plot Keywords:

Killing Spree | Murder | Badlands | Montana | 1950s

Awards:

Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 3 wins

Avis des utilisateurs:

"Saw her standing on her front porch, just a-twirling her baton..."

Ensemble

Martin Sheen	...	Kit
Sissy Spacek	...	Holly
Warren Oates	...	Father
Ramon Bieri	...	Cato
Alan Vint	...	Deputy
Gary Littlejohn	...	Sheriff
John Carter	...	Rich Man
Bryan Montgomery	...	Boy
Gail Threlkeld	...	Girl
Charles Fitzpatrick	...	Clerk
Howard Ragsdale	...	Boss
John Womack Jr.	...	Trooper
Dona Baldwin	...	Maid
Ben Bravo	...	Gas attendant

Autre(s) titre(s):

La balade sauvage (Canada: French title) (France) [fr]

Durée:

94 min

Pays:

USA

Langue:

Anglais | Espagnol

Couleur:

Couleur

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Son:

Mono

Classification:

Singapore:PG | Australia:PG | UK:15 (re-rating) (2008) | UK:18 (video rating) | Australia:M (DVD rating) | New Zealand:R16 | Finland:K-15 (re-rating) (2003) | Finland:K-16 (re-rating) (1987) | Ireland:15 | Norway:15 | Sweden:15 | USA:PG | West Germany:16 | Finland:K-18 (1980) | Portugal:M/16 (DVD rating) | UK:X (original rating)

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

Colorado, USA

Company:

Badlands Company

Anecdotes:

Badlands (1973) received a place in the film reference book "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die".

Goofs:

Anachronisms: Even though this film takes place in 1959 the soldiers at the end of the movie can be seen with M14 rifles, which replaced the M1, and M16 rifles which replace the M14. First deliveries of the M14 were made to the US Army in July of 1959 and were not in wide circulation until 1961. It is unlikely that National Guard units in Montana would have been among the first recipients. The M16 wasn't put into service until 1964, five whole years after this movie took place. Also, the rifles carried lack any magazines - meaning the troops are carrying unloaded weapons.

Guillemet:

Holly Sargis: [Last lines of the film]
[Voiceover]
Holly Sargis: Kit and I were taken back to South Dakota. They kept him in solitary, so he didn't have a chance to get acquainted with the other inmates, though he was sure they'd like him, especially the murderers. Myself, I got off with probation and a lot of nasty looks...
[...]

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Film Geek (2005)

Soundtrack:

Trois Morceaux en forme de Poire

"Saw her standing on her front porch, just a-twirling her baton..."

The serial killer genre is the most overdone in modern cinema, but director Terrence Mallick took a real life story to make his powerful debut, 'Badlands'. He even toned it down, his interest being not in presenting a picture of pure (and wholly artificial) evil but rather in portraying a wholly human story. Murder is depicted here in all its banality - people shot (off-screen) through locked doors, by a young man acting for wholly normal motives but without the customary restraints on behaviour that we term morals. The result is a haunting, though occasionally pretentious, study of individuals drifting beyond the bounds of civilisation, their physical location (America's still-wild west) symbolically matching their mental isolation. Sissy Spacek is particularly good as the ordinary girl just along for the ride. A fine film, 'Badlands' is also genuinely disturbing, in a way that Hannibal Lector could only dream of.