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Badlands is a 1973 American crime film written and directed by Terrence Malick, starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek.Warren Oates and Ramon Bieri are also featured. The story, though fictional, is loosely based on the real-life murder spree of Charles Starkweather and his girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, in 1958, though such a basis was not acknowledged when the film was released.
In 1993, four years after the United States National Film Registry was established, Badlands was selected for preservation by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Badlands is set in 1959 and is narrated by the impressionable 15-year-old Holly Sargis (Spacek), a teenage girl living in a dead-end South Dakota town called Fort Dupree. Holly lives with her sign painter father, although their relationship has been strained since her mother died of pneumonia some years earlier. One day she meets the 25-year-old garbage collector Kit Carruthers (Sheen). Kit is a young, troubled greaser, who resembles James Dean, an actor Holly admires. Kit charms Holly, and she slowly falls in love with him. Holly's narration, describing her adventures with Kit in romantic clichés, is juxtaposed with the gradual revelations of Kit's increasingly antisocial and violent behavior.
After centuries of peace, an ancient war is brewing. Using the Human Realm, Earth, as a theatre of war; supernatural forces will battle for the supremacy of the universe. First origin is set in 1943. Commissioned by a Nazi SS Colonel Mauer, Zarelli; a young protégé living in Nazi occupied Sicily and his father, an advanced pedologist; struggle with the decision to aid the Nazi's in winning the war by exploiting Zarelli's supernatural powers or do what they know is right; even if it costs them their lives. Present day, Boston; Alex Manning, a Boston Police force rookie, is visited by an Unknown Man - visible only to Alex - who informs him that his fate is doomed. The Unknown Man foresees a supernatural force that will stop at nothing until Alex is dead... The young policeman attempts to uncover the truth about his past which reveals a destiny that awaits him in the afterlife. From the early days of World War II to the modern day streets of Boston Massachusetts, two men; Zarelli and Alex; discover their universal purpose and ability to wield otherworldly energies. By means of great power, both men become unstoppable forces who ultimately rival for colossal domination and determine the outcome of the universal war once and for all...
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An impressionable teen girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend go on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.
A clip from Terrence Malick's film Badlands from 1973, starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek.
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Music by George Aliceson Tipton, "Badlands" (1973) de Terrence Malick
Fresh scrubbed baby, Momma's kiss on his cheek
Steps off the greyhound with money for a week.
A wild eyed innoncent, he knows no fear
It takes more than heroes to survive down there.
In the badlands, the badlands, the badlands
Well if you've got the bullets...
They'll remember your name down there.
Can't drink the water, can't breathe the air
They said it was exciting, never said it was fair
You're just another singer in a pilgrim's suit
Chased by the lines till you learn to shoot
In the badlands, the badlands, the badlands
If you've got those black diamonds
They'll remember your name down there.
Badlands, well there's always a faster hand in the west
Room around town for only the best
One false step and you'll be cut down
For some it's paradise, others it's hell.
In the badlands, the badlands, the badlands
Yeah, if you've got the bullet
They'll remember your name down there.
They'll remember your name down there.
They'll remember your name down there.
You're gonna need some protection.
You had better make your connections.