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Badlands is a 1973 film written and directed by Terrence Malick, starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek.Holly Sargis (Spacek) is a 15-year-old girl living in a small town in South Dakota in the late 1950s. She meets Kit Carruthers (Sheen), an anti-social young greaser and petty criminal ten years older than Holly who works as a garbageman. Holly's father (Warren Oates) forbids the relationship. Kit decides to run away with Holly, but when Holly's father interrupts him while he's packing her clothes, Kit impulsively shoots him to death. This begins a cross-country crime spree, as Kit and Holly flee through the badlands of South Dakota and into Montana, with bounty-hunters and police in pursuit.Badlands was the first film by writer-director Malick. Orson Welles is probably the only other director to make as big a splash with a debut feature. It was Inspired by… the true-life murder spree of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate across Nebraska and Wyoming in 1958, which also served as the basis of Natural Born Killers.Unrelated to the 1984 game by Konami. Or to the 2013 iOS game. | |
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Creator Cameo: Terrence Malick plays the well-dressed architect (he's carrying some rolled-up blueprints) who calls at the house of the rich man that Kit is holding captive. This is an especially notable cameo since Malick has shunned publicity for most of his life and is rarely photographed. | |
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Unreliable Narrator: There is a dramatic contrast between Holly's dreamily romantic narration of their adventures and the evil, murderous things Kit is actually doing. | |
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Title Drop: "Little did I realize that what began in the alleys and backways of this quiet town would end in the Badlands of Montana." | |
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The Sociopath | |
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The Sociopath: Kit, obviously, given the casual and untroubled way he kills. But one of the more interesting things about the film is the suggestion that Holly is just as bad a sociopath as Kit is, and maybe worse. There's her narration, which throughout the film casts their story as a fairy-tale romance while Kit is going around murdering people. She shows nothing but Dull Surprise as Kit's body count mounts, except for one time when she slaps him after he kills her father. She has an idle and pointless conversation with Cato while a gutshot Cato bleeds to death. And while Kit at least has an emotional connection to her, she doesn't seem to love him that much at all, and she eventually casts him off when she gets bored. As they are living a quiet existence in the woods for a few days following her father's murder, Holly says of Kit: | |
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Celebrity Resemblance: Holly notes that Kit resembles James Dean. Appropriate, given Kit's Dean-style rebelliousness. One of the cops who arrests Kit makes the same connection. | |
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Booby Trap | |
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Booby Trap: In one of the more telling scenes that show Kit is dangerous, Holly helps him test out a snare that brings down a knotted mass of sharpened spikes like a flail mace. | |
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Dies Wide Open | |
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Dies Wide Open: Both Holly's father and Cato, the friend that Kit shoots in the back. | |
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Kick the Dog | |
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Kick the Dog: Holly doesn't have a very affectionate relationship with her father, which is demonstrated when Holly's father kills her dog as punishment for hanging out with Kit. | |
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Greaser Delinquents | |
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Greaser Delinquents: A particularly dark example in Kit the greasy 1950s hoodlum. | |
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Road Trip Plot | |
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Road Trip Plot: A dark and disturbing one, as the two young lovers flee across the badlands, murdering as they go. | |
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Scenery Porn | |
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Scenery Porn: Wouldn't be a Terrence Malick movie without it. Here the stark beauty of the badlands is used to great effect. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: Both Holly and Kit are captured and arrested and sent off to stand trial. Holly trades up flames... while Kit goes to the chair. | |
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Blade-of-Grass Cut | |
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Blade-of-Grass Cut: A trademark of Malick throughout his career. Here there is a series of tight closeups of plants and bugs and wildlife as Kit and Holly lead their peaceful existence in the hut that Kit has built for them in the forest by a river. | |
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Affably Evil | |
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Affably Evil: Kit speaks politely to just about everyone, right up until he shoots them. After he gets caught, he is polite and cooperative towards the cops. | |
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Missing Mom | |
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Missing Mom: Holly's mother is long dead of pneumonia, possibly explaining why her father and her have such a distant relationship. | |
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Outlaw Couple | |
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Outlaw Couple: The film makes perfectly clear that Holly stays with Kit out of her own free will. Holly muses about why she didn't run away when she had the chance, saying that she felt her destiny was tied up with Kit. | |
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Roman à Clef | |
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Roman à Clef: The Charles Starkweather murders, with the names changed and some details messed with. Most of the changes serve to make Kit and Holly less monstrous than their Real Life counterparts. The real Starkweather didn't just kill Fugate's father, he killed her mother, stepfather, and two-year-old baby sister. The real Starkweather didn't let that rich guy in the fancy house live, but instead killed him, his wife, and the maid. Fugate mutilated the corpse of the young woman who died with her boyfriend in the storm cellar. At his trial, Starkweather claimed that Fugate killed two of the victims attributed to him (the young woman in the storm cellar, and the rich man's wife). | |
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Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Kit and Holly's sheer detachment to the crimes they commit (such Kit's abrupt murder of Holly's father and Holly's carrying on a casual conversation with Cato whilst he's bleeding to death) make them a particularly disturbing variant of this. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: Holly. She tells us that she married the son of the lawyer who defended her, and "I got off with probation and some harsh looks." | |
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Revenge by Proxy | |
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Revenge by Proxy: Holly qualifies, due to bringing Kit over to her house- Kit murdered her father. Holly basically doesn't show much remorse over the fact her abusive dad gets offed by Kit and she's now an orphan, and actually seems to welcome it. | |
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The Dying Walk | |
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The Dying Walk: Kit shoots his friend Cato after he realizes Cato is going to call the cops. Cato, who has taken a shotgun blast that went clean through his gut and out through his back, gets up, staggers back into his shack, and lies down on his bed to die. | |
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Troubled, but Cute | |
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Troubled, but Cute: Kit is pretty obviously nothing but trouble, even before he starts murdering people. But he's a very pretty man, and Holly is irresistibly drawn to him. | |
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The Foreign Subtitle | |
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The Foreign Subtitle: In German the film is Badlands: Zerschossene Träume — Shot-apart Dreams. | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys: Holly is swept off her feet by Kit the dangerous anti-hero. | |
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Bounty Hunter | |
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Bounty Hunter: Three of them try to storm Kit and Holly's little hut in the woods, but Kit hides himself in a blind and kills all three of the bounty hunters. | |
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Star-Crossed Lovers | |
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Star-Crossed Lovers: An especially dark take on this trope, as Kit and Holly react to the forces keeping them apart by lashing out with violence. | |
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