I figured from the very beginning that the winner of our Terrence Malick poll would be either Days of Heaven or The Thin Red Line. Well lo and behold, I was right on both accounts. Receiving 24% of the vote each (which is 13 votes each from the 53 cast) these two films shared top honours. Here is a rundown of the final tallies.
Days of Heaven - 13 votes (24%)
The Thin Red Line - 13 votes (24%)
Badlands - 12 votes (22%)
The Tree of Life - 9 votes (16%)
The New World - 6 votes (11%)
Now I am no math expert but this seems to come to just 97% of the vote. It makes me wonder what the Blogger poll app did with that final 3%.
Anyway, I would have liked to have seen The New World have a better showing but I did expect it to come in last. My personal list goes: The Tree of Life, Days of Heaven, The New World, The Thin Red Line & Badlands. But of course even the least Malick is better than the best of many a director. So to close out, please allow me to end with an image (and a beautiful one of course) from that last place finisher, The New World. Oh yeah, and another poll will be announced soon, so stay tuned.
4 comments:
I vote for Days of Heaven, the tie is broken.
Albert Muth, auteurophile
Too little, too late. Still a tie.
Pretty sure I voted for Badlands, but it might've been The Thin Red Line. Hmmmm...
I watched Days of Heaven again the other day. Awesome flick, but I can't get over the fact that Richard Gere is just bloody awful in it.
"Grey, my friend, is every theory / And green is Life’s golden tree."
"The most beautiful fraud in the world" would be the best way to define Malick's work.
There isn't much sense in making these polls: Malick did just one film in 5 parts. Didn't you noticed the similarities between Gere entering the Days of Heaven house and Jack entering his sexy neighbour's house?
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