Badlands Section C

Section C Badlands

Badlands

Directed by: Terrence Malik

Budget: $500,00 (estimated)

Produced by: Terrence Malik, Edward Pressman

Release dates: October 15, 1973

Badlands is a 1973 American crime film written and directed by Terrence Malick, 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, five 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".

Plot

Badlands is narrated by Holly (Spacek), a teenage girl living in a dead-end South Dakota town. One day she meets Kit (Sheen), a young greaser, who charms and runs away with her. Holly's narration, describing her adventures with Kit in romantic clichés, is juxtaposed as Kit's increasingly antisocial and violent behaviour is slowly revealed. The two are eventually arrested; Kit is executed for his crimes, while Holly receives probation.

Stars

Martin sheen (as kit carruthers)

Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez (born August 3, 1940), better known by his stage name Martin Sheen, is an American actor who achieved fame with roles in the films Badlands (1973) and Apocalypse Now. Since then, Sheen's more well-known films include Gettysburg (1993), The Departed , and The Amazing Spider-Man. He also starred on television as President Josiah Bartlet in The West Wing and lent his voice as the Illusive Man in the Mass Effect video game trilogy.