Ten films of 2000-2008 The New World
Terrence Frederick Malick is born on the 30th November of 1943 in Ottawa, Illinois. His father was an oil comany executive. The family moved to Austin. When we was a teenager we went to Stephen’s High School in Austin (Texas). Then we went to Harvard. Then we went to Oxford in 1965 to studie philosophy. He came back to the United States and though philosophy at the M.I.T (Massachusets Institute of Technology). In 1978 Terrence Malick won the best director prize at the movie festival of Cannes for Days of Heaven.He also worked fot The New Yorker. He currently resides in Austin. This director not enough known but movie-lovers. He is working on a new project: Tree Of Life with Brad Pitt and Sean Penn.
Filmography:
Lanton Mills/1969
Badlands/1973
Days of Heaven/1978
The Thin Red Line/1998
The New World/2005
In the beginning of the Seventeenth Century, along the English colonization of North America, Captain John Smith explores another area. He started to communicate with the Indians but he is captured. The princess Pocahontas asks her father to spare Captain Smith's life and they fall in love. When he returns to the colony, he becomes the president of the fort and finds people starving, but Pocahontas brings food and goods. She saves them and falls in disgrace with her people. When the Indians realize that the English will not leave their country, they attack and after a bloodshed. The English trade Pocahontas and lodge her in the fort. With the return of Captain Newport, Captain Smith is promoted and sent back to England, and he asks a friend to tell Pocahontas that he drowned along the trip. Pocahontas is civilized and baptized by the English and someone marries her. Many years later, she hears that Captain Smith is alive, and she decides to keep her mariage and ignore Smith.
In The New World everyone played their parts without any excessive over-acting. This movie is a historical drama, but I feel like the history aspect is merely a backdrop for the Terrence Malick play. Malick shows us the nature like a sort of divinity. He is not interested in recording history but moving far beyond a simplistic love story... Terrence Malick is like a painter. He shot his movie with an extrem delicacy of the light. It is a very spiritial and uncluttered.