The New World: The Extended Cut
by Terrence Malick
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Actor: Christian Bale, Christopher Plummer, Colin FarrellDirector: Terrence Malick
Brand: NEW Line Home Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 172 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-10-14
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: New Line Home Video
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- In 1607, three ships sailed across the Atlantic to the shores of what became known as Jamestown, Virginia. The arrival of these Europeans changed forever the history of the native people already living peacefully in this fertile country. Writer-director Terrence Malick, who has been waiting 25 years to tell this story, finally gets his chance in the breathtaking epic THE NEW WORLD. Colin Farrel
Movie Reviews of The New World: The Extended Cut
Movie Review: Cinematic Bliss
Summary: 5 Stars
After my second viewing of TNW, this time the extended version, all I wanted to do was play in the woods. I wanted to turn cartwheels and run around on the grass and get all muddy. Or stand high in a tree and gaze into the distance. I now find myself looking at trees, birds, and seeking things like beauty, a more gratifying vision, a deeper awakening. Yes, friends, there were historical liberties taken here, concessions to contemporary tastes evoked in a sappy, sentimental, silly little love storyline the historical truth of which could easily be disproven by those of a rational mind. Such discriminating folk may resent having to watch a couple of beautiful people "scuttle about" in the forest to the hauntings of Mozart's 23rd piano concerto for nigh 3 hours. But for those of us who choose not to be so rational, perhaps we like being non-rational, what a glorious cinematographic ride it was; blessed with a 37 additional magnificent minutes more than the theatrical version.
Pocahontas was played by the blissful Q'Orianka Kilcher so comely that it makes the heart ache. Her face blazes like Malick's beloved fire imagery clearer than his unrelenting blue skies. Her feverishly adorning form flows visceral through the landscape like a gazelle in slow motion, like the birds, the rippling water, and the animals in the forest, which, thanks to Mr. Malick's artistic eye, inhabit the film with her. She embodies "form and proportion" to delight the senses and radiates "wit and spirit", so astonishing was she that she "surprised" the sun whenever she came into his presence. Many torments visited upon her during the story all faced with a grace so touching and generosity so uplifting that her promise to herself to find "joy in all she sees" could be a mantra for anyone. A valid question could be how did Mr. Malick draw such a performance?
Mr. Malick definitely has something to say and he says it his own way in his own time. We can second guess his choices with every frame. His motives were no doubt artistic and anything worthy of such distinction is entitled to remove us from servile convention and to make us stretch and flex our imaginative muscles. I don't think he made any of his choices lightly but made his decisions resolutely founded upon a clear vision of the story he wanted to tell and the ideas and images he wanted to show us and affect us to think about. It is lamentable that he averages making a movie every seventeen years.
Mr. Malick's idea of a "special" effect is the natural light at dusk and dawn, God speaking through birdsong, a tear on the cheek reflected in firelight, fire itself, sunlight reflected through trees, birds in flight, deep blue skies, a water snake, a close up of the human ear. No obligatory explosions, no fake lighting or sets, no blue screens here, no over rehearsed acting but telling the story much through improvised movement and expression frequently, from what I understand, filmed when the actors didn't know he had the camera running. No excess, not a trace.
The dialogue is spare and poetic where thoughts sotto voce mingle with what is spoken aloud. When Pocahontas spoke the last time with her uncle in the English gardens, we have the rare privilege of experiencing a conversation in the Algonquin language which articulated a surreal, musical atmosphere. Her last words to Smith, this time in English, fell touchingly like loving teardrops: "Did you find your Indie's, John?" Smith's Reply: "I may have sailed right past them." Their time together in the Virginia woodlands was dreamlike and when recalled in those last few moments they spent together, language wasn't enough to give expression to their memories, across the expanse of time. To recreate such moments, and achieve such an affect through some indescribable medium, where all of the elements of film converge, is why we need people like Terrence Malick.
This work is an elegy, one for Pocahontas and the way of life that that for her was decimated. The final few images gently reveal what was lost in her passing; an empty family bed, an Indian spirit guide, a gravestone, a joyous final cartwheel across the grass(in dreams, in death, or real?) accompanied by a soundtrack laced with Wagnerian flourishes. The final image is a visual symphony of river rapids wherein suddenly the music ends and we are left with pure sound; water rolling over rocks for a few suspended moments. This is the music that we lost, the natural music that symbolically died; Pocahontas, our "little wanton," our "playful one" and the way of life she lost, her vanished wildness. "All things die".
Poetry is not for everyone nor is classical music. If modern film making had a parallel to the more elevated, less commercial, art forms that aren't as accessible to the modern, for profit tastes, this would be it or at least its beginnings. All honor to you.
Summary of The New World: The Extended Cut
Studio: New Line Home Video Release Date: 10/14/2008 Run time: 171 minutes Rating: NrSimilar DVD Movies
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