Badlands (1973) / Z-View
Badlands (1973)
Director: Terrence Malick
Screenplay: Terrence Malick
Stars: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates and Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen and Terrence Malick.
The Pitch: “Let’s make a movie based on the killing spree of Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate.”
Tagline: “In 1959 a lot of people were killing time. Kit and Holly were killing people.”
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
Kit [Sheen] is a twenty-something garbage man with a lot of swagger. Holly [Spacek] is a fifteen year old school girl who falls for Kit. They see each other secretly until her father [Oates] discovers the affair and forbids Holly to see Kit again.
Kit comes to take Holly away and ends up killing her father. Holly decides to run away with Kit. This begins their cross-country killing spree.
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