Anyone who’s seen Black Swan in theaters in the last two weeks has also likely seen the trailer for The Tree of Life, the long-in-the-works new film from writer-director Terrence Malick (The Thin Red Line, The New World). (The film was left in limbo for nearly a year due to the instability of the now-defunct indie studio Apparition, until Fox Searchlight swept in and acquired it for release in 2011.) The trailer’s now hit the interwebs, and I can tell you it features Brad Pitt as a stern father in a 1950s Midwestern small town, and Sean Penn as his grown son living roughly in the present day and seemingly plagued with existential ennui. I can also tell you it features a series of sweeping, abstract shots, many of them set in outer space, that are at once utterly stunning and pretty darn unusual for a movie trailer featuring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn: What looks like an asteroid crashing into the ocean; a celestial body shot in silhouette against a giant sweltering star; an alien-seeming rocky landscape, perhaps that same asteroid that is apparently crashing to Earth. But I cannot tell you how any of those metaphysical cosmological vistas relates to the father/son story with Pitt and Penn. Still, you can also count me pretty darn intrigued by the prospect of a grandly experimental feature film starring two of Hollywood’s most iconic stars. Check out the trailer, and see for yourself:
I’ll need to get high for this one.
“I’ll need to get high for this one.”
Are you stupid? What kind of idiotic and moronic statement is that?? Did your parents hold you close to microwave when you were young? Did the babysitter shake you too hard when you were a baby? Or is your brain friend from all that marijuana smoking?
Listen, kid, leave these intellectual and philosophical films for adults and go back to watching your ‘Transformers’ and your ‘Inception’, OK child? Good boy.
MORON!!
Sounds like you need to smoke more than anyone Larry, take a chill pill dude. i actually enjoy films and can analyse them much more after a “safety meeting”. worry about yourself
relax larry, don’t give yourself an ulcer. you pretentious jack a**.
fyi…inception was great no matter what you say. douche
Towelie needed to get high just to read Larry’s rant. Always remember to bring a towel!
Larry. You been there. Done that already… You gotta get out of the house more.
oh larry your contrived fury is so pathetically amusing. you haven’t a shred comedic talent, so leave the sarcastic put downs to the pros, OK child?
I won’t defend Larry’s rant but I sort of agree. Sadly, many people reach too quickly for a bottle or joint…
Wow Larry. Relax.
dude chill he was jus jokin
thinking what is required when engaged with writing reading etc does knot necessarily reflect what you have done upon your comments to the One who says high and what that may mean…..
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Great trailer.
awesome!!!
Jun19 I think thats the beauty of films like this, it’ll raesnote with some and not for others. I don’t know about the screening you attended, but at least a dozen people walked out of the one I attended.
charms youb4re so right! Brad has these most beautiful blue eyes Ib4ve ever seen! Seems that all their bioolgical children especially Shiloh have inherited them. When I watch at these pics I often see Shiloh in Brad. They have many similar facial expressions. But Shi also looks a lot like her beautiful mum these days. And at other times she is an interesting mix of both Brad and Angie. But on the topic. Mad and Pax sure loved this movie. After all they got to see their dad as a super hero. Bet the older girls are also gonna love it and when the twins are old enough they too sure will love it. Right now they sure are still too young to sit still and watch the whole movie. Remember Angie saying in an interview when Kung Fu Panda came out two years ago that all the other children except Shi who was 2 years old at the time had seen it. But Shi sure has seen that movie many times after that and sure loves her mum as Tigress and sure canb4t wait to see the sequel.
That looks hokey as hell.
Was Badlands hokey? Days of Heaven? Thin Red Line? The New World?
No. No. No. And no.
This looks like a movie that will be really well acted, really well directed, and boring as all get out. Netflix.
There’s a term for such a movie in the dictionary: “A Terrence Malick film.”
Dictionaries and art go together so well.
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Malick is a visionary genius.
Color me super-stoked.
OMG. Finally !!! I’ve been waiting 2 years to see this. Terrence Malick is America’s finest genius film-maker. Can’t wait to see this.
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Hope it’s just as great as The New World or The Thin Red Line. I’ve usually always enjoyed Malick’s films. I think this film will follow suit.
sean penn as brad pitt’s son? what the freak!?
New Malick? Yes, please! A gorgeous trailer. It’s already at the top of my must see list for next year.
I was excited at the beginning of this trailer, but it quickly devolved into the usual Malick tropes – lingering shots of landscapes, unrelated images, the usual abstract b.s. It’s starting to feel like his “beautiful imagery” is an excuse for lazy plotting.
Release the hounds. Er, Malick fans.
Badlands is traditionally considered a terrible script. NOT one taught in introductory screenwriting courses across the country.
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Needs more dinosaurs.
This is a philosophical film, with some echoes of existentialism but gets deep into transcendentalism. Have any of you seen ‘The New World’? It is one of the most brilliant films I have ever seen. But to enjoy such a film is so much a personal choice. I imagine those who likes films of this caliber also like modern art museums and “get it”.