Editing Terrence Malick (section)

==Early life and education==
[[File:Heidegger 2 (1960).jpg|thumb|140px|[[Martin Heidegger]]'s ''Vom Wesen des Grundes'' (The Essence of Reasons) was translated into English by Malick and published in 1969.]]
Malick was born in [[Ottawa, Illinois]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Solomons|first1=Jason|authorlink=Jason Solomons|title=Terrence Malick: The return of cinema's invisible man|url=https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2011/jul/03/observer-profile-terrence-malick|access-date=6 July 2014|work=The Guardian|date=2 July 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Walsh|first1=David|title=A horrible state of war|url=https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/1999/01/thin-j23.html|website=www.wsws.org|date=January 23, 1999 |publisher=[[World Socialist Web Site]]|access-date=6 July 2014}}</ref> He is the son of Irene (née Thompson; 1912–2011)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.examiner-enterprise.com/sections/news/local-news/bartlesville-resident-irene-malick-mother-filmmaker-dead-99-services-today|title=Bartlesville resident Irene Malick, mother of filmmaker, dead at 99; services today|work=Examiner Enterprise|location=Bartlesville|date=December 21, 2011|access-date=February 27, 2012}}</ref> and Emil A. Malick (1917–2013),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/examiner-enterprise/name/emil-malick-obituary?id=22993775|title=Emil A. Malick Obituary: View Emil Malick's Obituary by Examiner-Enterprise|publisher=Legacy.com|access-date=2014-05-22}}</ref> a geologist.<ref name="Lloyd">{{cite book|last1=Michaels|first1=Lloyd|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jSNCB6yCJPoC&pg=PA14&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=Terrence Malick|publisher=University of Illinois Press|year=2009|isbn=978-0-252-07575-9|edition=revised|page=14}}</ref> His paternal grandparents were of [[Assyrian Americans|Assyrian]] descent from [[Urmia]],<ref name="Lloyd" /><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nEa_33WQkDkC&pg=PT1965&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=Terrence Malick: Film and Philosophy|publisher=Bloomsbury|year=2011|isbn=978-1-4411-4895-7|editor-last1=Tucker|editor-first1=Thomas Deane|editor-last2=Kendall|editor-first2=Stuart}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JMVeCAAAQBAJ&pg=PT68|title=One Big Soul: An Oral History of Terrence Malick|last= Maher|first=Paul Jr. |date=2015-02-07|publisher=Lulu Press, Inc|isbn=978-1-312-88744-2}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Eric Benson|url=https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/the-not-so-secret-life-of-terrence-malick/|title=The Not-So-Secret Life of Terrence Malick|work=Texas Monthly|date=March 10, 2017 |access-date=March 15, 2017}}</ref> while his mother was an [[Irish Catholic]].<ref>{{cite web |first=Peter |last=Biskind |date=April 23, 2010 |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2010/04/runaway-genius-199812 |title=The Runaway Genius |work=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] |access-date=August 6, 2023}}</ref> Malick attended [[St. Stephen's Episcopal School (Austin, Texas)|St. Stephen's Episcopal School]] in [[Austin, Texas]], while his family lived in [[Bartlesville, Oklahoma]].<ref name="Solomons">{{cite news|last=Solomons|first=Jason|title=Terrence Malick: The return of cinema's invisible man|url=https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2011/jul/03/observer-profile-terrence-malick|access-date=July 3, 2011|newspaper=[[The Observer]]|date=July 3, 2011}}</ref>

Malick had two younger brothers, Chris and Larry. Larry Malick was a guitarist who went to study in Spain with [[Andrés Segovia]] in the late 1960s. In 1968, Larry intentionally broke his own hands due to pressure over his musical studies.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/the-secret-life-of-terrence-malick-2288183.html|title=The secret life of Terrence Malick|date=2011-05-24|website=The Independent|language=en|access-date=2019-03-22}}</ref> Their father Emil went to Spain to help Larry, but his son died shortly after, possibly by suicide.<ref>Biskind, Peter. ''Easy Riders, Raging Bulls'', Simon and Schuster, 1998. pp.248–249.</ref> The early death of Malick's younger brother has been explored and referenced in his films ''[[The Tree of Life (film)|The Tree of Life]]'' (2011) and ''[[Knight of Cups (film)|Knight of Cups]]'' (2015).<ref name=":4">{{Cite news|title=Terrence Malick's Personal Period|url=https://slate.com/culture/2013/04/terrence-malicks-personal-period-to-the-wonder-and-tree-of-life-are-remarkably-autobiographical.html |newspaper=Slate|date=2013-04-13|access-date=2016-02-10|issn=1091-2339|language=en-US|first=Forrest|last=Wickman}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Berlinale 2015. Dialogues: Terrence Malick's "Knight of Cups" on Notebook {{!}} MUBI|url=https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/berlinale-2015-dialogues-terrence-malicks-knight-of-cups|website=mubi.com|date=February 10, 2015 |access-date=2016-02-10}}</ref>

Malick graduated from [[Harvard College]] in 1965 with a [[Bachelor of Arts]], ''[[Latin honors#United States|summa cum laude]]'', and was elected to [[Phi Beta Kappa]]. He received a [[Rhodes Scholarship]], which he used to study philosophy at [[University of Oxford|Oxford University]]'s [[Magdalen College, Oxford|Magdalen College]]. After a disagreement with his advisor, [[Gilbert Ryle]], over Malick's thesis on the concept of world in [[Søren Kierkegaard|Kierkegaard]], [[Martin Heidegger|Heidegger]], and [[Ludwig Wittgenstein|Wittgenstein]], Malick left Oxford without a degree.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7oQEgW8u4kcC&pg=PA80|title=Terrence Malick: Film and Philosophy|editor-last1=Tucker|editor-first1=Thomas Deane|editor-last2=Kendall|editor-first2=Stuart|publisher=Bloomsbury|year=2011|isbn=978-1-4411-4895-7 }}</ref> In 1969, [[Northwestern University Press]] published Malick's translation of Heidegger's ''Vom Wesen des Grundes'' as ''The Essence of Reasons''.

After returning to the United States, Malick taught philosophy at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] while freelancing as a journalist. He wrote articles for ''[[Newsweek]]'', ''[[The New Yorker]]'', and ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]''.<ref name="The Terrence Malick file">{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2005-12-15-malick_x.htm|work=USA Today|title=The Terrence Malick file|first1=Scott|last1=Bowles|date=December 16, 2005|access-date=May 25, 2010}}</ref>