Editing Badlands (film) (section)

==Production==

=== Writing and casting ===
[[File:Martin Sheen 1987.jpg|thumb|Sheen (pictured in 1987) was chosen for the role of Kit Carruther, based on his immediate chemistry with co-star Spacek.]]

Malick, a protégé of [[Arthur Penn]] (whom he thanked in the film's end credits),<ref name="time73jay">{{cite news| first= Jay |last= Cocks| author-link= Jay Cocks| url= http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,908554,00.html | archive-url= https://archive.today/20130204083736/http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,908554,00.html | url-status= dead | archive-date= February 4, 2013 | magazine= [[Time (magazine)|Time]] | date=April 8, 1974 | title= Gun Crazy|access-date=July 12, 2011}}</ref> began work on ''Badlands'' after his second year attending the [[American Film Institute]].<ref name="Walker">{{cite news|last=Walker |first=Beverly |title=Malick on Badlands |magazine=[[Sight and Sound]] |date=Spring 1973 |url=http://www.eskimo.com/~toates/malick/art6.html |access-date=September 17, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081014130814/http://www.eskimo.com/~toates/malick/art6.html |archive-date=October 14, 2008|url-status=live }}</ref> In 1970, Malick, at age 27, began working on the screenplay during a road trip.<ref name="Gilbey">{{cite news|first=Ryan|last=Gilbey|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/aug/22/drama|title=The start of something beautiful|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=August 21, 2008|access-date=November 13, 2013}}</ref> "I wrote and, at the same time, developed a kind of sales kit with slides and video tape of actors, all with a view to presenting investors with something that would look ready to shoot," Malick said. "To my surprise, they didn't pay too much attention to it; they invested on faith. I raised about half the money and [[executive producer]] [[Edward R. Pressman|Edward Pressman]] the other half."<ref name="Walker" /> Malick paid $25,000 of his own funds. The remainder of his share was raised from professionals such as doctors and dentists. ''Badlands'' was the first feature film that Malick had written for himself to direct.<ref name="Gilbey" />

Sissy Spacek, in only her second film, was the first actor cast. Malick found her small-town Texas roots and accent were perfect for the part of the naive impressionable high school girl. The director included her in his creative process, asking questions about her life "as if he were mining for gold." When he found out she had been a majorette, he worked a twirling routine into the script.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Spacek|first=Sissy|title=My Extraordinary Ordinary Life|publisher=Hyperion|year=2012|isbn=9781401304270|location=New York|pages=133–134}}</ref> Several up-and-coming actors were auditioned for the part of Kit Carruthers. When Martin Sheen was suggested by the casting director, Malick was hesitant, thinking he was too old for the role. Spacek wrote in her autobiography that "the chemistry was immediate. He ''was'' Kit. And with him, I was Holly."<ref>{{Cite book|last=Spacek|first=Sissy|title=My Extraordinary Ordinary Life|publisher=Hyperion|year=2012|isbn=9781401304270|location=New York|pages=134}}</ref> Sheen based his characterization of Kit on the actor [[James Dean]].<ref>{{cite web |title= Badlands: An Oral History|url= https://www.gq.com/story/badlands-oral-history/amp|website=gq.com|date= May 26, 2011|language=en}}</ref>

=== Filming and set design ===
Principal photography took place in [[Colorado]] starting in July 1972, with a non-union crew and a low budget of $300,000 (excluding some deferments to film labs and actors).<ref name="Walker" /> The film had a somewhat troubled production history: several members of the crew clashed with Malick, and another was severely injured when an explosion occurred while filming the fire scene.<ref name="pressman">{{cite AV media | title=''"Producer Edward Pressman on'' Badlands''"'' | year=2013 | people=Kim Hendrickson (producer) | medium=Blu-ray featurette | publisher=[[The Criterion Collection]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/2697-badlands-misfits |title=Badlands: Misfits |last1=Almereyda |first1=Michael |date=March 19, 2013|website=Criterion.com |publisher=[[The Criterion Collection]] |access-date=December 10, 2015}}</ref> Malick's first cinematographer, Brian Probyn, quit mid-shoot after balking at the director's unorthodox methods.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Gilbey |first=Ryan |date=2008-08-21 |title=The start of something beautiful |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/aug/22/drama |access-date=2024-09-06 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=directorsseries |date=2017-11-01 |title=Terrence Malick's "Badlands" (1973) |url=https://directorsseries.net/2017/11/01/terrence-malicks-badlands-1973/ |access-date=2024-09-06 |website=THE DIRECTORS SERIES |language=en}}</ref> He was replaced by [[Tak Fujimoto]] then by [[Stevan Larner]] who finished the film.<ref name=":0" /> "Amazingly, despite the input of these different hands, the film looks remarkably seamless," said producer [[Edward R. Pressman]].<ref name=":0" />

The [[Frank G. Bloom House]] in [[Trinidad, Colorado]], was used for the rich man's house. Malick himself had an uncredited cameo after the actor hired to play 'Caller at Rich Man's House' failed to show up.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2010-08-14|title=Terence Malick's cameo in Badlands|url=http://www.filmdetail.com/2010/08/14/terence-malick-cameo-in-badlands/|access-date=2021-04-18|website=FILMdetail|language=en-GB}}</ref> The script's beginning was mostly filmed in the southeastern Colorado towns of [[La Junta, Colorado|La Junta]] and [[Las Animas, Colorado|Las Animas]], including the scene in which Holly runs out of the latter town's Columbian Elementary School.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://coloradopreservation.org/programs/endangered-places/endangered-places-archives/schools-in-las-animas-columbian-elementary-school/ |title=Endangered Places Archives: Columbian Elementary School |work=Colorado Preservation, Inc. |access-date=July 9, 2019}}</ref> The closing credits thank the people of [[Otero County, Colorado| Otero County]] "for their help and cooperation."

[[Jack Fisk]] served as art director for the film in his first of several collaborations with the director. During production, Sissy Spacek and Fisk fell in love<ref>{{Cite book|last=Spacek|first=Sissy|title=My Extraordinary Ordinary Life|publisher=Hyperion|year=2012|isbn=9781401304270|location=New York|pages=135–136}}</ref> and were married on April 12, 1974. The film was originally set to be edited by Robert Estrin. When Malick saw Estrin's cut of the film, he disliked it and removed him from the production. Malick and [[Billy Weber]] recut the movie. Estrin remains credited as the sole editor, however, with Weber credited as associate editor.<ref name="pressman" /> Both Weber and art designer [[Jack Fisk]] worked on all of Malick's subsequent features through 2016 (''[[The Tree of Life (film)|The Tree of Life]]'', ''[[To the Wonder]]'', ''[[Knight of Cups (film)|Knight of Cups]]'').<ref name="Badlands Facts">{{cite web|title=Badlands Facts|url=http://badlandsfacts.weebly.com|website=Badlands Facts|access-date=18 April 2016}}</ref>

Though Malick paid close attention to period detail, he did not want it to overwhelm the picture. "I tried to keep the 1950s to a bare minimum," he said. "Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything. I wanted the picture to set up like a fairy tale, outside time."<ref name="Walker"/> At a news conference coinciding with the film's festival debut, Malick called Kit "so desensitized that [he] can regard the gun with which he shoots people as a kind of magic wand that eliminates small nuisances."<ref name="nyt73canby">{{cite news |title=Malick's Impressive 'Badlands' Screened at Festival |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/10/15/archives/malicks-impressive-badlands-screened-at-festival.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |first=Vincent |last=Canby |author-link=Vincent Canby |date=October 15, 1973| access-date=August 25, 2022}}</ref> Malick also pointed out that "Kit and Holly even think of themselves as ''living'' in a fairy tale", and he felt this was appropriate since "children's books like ''[[Treasure Island]]'' were often filled with violence." He also hoped a fairy tale tone would "take a little of the sharpness out of the violence but still keep its dreamy quality."<ref name="Walker"/>

=== Soundtrack ===
The film makes repeated use of the short composition [[Gassenhauer]] from [[Carl Orff]]'s and [[Gunild Keetman]]'s ''[[Schulwerk]]'', and also uses other tunes by [[Erik Satie]], [[Nat "King" Cole]], [[Mickey & Sylvia]] and [[James Taylor]].<ref>[https://www.fandango.com/people/carl-orff-506291/biography Carl Orff Biography|Fandango]</ref>