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05.05.12 /18:55

taylorworley:

Have you heard of Thomas Wilfred?

His light piece Opus 161 (1965-66) featured prominently in Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life. 

Check out his unique body of work: LUMIA.

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05.04.12 /22:37/♥ 30
mirohristov: What was it you showed me? I didn’t know how to name you sin. But I’ll say it was you. Always you were calling me. I wanted to be loved because I was great. A big man. I am nothing. Look, the glory around us. Trees and birds. I lived in shame. I dishonored it all and didn’t notice the glory. A foolish man.
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miss-holdencaulfield:

The Tree of Life 2011 - Brother. Keep us. Guide us. To the end of time.

this movie is my new favorite of all time.

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movies-worthwatching: The Tree of Life (2011)Terrance Malick An ambitious film. The life of a family’s eldest son from the day he was born to his complicated and doubtful adult life. It’s beautifully shot; the light, the movement, the characters’s effortless fluency, the depth of its own nature and the way Malick achieve to capture it in a little more than two hours, will definitively leave you with a feeling. It all depends on your beliefs.  I was immediately submerge by it. I thought of it as visually shocking. Almost poetical.  The experts say 7.0 IMDB | 85% Rotten Tomatoes | 85 Metacritic  (Poster by tryclassic.)
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The Tree of Life (2011)

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wronglikeright: For anyone who has a hard time figuring out just what exactly the dinosaurs are doing in Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life.“So, when we were done with our 10-minute presentations and it was time for the panelists to ask questions amongst themselves before turning the Q&A over to the audience, you knowwhat I had to ask him, after the discussions we’ve had here: Since, as he acknowledged, the CGI dinosaurs are painstakingly created from 0s and 1s, what was the intent of the pivotal scene in which the one dinosaur stomped on, and then seemed to stroke, a smaller dino who was lying in a riverbed.Turns out, Michael was in charge of that very sequence, and discussed it thoroughly, on many occasions, with Malick himself. The premise of the four-shot scene was to depict the birth of consciousness (what some have called the “birth of compassion”) — the first moment in which a living creature made a conscious decision to choose what Michael described as “right from wrong, good from evil.” Or, perhaps, a form of altruism over predatoryctHere’s the relevant passage from a 2007 draft of Malick’s screenplay: Reptiles emerge from the amphibians, and dinosaurs in turn from the reptiles. Among the dinosaurs we discover the first signs of maternal love, as the creatures learn to care for each other. Is not love, too, a work of the creation? What should we have been without it? How had things been then? Silent as a shadow, consciousness has slipped into the world. Leaving aside the question of whether the science behind this depiction of dinosaur life is sound (or, at least, generally accepted), that is the intention of the scene. Michael said Malick uses CGI footage almost the way he uses photographic footage. He wants a LOT of it to choose from. They gave him about 50 versions of the scene altogether (out of maybe a hundred that they put together). Michael’s initial inclination was to assemble the shots the same way you would if you were shooting it with actors, with the pivotal moment focusing on a close-up of the actor’s face, but Malick did not want close-ups of the dinosaurs’ eyes — he wanted it done with the paw (OK, I called it a “paw,” but Michael corrected me: it’s a foot).They went back and forth, back and forth, trying to find just the right gestures, and the right timings, for the shots and the movements — and Michael said he wanted the moment at the end when the larger creature pauses and looks back for a moment, just before running off. He was glad it made it into the picture.Michael said he thought the moment was severely “overacted,” but it got the point across, and most viewers seem to understand Malick’s intent in the context of the film. So, there you have it, from the horse’s mouth — er, the dinosaur’s director.” Source: (Jim Emerson, “Tree of Life: The Missing Link Discovered”) 
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anextrashotofespresso: When the morning stars sang together “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the Earth, when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?” Job 38:4,7
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atomicwrangler: “I wanted to be loved because I was great; a big man. I’m nothing. Look at the glory around us. Trees, birds. I lived in shame. I dishonored it all, and didn’t notice the glory. I’m a foolish man.” The Tree of Life (2011).
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