what a scene... for me, it will always be like a visual hymn to a fullfiilled life of a human beeing. respectfully reminding us that every life, every existence has to end and what finally counts are how capable we were to connect with others, because they are the closest link we can have to the roots we were coming from.
triniti, yes I think you are correct. That is NOT a flashback, but her freed soul. She has cast off the Euro clothes and has re-communed with the "great mother" she mentions throughout the movie.
i absolutely love the ending...im just slightly confused. the part where shes doing cartwheels in the garden, is that her spirit or something? does that mean shes in heaven...?
@trinitii21 I don't wanna sound like a bitch, but geez! This is just a montage, stepping out of the chronology of scenes. This is obviously her before she died, running through the garden (before they were set to go back to London).
@trinitii21 no i think it was more of her just being content. i think he's trying to show us that her journey was sort of complete and she was connected with the naturalistic world she came from and the new world she married into. she was blissfully unaware she was going to die soon. great scene, great movie. Can't wait for Tree of Life to get within 100 miles of me.
@stevo0665 ohh ok that makes sense. i understand now. thanks for the explanation! i agree it's a very touching scene and movie. Although i didn't understand the ending at first, it still brought tears to my eyes lol :)
The crazy thing is that this the most beautiful part of the entire movie and the greatest musical piece and it's not even in the sountrack. The film is really a masterpiece that very few appreciate. I think it captures the true simplistic spiritual energy that the native americans possessed.
Thank you so much for sharing this. I'm like lot's of americans, mixed with various backgrounds. But, I have a great deal of Cherokee in me. I recently lost my Mom and have been searching for this. Thanks!
@AuClaireduLune - the "blue man" is an Indian. When he leaves the house and runs out of the door, it symbolizes the spirit of Pocohantas leaving the Earth. The shot comes after we see the empty bed, meaning Pocohantas has died.
Excuse me, can someone tell me what excatelly says Bale at the end? I'm not able to understand it completly! (mainly after "your mother Rebecca...") Moreover, what does the "blue man" represent? He is symbolic, isn't he?
@AuClaireduLune "13th of April, 1616. Dear son, I write this so that someday in the future you might understand a circumstance which shall be but a far memory to you. Your dear mother, Rebecca, fell ill in our outward passage at Gravesend. She gently reminded me that all must die. 'Tis enough, she said, that you our child, should live.'
@AuClaireduLune He says "Your dear mother, Rebecca, fell ill in our outward passage at Gravesend. She gently reminded me that all must die; ''Tis enough,' she said, 'that you and our child should live.'"
I could write a book about how much I love the ending to this film, and numerous things I find within it and what certain things symbolize, but I don't think even a book could do it justice. This is, no doubt about it, the best ending to a film I have ever seen and probably will ever see. It is such a tour de force on the mind and the heart. It leaves me awestruck every time I watch it and it loses no value each time.
@ififellinlove77 haha sorry, i am spanish... maybe if i put "anychronic" it would be better... i mean, this movie fits perfect now and anytime you could think... but i don't know which word means that, maybe acronyc i don't know.
I've lost count of the number of times I've watched this. Malick's weakest movie but his best four minutes. The music, voiceover and images are incredible but something else moves it beyond the sum of its parts.
An autumn day is so perfectly captured: damp lawns, fallen leaves, birdsong, the feel under your fingers of hedgerows and tree bark. And also the simplicity of childhood, of being concerned with nothing more than being chased by your mum.
@TheJohnnymango Agree that this is an incredible sequence - disagree that this is Malick's weakest film. For me, it's tied with "Badlands" as his greatest. There are more moments (not just this ending) in this film that give me chills than there are in any of his other films (or any other film, period.)
@mov88 Thanks for your reply. I feel slightly embarrassed by what I wrote - it was a long time ago and I never imagined it would become one of the Top Comments. I love Malick and so his weakest film is still better than the vast majority of other films out there. My opinion of The New World continues to increase with each watch and I think it is a fabulous piece of work. If I had to come up with an order: The Thin Red Line, The Tree of Life, Badlands, The New World, Days of Heaven.
@mov88 I liked your comment. It made me think 'Christ..THIS is his weakest film?!!' I'd not not seen any except Badlands years ago. Rented Days of Heaven and then bought the other two on bluray. Yet to watch. If either of the those two are as ace as this film then I'm in for a treat. I may buy some jelly snakes.
I really really loved this movie. I completely understand why people might have hated it but it was so damn beautiful I couldn't look away. Also, I liked the fact that Colin Farrell got the "leading role" of this film over Bale (who I think is brilliant.) I just really love that Farrell gets a chance to show his acting because I don't think he's always appreciated the way he deserves.
Yes, this is exactly what usually happens. One day you are playing hide & seek with your mom. By the blink of an eye, she just disappears and you can never find her again how hard you try. You are just standing alone in the middle of an empty garden. The only thing keeps you a bit sane is a desperate belief that she is fine and happy at her new home.
Awesome ending sequence. Still haven't seen the movie, but the perfect fusion of music and visuals here, enhanced by the editing, is something i've come to expect from Malick's films. Also, I figured this thread would be a good place to ask people about the Tree of Life. I read somewhere that its release date has been delayed. Won't come out til fall of 2011. Can anyone verify this for me?
@TheJohnnymango I doubt it will. Malick has moved on to shooting his new film, so it would seem he's done with The Tree of Life. This is the first time it's been given an official locked release date, so I don't think it's going to change. Plus, it seems on track for a Cannes premiere a few weeks before the 27th.
has anyone seen the commercial out right now that directly rips this scene off? same cinematography, same piece, different setting. PLEASE tell me someone has seen it...
@sp4eva1 I can't for the life of me remember. It's set in a city though and it's a boys voice instead of christian bale's. i almost want to say it's some athletic company, but it caught my ear because i'm a HUGE Wagner lover and i was surprised they used a fairly lesser-known piece in a regular commercial.
@noyrnme77 Do you mean the Levi's 'Go Forth' ad? It seems to be a mixture of this music and David Gordon Green's film George Washington - DGG has acknowledged the influence Malick has had on him.
i think some films are guillty of bieng overwritten, not alowing the images to speak for themselves. Not this, this film had me hypnotised for 3 hours and i dont really care if Mallick only makes a film once every decade because this was brilliant.
Weirdly enough, I've never been a fan of The New World, yet this scene, the opening, and one or two brief sequences in the middle are among my favorites from the past decade.
Malick is not a genius. Wagner is. Malick just put beautiful images on wagner music. Without music theses images are nothing ... but not the opposite.
@Markooo1986 But you do realize that the pairing up of those images with the music---the exact moments of emotions and sublminal messages are genius. That is Malick.
@Scorberg I do not want to be pessimistic ... You can think it's nice it's your opinion and I respect it. But for me 99,9 % is in the music. Listen to the music without images, put your own images in your head ... and it's the same or even better. You can ear the flow of water in this Wagner's music, but you can't hear Wagner in Malick's images. Anyway, the result is great so ...
@Markooo1986 Maybe so. But to still say that Malick isn't a genius is not giving him enough credit. Malick is an impeccable filmmaker and deserves great respect.
@Markooo1986 To test your theory, I watched this sequence on mute.
You are wrong.
Some of the associations images that Malick makes through editing are deeply moving. For example, the flow of images as we see Rolfe pleading at the edge of the bed, Pocahontas's child wandering in nature, the clouds above, an empty bed, the chief looking on...and then Pocahontas ressurected, like a spirit, shooting out of the house and cartwheeling. Agonisingly beautiful.
@Markooo1986 You may disagree, but that's my experience of it anyway.
With the Wagner, it is lifted even higher. The emotions of the song and the emotions in the flow of images gel together to create something more than the sum of its parts. The music is of course brilliant, but not just any sequence of images would have the same impact if they were set to it. The recent Levi's ad that rips off this sequence isn't nearly as moving.
This entire film has deep, deep catholic themes running through it. I'm not sure if anyone is aware, but Terrence Malick is a catholic and all of his films have to do with catholicism in one way or another; even The Thin Red Line. I'm a catholic so I picked out many things with this film; this film is a metaphor for Genesis and even the entire Biblical history.
Malick's next, The Tree of Life, carries more catholic themes than this.
Although I feel the film is flawed, this is one of the most beautiful sequences I have ever seen. It matches up to anything Malick has previously done and makes you wonder why more film-makers don't appreciate the simple magic of music and images.
@TheJohnnymango I agree that a beatifully-composed sequence is what makes cinema a grand experience, but there has to be more than that - the story must also shine through. When I watch this whole movie, I was disappointed because I felt their was no central theme or concrete story. Just beautiful images set to music. And because of that, I believe that is a waste of cinema.
It shouldn't just be a filmmaker's job to make beautiful images, but be able to tell stories that make sense.
@ivanclaysburgh I think that there was definitely a central theme. It's about separation and coming together, and the idea is looked at from many different angles. It's sort of like a cinema-essay wrapped around the frame of a narrative.
That said, it meanders a lot to examine a whole bunch of other ideas. There's no straight line of thought through the film, as if everything were building up to a certain point.
I agree that the narrative isn't concrete. I don't mind at all though.
Fuckin' A. I watched the movie in the theatres and I remember that the end scene was awesome and the part with the trees stood out to me for some reason. So I decided to look it up and I can't believe someone else thought the same thing n posted it on here. Right on.
This may sound stupid but who is that running out the door at 2:08?? Is it Pocahontas/Rebecca? Their son all grown up? It's hard to tell... Great clip BTW
It's not a real image of what her son will look like, though it is probably him in metaphor, but most importantly it is her wild natural soul, fighting, and alive.
@toReasonWhy oooooooh kay cus i was watching the video and i was like wtf is so good about this but i guess have to watch the movie now cus i didnt know it was a metaphor
When I saw this movie at ArcLight Hollywood and the credits started at the end of this scene, the packed house did not move and remained still. Unreal.
Having grown up in Virginia, I can relate to the James River, the forests, swamp grasses.... The final 4 minutes are very moving. I know that they are in the "New World" when I see the tall loblolly pines and the bald cypress trees. As Wagner's Vorspiel ends, you can hear the bald cypress cone hit the water as the cardinals and wood thrushes sing in the virgin forests of the New World.
Yes, most of this scene is in England except for the final 20 or so seconds (when the music ends). Pocahontas died and was buried in England. The very end of this scene is the James River of Virginia near the Jamestown Colony.
A truly great film. Funny, the hairstyle and clothes of Pocahontas and her boy as well Wagner's music in the background always remind me of my Bavarian homeland.
OMG!Wagner never goes out of style.Timeless tune.His music doesnt just speak too your soul,it shouts.fills me with a wild desperate urge to live fully,heroicly.I think Wagner high in Valhalla is proud of this use of his music,smiling.The two scenes seem made for each other,Perfection.
i think the beginning and end of this movie add up to one of the best pairings of image and music i've ever seen.
the rheingold vorspiel evokes, in my mind, the endless passage of time. just as the waters of the rhine flow steadily downstream, so do each day and each lifetime. a very poetic scene. the shot of the rivers and woods bring this point home.
this is the kind of movie where rewatching is necessary. the first time i saw it i was bored as hell, but as time goes on i find many of its scenes particularly affecting, especially this one.
I felt exactly the same way about malik's earlier film, the thin red line...i came out of the cinema feeling unimpressed but after rewatching it I now rate it as an outstanding war film
I wouldn't doubt it if during the casting process of his films, Malick's first position he fills, even before actors, is the cinematographer. He has always worked with great cinematographers: Toll for "Thin Red Line" and now Lubezki for this and even The Tree of Life. His shots are so poetic it would be a sin to hire a bad cinematographer.
I don't know why this movie got friggin' paned. This is a great movie; Malick is so unique in his visions. Definitely one of the greatest forgotten about directors; not to mention writers.
Wasn't panned by the critics or audiences(though no film of Malick was a success in the US, at least a big one), it was simply very divisive, I honestly loved it and was very moved by it, (I cried in this yes, ok, insult all my manliness al you want), others simply weren't sucked into it.That's Malick.
Dear viewer,look at the caliber of the comments on this film.You must see this great movie.I feel so vindicated so many people were as moved by this as I was.
I LOVE this movie. The cinematography is absolutely breath-taking and gentle and poetic. I love that the camera crew had shot the entire film in natural light. I think that is what makes this film so beautiful to watch. Terence is a master for this. More films should strive for naturalness and rawness in movies.
yes! well said. My sentiments exactly.Important true story too to this great movie.I was deeply touched.I bet this film is also seen as a great chick flick,soo romantic and tragic.
i must agree; this movie has been truly overlooked. I just watched it last night and it brought me to tears: the beauty and purity of it all moves me in so many ways. this music perfectly illustrates the newness.
(cont) that she has died and culturally assimilated to, yet she is performing rituals of her past, and laughing and playing as she did when she was innocent and at her place of origin. This movie is a diamond in this generation of movie making and will talked about for many years to come. I truly believe it is one of, if not the best period piece ever made alongside with Pride and Prejudice, etc.
This piece of music was perfectly selected for what it was trying to portray. You feel this sense of sadness [I cry every time I hear this song or see the movie], yet the rise and fall of the notes in the song gives you hope and happiness as well. I love the small symbolic poetic explanations that bring closure to everything, for example when Thomas is looking for Rebecca/Pocahontas she is not there after it is explained that she is dead. Or the fact that after she has died she is in the place
does anyone know where I can find whoever composed this. I understand it's Richard Wagner's music, but he didnt perform it for this movie. I downloaded his version, and it isnt as rich sounding. Sounds really old, like Mozart style. If anyone could help me out, that'd be great :)
Outstanding. Possibly the most beautiful four minutes and eight seconds in modern cinema. History will be kind to this film; one which I think was criminally overlooked on its release. Malick is a genius who has only made masterpieces.
This is absolutely stunning. The New World was a flawed film but there were glimmers of Malick's genius in there. I could watch his shots of nature, and listen to his choices of music all day.
(continued) of her own death. (It was a masterful choice that the movie focuses on her words about it and not on the scene itself). The last shot of the trees especially stayed with me. It's looking up at the sky, as if pointing towards the future, in anticipation of the fearful and inconceivable changes that are about to occur, but at the same time there is solemn reverence for what will be lost- the peace and tranquility of the land, and the tragic destruction of the Native Americans' ways.
(continued) I like this scene because it captures the sense of excitement and hope for the 'new world', even in the face of fear and uncertainty, and blissfully ignorant of the future we now know exists today. The scenes of nature symbolize the unstoppable movement that time brings. The world is continually growing, and moving, and renewing, whether it's for better or for worse, and regardless there's no way anyone can stop it. It ties in with pocahontas' brave and reverent acceptance ...
I agree, a really great ending, about on par with the first half of the movie. I'm not really a fan of Malick though as his movies (such as Days of Heaven) just keep going aimlessly and completely lose any sort of story ark they had going. But what I do like about Malick is his ability to show us how different it might have been to live in the past, the strange ways people acted and the perspectives that get lost as time goes on...
absolutely fantastic and mesmorizing ending, i was watching this in the theatres, and it was a film that equaled only by a very few others.. and an ending that stands on it's own as gem in cinema.
I was annoyed when this piece of music did not appear on the soundtrack when I bought it. Had I known it was Wagner I might not have been so incensed. Thankyou so much for the upload.
Simply stunning, I've seen this movie 100+ times and everytime the ending sends chills up my spine. I love to watch this on a cool autumn weekend. A pure masterpiece. I feel this movie really sets my emotions free.
3:53 - Fade to Black = the Tree of Life.
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Can anyone explain to me the significance of of 2:05 through 2:09? I have an inkling, but I'd be interested in others' thoughts...
Szpondt 1 month ago
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Szpondt 1 month ago
This entire movie is like a dream
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98bigbutt 5 months ago
@98bigbutt what does it mean?
MrRIPino 4 months ago
@MrRIPino what does it mean when you love
S2Cents 3 months ago
@S2Cents ???
MrRIPino 2 months ago
This music sounds like those DVD movies that relaxes you by showing you videos of waterfalls.
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Thanks for putting this up. My favorite 4 minutes of cinema, ever.
chubwub2006 7 months ago
Thanks for putting this up. My favorite 4 minutes of cinema, ever.
chubwub2006 7 months ago
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This is what film should be.
PenguinInc 8 months ago
the way they are playing then he suddenly loses her...such great art. symbol for her being "gone."
Rachulie 8 months ago
what a scene... for me, it will always be like a visual hymn to a fullfiilled life of a human beeing. respectfully reminding us that every life, every existence has to end and what finally counts are how capable we were to connect with others, because they are the closest link we can have to the roots we were coming from.
simplejacko 8 months ago 5
triniti, yes I think you are correct. That is NOT a flashback, but her freed soul. She has cast off the Euro clothes and has re-communed with the "great mother" she mentions throughout the movie.
kingofmilwaukee 8 months ago
i absolutely love the ending...im just slightly confused. the part where shes doing cartwheels in the garden, is that her spirit or something? does that mean shes in heaven...?
trinitii21 8 months ago
@trinitii21 I don't wanna sound like a bitch, but geez! This is just a montage, stepping out of the chronology of scenes. This is obviously her before she died, running through the garden (before they were set to go back to London).
Or like you said, it's simply her "spirit."
sp4eva1 8 months ago
@sp4eva1 well ya do. it was a simple question i dont deserve that kind of reaction so "geez" yourself -__-
trinitii21 8 months ago
@trinitii21 no i think it was more of her just being content. i think he's trying to show us that her journey was sort of complete and she was connected with the naturalistic world she came from and the new world she married into. she was blissfully unaware she was going to die soon. great scene, great movie. Can't wait for Tree of Life to get within 100 miles of me.
stevo0665 8 months ago 3
@stevo0665 I feel exactly the same way about the Tree of Life.
luisguillermojg 8 months ago
@stevo0665 ohh ok that makes sense. i understand now. thanks for the explanation! i agree it's a very touching scene and movie. Although i didn't understand the ending at first, it still brought tears to my eyes lol :)
trinitii21 7 months ago
The crazy thing is that this the most beautiful part of the entire movie and the greatest musical piece and it's not even in the sountrack. The film is really a masterpiece that very few appreciate. I think it captures the true simplistic spiritual energy that the native americans possessed.
Kcrthn 8 months ago
Okay, -that- is it! I am getting this on blu ray RIGHT THIS SECOND. I've put it off for far too long~
DreamerChi 9 months ago
I find something new every view.
CaseyFordAlexander 9 months ago
completely overlooked masterpiece. One of the most moving and visually beautiful films ever made.
willsl321 9 months ago 12
Thank you so much for sharing this. I'm like lot's of americans, mixed with various backgrounds. But, I have a great deal of Cherokee in me. I recently lost my Mom and have been searching for this. Thanks!
pencrack 10 months ago
Absolutely fantastic !
martin007killer 10 months ago
@AuClaireduLune - the "blue man" is an Indian. When he leaves the house and runs out of the door, it symbolizes the spirit of Pocohantas leaving the Earth. The shot comes after we see the empty bed, meaning Pocohantas has died.
anthonyfaust 11 months ago 2
Excuse me, can someone tell me what excatelly says Bale at the end? I'm not able to understand it completly! (mainly after "your mother Rebecca...") Moreover, what does the "blue man" represent? He is symbolic, isn't he?
AuClaireduLune 11 months ago
@AuClaireduLune "13th of April, 1616. Dear son, I write this so that someday in the future you might understand a circumstance which shall be but a far memory to you. Your dear mother, Rebecca, fell ill in our outward passage at Gravesend. She gently reminded me that all must die. 'Tis enough, she said, that you our child, should live.'
cmnewcombe 11 months ago
@cmnewcombe Thank you very much!!!!!
AuClaireduLune 11 months ago
@AuClaireduLune He says "Your dear mother, Rebecca, fell ill in our outward passage at Gravesend. She gently reminded me that all must die; ''Tis enough,' she said, 'that you and our child should live.'"
Nacha255 8 months ago
I could write a book about how much I love the ending to this film, and numerous things I find within it and what certain things symbolize, but I don't think even a book could do it justice. This is, no doubt about it, the best ending to a film I have ever seen and probably will ever see. It is such a tour de force on the mind and the heart. It leaves me awestruck every time I watch it and it loses no value each time.
powderedtoastman2112 11 months ago
Someone tolde me that the flying crow represents death.
pemchem 11 months ago
@pemchem No--it's a Hawk. And it represents her SPIRIT being free from the regular world... of course. It's flying
sp4eva1 10 months ago
this movie is brilliant. i hope terence malick knows what a special and anachronic film he made.
alkorkon2007 1 year ago
@alkorkon2007 anachronic? Really? What doesn't seem to fit here?! It all seems perfect!
ififellinlove77 10 months ago
@ififellinlove77 haha sorry, i am spanish... maybe if i put "anychronic" it would be better... i mean, this movie fits perfect now and anytime you could think... but i don't know which word means that, maybe acronyc i don't know.
alkorkon2007 10 months ago
Wagner music go's so well with this interesting movie. Always liked this piece
of music.
Psyche777able 1 year ago
I've lost count of the number of times I've watched this. Malick's weakest movie but his best four minutes. The music, voiceover and images are incredible but something else moves it beyond the sum of its parts.
An autumn day is so perfectly captured: damp lawns, fallen leaves, birdsong, the feel under your fingers of hedgerows and tree bark. And also the simplicity of childhood, of being concerned with nothing more than being chased by your mum.
I will never, ever tire of watching this.
TheJohnnymango 1 year ago 29
@TheJohnnymango Agree that this is an incredible sequence - disagree that this is Malick's weakest film. For me, it's tied with "Badlands" as his greatest. There are more moments (not just this ending) in this film that give me chills than there are in any of his other films (or any other film, period.)
mov88 3 weeks ago
@mov88 Thanks for your reply. I feel slightly embarrassed by what I wrote - it was a long time ago and I never imagined it would become one of the Top Comments. I love Malick and so his weakest film is still better than the vast majority of other films out there. My opinion of The New World continues to increase with each watch and I think it is a fabulous piece of work. If I had to come up with an order: The Thin Red Line, The Tree of Life, Badlands, The New World, Days of Heaven.
TheJohnnymango 1 week ago
@mov88 I liked your comment. It made me think 'Christ..THIS is his weakest film?!!' I'd not not seen any except Badlands years ago. Rented Days of Heaven and then bought the other two on bluray. Yet to watch. If either of the those two are as ace as this film then I'm in for a treat. I may buy some jelly snakes.
PatBatemanMovies 2 days ago
4:04 closing shot is a nice transition to his next film
nubbs 1 year ago 3
I really really loved this movie. I completely understand why people might have hated it but it was so damn beautiful I couldn't look away. Also, I liked the fact that Colin Farrell got the "leading role" of this film over Bale (who I think is brilliant.) I just really love that Farrell gets a chance to show his acting because I don't think he's always appreciated the way he deserves.
brattette 1 year ago
Herzog´s trip ,but i loved it
marlowecraft 1 year ago
Incredible use of Vorspiel as if the song was meant to be used in this film. It totally kills me. I cry every time.
odiosapura 1 year ago 2
I wish more people saw this movie it was so good. The whole movie was a " we're having a moment" moment
12da20na 1 year ago
@12da20na I agree. Its truly poetic. This movie hasn't received its rightful place.
odiosapura 1 year ago 3
This is what love means.
negetivekreep 1 year ago 3
this makes me want to put on a nice pair of levi's jeans!
gensu3k1 1 year ago
...Probably the most awe inspiring end ever. Maybe, just maybe, better than Tarkovsky's ending to 'Ivan's Childhood.'
rimbaud59 1 year ago 3
Yes, this is exactly what usually happens. One day you are playing hide & seek with your mom. By the blink of an eye, she just disappears and you can never find her again how hard you try. You are just standing alone in the middle of an empty garden. The only thing keeps you a bit sane is a desperate belief that she is fine and happy at her new home.
monetskies68 1 year ago
@monetskies68 Beautifully put and said.
TheSeattle91 1 year ago
@monetskies68 Thats why ppl believe in the afterlife. They can't bear to believe they'll never see their loved ones again...
sp4eva1 1 year ago
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monetskies68 1 year ago
Whether its this or Days of Heaven or Badlands does any director blend music and cinematography like this guy!?!? WOW!
SpecialBrew81 1 year ago
@SpecialBrew81 The Thin Red Line is the best film score ever.
TheSeattle91 1 year ago
@Dayanara47
Vorspiel by Richard Wagner from Das Rhiengold.
mattkindred13 1 year ago
Awesome ending sequence. Still haven't seen the movie, but the perfect fusion of music and visuals here, enhanced by the editing, is something i've come to expect from Malick's films. Also, I figured this thread would be a good place to ask people about the Tree of Life. I read somewhere that its release date has been delayed. Won't come out til fall of 2011. Can anyone verify this for me?
bcotton123 1 year ago 2
@bcotton123 It's currently scheduled for 27 May 2011. Although this could very well change...
TheJohnnymango 1 year ago
@TheJohnnymango I doubt it will. Malick has moved on to shooting his new film, so it would seem he's done with The Tree of Life. This is the first time it's been given an official locked release date, so I don't think it's going to change. Plus, it seems on track for a Cannes premiere a few weeks before the 27th.
Chradnev 1 year ago
has anyone seen the commercial out right now that directly rips this scene off? same cinematography, same piece, different setting. PLEASE tell me someone has seen it...
noyrnme77 1 year ago
@noyrnme77 no. I assume u haven't? What's the product they're selling in the commercial??
sp4eva1 1 year ago
@sp4eva1 I can't for the life of me remember. It's set in a city though and it's a boys voice instead of christian bale's. i almost want to say it's some athletic company, but it caught my ear because i'm a HUGE Wagner lover and i was surprised they used a fairly lesser-known piece in a regular commercial.
noyrnme77 1 year ago
@noyrnme77 Do you mean the Levi's 'Go Forth' ad? It seems to be a mixture of this music and David Gordon Green's film George Washington - DGG has acknowledged the influence Malick has had on him.
TheJohnnymango 1 year ago
i think some films are guillty of bieng overwritten, not alowing the images to speak for themselves. Not this, this film had me hypnotised for 3 hours and i dont really care if Mallick only makes a film once every decade because this was brilliant.
merovingianking1 1 year ago 4
Terrence Malick, Beethoven, and Dostoevsky are the voices of God.
mattkindred13 1 year ago
Weirdly enough, I've never been a fan of The New World, yet this scene, the opening, and one or two brief sequences in the middle are among my favorites from the past decade.
varekai475 1 year ago
Aww my birthday is April 13th. This film is so magnificent.
theodosiagrace 1 year ago
Mesmerizing.
PhantomDawg594 1 year ago 2
i cry at this, like a bitch. it is a combination of many things. i think of my own son and his mother, its sad but beautiful. just really powerful
earbud83 1 year ago
Its so beautiful and sad... love the music
3194shi 1 year ago
Malick is not a genius. Wagner is. Malick just put beautiful images on wagner music. Without music theses images are nothing ... but not the opposite.
Markooo1986 1 year ago
@Markooo1986 But you do realize that the pairing up of those images with the music---the exact moments of emotions and sublminal messages are genius. That is Malick.
Scorberg 1 year ago
@Scorberg I do not want to be pessimistic ... You can think it's nice it's your opinion and I respect it. But for me 99,9 % is in the music. Listen to the music without images, put your own images in your head ... and it's the same or even better. You can ear the flow of water in this Wagner's music, but you can't hear Wagner in Malick's images. Anyway, the result is great so ...
Markooo1986 1 year ago
@Markooo1986 Maybe so. But to still say that Malick isn't a genius is not giving him enough credit. Malick is an impeccable filmmaker and deserves great respect.
Scorberg 1 year ago
@Markooo1986 I can put images of two girls one cup on Wagner and it will not make it beautifut
JimmyPSX 1 year ago
@JimmyPSX I do not agree on this.
Markooo1986 1 year ago
@Markooo1986 please...
zeroinfinit 1 year ago
@Markooo1986 To test your theory, I watched this sequence on mute.
You are wrong.
Some of the associations images that Malick makes through editing are deeply moving. For example, the flow of images as we see Rolfe pleading at the edge of the bed, Pocahontas's child wandering in nature, the clouds above, an empty bed, the chief looking on...and then Pocahontas ressurected, like a spirit, shooting out of the house and cartwheeling. Agonisingly beautiful.
Chradnev 1 year ago 2
@Markooo1986 You may disagree, but that's my experience of it anyway.
With the Wagner, it is lifted even higher. The emotions of the song and the emotions in the flow of images gel together to create something more than the sum of its parts. The music is of course brilliant, but not just any sequence of images would have the same impact if they were set to it. The recent Levi's ad that rips off this sequence isn't nearly as moving.
Chradnev 1 year ago
This entire film has deep, deep catholic themes running through it. I'm not sure if anyone is aware, but Terrence Malick is a catholic and all of his films have to do with catholicism in one way or another; even The Thin Red Line. I'm a catholic so I picked out many things with this film; this film is a metaphor for Genesis and even the entire Biblical history.
Malick's next, The Tree of Life, carries more catholic themes than this.
Scorberg 1 year ago
Although I feel the film is flawed, this is one of the most beautiful sequences I have ever seen. It matches up to anything Malick has previously done and makes you wonder why more film-makers don't appreciate the simple magic of music and images.
TheJohnnymango 1 year ago
@TheJohnnymango I agree that a beatifully-composed sequence is what makes cinema a grand experience, but there has to be more than that - the story must also shine through. When I watch this whole movie, I was disappointed because I felt their was no central theme or concrete story. Just beautiful images set to music. And because of that, I believe that is a waste of cinema.
It shouldn't just be a filmmaker's job to make beautiful images, but be able to tell stories that make sense.
ivanclaysburgh 1 year ago
@ivanclaysburgh I think that there was definitely a central theme. It's about separation and coming together, and the idea is looked at from many different angles. It's sort of like a cinema-essay wrapped around the frame of a narrative.
That said, it meanders a lot to examine a whole bunch of other ideas. There's no straight line of thought through the film, as if everything were building up to a certain point.
I agree that the narrative isn't concrete. I don't mind at all though.
Chradnev 1 year ago
@Chradnev Well, I guess that's what separates Terrence Malick from all the others. Good argument!
ivanclaysburgh 1 year ago
Malick should call Levi's and say, "You're welcome."
GunslingerXYZ 1 year ago
This just might be beyond beautiful.
manlyman80345 1 year ago
love the slow begining
FManAngryAmerican 1 year ago
Fuckin' A. I watched the movie in the theatres and I remember that the end scene was awesome and the part with the trees stood out to me for some reason. So I decided to look it up and I can't believe someone else thought the same thing n posted it on here. Right on.
Marzano15 1 year ago
this is not a chick flick. it's an EPIC.
plumeria66 1 year ago
An incredibly beautiful and poignant scene of the movie....
BohemianAsh 1 year ago
one word ( amazing )
PurpleModernNoise 1 year ago
ahhhh.....goosebumps and chills. One of the best "death scenes". It's perfection.
wonderingheights 1 year ago 4
Excellent and gorgeous !
doctalee 1 year ago
it breaks my heart
earbud83 1 year ago 3
wow
ocgray 1 year ago
sixas
Xxdragonfire 1 year ago
Does anyone know which recording of Vorspiel this is?
bentuller 1 year ago
This may sound stupid but who is that running out the door at 2:08?? Is it Pocahontas/Rebecca? Their son all grown up? It's hard to tell... Great clip BTW
EdwardBrock 1 year ago
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nosdhuman 1 year ago
@EdwardBrock I guess it is the Indian from the scene before who is sitting in the chair...like a spirit leaving the house, Rebecca is coming home...
nosdhuman 1 year ago 3
It's not a real image of what her son will look like, though it is probably him in metaphor, but most importantly it is her wild natural soul, fighting, and alive.
toReasonWhy 1 year ago 3
@toReasonWhy oooooooh kay cus i was watching the video and i was like wtf is so good about this but i guess have to watch the movie now cus i didnt know it was a metaphor
mistacoolpantz 1 year ago
@mistacoolpantz
The whole movie is one big poem
toReasonWhy 1 year ago
wagner made this movie
wobbygongman 2 years ago 8
@wobbygongman
nah, Terrence Malick did.
TheTwoWhoWereTaken 1 year ago
absolutely soul wrenching.brings me to tears every time I see it .This movie has given Wagner a new meaning to me.
tomterahedrob 2 years ago 6
ehhat einer dem Willen mich von meiner dauer einsamkeit zu retten
Sonaheanyj 2 years ago 2
this is the most beautiful 4 minutes of anything ever filmed and scored.
ivank80 2 years ago 50
@ivank80 yah although i think its a toss up between this and the opening sequence of this movie
crystaliclake 6 months ago
You guys are right
This scene is so gorgeous it makes me cry every time i see it.
A sense of Impermanence
doctalee 2 years ago 17
I second that.
latexiceage 2 years ago
buuh, love<3
jonasarmstrong 2 years ago
When I saw this movie at ArcLight Hollywood and the credits started at the end of this scene, the packed house did not move and remained still. Unreal.
kingofmilwaukee 2 years ago 6
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wobbygongman 2 years ago
Having grown up in Virginia, I can relate to the James River, the forests, swamp grasses.... The final 4 minutes are very moving. I know that they are in the "New World" when I see the tall loblolly pines and the bald cypress trees. As Wagner's Vorspiel ends, you can hear the bald cypress cone hit the water as the cardinals and wood thrushes sing in the virgin forests of the New World.
mdhokie2007 2 years ago 4
But this scene is in England right? Because she got sick on the way back to Virginia and died as soon as she got there, else I'm confused.
wobbygongman 2 years ago
Yes, most of this scene is in England except for the final 20 or so seconds (when the music ends). Pocahontas died and was buried in England. The very end of this scene is the James River of Virginia near the Jamestown Colony.
mdhokie2007 2 years ago
A truly great film. Funny, the hairstyle and clothes of Pocahontas and her boy as well Wagner's music in the background always remind me of my Bavarian homeland.
Ilsimeone 2 years ago 7
Freedom...
IliketheTitanic1 2 years ago
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nhf2001 2 years ago
OMG!Wagner never goes out of style.Timeless tune.His music doesnt just speak too your soul,it shouts.fills me with a wild desperate urge to live fully,heroicly.I think Wagner high in Valhalla is proud of this use of his music,smiling.The two scenes seem made for each other,Perfection.
tomterahedrob 2 years ago 5
i think the beginning and end of this movie add up to one of the best pairings of image and music i've ever seen.
the rheingold vorspiel evokes, in my mind, the endless passage of time. just as the waters of the rhine flow steadily downstream, so do each day and each lifetime. a very poetic scene. the shot of the rivers and woods bring this point home.
nhf2001 2 years ago 18
This movie is so undrrated, and completely brilliant. I was stunned when I watched it. One of the best movies I have ever seen.!.
oldmoviemusic 2 years ago 13
This never fails to bring me to tears.
isildae21 2 years ago 52
A beautiful ending to a beautiful film.
TheSkunkster11 2 years ago 9
this is the kind of movie where rewatching is necessary. the first time i saw it i was bored as hell, but as time goes on i find many of its scenes particularly affecting, especially this one.
Kiwinites 2 years ago 8
I felt exactly the same way about malik's earlier film, the thin red line...i came out of the cinema feeling unimpressed but after rewatching it I now rate it as an outstanding war film
stadioazteca 2 years ago
this part is so sad i cried i love this movie
PurpleModernNoise 2 years ago 3
GOSH... this is the scene i cried in.. i fucking love this movie.. i never cry in movies... ha
izzisdizzi 2 years ago 10
I got teary eyed just looking at the images in A Thin Red Line. A picture speaks a thousand words.
Scorberg 2 years ago 3
Damn! I was just wondering what movie it was also in & it's A Thin Red Line! DUDE YOU ROCK! THANKS!
amaroq69 2 years ago
BEAUTIFUL. "mother, now i know where you live."
licatoa5047 2 years ago 8
I wouldn't doubt it if during the casting process of his films, Malick's first position he fills, even before actors, is the cinematographer. He has always worked with great cinematographers: Toll for "Thin Red Line" and now Lubezki for this and even The Tree of Life. His shots are so poetic it would be a sin to hire a bad cinematographer.
Scorberg 2 years ago 4
You would probably be correct.
feelingpeanuty 2 years ago
I don't know why this movie got friggin' paned. This is a great movie; Malick is so unique in his visions. Definitely one of the greatest forgotten about directors; not to mention writers.
Scorberg 2 years ago 4
Wasn't panned by the critics or audiences(though no film of Malick was a success in the US, at least a big one), it was simply very divisive, I honestly loved it and was very moved by it, (I cried in this yes, ok, insult all my manliness al you want), others simply weren't sucked into it.That's Malick.
EvilRadiatedMonkey 2 years ago 2
this is a great movie
ZickoSanchez 2 years ago
Dear viewer,look at the caliber of the comments on this film.You must see this great movie.I feel so vindicated so many people were as moved by this as I was.
tomterahedrob 2 years ago
i hope malick's new film tree of life is as good as this
gavinooch87 2 years ago 6
I think it will be. It's said that this is the film Malick has most wanted to make.
Chradnev 2 years ago
if you have this song please please send it to me!
liannaperez 2 years ago
IF SOMEONE HAS THE SONG TRACK PLEEEEEEEEEEEASE send it to me! please please please
liannaperez 2 years ago 3
I LOVE this movie. The cinematography is absolutely breath-taking and gentle and poetic. I love that the camera crew had shot the entire film in natural light. I think that is what makes this film so beautiful to watch. Terence is a master for this. More films should strive for naturalness and rawness in movies.
Irishrose2966 2 years ago 7
yes! well said. My sentiments exactly.Important true story too to this great movie.I was deeply touched.I bet this film is also seen as a great chick flick,soo romantic and tragic.
tomterahedrob 2 years ago
could some1 upload the track if they have it? PLEASE!
magic118 3 years ago
It's the Prelude to Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold
UrbanRats 2 years ago 2
i must agree; this movie has been truly overlooked. I just watched it last night and it brought me to tears: the beauty and purity of it all moves me in so many ways. this music perfectly illustrates the newness.
morgantor13 3 years ago 9
this movie has way too little credit
finfan4lifee 3 years ago 27
Loved it <3 The most beautiful movie moment ever
LucyTheValiant30 3 years ago 16
absolutely BEAUTIFUL
aressephcloud 3 years ago 9
(cont) that she has died and culturally assimilated to, yet she is performing rituals of her past, and laughing and playing as she did when she was innocent and at her place of origin. This movie is a diamond in this generation of movie making and will talked about for many years to come. I truly believe it is one of, if not the best period piece ever made alongside with Pride and Prejudice, etc.
cljbb08 3 years ago 13
This piece of music was perfectly selected for what it was trying to portray. You feel this sense of sadness [I cry every time I hear this song or see the movie], yet the rise and fall of the notes in the song gives you hope and happiness as well. I love the small symbolic poetic explanations that bring closure to everything, for example when Thomas is looking for Rebecca/Pocahontas she is not there after it is explained that she is dead. Or the fact that after she has died she is in the place
cljbb08 3 years ago 14
Thats it exactly.Perfectly said.You just know somewhere Wagner is proudly smiling.
tomterahedrob 2 years ago
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Savage! How dare she soil that civilized dress!
meimeisofthands 3 years ago
This moves me to tears. This film is very touching. I can't quite put my finger on it, but everything about this movie affects my soul.
oozaroozie 3 years ago 19
Did you ever watch Thin Red Line? Another Malick gem.
glintmasser 3 years ago 3
does anyone know where I can find whoever composed this. I understand it's Richard Wagner's music, but he didnt perform it for this movie. I downloaded his version, and it isnt as rich sounding. Sounds really old, like Mozart style. If anyone could help me out, that'd be great :)
dixiebabe07 3 years ago
dixie, i've never been able to get the actual recording, but according to IMDb it is as follows:
"Vorspiel to Das Rheingold"
Written by Richard Wagner
Performed by Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Courtesy of SONY BMG Masterworks
By Arrangement with SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
alainsoir 3 years ago
I LOVE this film. My dad fell asleep when he took me to see it for the first time, but I couldn't take my eyes away, it's stunning.
greenshiva15 3 years ago 12
Outstanding. Possibly the most beautiful four minutes and eight seconds in modern cinema. History will be kind to this film; one which I think was criminally overlooked on its release. Malick is a genius who has only made masterpieces.
gabhfionn 3 years ago 50
This is absolutely stunning. The New World was a flawed film but there were glimmers of Malick's genius in there. I could watch his shots of nature, and listen to his choices of music all day.
columbo500 3 years ago 7
(continued) of her own death. (It was a masterful choice that the movie focuses on her words about it and not on the scene itself). The last shot of the trees especially stayed with me. It's looking up at the sky, as if pointing towards the future, in anticipation of the fearful and inconceivable changes that are about to occur, but at the same time there is solemn reverence for what will be lost- the peace and tranquility of the land, and the tragic destruction of the Native Americans' ways.
Yoshi5020 3 years ago 9
(continued) I like this scene because it captures the sense of excitement and hope for the 'new world', even in the face of fear and uncertainty, and blissfully ignorant of the future we now know exists today. The scenes of nature symbolize the unstoppable movement that time brings. The world is continually growing, and moving, and renewing, whether it's for better or for worse, and regardless there's no way anyone can stop it. It ties in with pocahontas' brave and reverent acceptance ...
Yoshi5020 3 years ago 7
I agree, a really great ending, about on par with the first half of the movie. I'm not really a fan of Malick though as his movies (such as Days of Heaven) just keep going aimlessly and completely lose any sort of story ark they had going. But what I do like about Malick is his ability to show us how different it might have been to live in the past, the strange ways people acted and the perspectives that get lost as time goes on...
Yoshi5020 3 years ago 5
Beautiful. There is no other way to describe it.
amazingbouncing 3 years ago 5
The sheer emotional power of Wagner's music takes this film to great heights. It really is a touching film with a great soundtrack.
newsguy1972 3 years ago 5
absolutely fantastic and mesmorizing ending, i was watching this in the theatres, and it was a film that equaled only by a very few others.. and an ending that stands on it's own as gem in cinema.
Angelati 3 years ago 3
I was annoyed when this piece of music did not appear on the soundtrack when I bought it. Had I known it was Wagner I might not have been so incensed. Thankyou so much for the upload.
pillowdrummer 3 years ago 2
One of the most beautiful endings of all time. Magnificent.
KellyGreen5555 3 years ago 6
Simply stunning, I've seen this movie 100+ times and everytime the ending sends chills up my spine. I love to watch this on a cool autumn weekend. A pure masterpiece. I feel this movie really sets my emotions free.
NebulaStarGazer 3 years ago 3