Badlands is a 1973 film directed by Terrence Malick from his own script. Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek star. Warren Oates and Ramon Bieri are also featured, and Malick has a small speaking part although he does not receive an acting credit. Jump to: navigation, search 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ... Terrence Malick (born November 30, 1943, Waco, Texas) is an enigmatic American film director, screenwriter, and producer. ... Jump to: navigation, search Martin Sheen as President Josiah Jed Bartlet Martin Sheen (born August 3, 1940) is an American actor. ... Jump to: navigation, search Sissy Spacek in The River (1984) Mary Elizabeth Sissy Spacek (born December 25, 1949 in Quitman, Texas) is an Academy Award winning American actress and singer. ... Warren Oates (July 5, 1928 - April 3, 1982) was an American character actor. ... Ramon Bieri (June 16, 1929—May 27, 2001) is an American actor. ...

The story, although fictional, is very loosely based on the real-life murder spree of Charles Starkweather and his girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, in 1958. Charles Starkweather (November 24, 1938 - June 25, 1959) was a spree killer. ... Caril Ann Fugate (born 1943) was the thirteen-year-old accomplice of spree killer Charles Starkweather. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Malick's smart script and masterful compositions, Tak Fujimoto's lush cinematography, and spellbinding performances by its two leads combine to elevate the film to a level of visual poetry that belies its sordid subject matter. Jump to: navigation, search A film reel unwinding Although literally it means writing the movement, the term cinematography is generally understood as the art and process of recording visual images for the cinema (with a camera) and later developing those images in a laboratory. ...

The film's score makes repeated use of a short composition from the didactic works of Carl Orff. The same piece was used to good effect in the film True Romance, which has some thematic similarities to Badlands. Carl Orff Carl Orff (July 10, 1895 – March 29, 1982) was a German composer born in Munich. ... True Romance is a movie directed by Tony Scott (Top Gun) and written by Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary. ...

The film is included in the National Film Registry. The National Film Registry is the registry of films selected by the United States National Film Preservation Board for preservation in the Library of Congress. ...