> Hello everybody,
>
> I'm Florence from Lyon (France). Excuse my english.
> I've just finished a Master II (a sort of PHD of 112
> pages) at the university, and it's about the
> extraordinary voice over in Badlands, Days of Heaven
> and The thin red line. ( With french theorics, Michel
> Chion, and the philosophy of Heidegger) Of course I
> saw The New World's blog, but my essential question is
> : is there a voice over in this new film? Does anyone
> of you know something about that (befor june, the
> 17th)? I'm really curious!!
> Thanks a lot!
> bye


My gut says there will be, but it's important to remember that for both DAYS OF
HEAVEN and THIN RED LINE, Malick only added the voiceovers during editing, in
part because he had to cut and change so much of the film he had shot that he
needed something to keep them together (this was especially true of DoH, I
believe). For TTRL, in fact, wasn't the voiceover originally read by Billy Bob
Thornton, and only later changed to the various actors in the film?

Which is all just a fancy way of saying: For all we know, Malick himself may not
have decided yet.

-Bilge