October 3, 2024 • 15 mins
Terrence Malick gives us "The New World", a visual epic of the story of America, but in a romance between John Smith and Pocahontas. It's a really good film depicting the settlement of Jamestown in what is know as Virgina at the time. We see how it goes down, how love can be new and destructive to someone and how it navigates they way order and growth goes. I enjoy this film for its simple but poetic plot. We just don't see Native Americans fighting for theirs against the Jamestown people, we see how actions and decision are laid about. We see how emotions unheard of are formed and how it really shapes people into how we know them by. Malick, you can see that he really put himself in this film by the shots we see. We see how things came to be and it goes across to what I'm typing at this moment. And this film came out over 20 years ago. It's still fresh and very consistent to his work.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello. My name is Ray Salazar in This is Morning Real.
If I see it, I review it. It's a three
to four to one hundred minute or soap podcasts of
films that are review from black and white to technicolor
from nineteen hundred to twenty twenty four. Here you have
to talk about a film. Very briefly, it's called The
(00:22):
New World. It's a film that is written and directed
by Terrence Malick. If you don't know who Terrence Malick is,
he is what like in like hip hop music, a
rapper's favorite rapper. Well, in the film world, it's a
director's favorite director. He's been doing work since the seventies.
(00:45):
All of his work is very interesting and unique. As
time goes by in his career, Terrence Malick begins to
be very visual in his work, where it's more visuals
than dialogue and action. You know, sometimes when you shoot
a field of sunflowers just being their natural selves and
(01:07):
the windy sunset, and that's all you're seeing, it's as
poetic as as it can get from Terrence Malick. Now
I want to talk about the New World. What is
the New World? It's a two thousand and five romantic
drama film. And if you know Terrence Malick's work when
it comes to romance, honestly they're pretty similar, you know, similar.
(01:31):
Well not plots are different, right, but the goal is
the same. It's the process, the depiction of a romance
between two people, man and a woman, and we see
periods of their life, whether they're together or not. And
in this film is not like every other film. Really,
(01:54):
this is about the Jamestown settlement. You know how like
people in England, they went to Virginia and they settled here.
That's the Jamestown And this film is kind of crazy
that Madick decided to take a chance on poon the
story of Pocahontas. I mean, as we all know, Pocahonta's
(02:16):
very famous figure in American history. You know. The film
is based on the romance between Pocahontas, Pocahontas and John Smith.
Let me give you a quick quick Rundown Reindirected by
Terrence Malick, Produced by Sarah Green, starring Colin Farrell, Christopher Plummer,
Christian Bale, August Schellenberg, West Study, and Ki Ranka Kilture.
(02:43):
What a Name. Cinematography by the legendary Emanuel Lubeski. Edited
by four editors Damn Richard Chu, Hank Corwin, Sar Klein,
and Mark Yoshikawa. Music by James Horner. Production companies First
Foot Films, Sarah Green Film and Sunflower Productions. Distributed by
(03:05):
New Line Cinema Woo Woo Entertainment Film Distributors, and it
was released in Christmas Day of two thousand and five. Incredible.
It's not a long film, you know, it's about one
hundred and fifty minutes, you know, not a big thing
to watch. But anyways, this film pretty much depicts the
(03:28):
story of Pocahontas and John Smith and the romance together.
As you know, John Smith came from another land and
into the Virginian lands that were obviously founded by well,
not founded, but just inhabited by fucking Native Americans. Man,
and the Native Americans were we're gonna kill the people
(03:49):
of Jamestown, and Pokemonas pretty much saved their asses and
saved their asses again when they were sort of settling nearby,
and it was wintertime and obviously they've never experienced a winter,
you know, in Indian land or Native American land, i
should say, and they were dying, and guess what Pocahontas
(04:11):
saved their asses again. But in the midst of all
the saving and discovering between two different peoples, right, because
obviously we get to see how these Native Americans live,
you know, and it's like any other indigenous tribe. You know,
they're living among their own means. You know, they hunter,
her they hunt, they gather, they teach, they believe in things,
(04:35):
they have morals, they have ethics. We see all that,
and it's funny we don't see none of that from
the Jamestown settlers. They rarely have any type of religion.
The only religions they got is you know, like Christianity,
I guess, or you know, just a belief in a
Christian God, a doctrine. Right, And as time goes by
(04:56):
in this film, as we see the romance between these
two people of John Smith and Pokehontas, it's a it's
not as one would think, Oh man, they're gonna get
it on and all that stuff. Well, yeah, they do.
They do get it on, not that we see it, right,
And I'm glad that Terrence Malick decided to not put
a scene such as that because it's totally unnecessary and
(05:17):
a director such like Terrence Malick. He doesn't need to.
There's no reason why. You know, there's other shots that
really speak for themselves, and they represent truly grateful to
his work and to basically the point of the whole film,
the goal, right, the process, the journey. And when I
(05:39):
saw this film, I was looking at certain shots and
the way the voiceover dialogue just you know, matches the shots,
and I'm just like, man like you get to see
the style already, right, the style where it's very atmospheric
and there's a voiceover that's pretty much kind of it's
(06:00):
driving the story in a way where it's not so
too self explanatory, you know, like when we hear either
John Smith talk or Pocahonta's talk, you know, in voiceover fashion,
we get to see a slice of life between how
they interact with each other, how they feel about each other,
how they feel about life, how they question it. We
(06:23):
sort of get to hear their thoughts. But at the
same time as we hear these thoughts, they push the
story further because there's tension they express the tension, they
express the fear of what's to come or what could come. Obviously,
you can tell that these people are very much in love,
(06:44):
you know. And it's not necessarily an innocent love either, right,
you know, they are as far as I know, grown adults, right,
especially back in that time. But we get to see
a love that is sort of natural, right, sort of
not bound by anything, like not even religion can bound love.
(07:05):
And that's kind of a cool way to pretty much
challenge life and challenge the notion of freedom and liberty.
And it's funny because this film technically takes place in America, right, Virginia,
and obviously America is not even America then, right, it's
just land that doesn't even belong to the Jamestown settlers
(07:28):
in the first place. Right, But we get to see
this sense of like, you know, when you go to
a different country or whatever, you notice how people live,
and if you live there long enough, you pretty much
kind of adapt to it or gain a certain knowledge
(07:48):
as to what life is like somewhere else that's apart
from your own. And when John Smith was, you know,
in Virginia a couple of months he was there, he
realized how how pretty cool Native Americans have it because
they you can just tell that they care about life
so much, you know, they take it very seriously, because
(08:11):
they themselves feel that wherever they live gives them everything
that they need and more. And it's only fair to
pretty much not only celebrate it, but to worship it,
to give back to it, to maintain it, to nurture it,
help it grow, and all that stuff. And here you've
(08:32):
got people like John Smith trying to you know, pretty
much kind of pillage it, organize it in their own fashion,
like it's kind of fucked up. Man. You get to
see like two sides of the coin, and obviously neither
side is innocent or good, right, but at least the
Native Americans at least depicted in this film, right, you
(08:56):
can tell that they're about each other and other you know,
even outsiders. But you got two big fish in the
pond ones got to eat the other, right. And as
the film goes by, you get to see the Journey
of Pocahontas, which is really cool because it's cool in
the sense that you get to see how it would
(09:18):
look like right in Terrence Malick's vision, but you get
to see the you know, the crap that that really
happened with the Native Americans, where some of them got kidnapped,
some of them got captured. They've sort of been made
into slaves. I guess they were taught, you know, religion,
(09:40):
not their own spiritual values. You know, they had to
pretty much dump their old ways, even the way they dressed.
All these etiquettes how to cook and clean and farm
and all that stuff to serve your man or your
husband or just serving period, you know, and it's crazy.
And Pocahontas she gets to experience all this and at
(10:03):
the same time she experienced and Malick does this a
lot too in his films, where like you get to
see two kinds of romance affairs going on from the
same people in the sense, and it's kind of weird
that he does It's not weird that he does it.
It's very interesting that he does it because much like
in life, you know, when you're in love with somebody
and it doesn't work out for whatever reason, time goes
(10:26):
by and you're probably with somebody else, and then something
sparks up and sometimes you know your old flame is
still there in a weird way, sometimes you come back.
I don't know, it's crazy, but that's how life works sometimes,
you know. But anyways, that's what happens in this film.
But you get to see a young almost well not unrecognizable,
(10:50):
but a young Christian Beale who plays a very important
person in the time of America, earlier America, who was
like a you know, a big old exporter, a very
rich man, very rich man. Him and Pocahontas strike up
a romance of their own, and you can tell that
(11:13):
it's innocent. Between Pocahontas and John Rolf, very you know,
important character in history or a very important person here history.
You get to see what kind of life Rolf gives Pocahontas,
and I mean she likes it, obviously, and it strikes
(11:34):
upon the question as to is this the life I want?
Am I still hung up on John smith you know,
is he ever gonna come back? Why did he leave
all these things? You know, Pocons went through life, She
went through some tough stuff. She got abandoned by her
own try because she basically try to save John smith
Man from dying, from getting killed and from like basically
(11:59):
their whole town from getting destroyed. Right, and it was
only fair that she'd be exonerator from the tribe. And
that sucks, but hey, man, I guess that's what you
gotta do, right, Anyways, I love this film. I think
it's very important for filmmakers to watch this film really
(12:21):
because it tells a story through a lot of visuals,
a lot of choice of voiceovers, and not only that,
we carefully see a journey of life from how in
a sort of weird way, how America was built. You know,
things were built on love. Sometimes things were built on
(12:42):
the lack of it. It's hard to see the humanity
in each other. Sometimes it's hard to see the understanding
of it. Can we share land, can we be friends?
Can we really get the things that we want without
hurting anybody else? Nope, it turns out that you can't
because either way, some's gonna get hurt, some's gonna get
(13:05):
you know, thrown out of the whole situation. And it's
either me or you man. And honestly, that's the whole
thing about the New World. It's the new world where
you can make it whatever you want it to be,
because it's so new and fresh, ready for build and
only you want it. And I don't know if you
(13:26):
want to share it with anybody else. But there's people
like John Rove who wanted to share that with Pocahontas
and look with the life, look at the life that
they had with each other. Towards the ending of the
film is pretty good. It's poetic, you know, it's very romantic,
and it's funny because this film doesn't feel so romantic.
(13:46):
It's very like, I'm not gonna say jungle type of love,
you know, where it's just nasty and raw and lustful.
It's much more sophisticated than that. It's funny to see
two different cultures, two different lives who don't know each
other's cultures, are lives right, get to experience something that's
(14:07):
very natural and very mutual at the same time. And
it's crazy that we as humans can even do that.
And look at what we build. Then, like when you
see like how Jamestown was looking like, and then when
you see how England is when they go back to
England or wherever country there they go back to, or
rather when like you get to see the tribes and
(14:30):
all that stuff. You get to see what was then,
and you're like, whoa, Like all this was just untouched land.
How do we go from this to like right here
right now where I'm talking onto a mic to a recorder,
you know, live on the internet and all that stuff
in a building like, dude, crazy, how that happened? Right?
(14:50):
My name is Ray Salazar. Check out my website, Marnshaw Films.
Do't cel You get to see a bunch of fun
stuff and merch and more morning real podcasts. The next
morning Reel Point Break the Catherine Bigelow version. Obviously, I
don't know why they made a remake. Whoever green lit
that man like you guys are idiots. Not sorry, and
(15:14):
stay tuned for Sasquatch Sunset. Thank you.
Hello. My name is Ray Salazar in This is Morning Real.
If I see it, I review it. It's a three
to four to one hundred minute or soap podcasts of
films that are review from black and white to technicolor
from nineteen hundred to twenty twenty four. Here you have
to talk about a film. Very briefly, it's called The
(00:22):
New World. It's a film that is written and directed
by Terrence Malick. If you don't know who Terrence Malick is,
he is what like in like hip hop music, a
rapper's favorite rapper. Well, in the film world, it's a
director's favorite director. He's been doing work since the seventies.
(00:45):
All of his work is very interesting and unique. As
time goes by in his career, Terrence Malick begins to
be very visual in his work, where it's more visuals
than dialogue and action. You know, sometimes when you shoot
a field of sunflowers just being their natural selves and
(01:07):
the windy sunset, and that's all you're seeing, it's as
poetic as as it can get from Terrence Malick. Now
I want to talk about the New World. What is
the New World? It's a two thousand and five romantic
drama film. And if you know Terrence Malick's work when
it comes to romance, honestly they're pretty similar, you know, similar.
(01:31):
Well not plots are different, right, but the goal is
the same. It's the process, the depiction of a romance
between two people, man and a woman, and we see
periods of their life, whether they're together or not. And
in this film is not like every other film. Really,
(01:54):
this is about the Jamestown settlement. You know how like
people in England, they went to Virginia and they settled here.
That's the Jamestown And this film is kind of crazy
that Madick decided to take a chance on poon the
story of Pocahontas. I mean, as we all know, Pocahonta's
(02:16):
very famous figure in American history. You know. The film
is based on the romance between Pocahontas, Pocahontas and John Smith.
Let me give you a quick quick Rundown Reindirected by
Terrence Malick, Produced by Sarah Green, starring Colin Farrell, Christopher Plummer,
Christian Bale, August Schellenberg, West Study, and Ki Ranka Kilture.
(02:43):
What a Name. Cinematography by the legendary Emanuel Lubeski. Edited
by four editors Damn Richard Chu, Hank Corwin, Sar Klein,
and Mark Yoshikawa. Music by James Horner. Production companies First
Foot Films, Sarah Green Film and Sunflower Productions. Distributed by
(03:05):
New Line Cinema Woo Woo Entertainment Film Distributors, and it
was released in Christmas Day of two thousand and five. Incredible.
It's not a long film, you know, it's about one
hundred and fifty minutes, you know, not a big thing
to watch. But anyways, this film pretty much depicts the
(03:28):
story of Pocahontas and John Smith and the romance together.
As you know, John Smith came from another land and
into the Virginian lands that were obviously founded by well,
not founded, but just inhabited by fucking Native Americans. Man,
and the Native Americans were we're gonna kill the people
(03:49):
of Jamestown, and Pokemonas pretty much saved their asses and
saved their asses again when they were sort of settling nearby,
and it was wintertime and obviously they've never experienced a winter,
you know, in Indian land or Native American land, i
should say, and they were dying, and guess what Pocahontas
(04:11):
saved their asses again. But in the midst of all
the saving and discovering between two different peoples, right, because
obviously we get to see how these Native Americans live,
you know, and it's like any other indigenous tribe. You know,
they're living among their own means. You know, they hunter,
her they hunt, they gather, they teach, they believe in things,
(04:35):
they have morals, they have ethics. We see all that,
and it's funny we don't see none of that from
the Jamestown settlers. They rarely have any type of religion.
The only religions they got is you know, like Christianity,
I guess, or you know, just a belief in a
Christian God, a doctrine. Right, And as time goes by
(04:56):
in this film, as we see the romance between these
two people of John Smith and Pokehontas, it's a it's
not as one would think, Oh man, they're gonna get
it on and all that stuff. Well, yeah, they do.
They do get it on, not that we see it, right,
And I'm glad that Terrence Malick decided to not put
a scene such as that because it's totally unnecessary and
(05:17):
a director such like Terrence Malick. He doesn't need to.
There's no reason why. You know, there's other shots that
really speak for themselves, and they represent truly grateful to
his work and to basically the point of the whole film,
the goal, right, the process, the journey. And when I
(05:39):
saw this film, I was looking at certain shots and
the way the voiceover dialogue just you know, matches the shots,
and I'm just like, man like you get to see
the style already, right, the style where it's very atmospheric
and there's a voiceover that's pretty much kind of it's
(06:00):
driving the story in a way where it's not so
too self explanatory, you know, like when we hear either
John Smith talk or Pocahonta's talk, you know, in voiceover fashion,
we get to see a slice of life between how
they interact with each other, how they feel about each other,
how they feel about life, how they question it. We
(06:23):
sort of get to hear their thoughts. But at the
same time as we hear these thoughts, they push the
story further because there's tension they express the tension, they
express the fear of what's to come or what could come. Obviously,
you can tell that these people are very much in love,
(06:44):
you know. And it's not necessarily an innocent love either, right,
you know, they are as far as I know, grown adults, right,
especially back in that time. But we get to see
a love that is sort of natural, right, sort of
not bound by anything, like not even religion can bound love.
(07:05):
And that's kind of a cool way to pretty much
challenge life and challenge the notion of freedom and liberty.
And it's funny because this film technically takes place in America, right, Virginia,
and obviously America is not even America then, right, it's
just land that doesn't even belong to the Jamestown settlers
(07:28):
in the first place. Right, But we get to see
this sense of like, you know, when you go to
a different country or whatever, you notice how people live,
and if you live there long enough, you pretty much
kind of adapt to it or gain a certain knowledge
(07:48):
as to what life is like somewhere else that's apart
from your own. And when John Smith was, you know,
in Virginia a couple of months he was there, he
realized how how pretty cool Native Americans have it because
they you can just tell that they care about life
so much, you know, they take it very seriously, because
(08:11):
they themselves feel that wherever they live gives them everything
that they need and more. And it's only fair to
pretty much not only celebrate it, but to worship it,
to give back to it, to maintain it, to nurture it,
help it grow, and all that stuff. And here you've
(08:32):
got people like John Smith trying to you know, pretty
much kind of pillage it, organize it in their own fashion,
like it's kind of fucked up. Man. You get to
see like two sides of the coin, and obviously neither
side is innocent or good, right, but at least the
Native Americans at least depicted in this film, right, you
(08:56):
can tell that they're about each other and other you know,
even outsiders. But you got two big fish in the
pond ones got to eat the other, right. And as
the film goes by, you get to see the Journey
of Pocahontas, which is really cool because it's cool in
the sense that you get to see how it would
(09:18):
look like right in Terrence Malick's vision, but you get
to see the you know, the crap that that really
happened with the Native Americans, where some of them got kidnapped,
some of them got captured. They've sort of been made
into slaves. I guess they were taught, you know, religion,
(09:40):
not their own spiritual values. You know, they had to
pretty much dump their old ways, even the way they dressed.
All these etiquettes how to cook and clean and farm
and all that stuff to serve your man or your
husband or just serving period, you know, and it's crazy.
And Pocahontas she gets to experience all this and at
(10:03):
the same time she experienced and Malick does this a
lot too in his films, where like you get to
see two kinds of romance affairs going on from the
same people in the sense, and it's kind of weird
that he does It's not weird that he does it.
It's very interesting that he does it because much like
in life, you know, when you're in love with somebody
and it doesn't work out for whatever reason, time goes
(10:26):
by and you're probably with somebody else, and then something
sparks up and sometimes you know your old flame is
still there in a weird way, sometimes you come back.
I don't know, it's crazy, but that's how life works sometimes,
you know. But anyways, that's what happens in this film.
But you get to see a young almost well not unrecognizable,
(10:50):
but a young Christian Beale who plays a very important
person in the time of America, earlier America, who was
like a you know, a big old exporter, a very
rich man, very rich man. Him and Pocahontas strike up
a romance of their own, and you can tell that
(11:13):
it's innocent. Between Pocahontas and John Rolf, very you know,
important character in history or a very important person here history.
You get to see what kind of life Rolf gives Pocahontas,
and I mean she likes it, obviously, and it strikes
(11:34):
upon the question as to is this the life I want?
Am I still hung up on John smith you know,
is he ever gonna come back? Why did he leave
all these things? You know, Pocons went through life, She
went through some tough stuff. She got abandoned by her
own try because she basically try to save John smith
Man from dying, from getting killed and from like basically
(11:59):
their whole town from getting destroyed. Right, and it was
only fair that she'd be exonerator from the tribe. And
that sucks, but hey, man, I guess that's what you
gotta do, right, Anyways, I love this film. I think
it's very important for filmmakers to watch this film really
(12:21):
because it tells a story through a lot of visuals,
a lot of choice of voiceovers, and not only that,
we carefully see a journey of life from how in
a sort of weird way, how America was built. You know,
things were built on love. Sometimes things were built on
(12:42):
the lack of it. It's hard to see the humanity
in each other. Sometimes it's hard to see the understanding
of it. Can we share land, can we be friends?
Can we really get the things that we want without
hurting anybody else? Nope, it turns out that you can't
because either way, some's gonna get hurt, some's gonna get
(13:05):
you know, thrown out of the whole situation. And it's
either me or you man. And honestly, that's the whole
thing about the New World. It's the new world where
you can make it whatever you want it to be,
because it's so new and fresh, ready for build and
only you want it. And I don't know if you
(13:26):
want to share it with anybody else. But there's people
like John Rove who wanted to share that with Pocahontas
and look with the life, look at the life that
they had with each other. Towards the ending of the
film is pretty good. It's poetic, you know, it's very romantic,
and it's funny because this film doesn't feel so romantic.
(13:46):
It's very like, I'm not gonna say jungle type of love,
you know, where it's just nasty and raw and lustful.
It's much more sophisticated than that. It's funny to see
two different cultures, two different lives who don't know each
other's cultures, are lives right, get to experience something that's
(14:07):
very natural and very mutual at the same time. And
it's crazy that we as humans can even do that.
And look at what we build. Then, like when you
see like how Jamestown was looking like, and then when
you see how England is when they go back to
England or wherever country there they go back to, or
rather when like you get to see the tribes and
(14:30):
all that stuff. You get to see what was then,
and you're like, whoa, Like all this was just untouched land.
How do we go from this to like right here
right now where I'm talking onto a mic to a recorder,
you know, live on the internet and all that stuff
in a building like, dude, crazy, how that happened? Right?
(14:50):
My name is Ray Salazar. Check out my website, Marnshaw Films.
Do't cel You get to see a bunch of fun
stuff and merch and more morning real podcasts. The next
morning Reel Point Break the Catherine Bigelow version. Obviously, I
don't know why they made a remake. Whoever green lit
that man like you guys are idiots. Not sorry, and
(15:14):
stay tuned for Sasquatch Sunset. Thank you.
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