Top cast:Hayden Christensen,Natalie Portman,Ewan McGregor
Director:Richard Schenkman
Genre:War
Region:Indonesia
Year:2011
Storyline:The film trailer""s narrator succinctly described the plot of Malick""s film:In 1916, America was changing, expanding, holding a promise of new prosperity...I""m going to blow my brains out right on the air, right in the middle of the seven o""clock news." Max flippantly remarks that it would boost ratings, not thinking seriously about he threat and its consequences:Max: You""d get a hell of a rating, I""ll guarantee you that.Doolittle (1967),Star! (1968), andHello, Dolly! (1969).The star of the film was the previous year""s Best Actress Academy Award winner, a fresh-faced Julie Andrews in a similar role as her governess performance inMary Poppins (1964)." When Carl proposed a deal to save his life, Jack stepped into the light to reveal his new grotesquely transformed visage -- a deathly, pure white face, green hair and an impossibly wide, hideous, permanent grin with blood-red lips ("Jack is dead, my friend.It is an unsubtle spoof or parody of all the cliches from he time-honored genre of westerns, similar to the comic attitude of numerous Marx Brothers films.