BackgroundDays of Heaven(1978) is an exquisite, lyrical film of exceptional visual beauty and only the second film of writer-director Terrence Malick, following his critically-acclaimed success with an equally-haunting and visually-strikingBadlands (1973).When the elevator reaches he ground floor, he escorts the women off the elevator first, using he people around him to escape from the thugs.He was to be trained as a skilled gladiator in his training school (ludus) at Capua.When they arrived, the "dirty-looking lot" of slave-trainees were assembled to listen to Batiatus:Here, you will be trained by experts to fight in pairs to the death.Krull knew what that meant for Thade: "The senate has capitulated.He answers to no one now." Leo""s plan against insurmountable odds was to have the humans break up and scatter, and he would draw them off.During a "last stand" against the fearsome creature, Girion had attempted to slay it using Black Arrows fired from a mounted windlance crossbow.