{"id":14591,"date":"2007-03-02T20:47:57","date_gmt":"2007-03-03T01:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=14591"},"modified":"2016-07-24T01:27:27","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T05:27:27","slug":"the-new-world-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/02\/the-new-world-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"The New World (2005)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"new_world\"<\/a>The story of Pocahontas just isn\u2019t interesting. There\u2019s nothing about this pseudo-historical tale about a young woman who became civilized that attracts it to me. With \u201cThe New World,\u201d there\u2019s no new angle presented to the audience, no new exploration of other characters, and the soapy drippy romance is still present and accounted for. \u201cThe New World\u201d just didn\u2019t live up to the hype that preceded it, and that\u2019s because Malick anxiously looks for a new method of telling this yarn and pretty much never achieves his goals in that respect from the get go.<\/p>\n

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Once again the settlers interrupt the land, fight the Native Americans, John Smith falls in love with Pocahontas, and we\u2019re right back to square one. Who can blame John Smith for falling for Pocahontas? Q\u2019Orianka Kilcher is an absolutely gorgeous creature, so it\u2019s no surprise the men here fall for her. Hell, I was smitten by the time the second half rolled around. She\u2019s the most stunning actress to portray this character ever, and she\u2019s filled with such a sense of attraction that doesn\u2019t entirely lie on sexual appeal, but more in innocence and the surprises she offers to the men she falls for. Kilcher\u2019s depiction of her makes her an awfully sympathetic girl who never grew up and came in touch with her culture. She\u2019s a woman struggling to remain loyal to her tribe, yet is amazed at Western culture and its offerings.<\/p>\n

After almost an hour of John Smith struggling to remain loyal to his troops, though, while discovering the beauty of the Native American civilization, suddenly Christian Bale enters as another settler who also falls in love with Kilcher\u2019s character. We\u2019re given yet another dull repetitive sequence of the two falling for one another amidst whispering narration between them, most of which are never as dramatic as Malick hopes. \u201cThe New World\u201d often comes off as hacky devices to make up for lack of competent editing that could tell us more than the constant narration could, in the end. One of the reasons why \u201cThe New World\u201d is such an interesting epic, is the wonderful direction from Terence Malick manages to invoke a sense of grandeur almost as if he\u2019s not even trying. Some of the set pieces are so down and gritty that you can never really notice what Malick has accomplished in terms of scale.<\/p>\n

Some of the scenes are so eloquent that they don\u2019t need dialogue. Which is why \u201cThe New World\u201d is mostly based around expressions, and visuals, and awe, because Malick displays faith in his cast and own abilities. It\u2019s not only the language barrier that prevents Smith from exchanging with Pocahontas, but it\u2019s the fact that this relationship between Smith and Pocahontas is quaint that sappy dialogue is just not wholly necessary. \u201cThe New World\u201d has the right idea, but in holding the audiences hands, and the bland story, it never lives up to the expectations it precedes. I was disappointed that “The New World” simply wasn’t as good as I’d hoped. In spite of excellent direction, it’s still a rather boring, and often pretentious bit of romance that’s neither original nor memorable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The story of Pocahontas just isn\u2019t interesting. There\u2019s nothing about this pseudo-historical tale about a young woman who became civilized that attracts it to me. With \u201cThe New World,\u201d there\u2019s no new angle presented to the audience, no new exploration of other characters, and the soapy drippy romance is still present and accounted for. \u201cThe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[58,64,71,198,302,469,706,874,1036],"class_list":["post-14591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-adaptation","tag-adventure","tag-christian-bale","tag-drama","tag-history","tag-n","tag-romance","tag-terence-malick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21570,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14591\/revisions\/21570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}