Knight of Cups opens in limited release on Friday, March 4. He’s trying to capture a certain emotion.” The whole movie is memory, fragmented and imperfect - and that’s what Terry wants, so it feels like life. Oscar-winning cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, who also shot Malick’s 2011 film Tree of Life, said of his work on Knight of Cups: “I was trying to capture the scenes from the perspective of Christian’s character, trying to create a feeling of memory. I’m so used to preparing for a role, and there was no preparation at all.” I ask Christian, ‘Will you help me out and give me a few lines?’ And he goes, ‘I don’t think you got the memo, but I don’t speak.’ It was liberating because truly you’re forced to be moment to moment, to be present, to listen and observe. Just be and see what happens.’”ĭuring the Q&A, which was moderated by actor-director Scott Cooper, Palmer said of the process, “I was given six pages and they were taken away from me. It’s not like you had to be really funny or on it. In terms of what the film meant to him, Bentley explained: “It’s a story about losing where you came from and who you are and what brings you to a place like Los Angeles to express your art … and then how do you lose that?”įor Knight of Cups, many of the actors improvised their lines, which Bale told THR: “With Terry, it’s not like to improvise it means, ‘Quick, talk a lot.’ Improvise could be actually saying nothing. And then Terry works with the actors on a day-to-day basis for the actual dialogue.” Regarding the absence of a script, she said: “We work with a treatment, and we work with a very definite storyline. Just magic!”įilming began in 2012 without a script, which producer Sarah Green said is part of Malick’s process: “We like to take our time in post, and we build that into the schedule so that Terry has the opportunity to experiment and try a lot of things.” He has this beautiful, childlike outlook on the world. The film title itself is based on a tarot card as well, referring to a romantic adventurer guided by his emotions.Ĭlifton Collins Jr., who also will star in Malick’s next film, Weightless, enthused about the director: “It’s like working with the great Oz. Knight of Cups is divided into chapters that are named after tarot cards, including The Moon, Death, The Hanged Man and The High Priestess. He is addicted to success but simultaneously despairs at the emptiness of his life. The story centers on Rick, who serves as the basis of the overall film, which THR’s Todd McCarthy described in a Berlin review last year as “more partial to free association and stream-of-consciousness notations than to conventional storytelling.” Rick, a disillusioned screenwriter, reflects upon his privileged life and complex relationships with his family and with women in a Hollywood devoid of meaning.
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