Malick really captured the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay and it's surrounding forests. I live about 30 minutes from where this was shot. During the spring and summer it's beautiful, very lush and green with lots of untouched land even now.
I live near an hour away from where this movie was made (and only found out bc upon asking where one of the ships was at Jamestown being told that it was being used for filming on movie called The New World) with the exception of the river scenes filmed here in Richmond. The area around the bay and Jamestown is exceptionally beautiful.
@@tmtmcclaskie807 Right? Virginia itself has so much untouched land in general. Towards the mountains it's amazing how much natural forests we still have and natural beauty. I love living here because of that.
People will be revisiting this movie 100 years from now. The music, the majesty, the vibe is simply majestic. Another poster said that this was 4 minutes of perfection and i absolutely agree. the entire movie is like this. Terrence Malick has been working on a film called "the tree of life" and it will be similar in tone to this film. An unvisited, unloved, Stanley Kubrick on Steroids for modern times.
The most profound beginning of any movie about America in terms of its historical significance. The beginning of the land which would ultimately become the United States. The beginning of the end for an ancient civilization, the Powhatan. The movie begins with the Vorspiel from Richard Wagner’s opera, Das Rheingold. And, like the opera, this movie begins underwater and involves gold. In the opera, the theft of gold, in 1607, the search for gold. The founding of Jamestown was an economic venture. Gold would assure the profitability for the investors.
@@ninecatsmagee8384 All the world history as been seeing this situation, thousands of years before this even happened and for the same reason, and for land also. It is history and life of humanity happening. And a lot worse happened to uncoutable other people and civilazations across time that disappeared completely . Get out of your high horse.
@@eclipsesolar8345 an adequate response from an individual that sees past his own life. If only my generation focused on the grand, not the individual so much.
@@eclipsesolar8345 Just because something's happened for "thousands of years" doesn't make it right, or moral, or justified. That's like saying because murder than been around forever, it's ok and just part of world history if someone was to come to your house and kill your family and take your home for themselves.
Jamestown and other North American settlements were not driven by the search for gold. You are thinking of the Spanish in Mexico and Peru. The consequences of European settlement were no less catastrophic for Native Americans for that reason, but I think your history is incorrect
I really enjoy the emphasis you put into your question. The time to write "lovin'" instead of loving to display the southern racially bigoted kind of accent that goes with such things. Fucking hilarious. Educated and bigoted. A real zinger.
This is so beautiful, it just gives me goosebumps. This is such a wonderful elegy of what was the New World at the time, pure and mainly unknown. Makes me dream and wonder everytime.
I love these scenes when its just beautiful music filled with expression and sounds of nature with no dialogue at all. There is so much expression you could gather from the scenery and their faces that the actors don't even need to say anything for you to be able to understand the message.
i can't tell you how happy i am to see that other people love this movie too. there are very few people around me who don't think this movie is a piece of shit. i haven't seen such a beautiful cinematography in a LONG time. probably will never see it again. this movie is pure poetry and that's why i love it. in my opinion, it's one of the best movies ever :-)
A movie that really needs to be seen projected on film to be truly appreciated. Caught a screening in LA last year. A lot of this was shot on 65mm film and everything is so richly textured and full of detail.
This is one of my favorite films. It is stunning and the cinematography is captivating. The beauty of simplicity is what makes this extraordinary. The feeling of what was and was lost is heartbreaking.
Yeah, the ladies came later in 1618 to Jamestown. My 14th great-grandfather was Nathanniel Powell (1607 Jamestown and 4 trips transatlantic thereafter). I am also a descendent of Wiliam Brewster (1620 Ship Mayflower) and Sir Richard Denton (1622 Ship James - New Amsterdam). I wish my family still owned The Hamptons. We always sell too early. haha
Filmmaker Terrance Malick's choice to use "Vorspeil" to open and close "The New World" is absolutely brilliant. "Vorspeil" (literally translated as "foreplay") is the prelude to "Das Reingold, the first in a four-opera cycle, "Der Ring des Nibelungen" ("The Ring of the Nibelung"), composed by Richard Wagner. True film buffs will also remember that another filmmaking genius, Francis Ford Coppola, used another excerpt from "The Ring of the Nibelung, "The Ride of the Valkyries," for the sequence of his "Apocalypse Now," where the U.S. Army Airborne helicopters attack the Viet Cong Village. "Das Reingold" premiered in Munich, Germany, in 1869, while the complete cycle was first mounted in its entirety at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus in 1876 (coincidentally the centennial year of the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America). The Nibelung of the title is the dwarf Alberich, and the ring in question is the one he fashions from the Rhine Gold (shades of Tolkein's "Lord of the Rings" (1954-55). The choice of "Vorspeil" is particularly apt. In the contexts of both the opera and the film, it is meant to suggest a watery beginning, and to foreshadow an encounter between children of nature and a not entirely welcome intruder(s). (The following is derived from Wikipedia:) As the curtain rises on "Das Reingold," the three Rhine maidens--Woglinde, Wellgunde, and Flosshilde--are playing together at the bottom of the Rhine river. Alberich, a Nibelung dwarf, appears from a deep chasm and tries to woo them. Struck by Alberich's ugliness, the Rhine maidens mock his advances and he grows angry. He chases them and tries to catch them in his arms, but they elude him and laugh. As the sun begins to rise, the maidens praise the golden glow atop a nearby rock; Alberich asks what it is. The Rhine maidens tell him about the Rhine gold, which their father has ordered them to guard: it can be made into a magic ring which will let its bearer rule the world, but that person must first renounces love. The maidens think they have nothing to fear from the lustful dwarf, but Alberich, embittered by their mockery, curses love, seizes the gold and returns to his chasm, leaving them screaming in dismay. Continuing with my own thoughts: These details are echoed in the shots of the indigenous people swimming underwater, the arrival of ships up the Chesapeake River bearing fortune seekers, and John Smith confined below-decks (who will emerge to woo Pocahontas, and then renounce love). The parallels between the tragedy of "The Ring" and the revisionist narrative with respect to this encounter between indigenous people of "The New World" and colonists from "The Old World" are obvious: The "lustful" newcomers "curse" the "New World" in its natural state, seize "the gold" and exploit every other resource, and leave the native inhabitants "screaming in dismay." It may not be the whole truth, but it certainly is one version of it. And I have to believe that Terrance Malick intended to make oblique, and in some respects specific, reference to the plot of "Das Reingold," not only in this opening scene but in the course of the film generally. And this, to my mind, is one of the things that elevates "The New World" to the realm of great art.
Excellent analysis RONFORMAN, beautifully stated ... also I have two unique additions. You mentioned Apocalypse Now - and alluded to the use of Wagner to spook the locals. Here is a metaphorical, non didactic use of the same tactic, masterful. Haunting. Also in the way the American Natives hide within trees is reminiscent of Thin Red Line during the opening sequence, the AWOL marines hide with Oceania Natives among trees as ominous ships sail in.
I loved this movie and it remains one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. To write epic poetry is one thing, to make a movie, something else, but to make a epic poetry movie is something that has never been done before. I loved it! The closing sequence remains to this day my favourite of any film.
beautiful and that music just gives you the chills. either you love Malicks movies or you hate them , there's no in between. perfect example was, when I saw this movie half the people were sleeping while the other half were riveted
I love this film and all of Terrence Malick's work. But this opening scene absolutely makes my heart quake each time I see it. What a perfect pairing of magnificent Wagner and remarkable cinematography. The choreography of the natives in the trees is breathtaking.
My family landed on the ship Susan Constant. The two other ships were the Discovery and the Godspeed. Brave souls! Proud to be a 14th generation American.
We are the ones who have given so much to this world. We are the ones who have touched this planet like no others. We are the ones who have so much of which to be proud. Walk on. Stand tall... We are the English! The darkest hour is the one before dawn breaks. LONG LIVE OUR BELOVED ENGLAND!
yes, stone age life in bark huts, starving babies nearly every winter, one crop failure from famine, brutal rites performed for religon (no, not stories of priests molesting boys, sacrifice of captives. Warfare that commonly included torture of captives (not bush waterboarding, but burning captives at the stake, sometimes by sticking hundreds of tiny pine splinters in and lighting them, etc. Now attack my "phony" facts.......(IE historically documented).......My grandfather was full blood catawba, a SC tribe. He as an old man laughed at the "dream hoop" new age hippy fauxcohontas crowd, the "my grandmother was 1/5 cherokee" PC warriors...they are always nearly cherokee, it seems to be the only tribe they know of. The american indian lived in a harsh, brutal stone age world. They had many admirable traits, but their lives were far from beautiful paradise fantasies. Thats why by 1800, many iroquois (in western NY) some of the most advanced of tribes, had adopted the whitemans warm weatherproof houses, and grew orchards and kept individual farms...........this new pc babble is just a continuation of 19th century victorian romanticism mixed with leftist politics..........there was no vivalde playing in 1607 virginia. Now go ahead and someone attack me, call me a hater, tell me how you are grand poobaa with the lakota" national council.....................I grew up loving my grandad. I was a woodsman and hunter from the age of 6. I have been a student of american history since i could read. But at 50 plus I am tired of stupid revisionist crap used to run down my country. I am a black man, with Indian and white family members. I am a retired soldier. I do not suffer fools gracefully any more
Wayne Patterson Your comment was marked as spam, so I restored it, although it will probably be spammed again. Anyway, don't be mad, my comment wasn't an attack on anyone and all the bad things you mentioned have their modern equivalence. Their bark huts worked just fine for them and they stored food for winters. Yes they killed some of their prisoners of war and we still do that today. They burned their enemies alive by putting them on stakes and we burn our enemies alive by dropping bombs on them, they were one crop failure away from possible famine and we are one pay check failure away from possible famine. It's all relative. Why would someone who claims to descend from this way of life get offended by someone admiring their history? Seems a bit strange if you ask me.
James Horner is one of the most gifted film composers in the industry...unfortunately, he did not compose the most moving themes in The New World (save for "Listen to the Wind", of course). The piece you hear in this sequence is by Richard Wagner from the opera "Das Rheingold". It's called Vorspiel/Prelude. The pieces by Mozart are also quite nice. Too bad none of this made it to the CD!!!
tgureckis, thanks for the upload. I used it in my 8th class for kids to write about the arrival of the English from the perspective of the British or the Natives. Again, thanks.
"And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors’ eyes - a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees...had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder." -F. Scott Fitzgerald
Notice the brillance of introducing the movie with an underwater shot: we as human species come from the sea and we then came to land. Water is life. The arrival of the white men is like they are coming to life by discovering this new land which was a like rebirth: the New World. Absolutely brilliant from Terrence Malick
Heel mooie herinneringen aan mijn overleden vrouw Gudrun von Bücken 21 - 06 --2013...vooral bij deze prachtige muziek RHEINGOLD ..van Richard Wagner...Deze magnifique film hadden wij vaker samen gezien .....with tears in my eyes...
Yes, yes that's right ... Tarkovsky, Ceylan, Zvjagintsev and Malick bring you into the other time and space ... They want you to enjoy with their - your eyes and sound and at the same time forget your presence ... This is real film art! La vie le grande Cinema!
A superb blend of cinematic images and evocative music... this opening sequence is Malick at his best. Come to think of it, when wasn't Malick at his best?
The most profound beginning of any movie ever in terms of its historical significance. The beginning of the land which would ultimately become the United States. The beginning of the end for an ancient civilization, the Powhatan. Like the opera,Das Rheingold, this movie begins underwater and involves gold. In the opera, the theft of gold, in 1607, the search for gold. The founding of Jamestown was an economic venture. Gold would assure the profitability for the investors.
its not an action movie, but its definatly a really good one, its the story visuals and music that make it, make sure you are compfy and have snacks tho ;)
Kubrick and Malick are both masters of impossibly incredible cinematography but Kubrick's is more sterile in its hunt for perfection whereas Malick's understands the soul is perfection.
@@AngelofMusic04 Kubrick looks for perfection in complete control of every aspect of his filmmaking. Malick looks for perfection in the natural, spontaneous and unpredictability of life itself, going to great lenghts to capture that on film. In The Tree of Life, his crew interrupted filming and followed Jessica Chastain chasing a butterfly for an hour and half, only to use about 10 seconds of beautiful footage.
@NiKKiBSEXCii Me too, I felt really sad and confused at the end. According to wikipedia Pocahontas died at age 21/22.So young!! I can't imagine how it felt like to change an indian's life and go live in other civilizations in that time. You must be really strong to withstand such a cultural shock!!
I first time layed eyes on the actor Christopher Plummer from this production on dvd. I secondly saw him as British Army Field Marshal Sir Arthur Wellesley His Grace The 1st Duke of Wellington. Waterloo 1970.
I saw Thin Red Line. I'm not into war movies much, but it was good. New World and Thin Red Line are the only two movies I've seen of his, but I love how he uses natural lighting in them.
August Werner Schellenberg (July 25, 1936 - August 15, 2013) was a Canadian actor. He played Randolph in the first three installments of the Free Willy film series (1993-1997) as well as characters in Black Robe (1991), The New World (2005), and dozens of other films and television shows.
The American people weren't ready for such a beautiful film like The New World. But Tree of Life is going to blow everyone away. There won't be any way to ignore it. It's going to get America excited about the power of film again.
The fact that anyone here is using the internet, speaking English, using hit running water, and wearing trousers is a testament to what these brave men achieved by bring civilization to the world. Thank you Europe.
They aren't native. They were only here prior to the Europeans showing up. The American Indians slaughtered whoever was here before them. Also, many Indian tribes feuded over the centuries and they slaughtered each other in the process.
Eclipse Solar 83 He's right, but only in a material and technological sense, there's more to life than that. It was, of course, inevitable - at some point the Europeans were going to find this continent and, it almost wouldn't have mattered who it was that arrived first, as the outcomes - slavery, war, disease and decimation, would have been the same. One would think though, that nations with so much professed allegiance to Christ's teachings would have found a way to apply them in dealings with the occupants of the Americas; to take care of the weak and the poor, do unto others, etc. Instead the interaction was completely antithetical to Christian beliefs - abusive, exploitative, opportunistic and ultimately murderous. I've heard it put this way - that we were given a vision of Eden before the fall and, instead of being enthralled and enchanted, we were terrified by the recognition of what we'd lost and frenetically stomped it out, so we wouldn't have to see it anymore.
the scoring very peaceful i remember watching Phantom der Nacth Nosferatu the Vampyre - werner herzog. it is the same taste ! great ambience by Richard Wagner "Der Ring des Nibelungen, Das Rheingold Act 1: Prelude-Part I". loveeeee xoxoxo
Terrence Malik was a genius for setting Wagner’s Rheingold as a prelude to this opening scene. Perfection
Yes I don't believe too many people appreciate the sublty of that he use.
This is one of the most under appreciated movies of all time. This scene paralyzes me.
Yes it is beyond breathtaking. Just thinking of how it must have been and what came after.
I feel it too.
Same.
I agree. It is incredible filmmaking. Malick's best film.
It must have been like the Garden Of Eden.
One of the finest openings to a movie that I’ve ever seen!
That opening makes me cry when i saw it 10 years ago.
And the ending...
This film, is an incredible masterpiece. And definitly the best film of this decade. Period.
Malick really captured the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay and it's surrounding forests. I live about 30 minutes from where this was shot. During the spring and summer it's beautiful, very lush and green with lots of untouched land even now.
When I was a kid my father drove around that area for a family trip through the Chesapeake Bay tunnel.
You are very, very lucky.
I live near an hour away from where this movie was made (and only found out bc upon asking where one of the ships was at Jamestown being told that it was being used for filming on movie called The New World) with the exception of the river scenes filmed here in Richmond. The area around the bay and Jamestown is exceptionally beautiful.
@@tmtmcclaskie807 Right? Virginia itself has so much untouched land in general. Towards the mountains it's amazing how much natural forests we still have and natural beauty. I love living here because of that.
What you can't imagine is what was actually inhabiting those shores. Not your half breed son who was murdered by Fitzgerald.
This is one of the most beautiful movies I have ever watched and I absolutely love the music. It continues to amaze me.
One of the greatest opening sequences in cinematic history. Magical!
A director who understands the transcendant nature of presence....
God bless Richard Wagner' s Music
Yes good music
@Ashmad Olayadiha "I'm so jealous that people prefer this over tradtional music from Muslim countries."
Truly one of the greatest opening scenes of any movie ever
This is the first Terrence Malick film that I saw and, I got mesmerized by the beauty in it. A masterpiece.
People will be revisiting this movie 100 years from now. The music, the majesty, the vibe is simply majestic. Another poster said that this was 4 minutes of perfection and i absolutely agree. the entire movie is like this. Terrence Malick has been working on a film called "the tree of life" and it will be similar in tone to this film. An unvisited, unloved, Stanley Kubrick on Steroids for modern times.
this is honestly the most beautiful film that i have ever seen. it's incredible, in nearly each and every aspect. i was blown away.
An incredibly beautiful movie. The cinematography and music score of the film takes it to a whole different level. My jaw drops each time I see this.
The most profound beginning of any movie about America in terms of its historical significance. The beginning of the land which would ultimately become the United States. The beginning of the end for an ancient civilization, the Powhatan. The movie begins with the Vorspiel from Richard Wagner’s opera, Das Rheingold. And, like the opera, this movie begins underwater and involves gold. In the opera, the theft of gold, in 1607, the search for gold. The founding of Jamestown was an economic venture. Gold would assure the profitability for the investors.
In both instances the theft of gold. Being "settlers" doesn't make them owners of the continental resources.
@@ninecatsmagee8384 All the world history as been seeing this situation, thousands of years before this even happened and for the same reason, and for land also. It is history and life of humanity happening. And a lot worse happened to uncoutable other people and civilazations across time that disappeared completely . Get out of your high horse.
@@eclipsesolar8345 an adequate response from an individual that sees past his own life. If only my generation focused on the grand, not the individual so much.
@@eclipsesolar8345 Just because something's happened for "thousands of years" doesn't make it right, or moral, or justified. That's like saying because murder than been around forever, it's ok and just part of world history if someone was to come to your house and kill your family and take your home for themselves.
Jamestown and other North American settlements were not driven by the search for gold. You are thinking of the Spanish in Mexico and Peru. The consequences of European settlement were no less catastrophic for Native Americans for that reason, but I think your history is incorrect
This movie needs to put in a time capsule when the human race is long gone..this will stand forever as the best we ever could do in cinema.
Eric Bennett I'd say a good portion of Malick's filmography could be put in a time capsule to exemplify what the best of humanity can do in cinema.
Plus one to that.
This film and The Thin Red Line are magnificent.
I really enjoy the emphasis you put into your question. The time to write "lovin'" instead of loving to display the southern racially bigoted kind of accent that goes with such things. Fucking hilarious. Educated and bigoted. A real zinger.
Easily one of the best opening sequences ever made. Malick is a genius when it comes to picking the right music.
Malick is a great film artist. Yes, there are issues (often mentioned) but nothing detracts from his fundamental vision and artistry. Bravo.
This is so beautiful, it just gives me goosebumps.
This is such a wonderful elegy of what was the New World at the time, pure and mainly unknown. Makes me dream and wonder everytime.
I love these scenes when its just beautiful music filled with expression and sounds of nature with no dialogue at all. There is so much expression you could gather from the scenery and their faces that the actors don't even need to say anything for you to be able to understand the message.
i can't tell you how happy i am to see that other people love this movie too. there are very few people around me who don't think this movie is a piece of shit.
i haven't seen such a beautiful cinematography in a LONG time. probably will never see it again. this movie is pure poetry and that's why i love it. in my opinion, it's one of the best movies ever :-)
A movie that really needs to be seen projected on film to be truly appreciated. Caught a screening in LA last year. A lot of this was shot on 65mm film and everything is so richly textured and full of detail.
Superbe, de tout beauté cette scène. J'adore !
This is one of my favorite films. It is stunning and the cinematography is captivating. The beauty of simplicity is what makes this extraordinary. The feeling of what was and was lost is heartbreaking.
What an amazing scene! I keep coming back to watch it. Pure brilliance!
Such a powerful and euphoric masterpiece to open such a great film.
Yeah, the ladies came later in 1618 to Jamestown. My 14th great-grandfather was Nathanniel Powell (1607 Jamestown and 4 trips transatlantic thereafter). I am also a descendent of Wiliam Brewster (1620 Ship Mayflower) and Sir Richard Denton (1622 Ship James - New Amsterdam).
I wish my family still owned The Hamptons. We always sell too early. haha
Truly one of the greatest film openings in history ever.
Filmmaker Terrance Malick's choice to use "Vorspeil" to open and close "The New World" is absolutely brilliant.
"Vorspeil" (literally translated as "foreplay") is the prelude to "Das Reingold, the first in a four-opera cycle, "Der Ring des Nibelungen" ("The Ring of the Nibelung"), composed by Richard Wagner. True film buffs will also remember that another filmmaking genius, Francis Ford Coppola, used another excerpt from "The Ring of the Nibelung, "The Ride of the Valkyries," for the sequence of his "Apocalypse Now," where the U.S. Army Airborne helicopters attack the Viet Cong Village.
"Das Reingold" premiered in Munich, Germany, in 1869, while the complete cycle was first mounted in its entirety at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus in 1876 (coincidentally the centennial year of the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America).
The Nibelung of the title is the dwarf Alberich, and the ring in question is the one he fashions from the Rhine Gold (shades of Tolkein's "Lord of the Rings" (1954-55).
The choice of "Vorspeil" is particularly apt. In the contexts of both the opera and the film, it is meant to suggest a watery beginning, and to foreshadow an encounter between children of nature and a not entirely welcome intruder(s).
(The following is derived from Wikipedia:)
As the curtain rises on "Das Reingold," the three Rhine maidens--Woglinde, Wellgunde, and Flosshilde--are playing together at the bottom of the Rhine river. Alberich, a Nibelung dwarf, appears from a deep chasm and tries to woo them. Struck by Alberich's ugliness, the Rhine maidens mock his advances and he grows angry. He chases them and tries to catch them in his arms, but they elude him and laugh.
As the sun begins to rise, the maidens praise the golden glow atop a nearby rock; Alberich asks what it is. The Rhine maidens tell him about the Rhine gold, which their father has ordered them to guard: it can be made into a magic ring which will let its bearer rule the world, but that person must first renounces love. The maidens think they have nothing to fear from the lustful dwarf, but Alberich, embittered by their mockery, curses love, seizes the gold and returns to his chasm, leaving them screaming in dismay.
Continuing with my own thoughts:
These details are echoed in the shots of the indigenous people swimming underwater, the arrival of ships up the Chesapeake River bearing fortune seekers, and John Smith confined below-decks (who will emerge to woo Pocahontas, and then renounce love).
The parallels between the tragedy of "The Ring" and the revisionist narrative with respect to this encounter between indigenous people of "The New World" and colonists from "The Old World" are obvious: The "lustful" newcomers "curse" the "New World" in its natural state, seize "the gold" and exploit every other resource, and leave the native inhabitants "screaming in dismay."
It may not be the whole truth, but it certainly is one version of it. And I have to believe that Terrance Malick intended to make oblique, and in some respects specific, reference to the plot of "Das Reingold," not only in this opening scene but in the course of the film generally. And this, to my mind, is one of the things that elevates "The New World" to the realm of great art.
They also use it in Nosferatu the Vampyre
Mmh, thanks for a top quality UA-cam comment-
Blessings
Excellent analysis RONFORMAN, beautifully stated ... also I have two unique additions.
You mentioned Apocalypse Now - and alluded to the use of Wagner to spook the locals. Here is a metaphorical, non didactic use of the same tactic, masterful. Haunting.
Also in the way the American Natives hide within trees is reminiscent of Thin Red Line during the opening sequence, the AWOL marines hide with Oceania Natives among trees as ominous ships sail in.
vorspiel, not vorspeil
Brilliant.
When watching scenes like this, i remember there's still someone who can achieve greatness and beauty trough motion art
I loved this movie and it remains one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. To write epic poetry is one thing, to make a movie, something else, but to make a epic poetry movie is something that has never been done before. I loved it! The closing sequence remains to this day my favourite of any film.
It has been done before once, watch THE RED TENT
Christopher Plummer....Timeless actor!
one of the best opening scenes ever put to film
beautiful and that music just gives you the chills.
either you love Malicks movies or you hate them , there's no in between. perfect example was, when I saw this movie half the people were sleeping while the other half were riveted
That music is from Richard Wagner
I love this film and all of Terrence Malick's work. But this opening scene absolutely makes my heart quake each time I see it. What a perfect pairing of magnificent Wagner and remarkable cinematography. The choreography of the natives in the trees is breathtaking.
My family landed on the ship Susan Constant. The two other ships were the Discovery and the Godspeed.
Brave souls! Proud to be a 14th generation American.
I fell in love with Q'orianka after watching this movie. Dear Jesus, what a beautiful woman.
Beautiful child in the film.
That's hold old my Great Grandmother was when she gave birth to my Grandfather in 1905.
@@RainforestBelle my grandmother gave birth to my uncle when she was that age. So, hell yeah, A WOMAN.
Wow, this is beautiful! Might have to check this movie out!
I love how Malick did NOT call this movie "Pocahontas", or allow that word to occur anywhere in the script.
It's worth noting that 'Pocahontas' was a nickname meaning 'little mischievous one'. Her real name was Matoaka.
My father introduced me to this STUNNING piece of music, I'm really getting into classical
RIP Christopher Plummer.
Wow it is so incredible ....
Maybe it is my favorite movie scene. The harmony between music and movie is so perfect !!
We are the ones who have given so much to this world.
We are the ones who have touched this planet like no others.
We are the ones who have so much of which to be proud.
Walk on. Stand tall...
We are the English!
The darkest hour is the one before dawn breaks. LONG LIVE OUR BELOVED ENGLAND!
This is such a beautiful movie, this is art to fullest potential.
Just look at the way of life that was taken from them. It almost brings me to tears.
yes, stone age life in bark huts, starving babies nearly every winter, one crop failure from famine, brutal rites performed for religon (no, not stories of priests molesting boys, sacrifice of captives. Warfare that commonly included torture of captives (not bush waterboarding, but burning captives at the stake, sometimes by sticking hundreds of tiny pine splinters in and lighting them, etc.
Now attack my "phony" facts.......(IE historically documented).......My grandfather was full blood catawba, a SC tribe. He as an old man laughed at the "dream hoop" new age hippy fauxcohontas crowd, the "my grandmother was 1/5 cherokee" PC warriors...they are always nearly cherokee, it seems to be the only tribe they know of. The american indian lived in a harsh, brutal stone age world. They had many admirable traits, but their lives were far from beautiful paradise fantasies. Thats why by 1800, many iroquois (in western NY) some of the most advanced of tribes, had adopted the whitemans warm weatherproof houses, and grew orchards and kept individual farms...........this new pc babble is just a continuation of 19th century victorian romanticism mixed with leftist politics..........there was no vivalde playing in 1607 virginia.
Now go ahead and someone attack me, call me a hater, tell me how you are grand poobaa with the lakota" national council.....................I grew up loving my grandad. I was a woodsman and hunter from the age of 6. I have been a student of american history since i could read. But at 50 plus I am tired of stupid revisionist crap used to run down my country. I am a black man, with Indian and white family members. I am a retired soldier. I do not suffer fools gracefully any more
Me too bro... ;(
Wayne Patterson Your comment was marked as spam, so I restored it, although it will probably be spammed again. Anyway, don't be mad, my comment wasn't an attack on anyone and all the bad things you mentioned have their modern equivalence. Their bark huts worked just fine for them and they stored food for winters. Yes they killed some of their prisoners of war and we still do that today. They burned their enemies alive by putting them on stakes and we burn our enemies alive by dropping bombs on them, they were one crop failure away from possible famine and we are one pay check failure away from possible famine. It's all relative. Why would someone who claims to descend from this way of life get offended by someone admiring their history? Seems a bit strange if you ask me.
Wayne Patterson better than be slaughtered directly by firearms I guess??
Don't cry for us, cry for what remains of the dream america killed so many indigenous people for.
Talk about asmr. This sounds great listening to it in the dark
OMG, the editing, cinematography, and music choice just blows me away.
When I first watched the film theatrically, I found it hard to breathe during this entire sequence. Overwhelming.
Always loved the 16th/17th century ship designs. Incredible scene.
James Horner is one of the most gifted film composers in the industry...unfortunately, he did not compose the most moving themes in The New World (save for "Listen to the Wind", of course). The piece you hear in this sequence is by Richard Wagner from the opera "Das Rheingold". It's called Vorspiel/Prelude. The pieces by Mozart are also quite nice. Too bad none of this made it to the CD!!!
That first scene with the natives looking on the ships makes me want to write a book
I know the feeling. This film is one of the most inspiring I've ever seen.
Makes me think of the end of the poor natives. But nothing lasts.
tgureckis, thanks for the upload. I used it in my 8th class for kids to write about the arrival of the English from the perspective of the British or the Natives. Again, thanks.
this movie truly is a phenomenon :-) i hope tree of life will be as good as this one.
the cast did an outstanding job! this is just amazing..
TREE OF LIFE IS INCREDIBLY GOOD!
Master piece.
From France.
"And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors’ eyes - a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees...had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder." -F. Scott Fitzgerald
Notice the brillance of introducing the movie with an underwater shot: we as human species come from the sea and we then came to land. Water is life. The arrival of the white men is like they are coming to life by discovering this new land which was a like rebirth: the New World. Absolutely brilliant from Terrence Malick
This scene - it's tops in the movie. Well done.
Beatiful melody and one of my favouritemovie🤗, very important to not forget our dark European history in the past
And those beatiful indians💞🇧🇻💞
Didn't like the movie... but this opening scene has stayed with me for years. Just beautiful
saw this in the theaters. I'm an fing hard core bastard and this made me want to cry
Heel mooie herinneringen aan mijn overleden vrouw Gudrun von Bücken 21 - 06 --2013...vooral bij deze prachtige muziek RHEINGOLD ..van Richard Wagner...Deze magnifique film hadden wij vaker samen gezien .....with tears in my eyes...
Colin Farrell gives one of his ultimate best performances. He is John Smith in this movie
probably one of the most important moments in history
And the music really captures it. Family reunion
Deaths of innocent human beings
Or most unfortunate, at least for the Powhatan.
@@yaelfeder9042 Anti-American propaganda.
@@yaelfeder9042 if the Europeans didn’t conquer it, someone else would have. Stop viewing history through modern lenses
perfect marriage of film and music
Yes, yes that's right ... Tarkovsky, Ceylan, Zvjagintsev and Malick bring you into the other time and space ... They want you to enjoy with their - your eyes and sound and at the same time forget your presence ... This is real film art! La vie le grande Cinema!
I love this piece.
A superb blend of cinematic images and evocative music... this opening sequence is Malick at his best. Come to think of it, when wasn't Malick at his best?
YES!THAT tune forever in my minds ear.awesome soaring music.Great movie too.Thanks!
The music and cinematography make this movie! Awesome.
0:51 pan down from dead trees
1:56 pan down from living trees
The most profound beginning of any movie ever in terms of its historical significance. The beginning of the land which would ultimately become the United States. The beginning of the end for an ancient civilization, the Powhatan. Like the opera,Das Rheingold, this movie begins underwater and involves gold. In the opera, the theft of gold, in 1607, the search for gold. The founding of Jamestown was an economic venture. Gold would assure the profitability for the investors.
its not an action movie, but its definatly a really good one, its the story visuals and music that make it, make sure you are compfy and have snacks tho ;)
such a beautiful song on a good film
beautiful
as a Irish/native beautiful music
Only kubrick can compare visually
Idk man... I don't think Kubrick can quite capture what Malick intends to, visually
I am norwegian with sapmi ancestors💓✊💓
Kubrick and Malick are both masters of impossibly incredible cinematography but Kubrick's is more sterile in its hunt for perfection whereas Malick's understands the soul is perfection.
@@AngelofMusic04 Kubrick looks for perfection in complete control of every aspect of his filmmaking. Malick looks for perfection in the natural, spontaneous and unpredictability of life itself, going to great lenghts to capture that on film. In The Tree of Life, his crew interrupted filming and followed Jessica Chastain chasing a butterfly for an hour and half, only to use about 10 seconds of beautiful footage.
Cimino Welles and Tarkovsky too
Great movie.
Amazing sequence; so perfectly done! As much as I loved this, the use of this music in the end was even more brilliant.
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Me too, I felt really sad and confused at the end. According to wikipedia Pocahontas died at age 21/22.So young!!
I can't imagine how it felt like to change an indian's life and go live in other civilizations in that time. You must be really strong to withstand such a cultural shock!!
As a critic said, a movie whose substance ís beauty.
Thank you.
Malick is on another level.
Beautiful film
beautiful movie, great opening! love the music
This is Herbert von Karajan's version of Wagner's opening to the Ring of the Nibelungs. A much better rendition if I do say so myself.
Beautiful movie
I first time layed eyes on the actor Christopher Plummer from this production on dvd.
I secondly saw him as British Army Field Marshal Sir Arthur Wellesley His Grace The 1st Duke of Wellington.
Waterloo 1970.
just a beautifull movie and a beautifull song
Richard Wagner. The quality
in love!!! this film made me cry the part where she takes water to the prisoner makes u think.
I saw Thin Red Line. I'm not into war movies much, but it was good. New World and Thin Red Line are the only two movies I've seen of his, but I love how he uses natural lighting in them.
an exceptional film..beautifully made.
The music of Rhein Gold, ...make my very sad with tears in my eyes. To lovely memories of Gudrun von Bucken RIP 21/ 06 / 2013....
August Werner Schellenberg (July 25, 1936 - August 15, 2013) was a Canadian actor. He played Randolph in the first three installments of the Free Willy film series (1993-1997) as well as characters in Black Robe (1991), The New World (2005), and dozens of other films and television shows.
Which character?
Chief Powhatan.
Entrance of the Gods to Valhalla- Wagner
The American people weren't ready for such a beautiful film like The New World. But Tree of Life is going to blow everyone away. There won't be any way to ignore it. It's going to get America excited about the power of film again.
The fact that anyone here is using the internet, speaking English, using hit running water, and wearing trousers is a testament to what these brave men achieved by bring civilization to the world.
Thank you Europe.
Jack McCall but in turn decimated the native american population :(
They aren't native. They were only here prior to the Europeans showing up. The American Indians slaughtered whoever was here before them. Also, many Indian tribes feuded over the centuries and they slaughtered each other in the process.
Don't Worry,
That's really one of the dumbest comments ever.
Don't Worry : You are right, very right, but people don't like to read that.
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He's right, but only in a material and technological sense, there's more to life than that. It was, of course, inevitable - at some point the Europeans were going to find this continent and, it almost wouldn't have mattered who it was that arrived first, as the outcomes - slavery, war, disease and decimation, would have been the same.
One would think though, that nations with so much professed allegiance to Christ's teachings would have found a way to apply them in dealings with the occupants of the Americas; to take care of the weak and the poor, do unto others, etc. Instead the interaction was completely antithetical to Christian beliefs - abusive, exploitative, opportunistic and ultimately murderous.
I've heard it put this way - that we were given a vision of Eden before the fall and, instead of being enthralled and enchanted, we were terrified by the recognition of what we'd lost and frenetically stomped it out, so we wouldn't have to see it anymore.
I agree. This music along with Mozart's and the end, smashed me.
the scoring very peaceful i remember watching Phantom der Nacth Nosferatu the Vampyre - werner herzog. it is the same taste ! great ambience by Richard Wagner "Der Ring des Nibelungen, Das Rheingold Act 1: Prelude-Part I". loveeeee xoxoxo
this film is amazing. malick is a genius. it is true art as cinema.
Opera moves the world.