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	The Thin Red Line (1854 battle) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Thin Red Line was a famous military action by the 93rd (Highland) Regiment during the Crimean War.
		Convention dictated that the line should be four deep, but the line had to be stretched.
		Popularly condensed into "the thin red line", the phrase became a symbol, rightly or wrongly, for British sangfroid in battle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Thin_Red_Line_(1854_battle) (405 words)

	DVD Review - The Thin Red Line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		And yet, it is the designation I would use to describe "The Thin Red Line" from 20th Century Fox, an epic, 3-hour World War II drama.
		You will think about and remember "The Thin Line" as a feeling, an almost poetic expression of the internal emotional battles these men have gone through, and the way their very own safe harbors ultimately helped them keep their sanity.
		Being as artistically a movie that it is, "The Thin Red Line" uses some great images, visual metaphors and parables to make the viewer aware of the abstruseness and senselessness of war.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/the_thin_red_line.shtml (1313 words)

	Review: The Thin Red Line (1998) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This is not the first time The Thin Red Line, based on James Jones' 1962 autobiographical novel about the World War II battle at Guadalcanal, has been adapted for the big screen.
		The Thin Red Line is the third film released in the last six months to look at the experience of battle as something less than the heroic struggle of a John Wayne film.
		The Thin Red Line is basically the story of the Guadalcanal conflict as seen from the American side of the front line.
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	Filmtracks: The Thin Red Line (Hans Zimmer)
		The Thin Red Line is a bleak, moody, brooding score that reflects the darkness of the human soul and the primal quality of combat.
		The Thin Red Line: (Hans Zimmer) For a long time Hans Zimmer has done what is best for the films he works on, creating a score that flows in sequence with what has been presented before him, showing off and making the films, sometimes better than they actually are.
		Perhaps Hans Zimmer's finest single cue for a film appears as "Journey To The Line." The introduction to this track is brought on by subtle Taiko and woodwind riffs before the strings creep in with the progressing rhythm brought on by the Taiko drums and the ascending/descending woodwinds.
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	CNN - After 20 years, Malick returns with 'Thin Red Line' - January 15, 1999
		HOLLYWOOD (CNN)-- "The Thin Red Line," director Terrence Malick's much-anticipated World War II story, showed record-breaking promise in its initial limited release as it debuted last month to a whopping $182,639 in a total of just three theaters in New York and Los Angeles.
		Based on the autobiographical novel by James Jones, "The Thin Red Line" tells the story of the men of Company "C", who fought and died during the fierce battle of Guadalcanal.
		The story begins as Army troops are moved in to relieve battle-weary Marine units, and follows their journey from the unopposed landing, through the bloody and exhausting battles, to the ultimate departure of the survivors.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Movies/9901/15/terrence.malick (841 words)

	Thin Red Line - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		painting of the Thin Red Line by Robert Gibb]] '''The Thin Red Line''' was a famous...
		THE THIN RED LINE is a powerful movie, not on par, but in...
		The Thin Red Line is a phrase or title that refers to an outgunned military unit holding firm against attack:
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	Amazon.co.uk: DVD: The Thin Red Line [1999] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In Thin Red Line, the emotions are affected by getting under the skin of the characters as people caught up in a crazy, pointless situation.
		Thin Red Line has the compelling quality of not being constrained by a narrative.
		The Thin Red Line, it has to be said, is not a war movie in the traditional sense- and should not be thought of as such- instead a poetic and beautifully shot exploration of what how war changes humanity, shot in the context of the Pacific conflict.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004TBT2 (1409 words)

	'The Thin Red Line' (R)
		Cleverly Malick does not show us the enemy for the longest time: instead, they are represented merely by their effects – streaks of tracer spurting off the ridge line, the random squall of mortar rounds incoming, the relentless body-piercings of the machine guns.
		The episode offers "The Thin Red Line" what little narrative spine it has, and it allows a few members of a too-huge cast to define themselves through action, not passive soliloquy.
		Most important, it constructs a story to illustrate the essential dilemma of warfare in any age, which is the calculus by which commanders figure the worth of an objective vs. the lives of their men.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/movies/reviews/thinredlinehunter.htm (1256 words)

	Film Review: The Thin Red Line
		At one point, a line officer asks a commander whose orders are threatening the careless loss of lives, “Have you ever had a man die in your arms?” But in Thin Red Line, we get to hear their thoughts.
		Even the enemy in Thin Red Line is finally given a human face, with the surviving Japanese prisoners going through as full a range of emotions as their captors.
		By descending down the scale of military privileges, Thin Red Line also uncovers the role of class in military structure and thinking, a key concept that allowed the Vietnamese to distinguish between the people and the policy of the United States’ invasion, and between the officers and the enlisted in the field.
	www.washingtonpeacecenter.org /articles/ThinRedLine.html (1751 words)

	Amazon.ca: Video: Thin Red Line, the (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		While Private Ryan did a good job at depicting the horrors of war and the honor of the individual soldier, The Thin Red Line gives us the psychological aspects of war, which is a far more complex and intriguing world then the one presented to us by Spielberg.
		"Thin Red Line" is a tragedy, the mission (Guadalcanal) is incoherent, interspersed with a hideously insane frontal attack on a fortified Japanese position, and then a rout of the enemy.
		The Thin Red Line chooses to focus less on the battle between armies, and instead on the battle that each soldier faces within himself during their experience.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005Q4GX (1395 words)

	THE THIN RED LINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Thin Red Line is flawed but it provokes.
		In The Thin Red Line, the Japanese present the moral quandary of war in the first place.
		Ultimately however, The Thin Red Line's interest is not in the characters and it is not in drama.
	pages.prodigy.net /zvelf/thin_red_line.htm (432 words)

	CNN - Review: 'The Thin Red Line' a beautiful bomb - December 30, 1998
		"The Thin Red Line," the critically-acclaimed Malick's highly-anticipated return to film making after a self-imposed 20 year exile, is 40 percent fantastic and 60 percent as stupefyingly pretentious as any movie in recent memory.
		If you've ever wondered what the battle of Guadalcanal would've been like had the United States decided to attack the Japanese with a crack team of armed, second-rate poetry students rather than real soldiers, this is the movie for you.
		"The Thin Red Line" may be a war movie on the surface, but Malick apparently set out to film nothing less than "Patrolling the Area for Godot." Absolutely nothing happens for excruciating lengths of time; you don't even see a proper Japanese soldier for more than an hour.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Movies/9812/30/review.thinredline (1004 words)

	DVD REVIEW: THE THIN RED LINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bloated and pretentious, "The Thin Red Line" is a wonderful two hour movie trapped inside a three hour marathon of confusing imagery and self-indulgent direction.
		With "The Thing Red Line," Malick couldn't make up his mind if he wanted to make a film, a piece of art, or make a statement.
		There are a lot of distractions in "The Thin Red Line," from an over-long opening sequence that finds AWOL soldier Pvt.
	www.lightviews.com /thinredlinedvd.htm (1371 words)

	The thin red plot line
		But "The Thin Red Line" takes its sweet time getting into the war, and when it does, people die before you can learn who they are.
		It shows nothing of their first exploration of the jungle, when Cpl. Queen (David Harrod) uses his strength to pull the body of a Japanese soldier out of a mass grave, unleashing an ungodly smell of dead men that sends his company running in all directions - a vision that screams to be seen.
		When people look back at "Thin Red Line," they're likely to remember it the same way they do "Apocalypse Now," visually stunning but somehow empty at its core - a long exercise in pseudo-philosophy with most of the story left on the cutting-room floor.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/examiner/archive/1998/12/25/WEEKEND11018.dtl (1153 words)

	The Great Anti-War Films: The Thin Red Line
		His film is not a narrative-driven retelling of heroic battles, but a mesmerizing meditation on the vagaries of war.
		The Thin Red Line was and always will be cast in the shadow of Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan, another WW2 film.
		In an upset, and perhaps a split of the war-film vote between Line, Ryan and Roberto Benigni's Life is Beautiful, the fluff period-piece Shakespeare in Love garnered the statuette.
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	THE THIN RED LINE
		Based on the novel by James Jones, THE THIN RED LINE tells the story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II battle of Guadalcanal.
		The motion picture THE THIN RED LINE marks the return to the director's chair by Terrence Malick, who also wrote the screenplay.
		THE THIN RED LINE also brings together an extraordinary cast of actors who play the men of C-for-Charlie Company and the officers who send them into battle.
	www.foxmovies.com /thinredline/htmls/movie_info.html (1186 words)

	The Thin Red Line (1998)
		What's irritating is that The Thin Red Line is terrific in a few scattered places, as if to point out what might have been.
		His thoughts and contemplations merge with those made public elsewhere in The Thin Red Line, lending weight to the theory that we are all but parts of the same global body.
		Ultimately The Thin Red Line plays just like a book but without the associated benefits; you can't move back and forth to familiarise yourself with the characters and internal monologues almost always work better in print.
	www.film.u-net.com /Movies/Reviews/Thin_Red_Line2.html (801 words)

	The Thin Red Line Movie: The Thin Red Line DVD is available from Bestprices.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rather than concentrating solely on the violence and destruction of war, Malick uses the situation to address philosophical questions such as man versus nature, war versus peace, and good versus evil.
		THE THIN RED LINE proves that after a 20-year layoff, Malick hasn't lost a step.
		In the script, the part of Cpl. Fife (Adrien Brody) was one of the meatiest, although he barely speaks a line in the finished film.
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	Following the thin red line - Word stories - Oxford English Dictionary
		The phrase thin red line, referring literally or metaphorically to the British army - from the former colour of their uniforms - is fairly familiar in the English language; so when we wanted to add it to the
		The ground flies beneath their horses' feet; gathering speed at every stride, they dash on towards that thin red streak topped with a line of steel.
		However, the next edition was published in 1858,and as this was the edition in which the title was first changed, perhaps this was where the phrase got changed too.
	www.oed.com /learning/word-stories/red-line.html (786 words)

	The Thin Red Line (1998) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Merrick is never in a hurry, and this pace suits the film well.
		The Thin Red Line asks a lot of good questions about death, war, and the ultimate meaning of life.
		Now that I have seen it, I'm very surprised that this film did not win picture of the year.
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	BBC - History - The Thin Red Line, 1853 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		At Balaclava, in the Crimean War, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders won immortal fame when they lined up in two ranks or rows and halted a charge of Russian cavalry, gaining the title of 'The Thin Red Line'.
		The Thin Red Line repulsed a 25,000 strong Russian force ©
		'There is no retreat from here, men,' their commander told them as he rode down the line, 'you must die where you stand.' The Russian cavalry charge split in half, galloping to right and left and finally into full retreat.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/timelines/scotland/thin_redline.shtml (122 words)

	thin red line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In Marseille, a port town with a bad reputation - although my guidebook says it's now as safe as anywhere else in France (is that supposed to be comforting?), the tourism office has a small walking tour of the older section of this now very large city.
		While this is hardly unique, as many cities I've been to offer historic, self-guided walking tours, the city of Marseille actually painted a red line on the sidewalk for you to follow...
		The line itself led me straight into the construction zone of the new town hall, a recycling bin and another construction site before disappearing and leaving me searching a plaza for where the line started again.
	homepage.mac.com /coreyabroad/iblog/B1719075702/C199800915/E1668398912 (171 words)

	Treading 'The Thin Red Line' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Terrence Malick often crosses over "The Thin Red Line" between great film making and poor storytelling in his powerful yet oddly unsatisfying war film.
		Filled with incredible photography which, ironically, enhances and distracts, "The Thin Red Line" is in a constant push-pull between subtlety and overkill.
		There's much that is wrong with "The Thin Red Line" -- yet there is even more that is right.
	www.sunnews.com /entertain/movies99/movies011499.htm (740 words)

	Rotten Tomatoes Forums - SAVING PRIVATE RYAN VS. THE THIN RED LINE
		For me its gotta be TRL.It comes down to the simple reason that TRL had Sean Penn,Ben Chaplin and John Cusack were Ryan suffered with the amazingly annoying Jeremy Davis and Ted ****in Dansen in it.
		The thin Red Line was a movie with beauty that almost drove me to tears.
		By contrast when I saw "The Thin Red Line" I had no idea what to think and decided that it was a terrible, pointless, empty film.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/showthread.php?t=46640 (1243 words)

	IGN: Thin Red Line, The Review
		When they rolled out their "Enhanced Widesreen" line of re-releases that featured new DTS tracks, the music sampler was dropped.
		This review is of the latest version of the disc that is missing the music sampler extra, but has an excellent DTS track.
		The Thin Red Line is an interesting war film, if a bit nebulous.
	dvd.ign.com /articles/317/317309p1.html (610 words)

	The Thin Red Line Movie Review - MovieWeb
		At almost three hours, The Thin Red Line burns long and slow, and fully a third of the movie is completely wasted on surrealistic, bizarre voice-overs that do little but confuse what is an otherwise running theme in the film: War blows.
		Not that Line is without its strengths, the middle third is a juicy look at the horrors of the war in the Pacific and the power plays of military officers.
		But, sadly, much of Line is a simple vanity project, not just for Malick but also for the dozens of name-brand stars involved.
	movieweb.com /movies/reviews/review.php?film=2217&review=3999 (409 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Thin Red Line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Such is the ultimate significance of war in The Thin Red Line (1962), James Jones's fictional account of the battle between American and Japanese troops on the island of Guadalcanal.
		"The thin red line" is about the battle of Guadalcanal, an island of the Solomons chain and an important base in the south Pacific Ocean, between the american and the japanese troops.
		"The thin red line", by author and ex-combatent James Jones, was brought under the spotlights once again more recently after cult director Terrence Mallik transposed it to the big screen, for the second time, in 1998 (the first time was in 1964).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385324081?v=glance (2103 words)

	The Thin Red Line
		On the page, The Thin Red Line has the brutal impact of documentary, but Jones's great achievement is to dig deep into the characters and the souls of his protagonists, allowing the reader to live inside them.
		The Thin Red Line is not a message film in the style of Saving Private Ryan.
		The structure of The Thin Red Line is unconventional and even though it runs nearly three hours, you may find yourself needing and wanting to see it more than once.
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	Thin Red Line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mixed A1 and 5.7 climbing through cracks and some loose flakes led to a ledge that was comfortable for a belay, and might have made a tight bivy.
		Peter led a thin crack led off this belay to a ramp that led into a corner.
		He passed a thin section by nailing a baby angle into a cool little hole in the crack.
	www.cs.washington.edu /homes/cary/thinredline.html (949 words)

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