He was famous because he once looked like James Dean. And so played. Spooky almost. That was part of the concept. “Badlands” was the name of the Film, shot by Terrence Malick, and Martin Sheen is a very young man, the country has to offer in the vast Expanses of the Dakotas with nothing to kill except the boundless freedom. Once he lays his rifle over his shoulders like a dead animal. Sheen had been sixteen Film and television roles under his belt. But as he had never played. As he was from the past, which blur seamlessly with the present and the future, because the relationships are cemented and the top and bottom, the poor and the rich, the law and the lawless. And around very much Land and very little hope. The Film is to be exposed in 1973, but the mood of aimless had not changed since Dean’s death eighteen years before, fundamentally.
Verena Lueken
editor in the features section.
F. A. Z.
“Badlands” entered Martin Sheen’s car in a trash. “Apocalypse Now” as a drunk dance Nude soldier of. Here, too, I wouldn’t rely on his country for which he fought. After that, everything would have him be. But he did. Twenty years later, but then for many years as President of the United States. Aaron Sorkin, of “The West Wing” has been invented, has been likened to the great first appearances of sheen’s. Delayed in the pilot Appear. To wrote him a Bicycle accident. And let him, finally, from the Background to the centre contact to the quote of the first commandment: “I am the Lord your God.” If one can say, without a shudder, then it is Martin Sheen.
“The West Wing” was a great series. If you look back on “Badlands”, one can see in a scene, Sheen had a feeling even then that this role was in him. As he sits in the house of a rich man, try the upholstered furniture and settles down in a chair. Hits the legs one above the other and on the phone. Doing so. Gives Instructions. With natural authority, but not endless patience. In spite of everything, in principle, friendly.
