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[Image] ANIMALS: Fish [Days of Heaven] The opening credits music is "Aquarium", part of "Carnival of the Animals" by Saint-Saens. A fish swims by the wine glass under water during Abby and Bill's midnight tryst scene. Bill holds a fish up and says, "I got a three-pound carp" when he, Abby and Linda are on the boat fleeing the law. [The Thin Red Line] Live shellfish squirm in a child's palms near the beginning of the film. A naked boy who walks out of the sea carries a fishing pole. [Badlands] 
Holly throws out a sick fish into a watermelon patch. Kit tries to catch fish in the stream by their camp; he shoots into the stream twice, presumably at fish.
Similarities in Malick's Films, Part I
Badlands