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[Image] FIRE [Days of Heaven] Fire appears: in the mill foundry at the beginning, at a camp when Bill tells Linda he killed a dog and that he's always looking out for her, as a bonfire at end-of-harvest celebration, in the wheat field, where buckets of locusts are thrown, when the Farmer's crops are set ablaze, residual scattered fires in field the morning following the burning of the wheat field, on the river bank when Linda, Bill and Abby are fleeing on the boat [The Thin Red Line] In voice over, Witt thinks that everyone's looking for salvation like "coals taken from the fire." The American soldiers burn the Japanese camp. A close-up reveals a statue of Buddha and an orchid among the things in the Japanese camp that are set afire. Later, the jungle is ablaze. The Japanese set fire to the American camp off the line. [Badlands] 
Kit sets Holly's house on fire, after which there's a long sequence showing the house and its contents burning.
Similarities in Malick's Films, Part I
Badlands