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[Image] BOOKS [Days of Heaven] Linda looks at a book containing pictures of animals. [The Thin Red Line] A soldier aboard the transport ship reads en route to Guadalcanal. Tall refers to reading "The Iliad" in Greek at West Point. [Badlands] 
Holly's voice over: "Kit made me get my books from school so I wouldn't fall behind" as they leave town after Kit kills Holly's father. Holly reads to Kit from the short story "Kon-Tiki" by Thor Heyerdahl. Kit silently reads a National Geographic magazine while at the campsite. Holly says that a train traveling in the distance looks like a caravan from The Adventures of Marco Polo. Kit empties the contents of a suitcase into a gas station dumpster but retains a book, right before he's captured.
Similarities in Malick's Films, Part I
Badlands