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[Image] DEATH (CONCEPT) [Days of Heaven] While riding the train, Linda talks about the apocalypse and says, "People are going to be screamin' and hollerin'." Bill tells Abby, "We're all going to be gone in a couple of years. Who's gonna care that we acted perfect?"(trying to persuade her to agree to marry the Farmer). Linda says in voice over, "Sometimes I feel very old, like I'm not around anymore." [The Thin Red Line] Witt tells Keck, "You'll be alright, even if you die. You didn't let your brother down." The Japanese officer tells Dale, "Someday you too will die." [Badlands] 
Kit, in describing killing Holly's father, says "he was provoking me when I popped him, and that's what it was like. Pop." Holly says at one point about Kit, "At times I wished he'd fall in the river and drown, so I could watch." Holly muses about her own mortality by saying, "I was just this girl who had only so many years to live." She tells the rich man, "I never told him [Kit] to kill anyone."
Similarities in Malick's Films, Part I
Badlands