Knight Of Cups (2015) is an upcoming romantic/drama movie directed and written by Terrence Malick. The movie stars Christian Bale, Natalie Portman, Cate Blanchett, Jason Clarke, and Wes Bentley in the lead roles.
Knight of Cups (2015) is the fictional story of an aspiring screenwriter living in LA tries to make sense of the strange events occurring around him.
Knight of Cups (2015) is a long time ambitious project of director Terrence Malick. Today, I have put together a list of interesting facts and details about Knight of Cups (2015). Have a quick look.
10. There was no script for the film. All of the scenes were improvised.
9. According to Christian Bale, Terrence Malick didn’t tell the actors what the film was about Untill the shooting started.
8. Christian Bale said that at the start of each day’s shoot he wouldn’t know what would happen to his character.
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7. In tarot cards, if the card, Knight of Cups, is upright, it represents change and new excitements, particularly of a romantic nature. It can mean invitations, opportunities, and offers. The Knight of Cups is a person who is a bringer of ideas, opportunities and offers. He is constantly bored, and in constant need of stimulation, but also artistic and refined. He represents a person who is amiable, intelligent, and full of high principles, but a dreamer who can be easily persuaded or discouraged. Reversed, the card represents unreliability and recklessness. It indicates fraud, false promises and trickery. It represents a person who has trouble discerning when and where the truth ends and lies begin.
6. The title of the film refers to the tarot card “Knight of Cups”.
5. Christian Bale had no lines to learn and Terrence Malick only gave him the character description.
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4. While there wasn’t an actual script Terrence Malick would write multiple pages of dialogue for some of the actors and encouraged them to use whatever part of the dialogue they wanted. Despite playing the lead character Christian Bale received no writing for himself. This prompted Bale to try to sneak a peek of the other actors’ pages to ascertain what he could expect in each scene.
3. The first poster for the film features ‘The Tree Of The Soul’ by Dionysius Andreas Freher (1649-1728), a Christian mystic born in Germany, who was particularly fascinated by and wrote extensively about the ideas of Jacob Böhme (1575-1624), a German mystic, philosopher and theologian who believed that humans fall from grace, and that in order to find God again, they have to go through hell first.
2. Knight of Cups has had a two-year post-production cycle.
1. The third film to star Christian Bale and have the word ‘Knight’ in the title, following The Dark Knight and its predecessor The Dark Knight Rises both directed by Christopher Nolan.
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