I don't know whether this has been already mentioned, but Deleuze says something about the American dream in The Movement-Image, in the chapter on the large form of the action-image:
' … a community is healthy in so far as a kind of consensus reigns, a consensus which allows it do develop illusions about itself, about its motives, about its desires and its cupidity, about its values and its ideals: 'vital' illusions, realist illusions which are more true than pure truth. … One cannot, therefore, criticise the American dream for being only a dream: this is what it wants to be, drawing all its power from the fact that it is a dream.' (p. 148)
Henry
fair enough – i’ll buy that concept . . . . but i still don’t see how it fits malick, especially in badlands
m
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I mentioned Malick because for me the concept of American dream is not based on reality but as an idea based by cultural production, It could be as simplistic as Reagan's Morning in America or as contradictory as the work of Whitman or Melville or the films of Ford or Malick or Bruce Baillie I hope that I am now clearer.
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