About James Jones, Terrence Malick, and "The Thin Red Line"
James Jones, Terrence Malick, and "The Thin Red Line"- In this essay Patrick Paul Christle argues that Malick's film version of "The Thin Red Line" is not an interpretation of James Jones's novelistic vision, but rather a repudiation of it. A paper delivered at the Twentieth-Century Literature Conference in Louisville, Kentucky on February 22, 2002.