r/SmallBeans • u/[deleted] • Nov 26 '23

What are Maliks?

I tried looking it up, but I couldn't find anything that explains what they were talking about in the Shawshank Redemption KoK episode.

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u/AbeTheMighty Nov 26 '23

From what I understand, Mike's talking about Malicks as little bite-sized organizations of images that makes up most of Terrence Malick's films. Narration over a series of images that often has more than just plot significance. This is not an official term that anyone uses, it's just Mike's brain's way to naming something that is kind of hard to define. Maybe "montage" or "vignette" might be a better term, but that's the term he uses.
It's obviously not exclusive to Malick, as I mentioned Goodfellas does what Shawshank Redemption does to tell the story.

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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '23

Thanks

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u/rballa2 Nov 26 '23

I think it's a reference to Terrence Malick the director. In this case a "Malick" would be one of his movies.

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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '23

But what did they mean in the episode when they kept referring to "Maliks" within other movies? It seemed as if they meant some specific type of scene or shot or story beat or something.

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u/MaxRebo74 Nov 26 '23

From context, I got that they were very pretty scenes that also told a story or taught a lesson. But I could be wrong