T.M is influenced by many directors that did movies before him. This movie reminds Bonnie and Clyde.Here again young couple in an escapade, and death at the end after being fugitives from the law. Many commentators for this movie mentioned various influences from all sort of directions, but perhaps one may add that some motives in this film are influenced by Georg Stevens's Giant. Take the big ranch house with the front entrance and its ghotic style, the shots of the sky, the close ups that show half faces in the shade(remember Dean watching Luz die, standing in the shade), the outdoors gathering of folks, the harvest which reminds the Reata's round-up, the shot of the old pick-up(like the one Dean was driving), and finally at the end, the car driving away from the ranch under the big gate.The later is almost like playing back the scene in Giant where Hudson and Taylor drive under the main gate into Reata. T.M does not even try to hide his admiration to George Stevens's directing talent.
Review of Days of Heaven
