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The Thin Red Line has become an English language figure of speech for any thinly spread military unit holding firm against attack. The phrase has also taken on the metaphorical meaning of the barrier which the relatively limited armed forces of a country present to potential attackers.
The Thin Red Line is the story of a rifle company within the Army’s 25th Division, which arrived on Guadalcanal in November of 1942 to reinforce the Marines. At that point in the battle, the thousands of Japanese troops who were still on the island had adopted defensive tactics, retreating into the territory’s grassy hills.
The Thin Red Line is a 1998 American epic war film written and directed by Terrence Malick. It is the second screen adaptation of the 1962 novel of the same name by James Jones, following the 1964 film.
The phrase 'The Thin Red Line' is in fact a misquote. Eyewitness war correspondent William Russell wrote in his despatch for The Times of 'a thin red streak topped with a line of steel', but in later accounts he used the 'Thin Red Line' phrase, which stuck in the public consciousness. The phrase remains in wide use today, often used colloquially to mean infantry (as in Terence Malik’s 1999 ...
Dec 28, 2018 · One thing that sets The Thin Red Line apart from the silent-film mentality of more recent Malick films is that it actually gives its scenes room to breathe and contains some...
Aug 20, 2017 · A Great Starting Point. To those who actually read books and/or know of 20th century US literature, the title “The Thin Red Line” was already familiar as a well-remembered 1962 novel by James Jones.
Sep 26, 2010 · The title of The Thin Red Line means a number of things. In one of the epigraphs of Jones’s novel, it’s a line of military heroes praised by Rudyard Kipling; in the other epigraph, it’s the porous border “between the sane and the mad” mentioned in an old midwestern saying.
