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The Burning Plain: Art, Cast & Production

The Burning Plain is a 2008 drama film directed and written by Guillermo Arriaga and starring Charlize Theron, Jennifer Lawrence, Kim Basinger and Joaquim de Almeida. In Arriaga's directorial debut, he films a story that has multipart story strands woven together as in his previous screenplays. Filming of The Burning Plain began in New Mexico in November…

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The Burning Plain topic overview

The analysis highlights Art, Cast and Production as prominent areas in the source structure around The Burning Plain.

Related topics
31
Source areas
5
Connected nodes
36
Extracted relationships
58
Related term clusters
13
Bridge connections
36

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Cast · 8 topics
Overview · 8 topics
Production · 8 topics
Reception · 5 topics
Release · 2 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Box office
$5.5 million
Budget
$20 million
Cinematography
Robert Elswit
Countries
United States · Argentina
Directed by
Guillermo Arriaga
Distributed by
Magnolia Pictures

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Overview

Cast

Production

Release

Reception

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How The Burning Plain connects Entity context

The extracted context around The Burning Plain shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, The Burning Plain → Alejandro González Iñárritu's, Amores, Arriaga, Babel, Constantini Films, Depoe Bay, Grams, Guillermo Arriaga, Latin America, New Mexico, November, Oregon, Portland, Productions, The Weinstein Company Another extracted example is The Burning Plain → David Gritten, Ide, June, Metacritic, Rotten Tomatoes, The Daily Telegraph, The Times, Theron's, Wendy Ide. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

The Burning Plain

Top relations

related to Production · 15
The Burning Plain → Alejandro González Iñárritu's, Amores, Arriaga, Babel, Constantini Films, Depoe Bay, Grams, Guillermo Arriaga, Latin America, New Mexico, November, Oregon, Portland, Productions, The Weinstein Company
related to Critical reception · 9
The Burning Plain → David Gritten, Ide, June, Metacritic, Rotten Tomatoes, The Daily Telegraph, The Times, Theron's, Wendy Ide
related to Release · 9
The Burning Plain → Charlottesville, November, October, Savannah Film Festival, September, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival, Venice International Film Festival, Virginia Film Festival
Release dates · 3
The Burning Plain → August 29, 2008 (2008-08-29) (Venice), July 23, 2010 (2010-07-23) (Mexico), September 18, 2009 (2009-09-18) (United States)
Starring · 3
The Burning Plain → Charlize Theron, Jennifer Lawrence, Kim Basinger
Countries · 2
The Burning Plain → Argentina, United States
Languages · 2
The Burning Plain → English, Spanish
Music by · 2
The Burning Plain → Hans Zimmer, Omar Rodríguez-López
Produced by · 2
The Burning Plain → Laurie MacDonald, Walter F. Parkes
Production companies · 2
The Burning Plain → 2929 Productions, Wild Bunch

Important terminology

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Important terminology

burning plain film sylvia arriaga mariana santiago carlos release mexico daughter maria story 2008 directed written guillermo charlize theron jennifer

The Burning Plain relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 58 structured relationships around The Burning Plain. Examples in this analysis include The Burning Plain → Box office → $5.5 million and The Burning Plain → Budget → $20 million. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
The Burning PlainBox office$5.5 million1.00infobox
The Burning PlainBudget$20 million1.00infobox
The Burning PlainCinematographyRobert Elswit1.00infobox
The Burning PlainCountriesUnited States1.00infobox
The Burning PlainCountriesArgentina1.00infobox
The Burning PlainDirected byGuillermo Arriaga1.00infobox
The Burning PlainDistributed byMagnolia Pictures1.00infobox
The Burning PlainEdited byCraig Wood1.00infobox
The Burning PlainLanguagesEnglish1.00infobox
The Burning PlainLanguagesSpanish1.00infobox
The Burning PlainMusic byOmar Rodríguez-López1.00infobox
The Burning PlainMusic byHans Zimmer1.00infobox
The Burning PlainProduced byWalter F. Parkes1.00infobox
The Burning PlainProduced byLaurie MacDonald1.00infobox
The Burning PlainProduction companiesWild Bunch1.00infobox
The Burning PlainProduction companies2929 Productions1.00infobox
The Burning PlainRelease datesAugust 29, 2008 (2008-08-29) (Venice)1.00infobox
The Burning PlainRelease datesSeptember 18, 2009 (2009-09-18) (United States)1.00infobox
The Burning PlainRelease datesJuly 23, 2010 (2010-07-23) (Mexico)1.00infobox
The Burning PlainRunning time107 minutes1.00infobox
The Burning PlainStarringCharlize Theron1.00infobox
The Burning PlainStarringKim Basinger1.00infobox
The Burning PlainStarringJennifer Lawrence1.00infobox
The Burning PlainWritten byGuillermo Arriaga1.00infobox
The Burning Plainis a2008 drama film directed and written by Guillermo Arriaga and starring Charlize Theron0.90text

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around The Burning Plain bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Plain, Arriaga and Directed. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

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    • Directed
    • Guillermo
    • November
    • Written
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    • Release
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  • the burning plain
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    • Directed
    • Guillermo
    • November
    • Written
    • Film
    • Filming
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    • New
    • Release
    • Mexico
  • drama film
    • Budget
    • Million
    • Plain
    • Starring
    • Charlize
    • Jennifer
    • Kim
    • Lawrence
    • November
    • Production
    • Release
    • Theron
  • guillermo arriaga
    • Written
    • Directed
    • Guillermo
    • Burning
    • Plain
    • Also
    • Debut
    • Production
    • Together
    • Critical
    • Starring
    • Charlize
  • babel (2006 film)
    • Budget
    • Million
    • Plain
    • Starring
    • Charlize
    • Jennifer
    • Kim
    • Lawrence
    • November
    • Production
    • Release
    • Theron
  • 65th venice international film festival
    • Budget
    • Million
    • Plain
    • Starring
    • Charlize
    • Jennifer
    • Kim
    • Lawrence
    • November
    • Production
    • Release
    • Theron
  • kim basinger
    • Charlize
    • Jennifer
    • Kim
    • Lawrence
    • Theron
    • Starring
    • Budget
    • Directed
    • Film
    • Guillermo
    • Million
    • Production
  • charlize theron
    • Jennifer
    • Kim
    • Lawrence
    • Theron
    • Starring
    • Budget
    • Directed
    • Film
    • Guillermo
    • Million
    • Production
    • Release

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For The Burning Plain, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects The Burning Plain with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
The Burning Plain — Overview · splits 28 ⟂ 9
The Burning Plain — Cast · splits 28 ⟂ 9
The Burning Plain — Production · splits 28 ⟂ 9
The Burning Plain — Reception · splits 31 ⟂ 6
The Burning Plain — Release · splits 34 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

The Burning Plain

Nodes37
Edges36
Triples58
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.054054
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around The Burning Plain to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Art, Cast & Production, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — The Burning Plain · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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